This gentleman had been stationed at Creek Path, where the morally celebrated Catherine Brown and her brother and parents lived.  While there, he had a church of about sixty members, and thinks they exhibited as good evidences of Christianity as the same number of whites would do.  He speaks in raptures of the country this people are living in, and are now emigrating from, in the Cumberland Mountains, as full of springs, a region of great salubrity, fertility, and picturesque beauty.  Says a portion of the country, to which they are embarking west, is also fertile.

Florida, the papers of this date tell us, is now free from Indians.  This can only be strictly true of the towns on the Apalachicola, &c.  The majority of them are doubtless gone.

A Wyandot, of Michigan, named Thomas Short, complains that his lands, at Flat Rock, are overflowed by raising a mill-dam.  Dispatched a special agent to inquire into and remedy this trespass.

The Swan Creeks complain that a Frenchman, named Yaks, having been permitted to live in one of their houses at Salt River, on rent, refuses to leave it, intending to set up a pre-emption right to the lands.  I replied, “That is a matter I will inquire into.  But you have ceded the land without stipulating for improvements, and cannot prevent pre-emptions.”

7th.  I received instructions from Washington, dated 29th Oct., to draw requisitions in favor of the Ottawas and Chippewas, for the amounts awarded for their public improvements in the lower peninsula, agreeably to the estimates of Messrs. MacDonnel and Clarke, under the treaty of March 28th, 1836.

Eshtonaquot (Clear Sky), principal chief of the Swan Creeks, states that his people will be ready to remove to their location on the Osage, by the middle of next summer.  He states that his brother-in-law, an Indian, living at River Au Sables, in Upper Canada, reports that a large number of Potawattomies have fled to that province from Illinois; and that many of the Grand River Ottawas, during the past summer, visited the Manitoulines, and gave in their names to migrate thither.  Little reliance can be placed on this information.  Besides, the government does not propose to hinder the movements of the Indians.

Maj.  Garland states that he was present, a few years ago, at Fort Snelling, Upper Mississippi, at the time the fracas occurred in which the Sioux fired on the Chippewas and killed four of their number.  Col.  Snelling exhibited the greatest decision of character on this occasion.  He immediately put the garrison under arms, and seized four Sioux, and put them in hold till their tribe should surrender the real murderers.  Next day the demand was complied with, by the delivery of two men, to replace two of the four hostages, the other two of the prisoners being, by hap, the murderers.  The Indian agent vacillated as to the course to be adopted.  Col.  Snelling said that he would take the responsibility of acting.