| Show IES OF TIlE ENYOYS Ecprcseiit llic AIO Arc to iI1CMCfl 7ultet1 States Abroad aresketchcs of the newt Ire Thc following Iccntlv appointed by President t rs 1ijjsterS CleclOd 10WELLS SUCCESSOR I ISTEn Minis us the new Phelps J ps Edward 3 rr England is Kent Professor of Law terto I Pnllci lIe was at one tim College t J l of the Aluencan Bar Associa tresidcnt of age Has GO years is about Mil al Id s was received at Middlebury education President Fillmore appointed CollCf Comptroller of the Treasury lIn1 Second Ss he practised law in several 1 ycar For 181 went to Bur but 10 f lOCTton has since been a 0Yt ana ling Lon of the bar in that member Iir0lU1 cot T 1881 he was elected professor C 1 ite rolUlutdidnot I give up his College in Yale more than twentyfive practice For Democrat and was a years lie has been for Governor of yer once n nlldidate member of the last I Tcr mont t lIe was a l Convention His moot COtlStit uhOTJ has been marked careeratalcCoueco 1 his I efforts with grct speca the law cnool has hl nand n-and popularity r1IillY III numbers and few f rtsr0 0 111Ips is i a son of the i k1lcJ JIr eUicienCY rIICIps of Vermont Sena 1tc Edmunds enator nIS his logal preceptor tot is a personal friend of Mr t rhels eFicld of the Supreme Court who J SStothP highest terms of his learn faiot ability GOVERNOR MLASES NEW DIGNITY minister to France is Robert The new in McLane the Governor of Sand He was born in Wilmington Son the 23d of June 1S15 His father Jl l oil SJLouis McLane who was a very prominent was character in the early part of this century Robert attended a public tthool of his native city and was for a time a student in St Marys College at Baltimore When fourteen years of age lie went abroad with his father studying under a tutor in Paris for two years Upon returning received a cadetship from General Andrew Jackson and entered en-tered the West Point Military Academy from which he graduated in 1837 The same year he was appointed second lieutenant in the First artillery and served with General Jessup in the Everglades Ever-glades Here began his acquaintance nith Joseph E Johnston which finally ripened into the warmest friendship He also served with General Scott in the Cherokee country of Georgia and soon nftpr was transferred to the corps of topo graphical g engineers He was tonoti Europe in 1S41 to examine the system of dkes and drainage in Holland and before be-fore f he returned he married the daughter of a Louisiana merchantin Paris Haying Hay-ing been admitted to the bar he resigned engineering duties in 1843 and began practice of law in Maryland In Ifi45 he aselected to the Maryland House of Delegates and two years later became a member of Congress from the Twelfth Congressional district of Marylandwhich position he occupied for two consecutive terms He was appointed commissioner to China in 1853 by President Pierce but I he was recalled the next year athis own request on account of the climate At the I j lane of the civil agitation in Mexico iiI ii-I 9 he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary Plenipo-tentiary to that country by Buchanan yue there he was successful in nego tiatina treaty giving increased commer ceaarantages to citizens of the United States He resigned his position in 1800 md resumed the practice of his profes wn in Baltimore In 1863 he was re ned as counsel for the West Pacific latlroad and within the next three years sited Europe several times in its inter t He was elected to the State Senate rom Baltimore in 1870 and soon after vas reelected to Congress lie was lected Governor of Maryland in 18S3 for Jieterm of four years beginning January 91884 9 TO COPE WITH BISMARCK George H Pendleton of Cincinnati Ohio the new Minister tu Germany was rom in Cincinnati Ohio July 19 1825 weived an academic education in the k > ls of Cincinnati and afterward in hope studied law was admitted to the be l nd has continued ever since the jwtice at Cincinnati was a member of Estate Senate in 18545 and was A member of the Thirtyfifth Thirtysixth Thirtyseventh and Thirtyeighth Con presses In 1864 he was nominated for VicePresident on the ticket headed by George 15 McClellan and was defeated In 1809 he was the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio and was again defeated de-feated In 1879 he was elected United senator to succeed Stanley Matthe and is chiefly distinguished for securing the passage l < of the Civil Service Reform act which bears his name Last year Senator Pendleton was a candidate for renomination but was defeated by ur Payne HUSHAMERICAN HOPES During the last campaign the Tablet opposed Mr Clevelands election and was strong t adherent of Mr Blaine General kirwin its editor said Messrs Mc Lane and Pendleton I know of They arc good men and I suppose will reflect credIt cred-It on the Administration and Govern pent I only know slightly of Mr Phelps f know nothing against him All that 611a vill l je required of him is that lie liould b 1 e truly American It must be adniitted that Mr Lowellhas not main 5fnle t Wy of American citizen 1 Pm hie relations with the British gov Yk1111n 1 believe from the fact that and Phel5 achonal has kept aloof from politics gooilachonal fplrit that he must be a gooil lan Of Ina course my opinion of him may l 1 h io ee featly changed by his future acts Itresi hoWever > confidence enough into AvillEVi e Iveland in-to believe that he cam gud I e m his section of men to mfiri llet1it 0 ut hIs foreign policy by their Oiinkit t S Tment of his views I dont Fet r V right to criticise him at the out inclined to him ri fair dioir III give a I 1Iow ani l heartily glad that Mr Low things removed that It is one of the principal regret we have to look back to with adlninistr ajid It is a reproach to the recent lOng a lOll that he was retained so Ir lioll wI Brishn Ji publisher of the Irish Na aid thaoh also > supported Mr Blaine aver of orC did not know of anything in ell hadS I against 111 Phelps Mr Low a l liberal Ilotacted as he should but he was Great tBriUefiman before he went to MrLn He did not wantto blame there I too Severely for iis course as liecu br Was 1ft telling what influence had liapsC8Uto hear l upon him Per lusgovc as obemg the instructions of that Jr M nett There was no assurance ould not IE PS would act any better He should out L be prised if Mr Phelps Mr ltUwe11 Lowell all tns r ee 1 lan editor of the IrishAmeri eporter aWay from his office when the lUg for him call T ed His son however speak Ir HiS said that the nomination of a Ulan liil s bas a good one The fact that five years I been a Democrat for twenty Mmsucha canisln a hotbed of Republi D lnoerat as Nermont showed that he was a from Principle and that he I I would prove a first class representative of I Democratic doctrines at the Court of St James II A POET FOR MEXICO General Henry R Jackson of Savannah Savan-nah Ga the newlyappointed Minister to Mexico was born at Athens Ga on June 24 1820 and graduated at Yale College in 1839 Returning to Georgia he studied law at Columbus and was admitted ad-mitted to the bar in 1840 He then held for several years the office of United States District Attorney with headquarters headquar-ters at Savannah and subsequently participated par-ticipated in the Mexican war as colonel in command of the Georgia regiment In 1849 he became Judge of the Superior Court Northeastern District of Georgia where four years later he was appointed Charge dAffaires of the Legation at Vienna Vi-enna and within a year became minister resident Resigning the ministry in 1858 he returned to Savannah and resumed the practice of law Shortly before the outbreak of the late war he was appointed appoint-ed Judge of the Confederate Court of Georgia at that time the most rrominent judiciary office in the gift of the State During the winter of 1SGGG1 he entered the Confederate army as brigadiergener al and General Garnett being killed about that time assumed command of the forces in Northwestern Virginia later serving under General Lee who superseded him in command After the battle of Port Royal a division of State troops being called into the field General Jackson was nominated by Governor Brown and unanimously confirmed by the Senate as majorgeneral to take command com-mand After the division of the State troops was broken up by the enforcement of the Conscript law General Jackson was thrown out of service but was reappointed reap-pointed in 1864 and ordered to the Western Army under Captain Hood In the movement move-ment against Nashville General Jackson wa captured and remained as a prisoner at Fort Warren until the close of the war Returningto Savannah he again resumed his law practice and though out of political politi-cal life has built up one of the most eminent em-inent legal reputations in the South A gentleman of the old school possessed of I the cordial esteem and confidence of his feliowcitizens and in thorough sympathy I with the principles of the new administration adminis-tration General Jacksons appointment is one which will be received with entire satisfaction throughout the whole South General Jackson will have the advantage in his new post of an ample private fortune and considerable reputation reputa-tion as a literatcur among his writings I being several poems of more than ordinary ordin-ary merit and of considerable popularity I in the SouthN Y Herald March 2J I |
