25th.  Being on my passage from Detroit to Mackinack, on Lake Huron, a Mr. Wetzler, of Rock River, Wisconsin, stated to me that a Mr. Davy, an English emigrant, found, in making an excavation in his land near “Oregon,” some antiquities, consisting of silver coins, for which Mr. Wetzler offered him, unsuccessfully, $50.  The story looks very much like a humbug, but it was told with all seriousness by a respectable looking man.

A Mr. Ruggles, of Huron, Ohio, who was aboard of the same vessel, said, that hacks of an axe were found in buried cedars, some years ago, at a depth of about 40 feet below the surface, near the east edge of Huron County, Ohio.  There are no cedars, he adds, now growing in that section of Ohio.

The Burlington Gazette (Iowa) says, “that a Sac and Fox war party recently returned from the Missouri, bringing eight scalps, and a number of female prisoners, and horses.  The Indians murdered were of the Omaha tribe.  The party consisted of ten men, with their squaws; and, although only eight scalps were brought in, it is supposed that not a single man escaped.  We are not aware that feelings of hostility have heretofore existed between these nations.  The ostensible object of the Sac and Fox party was to chastise the Sioux.  The expedition was headed by Pa-ma-sa, the bold and daring brave who recently inflicted a dangerous wound upon the person of Ke-o-kuk.”

26th.  Arrived at Mackinack, in the steamer “United States,” at 4 o’clock in the morning, after an absence of about twenty days.

27th.  Mr. John R. Kellogg says, that during the early settlement of Onondaga, N.Y., say about 1800, in cutting into a tree, in the vicinity of Skaneateles, iron was struck.  On searching, they cut out a rude chain, which was wound about in the wood, and appeared to have been fastened above.  Query, had this been a pot trammel of some ancient explorer?  Onondaga is known to have been early visited.

He also stated that three distinct hacks of an axe, of the ordinary size, were found, in cutting down an oak, at the same period, in Ontario County.  Six hundred cortical layers were found outside of these antique hacks, indicating that they were made in the 12th century.  I record these archaeological memoranda merely for inquiry.

29th.  Osha-wus-coda-waqua, a daughter of Wabojeeg, a celebrated war chief of the close of last century, of Lake Superior, visited the office.  She states that her name is the result of a dream, by some ancient crone, who officiated at her nativity, and that it means the Woman of the Green Valley.  She is now about 60 years of age.  When about 15 or 16, she is said to have been a slender, comely lass, with large bright hazel eyes, and a graceful figure.  At this age, she married a young gentleman from the north of Ireland, of good family and standing, and high connections, who made a wild adventure into