INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT TAYLOR: HIS CABINET.
On the 4th of March the new President was inaugurated with the
customary formalities, Chief Justice Taney administering the oath
of office. He delivered an address, as use and propriety required,
commendably brief, and confined to a declaration of general
principles. Mr. Millard Fillmore, the Vice-President elect, was
duly installed as President of the Senate, and delivered a neat and
suitable address on taking the chair. Assembled in extraordinary
session, the Senate received and confirmed the several nominations
for the cabinet. They were: John M. Clayton, of Delaware, to be
Secretary of State; William M. Meredith, of Pennsylvania, to be
Secretary of the Treasury; George W. Crawford, of Georgia, to be
Secretary at War; William Ballard Preston, of Virginia, to be
Secretary of the Navy; Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, to be Secretary of the
Home Department--a new department created at the preceding session
of Congress; Jacob Collamer, of Vermont, to be Postmaster General;
Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, to be Attorney General. The whole
cabinet were, of course, of the whig party.