Judge Mills' oration was a fitting climax to the glorious day. A highly appreciative audience listened to it with wrapt attention, and interrupted it with frequent and enthusiastic applause which was long continued at the close. Judge Mills was at his best, and by the charm of his oratory, and the felicity of his speech as well as by his graceful, manly manner and the patriotic glow of his eloquent periods, fairly captivated all who heard him.

It was indeed a rarely pretty picture the stage presented, as Judge Mills, seemingly youthful, surrounded as he was by the veterans of age the mellow light falling full upon him and tlie golden lilies of the flag, of France which shielded him in front -- a bright halo above, a spotless banner beneath ; a picture long to be remembered by those who beheld it.

A collation at Lyceum Hall followed, at which the officers of the Army and Navy and many prominent guests were present, including a large delegation from the Daughters of the Revolution of New York.

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In the meantime the Grand Army Posts present and others were entertained at Music Hall by Ward B. Burnett Post and the Women's Relief Corps.

Among the prominent guests present were Hon. Wm. H. Robertson, Hon. D. O. Bradley, Hon. Chas. P. McClelland of Dobbs Ferry, Mayor Brush of Mt. Vernon, Rev. Dr. Coffey of Eastchester, Supervisor Joseph B. See, of North Castle, Supervisor Lane of Mt. Pleasant, Supervisor Underhill of Yorktown, Hon. James Irving Burns of Yonkers, Hon. Tlios. K. Fraser of Hastings, Leonard F. Requa, Esq., of New York, Rev. Amos C. Requa of Peekskill, Alfred Flail Esq., and Mr. Wm. Dutcher of New York, Dr. G. W. Murdock, (whose wife is a direct descendant of Commissary' General Wm.