I told a party of Ottawas, who applied for food, that their Great Father was not pleased that his bounties should be misused by their employing them merely to further their journeys to foreign agencies, where the counsels they got were such as he could not approve.  That hereafter such bounties must not be expected; that the poor and suffering would always find the agency doors open, but I should be compelled to close them to such as turned a deaf ear to his advice, if their practices in visiting these foreign assemblies were persisted in.

13th.  A slight snow covers the ground in the morning, it melts soon, but the day is ungenial, with S.W. wind, and cloudy atmosphere.

14th.  A powder of snow covers the ground in the north, the wind in the N.W.  It varies from N.W. to S.W., and by ten o’clock, A.M., it is pleasant and clear.  Plant garden corn, an early species cultivated by the Ottawas.

15th.  Cold and clear most of the day.

16th.  Young Robert Gravereat first came to the office in the capacity of interpreter.  It is a calm and mild day; the sun shines out.  The thermometer stands at 50 deg. at 8 o’clock, A.M., and the weather appears to be settled for the season.  Miss Louisa Johnston comes to pass the summer.

15th.  Ploughed potato land, the backward state of the season having rendered it useless earlier.  Even now the soil is cold, and requires to lay some time after being ploughed up.

The steamer “Oliver Newberry” arrives in the afternoon, bringing Detroit dates of May 5th, and Washington dates a week later.

The new brig “John Kinzie” enters the harbor on the 19th, bringing up Gov.  D.R.  Porter, of Pennsylvania, and suit, with forty passengers.

20th.  I may now advert to what the busy world has been about, while we have been watching fields of floating ice, and battling it with the elements through an entire season.  A letter from E.A.  Brush, Esq., Washington, March 13th, says:  “Nothing is talked about here, as I may well presume you know from the papers, but the deposits and their removal, and their restoration; and that frightful mother of all mischief, the money maker (U.S.  Bank).  Every morning (the morning begins here at twelve, meridian) the Senate chamber is thronged with ladies and feathers, and their obsequious satellites, to hear the sparring.  Every morning a speech is made upon presentation of some petition representing that the country is overwhelmed with ruin and disasters, and that the fact is notorious and palpable; or, that the country is highly prosperous and flourishing, and that everybody knows it.  One, that its only safety lies in the continuance of the Bank; and the other, that our liberties will be prostrated if it is re-chartered.  Of course, the well in which poor truth has taken refuge, in this exigency, is very deep.