RECONSTRUCTION OF MR. TYLER'S CABINET.
This was the second event of the kind during the administration of
Mr. Tyler--the first induced by the resignation of _Messrs._ Ewing,
Crittenden, Bell, and Badger, in 1841; the second, by the deaths of
_Messrs._ Upshur and Gilmer by the explosion of the Princeton gun.
Mr. Calhoun was appointed Secretary of State; John C. Spencer of New
York, Secretary of the Treasury; William Wilkins of Pennsylvania,
Secretary at War; John Y. Mason, of Virginia, Secretary of the Navy;
Charles A. Wickliffe, of Kentucky, Postmaster General; John Nelson,
of Maryland, Attorney General. The resignation of Mr. Spencer in a
short time made a vacancy in the Treasury, which was filled by the
appointment of George M. Bibb, of Kentucky.