Show THE TRE SPHINX president harrison arrison II baa has at last an bounced bis his cabinet anil and the P principal rin mental exercise of washington anil anti indianapolis correspondents speculating as to lite slate exists no longer the names which have been suggested in this connection since yo november vember last are numerous enough to fill till all the valuable fore foreign gu missions and still leave sufficient for ft a goodly number of first class post offices offic esat at home out of the hundreds presented there were but eight to select in fact until recently there were but seen seven and these being now chosen it easy may be left to the imagination to calculate how much healt burning and disappointment exists among the remaining many scores of candidates cand dates and their many hundreds of friends that which baa has made the present cabinet contest chiefly remarkable baa has been the tile profound secrecy with which bich the tile president has kept his own counsel for nearly three months he be has bad the tile spectacle of the whole AtAe american rican nation groping and gue belog i aa ss to the particular gentlemen be would mould choose tor for liis his advisers no preE pressure sure has been able to extract an intimation from frem him on tile subject thosa those who bo u were ere to be honored have doubtless been made aware of the fact but beyond this the silence which characterized him has also been laid upon them one or two of the chloeen assistants have toward the last allowed their secret to escape while several of tho those thoe e who at an earlier date by themselves or their intimate friends gave out the impression that they belonged to the electure elect elec tare are now seen to have lime been omitted ornit ted silence says the proverb is golden buch such an exhibition aa as that m we e hat have 0 just seen is rare though a small af lair it is a promising sign for a half score re of men who are tire abla to keep secret a matter of this kind art not ii likely kely upon any cc ec casion to lay themselves es liable to the charge of wordy bluster and idle |