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1839 May 15. - Gen: Arbuckle writes to John Ross Principal Chief from Fort Gibson; he refers to remarks made by Mr Ross a few days previous when at the Fort concerning Mosely who had charged John Smith & others with an attempt to raise a party to attack camp Illinois; he mentions the letter from Mr Ross to him on that subject, in which he did not observe, when he answered it, that Mr Ross made no promise to summon the accuser of Smith & others : consequently he himself had instructed Lieut: Hammond to send Mosely to Fort Gibson, intending to notify Mr Ross of his arrival, that the party accused might be required to attend. But Gen: Arbuckle learns from Lieut: Hammond that Mosely has, as the Lieut: is informed, fled to Georgia and that he is the only accuser : therefore it will be unnecessary for Mr Ross to give himself further trouble in the affair at present . In a postscript to this letter, Gen: Arbuckle acknowledges one from Mr Ross of the 14th covering one of the 13th from John R. Nicholson. Gen: Arbuckle thinks Nicholson is mistaken in supposing a company of volunteers intend entering the Cherokee Nation in pursuit of him : nevertheless, he will write by the same mail and otherwise prevent the possibility of such a circumstance, though he has no apprehension of anything of the sort. May 16. - Gen: Arbuckle writes to John Ross, P.C. by a private hand. He refers to his letter of the day preceding by mail & repeats that Mosely having fled, Smith & others would not be expected at the Fort; - and also that there was no probability of any volunteers from Arkansas entering the Cherokee Nation. May 16. - T. Hartley Crawford Commissioner of Indian Affairs at Washington writes to the Rev. Lucius Bolles, corresponding Secretary for the Baptist Board of Missions, Massachusetts, saying that Cherokees of high standing & intelligence have represented that Evan Jones, a missionary sent by the Baptist board to their people, had been guilty of acts which forbade his residence among them any longer in that capacity ; had been arraigned for the most atrocious crimes but