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up chiefly of ancient beads found at the old Jesuit Mission
Station at De Pcrc, and in the othcr is a long white bead,
nearly three inches long, evidently made of petrified maple,
from Mrs. PETER B. GnIaNoN.
WISCONSIN PIONEER RELICS.-A silver belt buckle, about
two inches in length, used by the Sieur CRARLES DE LANGLADE,
one of the first scttlers at Green Bay, dunng the old French
and Indian war of 1755-60, and during the Bevolutionsry war,
from his grand-son, iiuaus~~x GRIGNON, of Butte des Morts.
An ancient silver seal or letter stamp of C~ARLES DE LANQ-
LADE, from his great grandson, CHARLRS A. GRIGNON, of
Grand Kau-kau-lin. A silver snuff-box, used by PIERRE
GRIGNON, Sr., who first settled at Green Bay, nearly a century
ago, and father of AUGUSTIN GRIGNON, presented by DANIEL
WHITNEY, an American settler at Green Bay since 1820.
INTERE~TING RELICS.-T~~ wedding fan of Mrs. OLIVER
WOLCOTT, used at her marriage in 1755, whose husband subse-
quently became one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence; a tablet, or memorandum book, of an officer named
MOSELEY, killed at the battle of Bunker IIill; and a piece of
linen taken from the mummy unrolled by GLIDDON, a few years
since, at Boston, presented by Mrs. DANIEL S. CURTIS?
REVOLUTIO~ARY RELIC.-A, curious powder-horn of Revo-
lutionary times, with fort engravings upo? it, with this inscrip-
tion: "David Belden-his horn-made in they. 1776.

'(1 powder, with Iny brother ball,
Hero-like, doth oonoer [conquer] all 'I
This curious relic, of which a more particular account of its
history is promised hereafter, has been presented by LEMUEL
TAYLOR, of Grecn County.
CONTINENTAL MONEY.-A sixty dollar bill, from Rev. A.
BRUNSON.
ANCIENT SLEEVE BUTTONS.-A pair of ancient silver sleeve
buttons, from EDWARD FORD.
CHARTER OAK RELIC.-A section of the celebrated Charter
Oak, of Hartford, in which the Connecticut charter was secreted