an equivalent. The captains and subalterns are elected by the companies; and the non-commissioned officers are appointed by the captains. Majors are elected by the battalions, and colonels by the regiments. Brigadier-generals are elected by the commissioned officers, within the bounds of the respective brigades; and major-generals by the commissioned officers within the bounds of their respective divisions. The adjutantsgeneral and quarter-masters-general are appointed by the governor; and also his aids-de-camp. Majors-general appoint their aids-de-camp, and all other division staff officers; brigadier-generals, their brigades-major; and colonels, their regimental staff officers. All militia officers are commissioned by the governor, and hold their commission during good behaviour, or till the age of sixty. The seat of government is established at Corydon, in Harrison county, until the year 1825, and until removed by law. No person can hold more than one Incrative office at the same time, unless expressly permitted by the constitution. The following are the salaries fixed for the officers of government till the year 1819: The governor, 1000 dollars; the secretary of state, 400; auditor of public accounts, 400; treasurer, 400; judges of the supreme court, 800 each; presidents of the circuit courts, 800. Members of the dollars per day, during their attendance, and the same sum for every twenty-five miles they shall severally travel, in the usual route, to and from the assembly. After 1819, pay is to be fixed by a new law. general assembly are allowed two their Indians. They are still proprietors of nearly twothirds of the soil. They have sold to the government of the Union their right to the eastern part, from Fort Wayne to the river Ohio, an average breadth of twenty-five miles; along this river, and up the Wabash and western line, to a point north-west of Fort Harrison, and thence in an eastern direction to the Eastern Purchase, about thirty-five miles from the Ohio. * The tribes which inhabit this state are, 1. The Musquitous and Piankashaws, about 1000 in number, who live on branches of the Wabash, between Vincennes and Tippacanoa. 2. The Kickapoos live in villages, on the head waters of the Illinois and west side of the Wabash, above Tippacanoa; their warriors are about 400. 3. The Delawares dwell in a village, situated in an open meadow, on the head waters of White river. They are few in number. 4. The Miamis live on the Upper Wabash, Masssasinway, Miami of the Lakes, and Little St Joseph's, on a fine tract of land, where they cultivate maize and esculent plants. They are reduced to about 1100 individuals. Their hostility towards the Americans in the late war occasioned the destruction of four of their towns, at the fork of the Wabash, which were burnt by General Harrison, in September 1813. 5. The Shawanese live on and near the banks of Tippacanoe, PoncePasses creek, and the Wabash river, where they cultivate maize, and some esculent vegetables. This once numerous and warlike people are reduced to about * Western Gazetteer, p. 80. 400 warriors. Their principal town, called Kathtip.pecamunk, consists of 120 houses, and is situated near the mouth of Tippacanoe river, below the old French post of Ouitanon. It was destroyed by General Wilkinson in 1791. 6. The Hurons live in a small village, ten or fifteen leagues south-east of Ouitanon, to the number of ten or twelve families. 7. The Eel rivers and Wecaws, who belong to the Miamis, reside on Eel river and Wabash, and they reckon about 100 warriors. Some of the Winnebago nation live in a village on Ponce-Passes creek, containing forty-five or fifty houses; others reside on the branches of Plein and Fox rivers, and frequent Chicago. The most numerous tribe in the state are the Pottowatamies, who inhabit the borders of the river St Joseph, Chicago, Kennomic, and Theakiki. On the Elk Hart branch of the St Joseph's they have five villages, one of which is situated in an extensive meadow, sixty miles west of Fort Wayne. * Mounds.-A number of Mounds are seen from White river to the sources of the Wabash. Around Harrison village, in Franklin county, they are numerous, of very unequal size, and evidently formed at different and remote periods. On the largest, which are from ten to thirty feet high, trees are seen to grow of as great a size, and apparently as old, as any of the same species in the woods. The smaller mounds have no greater elevation than from two to five feet above the surface, and the trees which grow upon them are yet of small dimensions, indicating a growth of not more than 100 years. The bones which they inclose are still capable of supporting their own weight, and of being removed, while those of the large mounds are so decomposed, that they are re duced to dust by the slightest touch. In a field, belonging to Mr Allan, there is one sixty feet in diameter at the base, and twenty in height, full of the remains of human bones. Mr Brown relates, that, on the borders of White Water, he examined the interior structure of fifteen or twenty of these mounds, from ten to fifteen feet in height, and did not find more than four or five skeletons. In one none was found. Others were so full, that they probably contained the remains of a hundred skeletons. Agriculture. The soil is well adapted to maize, wheat, oats, rye, hemp, and tobacco. On the best lands the average produce of Indian corn is said to be from fifty to sixty bushels per acre; that of wheat about fifty, the bushel weighing fifty-eight pounds. In many places the land is too rich for this grain; which, though it does not become smutty, is not so good as in the state of New York. It is never killed, however, by the cold in winter. The culture of the vine has been successfully introduced by a colony of Swiss emigrants, established at New Switzerland. In the year 1811, 2700 gallons of wine were produced from a surface of twenty acres, and is found to be of a good quality. The grapes which have succeeded * Western Gazetteer, p. 57. best are those from the Cape of Good Hope and the island of Madeira. Those of the country give wine of a tolerable good quality. Hutchins remarked, "that grapes, with a thin black skin, grow in the greatest abundance, of which the inhabitants in the interior make a sufficient quantity of well-tasted red wine for their own consumption." "That large and good hops are found in many places, and the lands are particularly adapted to the cultivation of rice. All European fruits, apples, peaches, pears, cherries, currants, gooseberries, melons, &c. thrive well. Cotton and the sweet potatoe are cultivated in the southern parts. The country is admirably fitted for rearing cattle and swine, having great abundance of acorns and roots on which they feed. The animals which are most injurious to agriculture in this prolific country are squirrels, moles, and mice. The mole is particularly so in meadows and corn fields, where the grain begins to shoot." Finances.-According to the treasurer's report, the receipts into the treasury for the year 1817 amounted to 28,234 dollars 46 cents; the disbursements to 20,605 dollars 33 cents; balance 7629 dollars 13 cents. Price of Land.-In 1792 the French inhabitants of Vincennes gave their lands in exchange for goods, at the rate of thirty cents an acre. They were sold in 1796 at two dollars. The tract called "Harrison's Purchase," situated between the White river, Wabash, and Rocky river, and containing upwards of 3,000,000 of acres, was sold from four to thirty dollars an acre, after the reservation of the most fertile parts, given as |