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-ing Secretary of War Stanton to have an interview with Ex-Gov. N.G. Ordway of New Hampshire. Plate from the dinner set in use at the White House during his administration. Photograph of his home in Springfield, in 1844. Playbill of Ford's Theatre, for April 14m 1865, the night when President Lincoln was assassinated.-M.H.R., A.R., P.

Francisco Pizarro. Engraved silver plate bearing the coat of arms of the conqueror of Peru. He was made governor of Peru in 1528, and began his conquest in 1531. In 1532 he captured by treachery the Inca leader, Atahualpa, when he killed despite the ransom, estimated at $17,500,000. He rapidly reduced the country to subjection Cuzco was occupied in 1533, and Lima in 1535. In the latter year the title of Marquis of Francisco was bestowed on him by Charles V. of Spain. He was killed in 1541.-M.H.R.

Capt. Simeon Sampson. Small leather trunk in which were kept the papers of Captain Sampson, the first naval commander appointed in the Continental service by the Provincial Congress of

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Massachusetts, at the outbreak of the War of the Revolution. Mirror purchased by him in France during this period.-M.H.R., C.K.

Roger Sherman. Chair, being a part of the parlor furniture of his home at New Milford, Conn. He was one of the members of the committee appointed by the Colonial Congress in 1776 to draft the Declaration of Independence.-E.H.

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. Message in pencil, which he caused to be signaled to Admiral Dahlgren, asking the co-operation of his fleet in the capture of Fort McAllister, on the Ogeechee River, near Savannah, Ga., December 13, 1864. Semaphore flag with which it was signaled by Lieut. William Ware.-M.H.R.

Sitting Bull. War club presented by this noted Sioux chief to a Catholic priest, previous to the year 1884, with the information that it had been used in the Custer massacre on the Little Big horn, June 25, 1876.-I.H.R.

President Zachary Taylor. Pipe presented to him when commandant (1820-36) at Fort Crawford (Prairie du Chien)

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