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��convincing, incited their associates to a better life, a renewed consecration and holier aspirations. The names of Cobb, Arnold. Furber, FernaM. Mai- den, Mace, Oxford, Head, Hill, and other elect sisters, now on either side of the river, awaken pleasant recol- lections and fill the mind with hallow- ed influences. There still linger in our remembrance the professions of a sainted mother, a precious sister, and

��beloved companion, whose clear and unquestioned testimony was fre- quently uttered within those sacred walls. Others equally prominent, both in the church and congregation, come trooping before the eye of mem- ory ; but we forbear. Most of them have fallen asleep ; yet the living can perpetuate the work they ardently la- bored to establish and consecrated by their prayers.

��NEW HAMPSHIRE MEN AT WASHINGTON, D. C.

��BY ALMA J. HERBERT.

��All the high offices of the national government have been accorded to sons of New Hampshire, born on her soil, if not at the time in her service. Beside Franklin fierce and Henry Wilson as president and vice-president, Henry Dearborn, as early as i 797, was secretary of war. Lewis Cass filled the same office in 183 1, and in 1857 that of secretary of state.

Levi Woodbury was from 1831 to 1834 secretary of the navy, and of die treasury in 1834, as also judge of the supreme court from 1855.

Daniel Webster was secretary of state from 1841 to 1S43, and again from 1850 to 1S52. when he died. Salmon P. Chase was secretary of the treasury in 1861, following John A. Dix, who entered the office in i860, but passed to active service, and Win. Pitt Fessenden in 1S64 to 1868. Zach. Chandler was secretary of the interior, and Marshall Jewell postmaster-gen- eral. Mr. Chase was also chief justice of the supreme court, and from that bench Nathan Clifford was but recent- ly removed by death.

In the 47th congress she gave rep- resentatives to four other states : Amasa Norcross, of Rindge, now on his third term, to Massachusetts : New York sent Walter A. Wood, of Mason, a sec- ond term ; Michigan entrusted the in-

��terests of her sixth district to Oliver L. Spaulding, of Jaffrey, and Wisconsin gave George C. Haselton, of Chester, a third term — and he was a power in the house.

But we propose to speak of New Hampshire men now in Washington rather than those of past time, and her congressional delegation needs no mention.

Hon. William E. Chandler, a native of Concord, born December 28, 1835, recently appointed secretary of the navy — the fourth honor of the cabi- net — will find in his department op- portunity to leave his mark upon the times. The navy library room is assigned for his use. This room, in the new edifice for the state, army and navy departments, near the White House, is said to be the most beautiful room in the world. Over the door is a slab of lapis lazuli from Pompeii. The walls are rare marbles, native and foreign. In the corners are historic bronzes, blending sea emblems, as does all the rich ornamentation, to the cockle-shell in the bronze netting. Mr. Chandler will be effectively aided by Com. John G. Walker, of Ports- mouth, who is chief of the bureau of navigation.

Hon. Henry F. French, a native of Chester, but resident in Massachusetts,

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