Although the war with the Indians was terminated, there were perplexing questions to settle between the United States and the Six Nations, in which also, the States of Pennsylvania and New York were concerned. These were principally questions of boundaries, and also in reference to the grant of Presque Isle and the adjacent country. A Council was held at Buffalo creek, on the 18th of June, 1794, in reference to these difficulties. In this Council, CORNPLANTER took a conspicuous part; his speech on the occasion is fully reported in the proceedings. I make room for a single observation--addressing the commissioner as the representative of the President, he said: "Brother! You know our demands; we ask but for a small piece of land, and we trust, as you are a great man, you can easily grant our request." It is unnecessary, on this occasion, to give the details of this Council, nor of the Great Council which was soon after held at Canandaigua, namely, in October and November, 1794, at which CORNPLANTER, with other Chiefs, represented the Six Nations. Colonel PICKERING was again the commissioner on the part of the United States. The Friends of Pennsylvania and New Jersey had also agents present, and exerted a highly beneficial influence. Mr. STONE, to whose interesting work I am much indebted, speaking of this treaty, says: "This was the last general Council held by the United States with the Iroquois Confederacy, and a vast amount of important business was transacted thereat. Several perplexing questions of contested boundaries were settled, and the relations between the United States and the Confederacy were adjusted upon a basis that has not been since disturbed." CORNPLANTER arrived at this Council on the second day after the day assigned for the meeting. He came with four hundred of the Allegheny portion of the Senecas. There were sixteen hundred Indians collected on this interesting occasion. It appears that CORNPLANTER was subjected to some suspicions by his Indian associates, because of his frequent interviews with Colonel PICKERING. He was reminded by one of the Chiefs, that he was but a _War Chief_, and was exceeding the bounds of his proper department, by partaking too largely in the conduct of civil affairs. Colonel PICKERING interposed, and stated that the private interviews he had with CORNPLANTER were at his special request. This explanation was, for a time, satisfactory. Further evidences of the distinction between the War Chiefs and Sachems were exhibited on this occasion. RED JACKET speaks of CORNPLANTER and Captain BRANT, (the latter was not present,) as only War Chiefs, and the proceedings show that which does not appear in other transactions, namely: that there was a marked distinction between the _Chiefs_ and the _Sachems_, the former having the direction of affairs belonging to war, and the latter having control of the civil government, under certain restrictions dependent