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1839. Aug 8. Gen: Arbuckle at Fort Gibson, writes to John Ross, Esqr, and others, in Conven-tion, near the Illinois Rioer. The General states that it was repor-ted to him on the day preceding, by a citizen of the United States named Williams, residing near that post, that he has received satisfactory information that William Coody and his brother Daniel, have each declared, within a few days, that he, Williams, and three or four other white men, who reside in the Cherokee nation, will have to be killed before quiet can be restored to the Cherokee people, and that this measure can-not, or ought not, to be longer delayed. The General says he must believe that threats of that character are not coun-tenanced by their body and that they will not permit them to pass unno-ticed. He requests on these points to be favoured with an early reply by the Bearer. The General adds that this complainant, Williams, have resided near that post for several years and has generally kept liquor to sell to soldiers and others and is therefore a man of indifferent character; yet the General is satisfied from the appre-hensions of violence Williams to labour under, that he believes such threats to have been made against himself & others. The General reminds them that they are apprized of its only being necessary for them to apply to their Agent to have ill dis-posed white men removed from their nation; and if such white men disregard the agent's order, that they will be removed by the troops; but that to murder them would involve their nation in serious difficulties with the United States, unless the mur-derers were immediagely given up for