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 NEW HAMPSHIRE MEN AT WASHINGTON.

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��is one of the assistant secretaries of the treasury, and in the absence of his chief fills the higher office, as for a considerable time before the war. Mr. Moses Kelley, of Warner, did that of the interior.

Gen. John Eaton, of Sutton, is com- missioner of the bureau of education, occupied with the noble service not yet fully appreciated : where Mr. Wm. H. Gardiner, of Portsmouth, is chief clerk.

Hon. Jacob H. Ela, of Rochester, is sixth auditor in the treasury, adjust- ing " all accounts relating to the postal service," with eight subordinate divis- ions. Prof. John R. Eastman, born in Andover, is one of the four professors in the naval observatory, and can make one's visit there, amid the strange and complicated instruments, very in- teresting. Mr. Charles Chesley, of Farmington. is solicitor of internal revenue, which gives him rank in the department of justice. Mr. Amos Web- ster, of Plymouth, is chief, and Mr. George A. Bartlett. of Kingston, dis- bursing clerk, in the treasury depart- ment. Judge Plenry C. Harmon is deputy second auditor, as a Concord boy, though not native. Henry K. Leaver, born in Nassau, N. P., is in the office of the first auditor. H. A. Whitney is assistant cashier, and Mr. (leo. Kent, our Concord poet, at 86 still writes at his desk, and sent a poem to the Webster centennial.

Nor are scientific departments whol- Iv ignored by us, since to Mr. William H. Appleton, of Co. I, 2d N. H. V.. is assigned the examination of textiles in the patent office. J. Richards Dodge is statistician in the department of agriculture, and Mr. Daniel Breed, of Weare, is in the Smithsonian.

Rev. J. E. Rankin, d. d., born in Salisbury, son of Rev. Andrew Ran- kin, is the beloved pastor of the Con- gregational church, corner of Tenth and G. streets, saving a colored Con- gregational church grown up from a mission of this, the only Congrega- tional church in Washington ; but it is a live church. Dr. Rankin is poet and editor as well. His pulpit gives

��no uncertain sound, but is sure to turn Bible light on all the topics of the day.

At Howard University, doing noble work in the education and upraising of the colored race, is Prof. Cyrus S. Richards, a native of Vermont, but principal of Kimball Union Academy, at Meriden, from 1835 t0 I §7 1 ! when he went to Washington.

Rev. Charles Adams, Methodist, of Stratham, a man of fine physique, still preaches to great acceptance.

The press is represented by Mr. Stilson Hutchins. of Whitefield, late of Manchester, and son, W. S. Hutch- ins, editors and proprietors of the Post, a daily, published at the corner of 10th and D streets.

The bar has a goodly representation. Messrs. Bond, Hackett, of Portsmouth, Twombly, Folsom, Muzzey, Horace Cummings, of Exeter, and partner, Henry M. Baker, of Bow.

The brothers Emery, of Suncook, are prominent men. Samuel is a large contractor in stone and coal. Mat- thew G. was mayor in the days when Washington had mayors. He resides in the house on I street, that was Gen. Sherman's headquarters in the war. The last are, with their wives, main pillars in the Metropolitan church (Methodist), on Four-and-a-half St., where Gen. Grant attended.

We remember a jocular remark that all the teachers in Washington were from New Hampshire. They are a goodly body.

Gen. George W. Ballock, of the 5th Regiment, was long on Gen. Howard's staff, later in the freed man's bureau. He is of Great Falls, but of Scotch origin.

At this moment Dr. Stanton, of New Durham, or Alton, who was at the Seminary Building Hospital, in George- town, and so well known there, is the only New Hampshire physician we re- call, for, although Dr. Gate's father was of Loudon, he, I think, was a na- tive of Maine.

It is said that great abilities are requisite to keep a hotel. New Hamp- shire men in Washington have shown the possession of the rare power. The

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