Threat of an Indianized White Man.—­A friend at St. Mary’s writes:  “Tanner has again made bold threats, agreeably to Jack Hotley’s statement, and in Doctor James’ presence, saying, that had you still been here, he would have killed you; and as the Johnstons were acting in concert with you, he kept himself constantly armed.”  This being, in his strange manners and opinions, at least, appears to offer a realization of Shakspeare’s idea of Caliban.

Indian Emporium.—­Col.  T. McKenney, who has been superseded in the Indian Bureau at Washington, announces, by a circular, that he is about to establish a commercial house, or agency, on a general plan, for supplying articles designed for the Indian trade and the sale of furs and peltries.  This appears to me a striking mistake of judgment.  The colonel, of all things, is not suited for a merchant.

Bringing up of Children.—­Mrs. Schoolcraft writes:  “I find the time passes more swiftly than I thought it would; indeed, my friends have been unwearied in striving to make my solitary situation as pleasant as possible, and they have favored me with their company often.  I strive to be as friendly as I possibly can to every one, and I find I am no loser by so doing.  I wish it was in your power to bring along with you a good little girl who can speak English, for I do not see how I can manage during the summer (if my life is spared) without some assistance in the care of the children.  I feel anxious, more particularly on Jane’s account, for she is now at that age when children are apt to be biased by the habits of those they associate with, and as I cannot be with her all the time, the greater will be the necessity of the person to whom she is entrusted (let it be ever so short a time) to be one who has been brought up by pious, and, of course, conscientious parents, where no bad example can be apprehended.  I feel daily the importance of bringing up children, not merely to pass with advantage through the world, but with advantage to their souls to all eternity.”

I find great pleasure in sister Anna Maria’s company.  She is to stay with me till you return.  Little Jan_ee_ improves rapidly under her tuition.  Janee (she was now three and a half years of age) has commenced saying by heart two pieces out of the little book you sent her.  One is ‘My Mother,’ and the other is ‘How doth the little busy Bee.’  It is pleasant to see her smooth down her apron and hear her say, “So I shall stand by my father, and say my lessons, and he will call me his dear little Tee-gee, and say I am a good girl.”  She will do this with so much gravity, and then skip about in an instant after and repeat, half singing, “My father will come home again in the spring, when the birds sing and the grass and flowers come out of the ground; he will call me his wild Irish girl.”