a dark crimson over the entire hemisphere.  The colors were the most magnificent that ever were seen.  At half-past two o’clock the spectacle changed to darkness, which, on dispersing, displayed a luminous rainbow in the zenith of the heavens and round the ridge of darkness that overhung the southern portion of the country.  Soon afterwards, columns of silvery light radiated from it; they increased wonderfully, intermingled amongst crimson vapor, which formed at the same time; and, when at the full height, the spectacle was beyond all imagination.  Stars were darting about in all directions, and continued until four o’clock, and all died away.  During the time that they lasted, a great many persons assembled on the bridges across the river Thames, where they had a commanding view of the heavens, and watched the progress of the phenomenon attentively.”

Oct. 2d.  Mr. J.H.  Kinzie, of Chicago, mentioned to me, in a former interview, a striking trait of the barbarity of the Potawattomies in the treatment of their women.  Two female slaves, or wives of Wabunsee, had a quarrel.  One of them went, in her excited state of feeling, to the chief, and told him that the other had ill-treated his children.  He ordered the accused to come before him.  He told her to lie down on her back on the ground.  He then directed the other (her accuser) to take a tomahawk and dispatch her.  She split open her skull, and killed her immediately.  He left her unburied, but was afterwards persuaded to direct the murderess to bury her.  She dug a grave so shallow, that the Wolves dug out the body that night and partly devoured it.

3d.  James L. Schoolcraft brought me some mineralogical and geological specimens from Isle Cariboo—­the land of golden dreams and fogs in Lake Superior.  The island has a basis of chocolate-colored sandstone.

5th.  The Oneida Whig mentions the death, on the 20th ultimo, near Oneida Castle, New York, of Ondayaka, head chief of the Onondagas, aged about ninety-six.  At the time of his death, Ondayaka, and the subordinate chiefs and principal men of his nation, were on their way to join in the ceremonies of electing a head chief of the Oneidas.  Within a few miles of the council house of the latter tribe, Ondayaka placed himself at the head of the deputation of the Onondagas, and commenced the performance of the ceremonies observed on such occasions, when he was suddenly seized with the bilious colic.  Calling the next chief in authority to fill his station, he withdrew to the road side, when he soon after expressed a consciousness that “it was the will of the Great Spirit that he should live no longer upon the earth.”  He then sent for his people, and took leave of them, after counseling them to cultivate and practice temperance and brotherly love in their councils and among the people of the nation, and friendship and integrity with all.  He soon after became unable to speak, and in a few hours his spirit was gathered to the Great Spirit who gave it.