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must be aware that such persons if employed in the service of the government, will be under its protection; and therefore, any violence offered to them, in consequence of this employment, would be an aggression against the United States.

In left margin Nov: 4.

John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokees, at Park Hill, Cherokee Nation, writes to Gen. Arbuckle, at Fort Gibson. -- The General's letter of the 2nd? instant was yesterday handed to the Principal chief, by which he is informed that it has been "reported" to the General, "that threats have been made by the Cherokees, against any Cherokee who should aid the troops in searching for the individuals implicated in the late murders", and that any violence offered to them, in consequence of that employment, would be "an aggression against the United States." -- Some days' since the Principal Chief had the honor to receive another communication from Gen: Arbuckle, dated on the 14th of October, and to which other business of importance has prevented an earlier notice; and this communication also closes with a declaration "that if the discharge of this duty (searching the country