Mr.Cameron sympathized with Mr.
Seward more than with Mr.Chase.

Mr.Bates was extremely conservative, but a zealous friend of the Union, and a lifelong disciple of Mr.
Clay.

Mr.Welles was of Democratic antecedents, a follower of Van Buren and Wright, an associate of John M.Niles, anti-slavery in principle, a strict constructionist, instinctively opposed to Mr.
Seward, readily co-operating with Mr.Chase.

His appointment was a surprise to New-England Republicans who expected a much more prominent member of the party to be called to the Cabinet.

It was understood that the selection was due to the counsel of Vice- President Hamlin, who soon after had such serious differences with Mr.Welles that a state of absolute non-intercourse existed between them during the whole period of his incumbency of the Navy Department.
Mr.Caleb B.Smith had been prominent in the House of Representatives when Mr.Lincoln was a member, had been popular as a public speaker in the West, but had no aptitude for so serious a task as the administration of a great department, and did not long retain his position.
THE CABINET OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
Mr.Blair was appointed as a citizen of Maryland.