Letter. He will try to explain to Richmond the causes of the distresses of the Potawatomi Indians at Pokagon. Indians do not know what to do with money and often spend it in a foolish manner. When the Indians had money, no one gave them good avice, and now they can no longer subsist without having a good friend. The year before last they requested the Catholic Bishop of Detroit (Frederick Rézé) to send them a teacher and they also went to Robert Stuart, their agent, and requested that the teacher receive two-hundred dollars as his compensation. They have not received seven years' annuities; they have no chapel or school, and their land is unfit for cultivation. If the back annuities can be procured and placed in Brother Joseph's hands, he is prepared to give the strictest account of it and to forfit his library should he be guilty of the least injustice. If brother Joseph gets the money, he will buy land and turn it into meadow and fields. The Indians would own the land and be paid for their work on it. This plan will be beneficial to the state and especially to the county, where the Indians are a burden. The Indians also suffer another wrong. The Treaty of Tippecanoe provided that the Indians be allotted two-thousand dollars for a Catholic mission. The two-thousand dollars was given to Mr. Johnson's college in Kentucky, and some few Indian boys were sent there, but they can't even read or write. There are at present two helf-breeds at Mr. Johnson's college whose parents do not even live at Pokagon. The Indians have an undeniable right to this money, and it cannot be withheld from them.