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Show fc T""1 i:rw",-hsACHED-Al.TAH Or INDIANS. ' Peculiar Memorial Now In Cemetery '. at Utlca. 1 A legend of the Oneida Indians, tho Hfc noblest of tho nations forming tho Iro- ' , quols confederacy, - B. I has boon handed &2& Hj down from genera- JtHmL- v" tlon to generation, JiT W H and from camp-flro B H to hut, and tolls of JC " 1 B tho Great Spirit, fa&X3&SB7 V' who, pleased with fl tho conduct of tho The Sacred Stone. ; two brothors who originated tho trlbo, Hl sent to them a stono of very peculiar t pattern. They wcro told that this was Bi their altar, and that they should hold HKf their feasts and councils around it. k That it would, unassisted, follow thorn k forever, and thnt from it thoy would V"""" derlvo their nnmo. According to tho H' beautiful legend that is how they came ' to bo called "Tho People of tho Up- H right Stono." H At tho tlmo of tho advent of tho M "palo-faco," tho sacred altar rested in Bv a grovo of butternut trees overlook- ffffffW lnrr tho Stockbrldgo valloy. When the HBW tribal relations woro dissolved, tho last K plea of tho chief heard, and tho camp- m 11 ro extinguished, it still occupied Kb H silent nnd almost uunotlcod alto. H Shortly after, however, tho proph- H ccy that it would follow tho trlbo in H all its wanderings was fulfilled. When H Undo Sam removod tho survivors of H tho nation to Oreon Day tho stono was H raisod with Indian ceromony and HCjtii pomp and deposited in Forost Hill com-Hff com-Hff " ctory, Utica, in 1849. Now, tho only B,V existing momorlal of a onco mighty H ' nation, "whose origin no human Hj tonguo can boast," it must romaln Hi thero undor a compact for all tlmo. H Tho one-tlmc altar is said to be an lft immonso granlto bouldor, weighing HF nearly four tons. The Four Track H Nows prints a pleasing article In con- K noctlon with this standing tnonumont EH to tbo Onoldas. |