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                                                                                                                                                                                        Red Clay Jan. 25th 1837

Mr. J. H. Payne,

My dear Sir,

                I thought I would send you a copy of the foregoing remarkable document; and leave you to your own reflections on it. 
    Mr. Ross tarried at home one night and a part of two days a week unclear on his way from Arkansas to Washington. He succeeded in detaining a delegation from the Cherokees, west;' to unite with him at Washington. They accompanied him a part of the way, and then separated on account of the difficulty of travelling, the western route. 
    The last Council appointed a Committee to settle with Judge Martin, the National Treasurer, and receive from him the National property in his hands; as he was about to remove to the west. Just as they were about closing their business, or had actually closed it; and before they had all left Judge Martin's, a number of General Wools' Army made prisoners of Judge Martin, Judge McCoy, Messrs. Lewis Ross, and Elijah Hicks? & they also seized the contents of the iron chest containing smudge accounts, and papers of the Treasurer page torn Hicks contained in the chest was returned. They blotted out the a  smudge taken to General Wool at the Agency. The prisoners? were soon set at liberty; but the accounts and papers were retained. The reason a unclear was that they were needed at New Town where the Commissioners and the treaty Committee word scratched out are transacting  business. It was also said to these men that other books and papers were needed and should be given up.
    A few weeks since Col. Bishop found on a day of election at Spring Place that his favourites were not likely to be elected, when he and his party served the public aims at the place, and broke up the election. The Sherriff then issued his order for all who were in favor of the laws to assist in arresting Col. B. Two armies were soon collected of nearly equa force, and the daily expectation through the country was that a pitched battle would be fought. But after a few days they compromised the difficulty, and all were disbanded.
    A few days since I heard from my two sons who were