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1839 May 3. - of many Cherokee who had bound themselves to attack Camp Illinois whenever the proper arrangements could be made, and asked him to join them. Moseley cannot read and therefore cannot tell from his own knowledge what the paper contained. He evaded them by asking time to consider. They went off in the direction of Beattie's Prarie; he supposed to Ridge's Settlement. Nicholson was the principal speaker, and all three occasionally spoke among themselves in Cherokee. - - Judge Adair in contradiction to this statement represented that he knew the John Smith above named, or well as D. Webber, who is son to the Widow Webber, who married John Smith last March, and whose improvements Adair purchased sometime since. Smith & Webber were staying at Judge Adair's house two or three weeks previous to the 20th of April last: D, Webber left there on the 20th with a drive of cattle for Smiths place, which is near that of John Ross; and on the 22d Smith & his wife left there in a waggon for the same place. During the whole time Smith was staying at Adair's he never was absent but one day, when he went to the lines with his wife. --- Nothing further was learned elsewhere, except that a white man named Quentin, who is married to a Cherokee, had put some whiskey into the hands of a Cherokee by the name of Crittenden, which being seized & destroyed by Lieut: Hammond, Quentin had boasted that he could raise a hundred Cherokees & take the fort. - Capt McCall adds that Quentin was a man of no influence. Capt McCall remarks that on his journey he observed the Cherokee very generally engaged in building houses, clearing & fencing land and planting. He learned that two associations had been entered into by individual Cherokees to suppress the sale of Whiskey. As one held at Buckeyhead's at which Thomas Foreman, brother of Stephen Foreman presided, the resolutions were adopted by about 100 signers. At another, as Judge Adair's, where Mr Sunter presided & the Judge was Secretary, there were 62 Signers. In both cases it was recorded that all whiskey introduced by native's should be destroyed and the offenders punished; and all introduced by any white man should be taken away & the fact reported to the commander of the nearest military post. To carry these resolutions into effect, a company of light horse had been organized, consisting of a Captain, Lieutenant & twenty men.