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1839. Sept 28. continued. Principal Chief of the Eastern Cherokees. - The General & the Superintendant declare that they are required by instructions from the War Depart-ment, to arrest and bring to trial the murderers of Mr Ridges & Boudinot.- Although they have the names of sev -eral of the individuals charged, yet, continue the General & the Super-intendant, as Mr Ross is the Chief of the emigrant Cherokees, by some of whom they have no doubt the murders were perpetrated, they there-fore deem it proper to apprize him of this order. They believe that he can have the persons charged deliv-ered at that post, without resorting to other means, which it is their wish to avoid. Should they be dis-appointed in their expectations in this particular, the military force of the United States will be employed in carrying out the instructions of the War Depart-ment. In the meantime they ex-pect and require of Mr Ross, that no violence or disability whatever shall be imposed on the treaty party, in consequence of the treaty of 1835, which has received the sanction of the government of the United States. They extreme