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you will want to know all about "I," so I will endeavor to give a faithful account of myself. My passage of five days on the lakes, was as pleasant, as smooth water fine weather, a commodious boat, plenty of good company, and excellent fare, with an ability to enjoy it all could make it, at Mackinaw the boat stopped a hour to trade in fish, and I had an opportunity to walk over the fort (fort Holmes' - which was a curiosity to me having seen only ruins of forts before, this is in good repair kept by an annual guard, is on a steep rocky hill, overhanging the little, compact town of Mackinaw which lies right on the shore and consists of a single street a few rods in length thickly lined with houses, looking quite picturesque from the top of the fort; on that morning the surrounding Indians were there, to receive their annuities with blankets over their shoulders and painted faces. - I saw trouts there, from one to two feet long - the chief trades in fish. I arrived here at dark, Sabbath eve, without a single accident or untoward circumstance, was cordially received by Mr. & Mrs. Hopkins and found myself in a snug cottage, surrounded by a small garden, every thing nice and pretty around, the house carpetted all over, prettily furnished, quite an air of nicety pervading it - Mr. H. is the parson of the Presbyterian church - the largest congregation in the 'city;' when he came three years ago, there was no school in the place, conducted on religious principles, and his wife, being a teacher of some celebrity was solicited by some pious parents to open a school, which she did as a means of usefulness and much good has already resulted, though she has had difficulties to encounter and opposition from the irreligious, but has now a flourishing female school of more than sixty, mostly young ladies: I am the 'assistant,' but she takes the juvenile department and I have the sole charge of the principal room containing from 30