Dec. 22, 1849 } March 3, 1851 } Howell Cobb, _Georgia_. Dec. 1, 1851 } March 3, 1853 } Linn Boyd, _Kentucky_. Dec. 1 1853 } March 3, 1855 } " " " Feb. 28, 1856 } March 3, 1857 } Nathaniel P. Banks, _Mass._ POSTMASTERS-GENERAL. Appointed-- Sept. 26, 1789, S. Osgood, _Massachusetts_. Aug. 12, 1791, T. Pickering, _Massachusetts_. Feb. 25, 1795, J. Habersham, _Georgia_. Nov. 28, 1801, G. Granger, _Connecticut_. March 17, 1814, R. J. Meigs, _Ohio_. June 25, 1823, John McLean, _Ohio_. March 9, 1829, W. T. Barry, _Kentucky_. May 1, 1835, A. Kendall, _Kentucky_. May 18, 1840, J. M. Niles, _Connecticut_. March 6, 1841, F. Granger, _New York_. Sept. 13, 1841, C. A. Wickliffe, _Kentucky_. March 5, 1845, C. Johnson, _Tennessee_. March 7, 1849, J. Collamer, _Vermont_. July 20, 1850, N. K. Hall, _New York_. Aug. 31, 1852, S. D. Hubbard, _Connecticut_. March 5, 1853, J. Campbell, _Pennsylvania_. Sectionalism does not seem to have had much to do with this Department or with that of the Interior, created in 1848-'49. SECRETARIES OF THE INTERIOR. Appointed-- March 7, 1849, T. Ewing, _Ohio_. July 20, 1850, J. A. Pearce, _Maryland_. Aug. 15, 1850, T. M. T. McKennon, _Pennsylvania_. Sept. 12, 1850, A. H. H. Stuart, _Virginia_. March 5, 1853, R. McClelland, _Michigan_. ATTORNEYS-GENERAL. Appointed-- Sept. 26, 1789, E. Randolph, _Virginia_. June 27, 1794, W. Bradford, _Pennsylvania_. Dec. 10, 1795, C. Lee, _Virginia_. Feb. 20, 1801, T. Parsons, _Massachusetts_. March 5, 1800, L. Lincoln, _Massachusetts_. March 2, 1805, R. Smith, _Maryland_. Dec. 23, 1805, J. Breckinridge, _Kentucky_. Jan. 20, 1807, C. A. Rodney, _Pennsylvania_. Dec. 11, 1811, W. Pinkney, _Maryland_. Feb. 10, 1814, R. Rush, _Pennsylvania_. Nov. 13, 1817, W. Wirt, _Virginia_. March 9, 1829, J. McPherson Berrien, _Georgia_. July 20, 1831, Roger B. Taney, _Maryland_. Nov. 15, 1833, B. F. Butler, _New York_. July 7, 1838, F. Grundy, _Tennessee_. Jan. 10, 1840, H. D. Gilpin, _Pennsylvania_. March 5, 1841, J. J. Crittenden, _Kentucky_. Sept. 13, 1841, H. S. Legare, _South Carolina_. July 1, 1843, John Nelson, _Maryland_. March 5, 1845, J. Y. Mason, _Virginia_. Oct. 17, 1846, N. Clifford, _Maine_. June 21, 1848, Isaac Toucey, _Connecticut_. March 7, 1849, R. Johnson, _Maryland_. July 20, 1850, J. J. Crittenden, _Kentucky_. March 5, 1853, C. Cushing, _Massachusetts_. SECRETARIES OF THE TREASURY. The post of Secretary of the Treasury, although one of great importance, requires financial abilities of a high order, which are more frequently found in the North than in the South, and affords little opportunity for influencing general politics, or the questions springing out of Slavery. We need not therefore be surprised to learn that Northern men have been allowed to discharge its duties some forty-eight years out of sixty-seven, as follows: Appointed--