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The Cherokee Nation. --We find the following, purporting to have been addressed to the Cherokees by their Chief, in a late Northern newspaper: I, John Ross, Principal Chief, hereby issue this, my proclamation, to the people of the Cherokee Nation, reminding them of the obligations arising under treaties with the United States, and urging them to the faithful observance of said treaties, and peace and friendship to the people of all the States.--The better to attain these important eCherokee Nation, reminding them of the obligations arising under treaties with the United States, and urging them to the faithful observance of said treaties, and peace and friendship to the people of all the States.--The better to attain these important ends, I earnestly impress upon all my fellow-citizens the propriety of attending to their ordinary avocations, and to abstain from political discussions of the events transpiring in the States and from partizan demonstrations in regard to the same. They should not be alarmed with false reports, thrown into circulation by designing men, but cultivate harmony among themselves, and observe good faith and strict neutrality between the States threatened with civil war, With these means alone can
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