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1839 Oct: 8 . continued. respect to the one relating to Mr E. Jones, the Agent has detained it until the next mail; because he does not well recollect whether he sent the Principal Chief the order of the War Department alone; or whether he sent also, the letter from the Secretary of War to Mr Lucius Bolles, corresponding Secretary of the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions. - As the Agent did not consider that letter as any part of the order of the War Department, he thinks it probable that he did not send it, especially as he had no disposition to act on any extraneous matter to the injury of Mr Jones. He now sends a copy of the letter to Mr Bolles; and if it produces any change in the terms of the resolution of Council in this case, the Agent requests the Principal Chief will be good enough to inform him. Oct: 10. - Capt: Wm Armstrong, Acting Superintendant Western Territory, at the Choctaw Agency West, writes to T. Hartley Crawford Esqr, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington City: - The Superintendant, in obedience to the instruction of the Commissioner, had called in Gen: Arbuckle, and after consulting with him upon the subject of arresting the murderers of the Ridges & Boudinot