2d.  Capt.  Marryatt came up in the steamer of last night.  A friend writes:  “He is one of Smollett’s sea captains—–­much more of the Trunnion than one would have expected to find in a literary man.  Stick Mackinack into him, with all its rock-osities. He is not much disposed to the admirari without the nil—­affects little enthusiasm about anything, and perhaps feels as little.”  He turned out here a perfect sea urchin, ugly, rough, ill-mannered, and conceited beyond all bounds.  Solomon says, “answer not a fool according to his folly,” so I paid him all attention, drove him over the island in my carriage, and rigged him out with my canoe-elege to go to St. Mary’s.

3d.  George Tucker, Professor in the University of Virginia, came up in the last steamer.  I hasted, while it stayed, to drive him out and show off the curiosities of the island to the best advantage.

5th.  Mrs. Schoolcraft writes from the Sault, that Mrs. Jameson and the children suffered much on the trip to that place from mosquitoes, but by dint of a douceur of five dollars extra to the men, which Mrs. Jameson made to the crew, they rowed all night, from Sailor’s encampment, and reached the Sault at 6 o’clock in the morning.  “I feel delighted,” she says, “at my having come with Mrs. Jameson, as I found that she did not know how to get along at all at all.  Mr. McMurray and family and Mrs. Jameson started off on Tuesday morning for Manitouline with a fair wind and fair day, and I think they have had a fine voyage down.  Poor Mrs. Jameson cried heartily when she parted with me and my children; she is indeed a woman in a thousand.  While here, George came down the rapids with her in fine style and spirits.  She insisted on being baptized and named in Indian, after her sail down the falls.  We named her Was-sa-je-wun-e-qua (Woman of the Bright Stream), with which she was mightily pleased.”

9th.  Delegates from the Saginaws, from the Swan Creek and Black Chippewas of Lower Michigan, stop, on their way, to explore a new location west, in charge of a special exploring agent.

Mr. Ord, recently appointed a sub-agent in this superintendency, reaches the island.  He is the second person I have known who has made the names of his children an object of singularity.  Mr. Stickney, who figured prominently in the Toledo War, called his male children One, Two, &c.  Mr. Ord has not evidently differed in this respect from general custom, for the same reason, namely, an objection to Christian prejudice for John and James, or Aaron and Moses.  He has simply given them Latin nominatives, from the mere love he has apparently for that tongue.  I believe he was formerly a Georgetown professor.