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AN OLD HOWITZER.

A picturesque figure in the line was Nicholas M. Crouch, the author of "Kathleen Mavourneen." Though eighty-six years old, he marched each time the visitors were on the street. He wore a Confederate gray coat and wide-brim slouch hat, and was heartily applauded along the line of march.

Professor Crouch is an old Howitzer, and when he walked into Mr. J. B. Lambert's store, which was headquarters for the veteran How- itzers and Louisianians, accompanied by Mr. James T. Gray, he was accorded a touching reception.

Captain F. M. Colston, of the banking firm of Wilson, Colston & Co., Baltimore, while at Maryland headquarters yesterday, fell down a short stairway and bruised his limbs so that he could not join in the parade.

NORTH CAROLINA REPRESENTATIVES.

By order of Governor Carr, of North Carolina, Adjutant- General Francis H. Cameron, as chief of staff, was the official representative of the " Old North State," and was in a carriage in the procession. Accompanying General Cameron were Colonel Bennehan Cameron, Inspector-General of Small-Arms Practice, and Colonel Eugene G. Harrell, Quartermaster-General, Colonel Julian S. Carr, Paymaster- General, was present, but not in his official capacity. He paraded with the veterans. North Carolina was the only State, other than Virginia, represented by officers of its general staff. General Came- ron and Colonels Cameron and Harrell attended Governor O'FerralPs reception last evening.

Only one company from North Carolina was in the great parade, this being Company G, of the First Regiment of Infantry of the North Carolina State Guard, from Washington, Captain Thomas commanding. Thirty-two men were in ranks in the full-dress dark- blue and white uniform of their State.

North Carolina was also represented by Brigadier-General William P. Roberts, who was the youngest officer of that rank in the Con- federate service, and by two camps of veterans, these being Charles F. Fisher Camp, of Salisbury, fifty-seven men, and the Person County Camp, with sixty two men. The Salisbury Camp is well known in Richmond, having headed the veterans at the Lee monu- ment unveiling. They wore yesterday their familiar white helmets,