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partook of a repast, prepared at the hotel, at which Gen. Tall- 

 madge, president of the Institute, presided", assisted by Gen. John- 

 son as vice-presid(;'nt. Addresses were made by gentlemen from 

 -Various parts of the country, by Gen. Tallmadge, Col. William L, 

 Stone and Gen. Johnson, who, at the close ol his remarks, pro- 

 posed the following toast in Dutch, which, as it embodies a histo- 

 rical fact, we insert here, with a translation. Gen. Johnson pro- 

 posed the memory of, 



" Joris Janse De Rappelje, Teunis Guysbert Bogart, ende Jere-* 

 miah Remse Vanderbeck, bowleiden van Waael in Nederlandt, 

 die en de Waalleboght in Nieu Nederlandt de erste landt bowers 

 waren, begeninde in het jaar 1625." 



Iranslation — " George Jansen De Rappelje, Tunis Guysbert Bo- 

 gart, and Jeremiah Remsen Vanderbeck, farmers from Waael, in 

 the Netherlands ; they were the first men who began farming in 

 the New Netherlands at the Wallabout, in the year 1625." 



The General subsequently attended many of our exhibitions of 

 this kind, at which we always found him the first in the field, 

 and the last to leave it. He was emphatically an extraordinary 

 man, devoting himself with singular fidelity and promptness to 

 whatever he undertook ; his opinions' were expressed with moder- 

 ation and sincerity ; as a public man, he was discerning and steady ; 

 as a partizan, temperate and honorable; as a christian, unobtru- 

 sive and confident. 



General Johnson died on the 20th of October, 1852, in a per- 

 fectly composed and unclouded state of mind ; at peace with all 

 his fellow men, and with entire confidence in the saving power of 

 the Redeemer. It was his particular request that his body might 

 be borne to its final resting place, in a strictly private manner, 

 entirely free from all display. In consequence of which the pre- 

 sent General Duryea, as a testimony of respect for the deceased, 

 Issued an order announcing his death, from which we make the 

 following extract : " It would be proper that this brigade should 

 bear the remains of their old commander to the grave with every 

 tribute of military honor, were it not his expressed desire, that 

 without military or civic escort, by his family alone, this solemn 

 duty should be performed." 



