21st.  I read the following article in the New York Herald:—­

NEW INDIAN TRIBE.—­Dr. Jackson, in his report of the geology of the public lands, states that at the mouth of the Tobique there is an Indian settlement, where a large tribe of Indians reside, and gain a livelihood by trapping the otter and beaver.  These Indians are quite distinct from the Penobscot tribe, and speak a peculiar language.

Query.  What is the name of this tribe? what language do they speak? and what evidence is there that they are not Souriquois or Miemacks, who have been known to us since the first settlement of Acadia and Nova Scotia?

Indian compound words are very composite. Aco, in the names of places once occupied by Algonquin bands, means, a limit, or as far as, and is intended to designate the boundary or reach of woods and waters. Ac-ow means length of area. Accomac appears to mean, at the place of the trees, or, as far as the open lands extend to the woods:  mac, in this word, may be either a derivative from acke, earth, or, more probably, auk, a generic participle for tree or trunk.

21st.  The editor of the North American Review directs my attention to Delafield’s Antiquities as the subject of a notice for his pages.  Delafield appears to have undertaken a course of reading on Mexican antiquities.  The result is given in this work, with his conjectures and speculations on the origin of the race.  The cause of antiquarian knowledge is indebted to him for the first publication of the pictorial Aztec map of Butturini.

24th.  Called on Mr. Ramsey Crooks, president of the American Fur Company, at his counting-house, in Ann street.  He gave me an interesting sketch of his late tour from La Pointe, Lake Superior, to the Mississippi.  The Chippewas were not paid at La Pointe till October.  This made him late at the country.  The St. Croix River froze before he reached the Mississippi, and he went down the latter, from St. Peter’s, in a sleigh.  Bonga had been sent to notify the Milles Lacs, Sandy Lake, and Leoch Lake Indians to come to the payments.  When he reached Leech Lake, Guelle Plat had gone, with twenty-four canoes, to open a trade with the Hudson’s Bay Factor, at Rainy Lake.  Mr. Crooks thinks that the dissatisfaction among these bands can be readily allayed by judicious measures.  Thinks the Governor of Wisconsin ought to call the chiefs together at some central point within the country, and make explanations.  That the payments, in future, should be made at one place, and not divided.  That the Leech Lake, and other bands living without the ceded district, ought not to participate in the annuities.