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THE TOASTS.

Colonel Dickinson made the opening address, and the following toasts were responded to: "The Memory of Lee," Colonel Charles Marshall, of Baltimore; "Let Us Have Peace," General Daniel E. Sickles; "The Confederate Veteran," General William C. Gates, of Alabama; "Our Country, the United States," Colonel Charles T. O'Ferrall, of Winchester, Va.; " The Soldier-Journalist of '61-65," Colonel John A. Cockrill; "Our Old Home, the South," Hon. Ben- ton McMillan, of Nashville, Tenn.; "Our Soldier Dead," drunk in silence.

THE MUSIC.

The Confederate Veteran Camp quartette, consisting of Messrs. Wilbur Gunn, Frederick Schilling, S. Cameron, and Alfred Poin- dexter, rendered some excellent music during the evening, " The Star-Spangled Banner," " Fse Gwine Back to Dixie," and "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," being among their selections. Messrs. Gunn and Poindexter sang solos.

GENERAL JOSEPH EGGLESTON JOHNSTON.

The last but one of the six full generals of the war for Southern Independence (General Beauregard now alone remaining), General Joseph Eggleston Johnston, died at his residence in Washington, D. C., on the night of March 2ist, 1891. His death excited profound emotion, and throughout the Southern States the testimony of regard in which he was held was touchingly manifested.

RICHMOND.

In Richmond, Lee Camp of Confederate Veterans led in the initiative. At a meeting of this body, held March 23d, a committee