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1839 Sept 4. continued. visited Fort Smith late in August, and understood in passing through the Cherokee nation, that the emissaries of Mr Rpss were passing through the Cherokee Country, with the object of collecting and bringing to the conven-tion as many of the old Settlers as possible; and since the General's re-turn to Fort Gibson, he is informed that John Looney, one of the principal chiefs of the old Settlers, has joined the late emigrants, and that a num-ber of the old Settlers has assem-bled and deposed the Chiefs Brown and Rogers, and declared them in-eligible to any office of honor or profit in the Cherokee nation thereof-ter, in consequence of their having referred their dispute with the eastern Cherokees to the government of the United State, and for other offences, of which the General is not particularly informed: and he adds that this is the day on which an election is to take place at the officers re-quired for the new government of the Cherokee nation. The General is to opinion, that Mr Ross & his adherents have induced so many of the old Settlers to join them, that the chiefs, Brown & Rogers, and their friends, will not attempt any re0sistance to the new government, yet that the means that have been employed will no doubt long dis-turb the harmony of the Cherokee nation, and be the cause of frequent quarrels & violence between individ-uals, or small parties. The General sends therewith copies of a decree of the convention handed to him on the 2d instant; with a copy of a letter