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and to have appeared in the neighborhood of Woodward's when John Ridge was there in May or June, 1835 at National Festival Dance. John Ridge was told that the Swimmer was at hand and had a party with him and that their object was to take the life of John Ridge as a foe to all the Cherokees and an active persecutor of the Swimmer and his brother. The Swimmer having ascertained that the Ridge and Bondinott (or Watie) party had directed all the movements against him ever since the death of Eli Hicks, consequently mingled personal, with the political question. John Ridge took the alarm, jumped on a horse with a negro and disappeared. After this, it appears, the Swimmer was retaken, and again sent to Cassville, where he remained till late in the Summer of 1835.