May 2d.  Mr. Trowbridge writes me of the death of Wm. W. Pettit, Esq., of Detroit, a man respected and admired.  He loaned me a haversack, suitable for a loose mineral bag, on my expedition in 1820.

8th.  Difficulties between the military and citizens continue.  The Postmaster-General declined, on a renewed memorial of the citizens, to remove the post-office without the garrison.  He says the officers have evinced “much sensibility” on the subject, and denied that “any restraints or embarrassments” have been imposed, when every man and woman in the settlement knows that the only way to the post-office lies through the guard-house, which is open and shut by tap of drum.  Restraints, indeed!  Where has the worthy Postmaster-General picked up his military information?

June 6th.  Definite information is received that the appropriation for the Lake Superior treaty has passed Congress.

10th.  Mr. John Agnew, designated a special agent for preliminaries at Fond du Lac, writes of his prompt arrival at that place and good progress.

Gov.  C. writes:  “We must remove the copper-rock, and, therefore, you will have to provide such ropes and blocks as may be necessary.”

22d.  The citizens on this frontier, early in the season, petitioned the Legislative Council for the erection of a new county, embracing the Straits of St. Mary’s and the Basin of Lake Superior, proposing to call it Chippewa, in allusion to the tribe occupying it.  Maj.  Robert A. Forsyth, of Detroit, M.C., writes of the success of the contemplated measure.

July 4th.  The proposed treaty of Fond du Lac has filled the place with bustle for the last month.  At an early hour this morning expectation was gratified by the arrival of His Excellency, Gov.  Cass, accompanied by the Hon. Thomas L. McKenney, Commissioner of Indian Affairs.  They reached the village in boats from Mackinac.

These gentlemen are appointed by the President to hold the conferences at Fond du Lac.

10th.  Everything has been put in requisition for the last six days to facilitate the necessary embarkation.  Jason could not have been more busy in preparing for his famous expedition to Argos.  The military element of the party consisted of a company of the 2d Infantry, with its commissariat and medical department, numbering, all told, sixty-two men.  It was placed under the command of Capt.  Boardman.  They embarked in three twelve-oared barges, and formed the advance.  The provisions, presents of goods, and subsistence supplies of the commissioners’ table, occupied four boats, and went next.  I proceeded in a canoe allege with ten men, with every appendage to render the trip convenient and agreeable.  Col.  McKenney, struck with “the coach-and-six” sort of style of this kind of conveyance, determined to take a seat with me, and relying upon our speed and capacity to overtake the