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WASHINGTON, April IA, lS45.
The War and State Departments The White Hoss


The Irsasry-7he Patent Office, and Mr. Eus-
,oorth's Swccessor-7he Ten Hosw System-Capt.
Polk on the qui pive.


We called at the Office Of the Secretary Of
War this morning, on "confdential' business, re-
latiog doubtless to an office, but learned from the
negro jantor, that Governor Morton was now
talking to him, and that five other gentlemen were
waiting to talk to him, and that he only received
one gentleman at time Thinking that George
Bancroft our literary contemporary (God bless you,
only think of that) might have a spare berth tor
us in his dingy and dilapidated old building, we
passed over to the Navy Department. The aisles
were lined with colored messengers IN tact, the
place is 60 dirty and dingy, and dark, thatthe oc
casional white man one encounters "a tne passages
looks rather copperish. we inqsireaoa meesco'