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From the Cherokee Nation.
--The Van Buren (Ark.) Press has a letter dated Park Hill, Cherokee Nation, June 6, in which the writer says:
The water courses have all been immoderately high.
Capt. Pike was delayed some days by them, but finally got across the last, Illinois, on Tuesday.
Wednesday, he had an interview with the Chief, Mr. Ross.
This was, in every respect, satisfactory.
Mr. Ross had been represented as a quasi-Abolitionist, an enemy to the South, and Heaven knows what more.
Capt. Pike found him tractable, gentlemanly, and easy to deal with.
It is true he had assumed a position of neutrality in the war that exists, but this is not for the purpose of holding aloof from the South, but to preserve the nationality of his people.
He cannot prevent the enlistment of many of the Cherokees in our armies.
There are several of them now in Capt. Lewis' company.
To-day Capt. P. left on his mission to the Creeks.
He will return here at a specified time — say
Fearful tornado in Illinois
--Lives Lost.--On the 19th instant a terrible tornado swept over Champaign county, Illinois.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune says:
"After the wind had tested the moving capacity of everything portable, then came a shower of hail, which converted our immense shower of hail, which converted our immense crops of ripening wheat and waving corn into a barren waste.
There are many farms in the vicinity of Champaign City upon which there is not a green leaf or a blade of grass left.--Wheat, oats, barley and rye are entirely ruined.
I visited many fields to-day, and found the small grain mown to the ground as with a scythe; and the stalks were beaten and shivered, looking as though they had passed through a threshing machine.
Corn which was one and a half feet high, was cut off even with the ground, and the stalk beaten to a jelly an inch below the surface.
Up to this date we have heard of five persons who were killed, and quite a number who
Arkansas lead.
--The Vicksburg Whig says: "We have seen as fine and rich lead ore from the State of Arkansas as was ever produced in Illinois.
If we need the article, it can be had there."