Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1860-06-16
Another John Brown Raid in Prospective


We published y lew days since o paragraph
from the Fort Smith tArkansas) Times, stating
that "there was secret organisation going on Ia
the Cherokee nation. md that IL was among the
full blood Indians alone. We are informed by
good authority that the organization 10 growing
and extending daily and that M halt or mixed
blood Indian is taken into this secret organizations.
The strietest secrecy is observed, and IL 10 death,
by tho order, to dvuge the object Of tho soeisty.
They bold meetings iu the thickets, and in every
secret place, to initiate MEMBERS" but without
giving any tangible reason for the movement II
subsequently appears, from later advicss. thar
this is an nnti.slavcry movement, for the suhju-
CATION Of slavsry in the Cherokee nation and ths
borders of Arkansas, put on loot by Rev. Evan
Jones, Northern Baptist missionary, and n can
ddate for n hempon halter. which he probably
has received ore this time. IA John Brown.
1t appears that the Rev. Mr.. Jonos has been In
the habit Of entering into arguments with his
hearers For tho purpose of converting them to \
belief In abolionism, as nm essential part Of tho
Christian religion. and also in tho wicksdness Of
slavery --eaute ending that il was not n political
question. but moral one lie also preached q
sermon ut tho same camp mceting oontending
thnt slavery was sin. and that tho savo would
appear against his master. nt the great Day Of
Judgment. before tho har Of God.
We suLjoin the following extract from lettor
written in the Cherokee Nation. dated April 30,
1850. to show the feeling created by this fellow :
II Jones is not routed from this conDtry, Old John
Brown scenes will be again enacted ON q large
scale, Must Of tho Indians whn arc preachers
under Jones are abolitonists only for self inter
est. IL Jones wns out Of the way and their pay
taken from them they would be good Southern
men. and could bo employed BY the Southsrn
Board.
TINS ToRN.no AT ras Wrsr--FusrnER Ac.
couNTs--LnEs Losr-liousEs SWEET Away, AND
Nv "a IN tha
most painful accounts Of the terrible tornado In
Western lllnois and Eastern Iowa. When tho
facts are all gathered up, and n full statement Uf
them made. il will appear that no similar cal
amity ever has begun to equal this Que in actual
destruction Of lfe and property. aud in oil the
attendant friehtful circumstances. Severe ~ the
storm was. and great was tho damage done, on
the illinois side of the Mississippi river. the storm
visited with far greater violence that part Of Iowa
lying between Cedar Rapids aud the river. In
reference to these disnsters we copy from various
sources, the following further particulars.
Speaking Of the town Of Camauohe. which suf.
fored tho most Of ALL the Chicago Press says:
"llorscs md cattle are lying in every direction,
killed from the effects OF tho storm. Tho build
ings all look though they had been torn in
small fragments. scattered over the whole country
and feathers from the bodcothcs line tho ground,
and then all hal been overswopt with rushing
waters.
bodies. some mangled in the most frightlul man
nep and only wrapt up in sheet and put into n
rough box rcndy Tor burial DIR. Howell informed
us that from Sunday evening tO Monday noon, ho
had visited ninety-onc wounded and set twenty.
three broken limbs. We saw tw"nty-cight dead
bo1es md three were eighty. two that required
strict medical Attendance, aud 40 many more that
arc moro lcss hurt, yet are able 10 be around
In addition to this number. twenty.cight were
swept from raft in the river. that was passing
Mt the time. and ten are yet missing from the
town. That are supposed to be lried in tho ruins,
were blown into the river and drowned
"With the exception of half dczen houses on
tho north sido oi the town. every single building
il either torn down. unronfed or otherwise dam
ngci. In ono family all that was left were three
little girls the father and mother and two child
dren hn,ing been instantly killed. We saw whore
n fence board had bceh forced clsnr through tho
side Of II house. cndways, and hundreds Of shingles
hid forced themselves clear through tho clap.
boards Of II house. We visited the graveyard. and
saw twenty eight graves. side by aide, all dug,
waiting to receive tie rough boxos containing the
remains If the slaughtered people, Is 4
The Salem Mass 2egistsr publishes cxtrscts
from private letters from the West, giving somo
additional details Of the late tornado. One writer
from Clinton. lowa, June 4. says: -
Il saw one, ,man crazed his leg and arm were
broken, besides internal injuries; his grand
daughter lay dead close by. his wife and youngest
son badly injured a's,. One mln they dug out,
had his head crushed so there WAS hardly a piece
Of bone whole as large rs ones hand. In one
room | saw seven bodies four Icing little chill
dren, side by side on door. Ono man was broken
up; when they took him by the arms to drag him
out, one came OF at tho first pull"
Another writer from Dewitt; Iowa, June 9th,
sums up rs follows: y.-...
Along the line Of this railroad to the Missis-
sippl river we have already heard Of one hundred
and seven killed. and hundreds wounded. who
have not n rag of clothing mouthful Of food;
wives without husbands, and fatherless and mo-
thercss children in any number. Twenty.t three
homes within three miles Of US all totally demol-
lshed-and some eighty head of valuable horses
and cattle. No pen can give you the slightest
idea of its horror We bury twenty of the dead
in our own graveyard to-day truesday.)
A BkEAKSEcK CHALLESGE.-De Lave the rope
has nod md ckoil A.