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Y S 1 8 6 5. <9THE ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, ITS OFFICERS, HISTORY, CHARTER, BY-LAWS, MEMBERS, DONATIONS, AND RELICS.OFFICERS AND^DIRECTORS 0 F ^ THE ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, 1 8 6 5 , President, J. V. TI CLARK/ First Vice-President, ’ W. W. WILLARD.' v*4t^ Second Vice-President, AMOS WESCOTT. : Corresponding Secretary, / j Recording Secretary, : FINLAY M. KING.'R- F- TROWBRIDGE. Treasurer, / JAMES S. LEACH. Librarian* < Dr. H. WIGHTMAN. DIRECTORS. 1st Class, one year. 2d Class, two years. 3d Class, three years. J. A. O’HARA. • N. B. SMITH. F. M. KING. ^ ,-u. W. W. WILLARD. ’/A JOSEPH M. CLARK^H.J). L. SWEET. R. F. TROWBRIDGE,|w. KIRKPATRICK.,.,!. WESCOTT. A. D. WHITE. „ l- J. A. GREEN Je., J. S. LEACH. «>, J. M. BAKER. • >,¥«. BAUMGRASS.- JAMES NOXON. , r. McCarthy, *v. s. n. holmes. , - j. v. h. clark.4 SYRACUSE, N. Y., JANUARY, 1865. STANDING COMMITTEES. 1. Lectures and Historical Meetings; R. F. Trowbridge, Jos. M. Clark, R. McCarthy. . 2d. Rooms and Fixtures; Wm. Baumgrass, J. Noxon, R. F. Trowbridge. 3d. Donations, Curiosities, and Relics; H. D. L. Sweet, J. A. O’Hara, A. D. White. 4. Finance and Auditing; A. Wescott, W. W. Will- ard, J. Noxon. 5. Ways and Means; J. S. Leach, J. A. Green, Jr., W. Kirkpatrick. 6. Arts and Sciences; J. M. Baker, A. D. White,* J. A. O’Hara. I. Local History; Jos. M. Clark, F. M. King, S. N. Holmes. 8. Geology and Mineralogy; A. Wescott, H. D. L. Sweet, W. W. Willard. 9. Printing; F. M. King. S.‘ N. Holmes, J, M. Baker. 10. Members; N. B. Smith, R. McCarthy, J. A. Green, Jr. II. Exhibitions and Premiums; W. Kirkpatrick, W. Baumgrass, J. S. Leach. 12. By-Laws and Rules; J. Noxon, N. B. Smith, A. Wescott.HISTORY. Within the limits of the county of Onondaga the anti- quarian has found a vast field to gratify his love of re- search. The ancient mounds, fortifications, and burial places existing upon the hills, in the south-east part of the county have long been a subject of interest to men of letters, engaged in the study of antiquities. Every lover of his native county takes pleasure and pride, in pointing to the valuable work of the first president of this associa- tion, who has invested, with additional interest, the scenes which have transpired upon the beautiful hills and val- leys of Onondaga. We take delight in perusing the faithful record of the early events which have happened upon the soil of our native county; and when the histo- rian has been unable to gather materials to illustrate the events and scenes which are obscured in' the darkness of the past, our speculations and theories lead us into a most delightful field of investigation. We venture nothing, in affirming, that no interior county in the state can point to more ancient historical ground. The Council-fires of the Six-Nations which burned so brightly at Onondaga, before the white man had commenced his inroads upon the settlements and home of the Indian, have gone out; but traces of the prowess and spirit of their noble Chief- tains still linger around the places made memorable by the bravery of their warriors. W e generally cast our eyes to the shores of Virginia or New England, in tracing the earliest footsteps of Eu- ropeans upon the continent. We look to those places for the early relics of the Pilgrims, and forget that within our own borders, a monument has been found marking a burial place, upon which was inscribed in figures “1520, denoting a period of time, only twenty-eight years sue-6 'filing the discovery of the continent by Columbus. In advance of us, other localities in the East have foun- ded institutions for the preservation of quaint and curious relics of the past and present, and have gathered fresh and enduring mementoes of the character and peculiarities of the early adventurers to our shores. The richness of this central county in antiquities; its abundance of mineral wealth; its rare material for the choicest cabinet of curiosities prompted the formation of a historical association for the county. A few individ- uals, having in view the wants of the future, and the pride and pleasure of having their labors consecrated to the good work of gathering from the homes of the men of Onondaga, for preservation, the relics and antiquities which had been cast aside and would ere long be forgot- ten, in the month of January 1862, caused a notice to be published in our city papers, of a meeting to form a His- torical Association. On the 16th of January, 1862, at the time appointed, four or five individuals met and resolved to form such an association. The meeting was composed of the following persons: H. D. L. Sweet, W. Baumgrass, S. N. Holmes, Charles R. Wright, Lyman W. Conkey, and James Noxon. Mr Noxon was appointed chairman, and L. W. Conkey, Secretary. The object of the meeting was stated, and after consid- ering the importance to the city of Syracuse, and county of Onondaga, of an institution for the preservation and ■care of the curiosities and relics of the county, a commit- tee was appointed to prepare a constitution and by-laws, and to report the names of directors at a subsequent meeting. The meeting adjourned to the 22d day of Janu- ary, 1862, at which time an increased number was present. The meeting was organized, and S. N. Holmes appointed -chairman, and T. 0. Putnam, secretary.The committee appointed at the first meeting reported' a constitution and by-laws for the Onondaga County His- torical Association, which was adopted; also, the names of the directors. The report of the committee was accep- ted, and the following persons were then elected the first directors of the association; to wit, J. V. H. Clark, T. K. Wright, J. Kneeland, James Noxon, John L. Stevens, N*. B. Smith, James S. Leach, E. B. Griswold, Lyman W. Conkey, C. 0. Roundy, H. D. L. Sweet, W. Baumgrass, C. B. Wheeler, John A. Green, Jr., H. D. Didima, Wm, Tefft, Jr., Robert Townsend, S. N. Holmes. At a meeting of the directors, held on the first of Feb- ruary, 1862, the following officers were elected: President, J. V. H. CLARK. Vice-Prest. N. B. Smith. Treasurer, James S. Leach. Cor. Sedy, James ISToxon. Pec. Sec'y, CHAS. R. Wright. During the first year of the existence of the association its increase in members was small, and the contributions to its cabinet of curiosities inconsiderable; yet the few friends of the organization who believed that at no distant day, this association would be the pride of every citizen in the county, gave no signs of faltering, but became more and more devoted to its interests. At the annual meeting of the association, held on the first Tuesday in^ January, 1863, the. following directors were elected for' the. then ensuing year. J. V. H. Clark. Jas. M. Clark. T. K. Wright. J. S. Leach. Geo. Geddes. James Noxon. J. Kneeland. S. N. Holmes. Rob’t Townsend. John A. Green, Jr. R. F. Trowbridge. W. W. Willard. John M. Baker. Amos Wescott. J. 0. Loomis. H. D. L. Sweet. W. Baumgrass. N. B. Smith.8 At a meeting of the directors, held February 7, 1863, an election for officers was had, which resulted in a choice of the same officers as the previous year. At .the session of the Legislature in 1868, in accordance with a resolution* of the board of directors, application was made, and a charter obtained from the state, and the association, by virtue of the act, became incorporated by the name of “The Onondaga Historical Association,” and in and by the act, the persons elected directors at ‘the. last annual election were constituted directors under the new charter. At a meeting of the directors shortly after the passage of the act incorporating the association, the then officers of the association were by resolution of the board contin- ued as such, under the charter until the next election. The first meeting for the organization of the association was held at Corinthian-Hall buildings, and up to the period of obtaining a charter, the donations and gifts to the association were placed in one of the offices in that , building. A few months after obtaining the charter, the directors leased and fitted up a suite of rooms in the same buildings in which the contributions for three years have been carefully preserved. At the annual, meeting held on the fifth of January 1864, the following directors were elected'; to wit, J. Y. H. Clark. W. W. Willard. Rob’t. Townsend, James Noxon. N. B. Smith. John M. Baker. H. D. L. Sweet. S. N. Holmes. James S. Leach. Geo. Geddes. Wm. Baumgrass. John A. Green, Jr, James M. Clark. R. F. Trowbridge. Amos Wescott. A. D. White. W. Kirkpatrick. Thos. E. Townsend9 At.tbtf first Meeting of tike difectCflfe held, on tike 7th of Jtouafy,’ 1864, the following officers were elected, to wit; President, J. Y. H. Clark. Vice do. Amos Wesoott. 2d Vice do. Andrew D. White. Treasurer, James S. Leach. Cor. Secretary, D. W. Fiske. Bee. Secretary[ S. N. Holmes. Haring the two past years the interest in tfe association and its obj ect has greatly increased, and the Contributions in donations have more than doubled. At the annual meeting in January, 1865, the following directors Were elected; to wit, J. V* Bt Clark. James Noxon. W. W. Willard. Rob’t McCarthy/ W. Kirkpatrick. J. A.-Green, Jr. James S. Leach. J. M. Baker. Wm.-Baumgrass, N. B. Smith. Finlay M. King. S. 1ST. Holmes. Bf. D. L. Sweet. A. Wescott. R. F. Trowbridge. A. D. White. J. A. O’Hara; J. M. Clarke. The directors met on the day of their election and chose the following officers: President, Jl Y. H. Clark. ls£ Vice do. W. W. Willard. 2d Vice do.- Am.os Wescott. Cor. Secretary, Finlay M. King. Bee. Secretary, R. F. Trowbridge/* Treasurer, James S. Leach. On the twenty-first day of January, 186&, the directors adopted new by Jaws for'the association,-and as provided therein, the directors were divided into three classes; the Official term of one class expiring each year, at which time an election will be held for six new directors. The association already numbers among its Members10 some of the best citizens of the county. Its objects and aims are worthy the co-operation of ten times the number already enrolled. The time is not far distant, when she will spread her wings and nestle within her folds a cabinet of rare curiosities^ highly attractive to citizen and stranger.* Who does not rejoice that the foundations of this society have been laid, and that the central city of this state, so* often thronged with strangers, will,’at no distant day, be proud of an institution in her midst inviting all to study and admire the collections voluntarily contributed to her archives ? This city, until the formation of this associa- tion,had scarcely one public place to which our citizens could resort for amusement and instruction. The directors of the association invite the cordial sup- port of the public in their labors to make this society a pleasing, interesting, and instructive institution. They have placed before the public this short history of its organization and career, with the charter, by-laws, list of members, and articles contributed, with the hope of inspir- ing in the public mind a due- appreciation of the value of this society to the city, county, and state. It needs no prophet to foretel the fixture of its history. The time will soon arrive when the liberality of our public-spirited men will endow this association so munificently that it will own a building for the deposit of its rare collections, and gather in foreign fields the richest and rarest specimens in nature and art. The officers and managers present themselves as supplicants for every aid and assistance which may be given to further the* prosperity of the institution; and they promise, in return,* to display, of the good gifts bestowed, the most gratifying and pleasing results.* *11 CHARTER. AN ACT to incorporate the Onondaga Historical Asso- ciation, Passed April 29, 1863. The People of the State of New-York 1 represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: §1. Joshua V. H. Clark, Truman K. Wright, George Geddes, Jonathan Kneeland, James M. Clark, Jacob Y. Loomis, James S. Leach, Homer D. L. Sweet, James Noxon, William Baumgrass, Samuel N. Holmes, Nathaniel B. Smith, Robert Townsend, John A. Green, Jr., Robert F. Trowbridge, William W. Willard, John N. Baker, and Amos Wescott and their associates who now are, and such other persons as shall hereafter become members of the said association, are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name of the “Onondaga Historical Asso- ciation,” • §2. The said corporation is created for the purpose of collecting and preserving historical, geneological, scien- tific ;and literary materials and mementoes, books maps, charts, pamphlets, magazines, papers, relics, and facts in any form, having a connection with either of said subjects. §3. The persons named in the first section of this act shall be the firgt directors of said association, and six of the said directors shall be sufficient to constitute a quorum of the board. §4. The said corporation may hire suitable rooms or buildings for their purposes, and make and enter into leases therefor, and may purchase, take, and hold real estate for the purposes aforesaid, not exceeding in value the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and may, in addition, take and hold by gift, grant, or devise, subject to the limitations prescri- bed by law, real and personal property, not to exceed in value the sum of one hundred thousand dollars.12 §5. The buildings of the said corporation, in which its collections shall be kept and its affairs curried on, shall be located in the city of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, and the property of said corporation in its actual occupa, tion shall be exempt from taxation. §6. The said corporation shall possess the general pow* ers of a corporation under the Revised Statutes. §7. This act shall take effect immediately. OF THE ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. ARTICLE I. OFFICERS. §1. The officers of the association shall consist of a Pre? ident, a first and second Vice-President, a Recording Sec- retary, a Corresponding Secretary, and a Treasurer. §2. The President and Vice-Presidents shall be elected from the board of Directors. ARTICLE IL ELECTIONS. §1. The board of Directors shall consist of eighteen members of the association, to be elected and to hold their office as such directors, in the manner, and for the period herein provided. §2. The present board of directors shall, upon the adop- tion of these By-laws, be divided by said board into three classes of six directors in each class, and the board shall thereupon cast lots, and the first class drawn shall be and remain directors until the next annual election. The sec* ond class drawn shall be and remain directors until the second annual election; and the third class drawn shall be and remain directors until the third annual election.18 §3. On the first Tuesday of January hereafter, in each and ©very year, an election shall be held for the election of six directors w.ho shall be and remain directors for the period of three years. §4. If no election of directors or officers shall take place' bers becoming such under the provisions of these by-laws, shall annually pay the Treasurer the sum of two dollars; and for neglect or failure to make such payment for one month after .written request from the Treasurer, he shall bo longer be deemed a member of the association,19 ARTICLE IX. OF INCURRING DEBTS,- §1. No debt shall be contracted by the board of directors' or any officer of the association, unless pursuant to a vote of two-thirds of all the directors; and this section shall not be amended or altered, except upoif the vote of five- sixths of the board of directors. §2. No officer or agent of the association shall receive any compensation for his services, except upon the vote of two-thirds of the board of directors?. §3. Each director or officer, incurring a debt against the provisions of this article, shall be personally liable for the payment of the same. ARTICLE X. OF LIFE MEMBERSHIP. §1. Any person, by vote of the board of directors, may become a life-member of the association by paying unto the Treasurer the sum of fifty dollars, or five dollars pbr year for the period of ten years. §2. The above section shall not be deemed to $pply to • such persons as have already become life-member^by the' payment of ten dollars. §3. Nothing herein provided shall prevent any person Who is already a life-member, from becoming a life-member under the first section of this article, in which event he Shall be credited with the ten dollars already paid. §4. Persons, already life-members, or who shall become so under the provisions of sections 1 and 3 of this article,- shall be entitled to all the privileges of other members,- and shall be exempt from the annual dues of two dollars.- ARTICLE XI. OF HONORARY MEMBERS. §1. The board of directors shall have power to make any person an honorary member of the association, who in\17 the opinion of the board, may be entitled to such distinc* tion, either from high attainments in learning, the arts or sciences, or who may have performed great exploits; and also, upon such persons as have manifested great interest in the association by the bestowal of valuable curiosities, or specimens in nature or art, or who have made endow- ments or donations to and for the association. §2. Honorary members shall be entitled to the privileges of other members; but shall not be entitled to vote or become officers of the association. ARTICLE XII. OF STANDING committees. §1. The standing committees of this association shall consist of not less than three members of the board. §2. The President, unless otherwise ordered by the board shall appoint, as soon as practicable, after his election,, the following standing committees; to wit. 1. —Lectures and Historical meetings. 2. —Rooms and Fixtures, 3. —Donations, Curiosities, and Relics. 4. —Finance and Auditing Committee, 5. —Ways and Means. 6. —Arts and Sciences. L—Local History, 8. —Geology and Mineralogy. 9. —Printing. 10. —Members of the association, 11. —Exhibitions and Premiums. 12. —By-Laws and Rules. ARTICLE XIII. OF ORDER OF BUSINESS. §1, At all meetings of the board of Directors, the Presi- dent having taken the chair, and the roll having been called, and a quorum being present, the order of business shall be as follows*,18 1st. Reading and approval of the minutes of the pro- ceeding meeting. 2d. Reports of standing committees in their order- 3d. Reports of select committees. 1th. Reports of officers. 5th. Motions and resolutions. 6th. Unfinished business, tth. Miscellaneous. OF THE ALTERATION OF THESE BY-LAWS. §1.—These by-laws or any of them,.except article nine, may be amended at any regular meeting of the board of directors on a vote of two-thirds of the members thereof, and upon a notice in writing, offered one month previous thereto. ARTICLE XIV. LIFE MEMBERS. Janies Xoxon. John C. Hunk R. Raynor. G. X. Kennedy- S. X. Holmes. Frank Hiscock- H. Reigel. R. F. Trowbridge,. W. W. Willard. V. John A. Green, Jr- - J. W. Barker. E. W. Leavenworth- *Harvey Baldwin. X. F. Graves. C. S. Totman. C. W. Cornell. D. J. Halsted, y James S. Leach. * W. C. Ruger. L. H. Hiscock. E. S. Payne. Chas. Andrews.y / T. T. Davis. L. H. Redfield. J. V. H. Clark. Alfred Wilkinson- John IV. Baker. Horace K. White- J. Dean Hawley. *J. H. Pomroy. Finlay M. King- T. B. Fitch. P. P. Midler. *Chas. Pope- ^Deceased,M. D. Burnet O. Ballard, Geo. F. Comstock. M. W. Brand. D. B. VanSlyke. Okas. Tallman. Carroll E. Smith. C. M. Mattison. Geo. A, Ostrander. Wm. Baumgrass. C. 0. Roundy. Thos. D. Green. Daniel Pratt. Allen Munro. A. A. Howlett Geo. Geddes. Samuel X May. A. H. WellingtoiL S. H. Slosson. Henry Stearns. J. L. Bagg. Sandford Thayer.. - S. D. Dillaye. Alfred Mercer. D. J. Mitchell. ' D. P. Phelps. W. T. Hamilton. ‘ H. D. Williams. W. H. Hoyt, James Noxon, Jr. D. P. Wood. Luke Wells. E. S. Dawson. O. J. Barlow- P. H. Agan. _ J. I. Bradley. f J. A. Scovel. S. C. Brewster. C. T. Longstreet. V- W. Smith. ^ D. Bookstaver. J. M. Jay cox. Geo. J. Gardner. J. W. Truesdell. Wm. Winton. J. A. Jay cox. John J. Crouse. J. G. K. Truair. A. J. Lynch. Austin Myers. W. B. Ferry. W. W. TealL Chester Hair. T. B. Heermans. Wm. C. Fink. Geo. Truesdell. A. C. Yates. J. P. Haskins. A. Wescott. James M. Clark. H. N. White. ^ H. D. L. S’weet D. McCarthy. R. McCarthy. J. Kneeland. D. Kirkpatrick.- 0. T. Burt, Stanley Bagg. *20 E. R. Plumb, R Townsend. N. B. Smith. James Geddes. Grove Lawrence, Alex. H. Davis. E. P. Fenton. Geo. L. Thompson. Joseph M. Clark. James M. Ellis. James H. Gage. f/ Spencer Marsh, Jr. E. Beard. G. EL Perior. W. Gilbert. R M. Beecher. Jacob Miller. T. E. Townsend. Henry Wightman. J. W. Yale. H. Burdick. Wm. C. Brown. Wm. Kirkpatrick. Robert Townsend. Jr. James A. O’Hara. J. F. Wilkinson. John M. Strong. D. F. Gott. * Alonzo Case. Wm. Tefft, Jr. D. W. Fiske. Andrew D. White. J. Elmendorf. Andrew H. Green. D. L. Ames. C. Shoemaker. A. T. YanGaasbeck. A. B. Shipman. J. H. Mann. D. O. Salmon. A. T. Smith. W. H. Smith. F. E. Carroll. * At a meeting of the board of directors held on January 21st, 1865, with a view of increasing the funds of the association, it was resolved to raise the fees of life-mem- bership to $50, instead of $10, as heretofore, payable in annual installments of $5 per year for ten years. It was also resolved, that any life-member who had become such by the payment of $10, might become a fifty dollar life-member, by paying forty dollars more in annual installments of five dollars each, as above.21 The following named members, being present, subscri- bed; as follows, William Kirkpatrick, James Koxon, K. McCarthy, J. S. Leach, R. F. Trowbridge, Homer D. L. .Sweet, W. W. Willard, F. M. King, Wm. Baumgrass, John A. Green, Jr. A large proportion of the present members will follow the example above, it is presumed, as soon as an opportu- nity shall offer. The following are the names of the new members who have become such under the above resolution. Wheaton B. Sweet. Milton S. Price. David Morehead. Clarence H. Sweet. Anson A. Sweet. J. M. Wieting. Wm. A. Sweet. John E. Sweet. Charles C. Bates. J. Lynch. C. Y. Foot. J. H. Rae. O. E. Wainwright. Reuben Wood, Israel S. Spencer. ♦ J. P. Ballard. Wm. Summers. Ezra Downer. J. H. French. H. P. Winsor. The exhibition room of the Association is furnished with two book cases, each capable of holding several hundred volumes, with a third somewhat smaller. It has also four standing and four horizontal show cases, made to order, and well adapted to the purposes for which they were designed, with two others, filed with mineral and geological speci- mens, besides enough to fill two others, which have not yet been received for the want of room. To these we may add a large and convenient writing table, of the most approved style, with several other articles of less importance; but necessary and useful in their place. As to the articles received from the members and other patrons of the association and exposed for exhibition, we can give but little more than a catalogue, commencing.22 patrons of the association and exposed for exhibition, we can give but little more than a catalogue, commencing with, a hundred folio volumes of bound newspapers, some of them weeklies, but most of them popular city dailies, bound in convenient sizes for reference, and extending from the year 1825 to 1860. In connection with this department, we would further add, that we have as many more, among which is an entire file of the New York Spectator, for the last twenty-five years, which require to be bound before they are ready for use. When this is done, they will probably form one of the most exten- sive libraries of the kind in this part of the state, from which an elaborate history of the world could be com- piled for the last thirty-five years. Our general library consists of about two hundred vol- umes, mostly of standard statistical, scientific and historical works; among the latter of which is an entire copy of five folio volumes of about a thousand pages each of Rapin’s Histoiy of England, extending down to near the middle of the last century. This is a very valuable, wre might almost say invaluable acquisition to our library. It has been long out of print, exceedingly scarce, to be found even in England, only in some of the older libraries* It was purchased in London, by. of our worthy citizen Hamilton White, Esq., for the sum of one hundred dol- lars, and by him presented to the Association. We have a hundred volumes or more of ancient books on various topics, but too miscellaneous in character to admit of a more particular description, or further than to remark, that among them is a complete series of all of the different school books that have been in general use since the commencement of the present century, in the northern and middle states. We have, also, a large mass of literary matter, consisting of old newspapers, maga- zines, pamphlets, maps, surveys, legal documents, old23 letters &c., amounting to many hundreds, enough to satisfy the literary appetite of the most craving antiquary. In the department of natural history, besides several Specimens of preserved fishes, insects, reptiles, &c., we have one of the finest collections of shells and corals, that are to be found in this, or in any of our neigboring cities, the shells numbering between three and four thou- sand, and the corals about a hundred specimens. They were collected by a scientific, as well as a practical seaman in the course of thirty years of “ocean life,” and were purchased by the Association at a price, far below their actual value. In connection with this department we have a collection of some two thousand specimens of minerals, collected from different cabinets, all interesting and many of them very rare. They are not as yet scientifically arrangedr- when this is completed and they are properly labeled,, they will form a very extensive and useful cabinet. In the department of the sciences and arts, our time has been too short, and our means too limited to have made much progress. We have some paintings of toler- able merit, particularly the full size likeness of Capt.^ Creighton, master of the ship “Three Bells,” and the por- trait of Calvin Guiteau, by S. Sanford Thayer. We have also some excellent Photograph portraits, but beyond these, have little to boast of in the way of pictures. In the collection of coin, we have made a very fair' beginning, have some three hundred in all; and among them some rare specimens, particularly one of the Wash- ington pennies of 1795, which few of the present genera- tion have had an opportunity of seeing. Our relics from the seat of war are rather interesting, consisting of banners, both Union and Confederate, fire- arms, swords, and sabres, bomb shells, grape-shot, bullets, cartridges, &c, Among the banners, is that of thevicto^84 thickly perforated with bullets, grape, and canister, but with its thirty-four stars yet entire* We have also, that, of the 122d, bearing a like evidence of hard and honora- ble service. Among the Confederate banners captured at different times and places, is that which lately waived proudly over the seceding city of Savannah, sent to us by our esteemed and patriotic fellow-citizen, Col. H. A. Bar- num. We have also several articles of aboriginal manufacture, showing the progress they have made in the arts of civil' ized life, since first introduced among them; but those most numerous and interesting are such as owe their ori- gin to a much earlier period, known among antiquarians as the age of stone. These consist principally of pipes, spear and arrow-heads, pestles, mills for grinding corn, hatchets, axes, &c., formed of flint and other hard stones, and often executed with a skill and finish that surpasses our comprehension. In addition to the above mentioned articles, we have many others, too numerous and various in their character to admit of a description, the greater portion of which have a history connected with them, that renders them doubly interesting.