From the Burlington (Vt.) Weekly Free Press, 5/25/1877, p. 2, c. 1

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

…Miss Van Lew, the Union spy, who has been postmaster of Richmond, Va., for the past eight years, is to be superseded by W. W. Forbes, who is described as “a Republican and old Whig, who proposes to appoint conservative Democrats to subordinate positions.”

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