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request that it unclear well attended. Mr. Ross, in reply, apprised Mr. Currey of the General Council already summoned at Red Clay: assured Major Currey that there was no appearance of any changes in the people's minds to justify the course he was taking; but if there was any, at the Red Clay Council, which was a regular one, it might be readily ascertained. But the Agent took no notice of the Principal Chief's Letter

     The people were perplexed between the two calls for a Council. They flocked to know from Ross what they were to do about the call of the Ridges. Mr. Ross assured them that he knew nothing of this Council; that he himself should not attend; that it was not the regular one; but that the other would proceed and was the Council of the Nation, where alone they could hear what had been done in their affairs at Washington -- Currey, on the other hand, was on the alert, advising every one to attend at the Ridges. On his road thither, when the appointed time arrived, he busied himself will all he could unclear upon the way: assured them that he should pay the annuity to whoever they might select at that council, even should there be not more than four in attendance; and