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C. Lamar, accredited to Russia, is a member of President Cleve- land's Cabinet, and General William Preston, accredited to Mexico, rejoices in his broad acres in the blue-grass region of Kentucky.

Among the Consular, Confidential and Foreign Agents of the Confederacy we note the demise of C. C. Clay, Jacob Thompson, James P. Holcombe, Charles J. Helm, Colin J. McRae, George N. Sanders, J. L. O'Sullivan, and of others holding less important positions.

Of those who bore rank as full generals in the armies of the Con- federacy only two survive Generals Joseph E. Johnston and G. T. Beauregard. General Albert S. Johnston fell in the memorable bat- tle of Shiloh, and Generals Robert E. Lee and Braxton Bragg died since the cessation of hostilities.

There were two generals with temporary rank E. Kirby Smith and John B. Hood. The former lives, and the latter, in dying, com- mended his orphans to the care of the soldiers of the Confederacy.

Twenty-one officers were complimented with the grade of lieu- tenant-general. The only survivors are Generals James Longstreet, E. Kirby Smith, D. H. Hill, Stephen D. Lee, Wade Hampton, Jubal A. Early, Alexander P. Stewart, Joseph Wheeler, Simon B. Buckner, and John B. Gordon.

Of the one hundred who were commissioned as major-generals in Confederate service, if my information be correct, only forty-five are now numbered among the living.

Of four hundred and eighty who rose to the grade of brigadier- general, an inquiry, by no means partial, inclines me to the belief that there are not two hundred in life.

With the exception of Thomas H. Watts, of Alabama, Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, Zebulon B. Vance, of North Carolina, M. L. Bonham and A. G. Magrah, of South Carolina, Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee, and perhaps Richard Hawes, of Kentucky, all the war- governors of Confederate States are dead.

We have not sufficient data to speak with certainty in regard to the senators and representatives in Confederate Congress, but we do know that the mortality among them has been commensurate with that which has occurred in other departments. Of those who tarry with us, not a few have almost reached the last span in the bridge of life, and must soon fall into the dark stream which bears away the generations of men.

The Constitution of the Confederate States was signed by forty- nine delegates. All who affixed their signatures to that memorable