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Madders. Cleaver. The Ancien! Aparine.
Partridge-berry. Creeping Mitchella.
Teasels. Fuller's Thistle. Wild Teasel.
Composites. Boneset. Purple Eupatorium. Common Boneset.
Ageratum-like Eupatorium. Common Coltsfoot. River-side Tussilago. Goldenrod. Willow-leaved Solidago. Canadian Solidago. Elecampane. The Ancient Helenion. Wormwood. Artemisia-leaved Ambrosia. Coneflower. Rough Rudbeckia
Bur-marigold. Leafy Bidens.
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MARUTA, Cassini. Cotula, DC.
ACHILLEA, L. Millefolium, L.
LEUCANTHEMUM, Tournefort. Vulgare, Lamarck.
TANACETUM, L. Vulgare, L.
GNAPHALIUM, L.
Polycephalum, Michaux.
Uliginosum, L.
ERECHTHITES, Rafinesque. Hieracifolia, Raf.
SENECIO, L. Vulgaris, L.
CIRSIUM, Tournefort.
Lanceolatum, Scopoli.
Pumilum, Sprengel. Arvense, Scopoli.
Lanceolate-leaved Cirsium. Dwarf Cirsium. Canada Thistle.
LAPPA, Tournefort. Major, Gurtner.
TARAXACUM, Haller.
Dens-leonis, Desfontaines.
LACTUCA, Tournefort. Elongata, Muhl.
Larger Lappa. Dandelion. Lion-tooth-leaved Taraxacum. Wild Lettuce. Long-panicled Lactuca.
SONCHUS, L. Oleraceus, L. Asper, Villars.
Garden Sonchus. Spiny-leaved Sonchus.
LOBELIACE E.
LOBELIA, L.
Cardinalis, L.
Syphilitica, L.
Inflata, L.
Spicata, Lamarck.
Lobelia. Red, Cardinal-flowered Lobelia. Blue, large Lobelia. Indian Tobacco. Spike-racemed Lobelia.
CAMPANULACEE.
GAULTHERIA, Kalm. Procumbens, L.
CASSANDRA, Don. Calyculata, Don.
Wintergreen. Creeping Gaultheria.
Leatherleaf. Bracted-calyxed Cassandra.
Mayweed. Cup-involucred Maruta. Yarrow. Milfoil Achillea. Oxeye Daisy. Common Whiteweed. Tansy.
Common Tanacetum. Everlasting. Many-headed Gnaphalium. Bog Graphalium. Fireweed. Hieracium-leaved Erechthites. ¿ Groundsel. Common Senecio. Common Thistle.
Burdock.
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ANDROMEDA, L. Polifolia, L. .
KALMIA, L. Angustifolia, L. AZALEA, L. Nudiflora, L.
RHODODENDRON, L. Maximum, L.
LEDUM, L.
Latifolium, Aiton.
PYROLA, L. Rotundifolia, L.
CHIMAPHILA, Pursh.
Umbellata, Nuttall. Maculata, Pursh.
MONOTROPA, L. Uniflora, L.
AQUIFOLACEÆE.
ILEX, L.
Verticillata, Gray.
PLANTAGINACEÆE.
PLANTAGO, L. Major, L.
PRIMULACEÆE.
TRIENTALIS, L.
Americana, Pursh.
SCROPHULARIACEÆE.
VERBASCUM, L. Thapsus, L.
CHELONE, Tournefort. Glabra, L. VERONICA, L. Virginica, L.
VERBENACEAE.
VERBENA, L. Hastata, L. 14
Andromeda. Polium-leaved Andromeda. American Laurel. Narrow-leaved Kalmia. Wild Azalea. Leafless-flowered Azalea. Mountain Laurel. Greatest Rhododendron. Labrador Tea. Broad-leaved Ledum.
Pyrola. Round-leaved Pyrola. Prince's-pine. Umbellate Chimaphila. Spotted-leaved Chimaphila. Indian Pipe. One-flowered Monotropa. Hollies. Winterberry. Verticillate-flowered Ilex.
Plantains.
Common Plantain.
Primroses.
May-star. American Trientalis. Figworts. Mullein. Common Mullein. Snakehead. Smooth Chelone. Speedwell. Culver's-root.
Verbenas. Verbena.
Hastate-leaved Verbena.
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LABIATÆE. MENTHA, L. Viridis, L. Piperita, L. MELISSA, L. Officinalis, L.
HEDEOMA, Persoon. Pulegioides, Pers.
MONARDA, L. Didyma, L.
NEPETA, L. Cataria, L.
Glechoma, Benth.
BRUNELLA, Tournefort. Vulgaris, L.
LEONURUS, L. Cardiaca, L.
CYNOGLOSSUM, Tournefort. Officinale, L. Virginicum, L.
POLEMONIACE E.
PHLOX, L.
Divaricata, L.
CONVOLVULACEÆE.
CUSCUTA, Tournefort. Gronovii, Willd.
SOLANACEE.
Nightshades. SOLANUM, L. Dulcamara, L. Nigrum, L.
HYOSCYAMUS, Tournefort. Niger, L.
GENTIANACEÆE.
MENYANTHES, Tournefort. Trifoliata, L.
ASCLEPIADICE.
ASCLEPIAS, L.
Cornuti, Decaisne.
Mints.
Spearmint. Peppermint. Balm. Officinal Melissa. Pennyroyal. Pennyroyal-like Hedeoma. Oswego Tea. Two-whorled Monarda.
Nepeta. Cat-mint. From the Ancient Glechon. Self-heal. Common Brunella. Mother wort. Cardiacal Leonurus. Hound's-tongue. Officinal Cynoglossum. Virginian Cynoglossum. Polemonia. Phlox. Divaricate-flowering Phlox.
Bindweeds. Dodder.
Bitter sweet Solanum. Black-fruited Solanum. IIenbane. Black Ilyoscyamus.
Gentians. Buckbran. Trifoliate Menyanthes. Milkweeds.
Dedicated to Cornuti.
APPENDIX.
OLEACEÆE. FRAXINUS, Tournefort. Americana, L. Sambucifolia, Lamarck.
Olives. Ash-tree. American White Ash. Black Elder-leaved Ash.
C. APETALOUS EXOGENS.
ARISTOLOCHIACEÆE.
Birth worts.
ASARUM, Tournefort. Canadense, L.
Wild Ginger. Canadian Asarum.
PHYTOLACCACEÆE.
Pokeweeds. Pokeweed.
PHYTOLACCA, Tournefort.
Decandra, L.
Ten-stamened Phytolacca.
CHENOPODIACEAE.
CHENOPODIUM, L. Hybridum, L. Album, L.
BLITUM, Tournefort.
Bonus-Henricus, Reichenbach.
POLYGONACEÆE.
POLYGONUM, L.
Orientale, L.
Persicaria, L.
Acre, H. B. K.
Crispus, L.
Acetosa, L.
Acetosella, L.
LAURACEAE.
BENZOIN.
Odoriferum, Nees.
THYMELEACEÆE.
DIRCA, L.
Palustris, L.
URTICACEÆE.
ULMUS, L. Fulva, Michx. Americana, L. Racemosa, Thomas.
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Chenopods. Goose-foot. Hybrid Chenopodium. White Chenopodium. · Blite. Good-King-Henry Blite. Buckwheats.
Oriental Polygonum. Peach-leaved Polygonum. Pungent Polygonum. Curled-leaved Rumex. Garden-sorrel Rumex. Sheep-sorrel Rumex.
Laurels. Spicebush. Fragrant Benzoin. Daphnads. Leatherwood. Marsh Dirca.
Nettles. Elm. Red Slippery Elm. White Elm. Corky Elm.
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CELTIS, Tournefort. URTICA, Tournefort. Gracilis, Aiton.
PLATANACEÆE.
PLATANUS, L. Occidentalis, L.
JUGLANDACEÆE.
JUGLANS, L. Cinerea, L. CARYA, Nuttall. Alba, Nutt. Amara, Nutt.
CUPULIFERÆE.
QUERCUS, L. Alba, L.
CASTANEA, Tournefort. Vesca, L.
FAGUS, Tournefort. Ferruginca, Aiton.
CORYLUS, Tournefort. Americana, Walter.
CARPINUS, L. Americana, Michx.
OSTRYA, Micheli. Virginica, Willd.
BETULACEAE.
BETULA, Tournefort. Alba, Spach. Nigra, L.
ALNUS, Tournefort. Incana, Willd.
SALIACEAE.
SALIX, Tournefort. Humilis, Marshall. Pedicellaris, Pursh.
POPULUS, Tournefort. Tremuloides, Mich.
Nettle-tree. Nettles. Slender Nettle.
Sycamores. Plane-tree. Button Ball. Western Plane-tree.
Walnuts.
Butternut. Hickories.
Shag-bark. White Hickory. Bitter Hickory.
Oak's.
White Oak.
Chestnut. Edible Chestnut. Beech. Rusty-leaved Fagus. Hazelnut. American Corylus. Water Beech. American Carpinus. Iron-wood. Virginian Ostrya. Birches.
White Birch. Black Birch. Alder. Hoary Alder.
Willows. Salices. Low Willow. Pedicel-fruited Willow. Poplar. Aspen-leaved Poplar.
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2. GYMNOSPERMÆ.
CONIFERÆ.
PINUS, Tourn. Strobus, L.
ABIES, Tourn.
Balsamea, Marshall.
Canadensis, Mich.
Nigra, Poiret. Alba, Mich.
LARIX, Tourn. Americana, Mich.
THUJA, Tourn. Occidentalis, L.
JUNIPERUS, L. Communis, L.
TAXUS, Tourn. Baccata, var. Canadensis, Gray.
II. MONOCOTYLEDONÆE.
ARACEÆE.
ARISZEMA, Martius.
Triphyllum, Torrey.
CALLA, L. Palustris, L.
SYMPLOCARPUS, Salisbury. Fœtidus, Salisb.
ACORUS, L. Calamus, L.
TYPHACEÆE.
TYPHA, Tourn. Latifolia, L.
ALISMACEÆE.
SAGITTARIA, L. Variabilis, Engelmann. ORCHIDACEÆE.
ORCITIS, L. Spectabilis, L.
Gymnosperms. Conifers. Pine. White Pine. Spruce. Balsam-Fir. Hemlock. Black Spruce. White Spruce. Larch. American Larix. Arbor-vitc. American or Western Arbor-vitc. Juniper. Common Juniper. Yew. American Taxus.
Monocotyledons.
Arums. Indian Turnip. Three-leaved Ariscema. Wild Calla. · Marsh Calla. Skunk Cabbage. Fetid Symplocarpus. Sweet-flag. Reed Calamus.
Typhads. Cat-tails. Wide-leaved Typha. Water-plantains. Arrow-head. Variable Sagittaria. Orchids.
Showy Orchis.
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PLATANTHERA, Richard. Obtusata, Lindl. Orbiculata, Lindl.
ARETIIUSA, Gronovius. Bulbosa, L.
POGONIA, Jussieu.
Ophioglossoides, Nuttall.
APLECTRUM, Nuttall. Hyemale, Nutt.
CYPRIPEDIUM, L.
Pubescens, Willd.
Candidum, Muhl.
Spectabile, Swartz.
Acaule, Aiton.
IRIDACEAE.
IRIS, L.
Versicolor, L.
SMILACEÆE.
SMILAX, Tourn.
Hispida, Muhlen.
TRILLIUM, L. Ercetum, L.
Grandiflorum, Salisb.
Erythrocarpum, Mich.
MEDEOLA, Gronovius. Virginica, L.
LILIACEÆE.
POLYGONATUM, Tourn. Bi-florum, Elliott. Giganteum, Dietrich.
SMILACINA, Desfontaines. Racemosa, Desf.
CLINTONIA, Rafinesque. Borealis, Raf.
LILIUM, L. Canadense, L.
ERYTHRONIUM, L.
Americanum, Smith.
Obtuse-leaved Platanthera. Orbicular-leaved Platanthera.
Arethusa. Bulbous Arethusa. Pogonia.
Adam-and-Eve. Winter-lasting Aplectrum.
Lady's-slipper. Downy Cypripedium. White Cypripedium. Showy Cypripedium. Stemless Cypripedium.
Irids.
Color-varying Iris.
Smilaces.
Greenbrier. Prickly Smilax. Trillia. Purple, Erect Trillium. Great-flowered Trillium. Red-fruited Trillium. Cucumber-root. Virginian Medeola.
Lilies.
Solomon's-seal. Twin-flowered Polygonatum. Giant Polygonatum. Smilacina. Racemed Smilacina. Wild Lily of the Valley. Northern Clintonia.
Lily. Yellow Lily.
Adder's-tongue. Yellow Erythronium.
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MELANTHACEÆE.
UVULARIA, L. Grandiflora, Smith. Perfoliata, L.
STREPTOPUS, Mich. Amplexifolius, DC.
VERATRUM, Tourn. Viride, Aiton.
JUNCACEÆ.
LUZULA, DC. Pilosa, Willd.
JUNCUS, L.
Effusus, L.
PONTEDERIACEÆ.
PONTEDERIA, L. Cordata, L.
CYPERACEÆE.
ERIOPHORUM, L.
Virginicum, L. GRAMINÆ.
PHLEUM, L. Pratense, L.
TRITICUM, L.
Vulgare, Villars. Repens, L.
CRYPTOGAMIA.
III. ACROGENS.
EQUISETACEÆE.
EQUISETUM, L. Arvense, L. Hyemale, L. Seirpoides, Mich.
FILICES.
POLYPODIUM, L. Vulgare, L. Hexagonopterum, Mich.
Melanthia. Bellwort. Large-flowered Uvularia. Small-flowered Uvularia.
Stem-clasping Streptopus. American Hellebore. Green-flowering Veratrum. Rushes. Wood-rush. Hairy Luzula. Rush. Effuse Juncus. Pickerel-weeds.
Cordate Pontederia. Sedges. Cotton-grass. Virginian Eriophorum. . Grasses. . Timothy. Herd's-grass. Meadow Phleum. Wheat grass. Common Wheat. Creeping Triticum.
Flowerless Plants.
Top-growers. Horsetail. Equiseta. Field Equisetum. Winter-lasting Equisetum. Scirpus-like Equisetum.
Ferns. Polypod. Common Polypodium. Six-angled-winged Polypodium.
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ADIANTUM, L.
Maidenhair.
LYCOPODIACEAE.
LYCOPODIUM, L. Dendroideum, Mich. Complanatum, L.
Club-mosses. Lycopodium. Tree-like Lycopodium.
Flattened-fronded Lycopodium.
B.
THE Hon. Anson S. Miller, of Rockford, Ill., and a native of Oneida County, has recently published an his- torical paper, the following extract from which touches upon a portion of our local history : -
Fort Stanwix, conspicuous in the wars which agitated our country in the last century, stood on the west bank of the Mohawk River, the present site of the city of Rome, New York. This strong fortress, commanding the narrow portage between the eastern and western waters, was, in early times, the most important military position between the Atlantic sea- board and Canada and the Lakes, - the pass being an impor- tant link in the chain of army travel and transportation. Gen- eral Stanwix, a British officer, built the fort at a cost of three hundred thousand dollars, in 1758, while the war was raging between the British and French for dominion in America. Through the French War and the Revolutionary struggle, and in the frontier settlement of that famed locality, Fort Stanwix was the centre for Indian councils and treaties, and other public transactions, both of war and peace, - the scat of sieges, sorties, and battles.
Among other great councils held at Fort Stanwix, was that in the autumn of 1768, convened by Major-general Sir Wm. Johnson, British superintendent of Indian affairs in America, under orders of his government, at which the colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and others, were
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represented, and an important treaty established with the Six Nations, the Delawares, Shawnees, and other Indians. Again, after the close of the Revolutionary War, in the autumn of 1784, the United States commissioners, Wolcott, Butler, and Lee, met the Iroquois confederacy in council at the fort, and the Six Nations in that treaty, after certain reservations, relinquished, among other claims, theirs to lands northwest of the Ohio and in western New York. General Lafayette attended this council,'and was highly interested in the eloquent speeches of Cornplanter (Gyantwaia) for the treaty, and that of Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha) against it.
After the completion of this treaty, the assemblages of the Indians at the fort were for the purpose of receiving the annual payments for their lands from the State officers. Upon the occurrence of the final payment to the Indians, by Governor George Clinton, at the fort, in the carly part of the last decade of Seventeen Hundred, and after the business was all closed up satisfactorily, and the whole concourse of whites and Indians had been richly feasted by the Governor, from his stores brought for the purpose, the proceedings were con- cluded 'by a foot-race of the Iroquois, in which each of the " Six Nations" were represented. A description of this race given by the pioneer settlers of that region who witnessed it, has not, to the knowledge of the writer, appeared in print. All of the tribes but the Oneidas retired to select their run- ners, each tribe for itself, and soon returned, presenting five athletic young men, whose physical development and . sym- metry would have delighted a sculptor. According to Indian etiquette, and out of respect to their brethren from abroad, the Oneidas, the home tribe, waited for the others, and selected their runner last. Powlis, the war chief, had been one of the fleetest runners in the confederacy, and he had a number of stalwart sons present, - grand representatives of his lofty stature and agile movements. Outsiders supposed that one of these would be chosen to sustain the high rank of the Oneidas. But the tribe passed by these and others of the
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like, and with great unanimity selected a slender boy of fifteen years - a mere stripling, the youngest son of Powlis, - his parents' darling, with his mother's form and wiry make-up. Soon known, the choice of one so young, and short, and slim, to run a long race against the best, and taken, too, from a tribe abounding in powerful braves, astonished the strangers, and provoked an irrepressible laugh among the Indians, which in a moment was checked by them as discourteous to their brethren. Little Paul, as the whites called the boy, was known to be the pet of the tribe, and this, with all but the Oneidas, accounted for the selection. They were sure of better reasons, and assuming an expressionless look, observed the wonder and heard the laughter of the others with imper- turbable gravity. Preparations were made promptly for the race. Governor Clinton wrapped $250 in coin in a piece of buckskin and hung it on the flag-staff at the starting-point, a little below the fort, on the bank of the Mohawk. A similar flag was set at the western terminus of the racecourse, over a mile distant, near the point where now stands the United States arsenal. The course was smooth and open, rising gently from east to west. The runners were to turn the western bound, and run to the place of starting. The course was staked in quarters, and a horseman provided to accompany the competitors. As the course was straight there was no contention about the inside track. The runners wore mocca- sins to protect their feet, and stripped for the struggle to bare decency. They stood together in the order of their adjoining territories, - the Mohawk and Oneida side by side ; and what a contrast ! The boy's head scarcely reached the shoulder of the majestic Mohawk, - a splendid specimen of his tribe. Each bore a badge of distinction on his head. Little Paul wore a feather, a single white plume, stuck in his shining locks, which were glossy and black as the wing of a raven. All being ready, they start at the tap of the drum, and on they rush, Indians and horseman, rapidly for so long a race. Every eye is fixed on the competitors for the prize. All is
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still, and not a word escapes the spectators. The Mohawk leads, and the Oneida boy brings up the rear. Evidently the latter is taking an easy course, and holding his best efforts in re- serve. He passes over the ground as light and lithe as a fox, and quite swiftly too; but the others are running at the top of their speed, and the boy is so far behind that some of the Indians from abroad, the spectators, break out into a laugh, and check it again. The Oneidas see and hear all, but give no expression except in sly side-glances at each other, saying as plain as words, " Let them laugh who win. Little Paul against the field ! He will show all on his return that he is our best choice. No fears for him, he will fly over the last of the course." But the runners are approaching the further goal, and will soon turn it for the home stretch, and then for the trial of endurance ! The horseman has galloped his steed nearly all the way to keep near the racers, who are running very near even, although the Mohawk is still ahead, and the Oneida boy some little behind. They turn the goal almost in a body, and now begins the fiercest struggle on their home run. Little Paul draws gently on his reserved force, and before returning to the first quarter stake he passes all but the Mohawk. The sympathy of the spectators is with the little Oneida. They involuntarily cheer him, but he hears it not. He presses on side by side with the Mohawk, - his strongest and now only competitor, who struggles as for life, but in vain. The boy passes him before he can reach the half-way stake, and his whoop of triumph, shrill as the yell of a panther, is heard by the spectators at the home goal, and echoed back with a will. With his five competitors the struggle is over, but the boy has just begun to bound and fly. His ambition urges him beyond and above ordinary victory, he must distance all competition, and he flies as on the wings of the wind. All the spectators exhibit intense excitement, and shout and cheer, and as the victor nears the goal the Indians of the competing tribes rush forward, with the utmost enthusiasm, to meet the boy and bear him home over the
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last twenty rods of the course. Never was a prize more handsomely won, nor with higher praise and admiration, even from the vanquished themselves. Greater assemblages, yea clouds of witnesses, encompassed the Olympic and other competing games of ancient times, and the victors were crowned amid ceremonies more august ; but none of all these were more fortunate than the young Oneida in the hearty and unanimous greetings and rejoicings over his triumph. Gov- ernor Clinton presented the prize, and congratulated the youth and his tribe in eloquent words. That youth, Paul Powlis, Jr., succeeded his father as chief.
This last great meeting of the Iroquois, at the renowned fortress, was attended by the pioneer settlers on that Indian frontier, - many of them afterward distinguished public men in the history of New York. The Governor was accompanied by his nephew, De Witt Clinton ; afterward one of the most eminent statesmen of any age, then a young man who acted as his uncle's private secretary ; also by the illustrious Baron Steuben, whose town subsequently embraced within its limits the settlement at Fort Stanwix. General William Floyd, the first signer of the Declaration of Independence in the New York delegation, also accompanied Governor Clinton on the occasion of this payment of the Six Nations, - whose great chieftains rejoiced to meet the noble Governor Clinton, who had been continued at the head of State affairs from the breaking out of the Revolution. Among the chieftains most celebrated was Skenandoa, the venerable sachem of the Oneidas, a friend of Washington, a wise counselor, and one of nature's noblemen, who died in 1816, at the age of one hundred and ten years. Other chiefs of the Six Nations were present on the memorable occasion. All are now one, the white and the red men ; their fame and Fort Stanwix, and the Iroquois Confederacy, have been consigned to imperishable history, and they have no earthly existence elsewhere.
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C.
Dedication of the Kirkland Monument.
A Monument having recently been erected in the Cemetery of Hamilton College, to the memory of the Rev. SAMUEL KIRKLAND, it was thought expedient to celebrate its comple- tion by appropriate public ceremonies. The time chosen for this purpose was the afternoon of Wednesday, the 25th of June, 1873, the day preceding the Annual Commencement. A number of the descendants and relatives of Mr. KIRKLAND, living in different parts of the country, were present. Four venerable and highly respected gentlemen, students of Hamil- ton Oneida Academy, some sixty-three years ago, were also in attendance: These were Mr. GEORGE BRISTOL, Mr. JOHN THOMPSON, Mr. GAIUS BUTLER, and Mr. JOHN C. HASTINGS. Twenty or more Indians, from the neighborhood of Oneida Castle, were also present, by invitation, and took part in the exercises. Among these were DANIEL SKENANDOA and THOMAS SKENANDOA, the first a Grand Sachem of the · Oneidas, and the second a priest, and both of them great- grandsons of the distinguished Chief of Mr. KIRKLAND's time. Besides these there were present several other Oneida Indians, male and female, and one Onondaga Indian, named GRIFFIN and who, while acting as interpreter, showed himself possessed of no little oratory.
At half-past three o'clock, a procession was formed in front of the College Chapel, in the following order : -
1. Marshal of the Day.
2. Gilmore's Band.
3. Undergraduates : 1, Class of 1876; 2, Class of 1875; 3, Class of 1874 ; 4, Class of 1873.
4. Trustees of Hamilton College.
5. Descendants and relatives of SAMUEL KIRKLAND.
6. Oneida Indians.
7. Alumni of Hamilton Oneida Academy.
8. Faculty of Hamilton College.
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9. Alumni of Hamilton and other Colleges, in the order of Classes.
10. Citizens.
The procession marched to an open space in the Cemetery, near the new Monument and that of President BACKUS, and where a platform had been prepared for the proposed services. Hard by, also, was the humble, memorial-stone erected many years ago to SKENANDOA, the famous Indian chief and the friend of Mr. KIRKLAND. On the south side of this platform was suspended the portrait of Mr. KIRKLAND from the Memorial Hall, and the original list of subscribers for the building of Hamilton Oneida Academy. The platform was occupied by the Trustees and Faculty of the College, the speakers of the day, the descendants of Mr. KIRKLAND, a por- tion of the Indians from Oneida, and 'the surviving students of Hamilton Oneida Academy. In the centre of the stage was a large arm-chair, once owned by Mr. KIRKLAND, and on a table was his Family Bible. The day was pleasant, and the assembly convened was quite large.
THE MONUMENT.
The Kirkland Monument is of Rhode Island granite, from the quarries near Westerly. It is nine feet high. The lower base is four feet three and one half inches square. The base, containing the family name in raised capitals, is three feet eight inches square. The central column is two feet four and one half inches square at the base, and is seven and one half feet in height. On the four equal sides of this central shaft are raised panels for the several inscriptions. The cap- stone, which is three feet and two inches square at its greatest width, forms a graceful completion of the structure.
The Monument as a whole, though not lofty, presents an appearance of solidity and massiveness, combined with rare proportion and symmetry, and both in its outlines and in the details of the chiseling, is a superior specimen of that depart- ment of art to which it belongs.
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The design is a reproduction, almost in fac-simile, of the monuments to the Rev. Dr. CLEVELAND and Professor LARNED, in the Central Cemetery at New Haven, Conn. The work was executed by Messrs. JOHN C. RITTER & Co., of New Haven, and cost about fourteen hundred dollars.
The following are the inscriptions on the Monument : -
( West Side.) SAMUEL KIRKLAND, Born At Norwich, Conn., Dec. 1, 1741. Graduated From Princeton College, in 1765. Missionary To the Oneida Indians, From 1776 to 1797. Founder of Hamilton Oneida Academy in 1793. Died At Clinton, N. Y., Feb. 28, 1808.
(South Side.) JERUSHA BINGHAM, Wife of Samuel Kirkland, Born at Salisbury, Conn., 1743. Died at Stockbridge, Mass., Jan. 23, 1788. MARY DONNALLY, Second wife of Samuel Kirkland, Born at Newport, R. I., 1754. Died at Clinton, N. Y., Aug. 1839.
(East Side.) ELIZA KIRKLAND, Third danghter of Samuel Kirkland, and wife of Prof. Edward Robinson, Born at Stockbridge, Mass., in 1784. Died at Clinton, N. Y., July 5, 1819.
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" It is my earnest wish that the institution may grow and flourish; that its advantages may be permanent and extensive; and that under the smiles of the God of Wisdom, it may prove an eminent means of diffusing useful knowledge, enlarging the bounds of human happiness, and aiding the reign of virtue and the kingdom of the blessed Redeemer."
SAMUEL KIRKLAND,
Addresses were delivered on this occasion by Rev. S. G. BROWN, D. D., President of Hamilton College, by Hon. O. S. WILLIAMS, LL.D., by Ex-Gov. SEYMOUR, and by Chancellor WOOLWORTH, of Albany.
At the conclusion of Dr. WOOLWORTHI's remarks, President BROWN extended a welcome to the Oneida Indians present. He introduced to the audience THOMAS SKENANDOA and DANIEL SKENANDOA, both of whom spoke in their native lan- guage, and were interpreted at short intervals, for the benefit of the assembly, by an Indian interpreter. Rev. DANIEL MOOSE, missionary to the Oneidas, then read a paper embody- ing the substance of the two Indian speeches. It was as fol- lows : -
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