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Appointments, &c.

--Isaac Newton, a member of the Society of Friends, formerly of Philadelphia, but now a farmer, residing in the Neabsco estate, in Prince William or Stafford county, Virginia, is urged by his friends for the office of Superintendent of the Agricultural Bureau of the patent Office, recently made vacant by the resignation of Mr. Clemson, son-in-law of the great Calhoun.

Major Ben Perley Poore has been appointed clerk to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, in place of Wm. M. Burwell, of Virginia, resigned.

J. H. Wheeler, Ex-Minister to Nicaragua, has been removed from the position of document clerk in the Interior Department.

Sergeant Pierce, of the company of sappers and miners, now stationed here, has been appointed and commissioned Second Lieutenant.

Samuel Caldwell, of Pa., has been appointed to a first class $1,200) clerkship in the Interior Department.

John McRae, of Va., a first class ($1,200) clerk in the Census Office, resigned yesterday.

T. C. L. Hatcher, of Va., a first class clerk in the Census Office.

Mr. Jas. Wiles has been appointed clerk in charge of distribution of public documents at the Department of the Interior.--Washington States.

The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. March 18, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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