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old age beneath the grateful shadows of Southern live-oaks and magnolias; but the vice-president of the Confederacy four years ago terminated his active and useful career.

Of those who held the portfolio of State, Robert Toombs, R. M. T. Hunter, and Judah P. Benjamin, all are dead.

Of the four attorney-generals, only two, ex-Governor Thomas H. Watts, and the Honorable George Davis, survive.

Mr. Memminger, of the Treasury Department, still lives.* The other secretary, the gifted George A. Trenholm, has, for years, been sleeping that sleep which knows no waking.

Of the five Secretaries of War, Leroy Pope Walker, Judah P. Ben- jamin, George W. Randolph, James A. Seddon, and John C. Breck- inridge, not one is alive.

The accomplished Adjutant- General. Samuel Cooper, A. C. Myers, Quartermaster-General, L. B. Northrup, Commissary-General, Gene- ral I. M. St. John, Chief of the Bureau of Subsistence, General Josiah Gorgas, Chief of Ordnance, General J. F. Gilmer, Chief Engineer, General John H. Winder, Commanding Prison Camps, Robert Ould, Chief of the Bureau of Exchange, and I. H. Carrington, Acting Provost-Marshal General, are, I believe, all dead. Quartermaster- General Alexander R. Lawton, now verging upon seventy, repre- sents the United States at the Austrian court.

Rufus R. Rhodes, Commissioner of Patents, is thought to be no longer among the living.

Turning to the Navy Department, we find upon the death-roll the names of Secretary Stephen R. Mallory, of Commodore F. Forrest, Chief of the Bureau of Orders, of Admirals Franklin Buchanan and Raphael Semmes, of Commodores Tattnall, Maury, Whittle, Hollins, Ingraham, and of many other prominent officers.

Postmaster- General John H. Reagan lives, and is a member of the National Legislature.

Of the commissioners who represented the Confederacy abroad, James M. Mason and William L. Yancey, accredited to Great Brit- ain, John Slidell, accredited to France, P. A. Rost, accredited to Spain, John T. Pickett, accredited to Mexico, Bishop Lynch, ac- credited to the States of the Church, and John Forsyth, Martin J. Crawford, A. B. Roman, and Charles J. Faulkner, accredited to the United States, are dead. The octogenarian, A. Dudley Mann, accredited to Belgium, resides in France. The Honorable Lucius Q.


 * Hon. Charles G. Memminger died March 7, 1888, in Charleston, S. C.