8th.  The Rev. Mr. Fleming and the Rev. Mr. Dougherty arrived as missionaries under the Presbyterian Board at New York.  Mr. Fleming stated that he had been one of the expelled missionaries from the Creek country, Georgia.  That he had labored four years there, under the American Board of Commissioners, and had learned the Creek language so as to preach in it, by first writing his discourse.  The order to have the missionaries quit the Creek country was given by Capt.  Armstrong (now Act.  Supt.  Western Territory), who then lived at the Choctaw agency, sixty miles off, and was sudden and unexpected.  He went to see him for the purpose of refuting the charges, but found Gen. Arbuckle there, as acting agent, who told him that, in Capt.  Armstrong’s absence, he had nothing to do but to enforce the order.

Mr. Fleming said that he had since been in the Indian country, west, in the region of the Osage, &c., and spoke highly in favor of the fertility of the country, and the advanced state of the Indians who had emigrated.  He said the belt of country immediately west of Missouri State line, was decidedly the richest in point of natural fertility in the region.  That there was considerable wood on the streams, and of an excellent kind, namely:  hickory, hackberry, cottonwood, cypress, with blackjack on the hills, which made excellent fire-wood.

As an instance of the improvement made by the Indians in their removal, he said that the first party of Creeks who went west, immediately after Mackintosh’s Treaty, were the most degraded Indians in Georgia; but that recently, on the arrival of the large body of Creeks at the west, they found their brethren in the possession of every comfort, and decidedly superior to them.  He said that the Maumee Ottawas, so besotted in their habits on leaving Ohio, had already improved; were planting; had given up drink, and listened to teachers of the Gospel.  He spoke of the Shawnese as being in a state of enviable advancement, &c.

11th.  First frost at Mackinack for the season.

A friend at Detroit writes:  “The Rev. Mr. Duffield (called as pastor here) preached last Sabbath.  In the morning, when he finished, there was scarce a dry eye in the house.  He excels in the pathetic—­his voice and whole manner being suited to that style.  He is clear-headed, and has considerable power of illustration, though different from Mr. Cleaveland.  I like him much on first hearing.”

13th.  Finished grading and planting trees in front of the dormitory.

12th.  The Iowa Gazette mentions the death of Black Hawk, who was buried, agreeably to his own request, by being placed on the surface of the earth, in a sitting posture, with his cane clenched in his hands.  His body was then enclosed with palings, and the earth filled in.  This is said to be the method in which Sac chiefs are usually buried.  The spectacle of his sepulchre was witnessed by many persons who were anxious to witness the last resting place of a man who had made so much noise and disturbance.