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e was removed by President Buchanan. He is son-in-law of the late Hon. Levi Woodbury of New Hampshire, and brother of Frank P. Blair, Jr., Congressman elect from the St. Louis district. Gideon B. Wells, Secretary of the Navy. Gideon B. Wells has been for 30 years a leading Connecticut politician. He for some time held the office of Postmaster of Hartford, under Mr. Van Buren's administration, and left the office soon after the election of General Harrison in 1840. During a part of Mr. Polk's administration he occupied an important position in the Navy Department.--Mr. Wells disagreed with his party on the subject of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. He was a delegate from the State at large to the Chicago Convention, and constituted, one of the committee to proceed to Springfield with official notice of Mr. Lincoln's nomination. C. B. Smith, Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Smith is well known in Indiana. He has been in Congress, and was Commissioner to Mexican c