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1839 June 29. continued. of the chiefs will be taken inti early consideration, as some of the Chiefs will remain at the Fort until they know the result.

June 29. Capt: WM Armstrong, Acting Superintendent , Western Territory, writes from the not clearBureu, Arkansus, to TT. Hartley Crawford Esq, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington. He avails himself of an opportunity to write on his way back to the Agency. When he left home, apprehending difficulties, he hurried back. He has learned there that the two Ridges & Boudinot have been killed. He says the Ross is at his own residence, eighteen miles from Fort Gibson, guarded by person five hundred to a thousand Cherokees; that the whole nation is in a high state of excitement. The writer proceeds that day to the agency & the next up to Fort Gibson. In his next he will advise more fully: he hopes, with the co-operation of Gen: Arbuckle, some accommodation of differences may b e effected.