The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1839-11-09
From the Wabash courier
MISS FRANCIS SLOCUM,

taken, when only years and 8 months
old, iiom near WilkesbaIre, Pa, (sixiy-twO
years ago. by the Delaware Indians, and
her brother and two nIeces:
'PERU, INDIANNA, Oct. 3, 1889.
GentLemen,--In my trip out from
Pennsylvania, it was my good fortune to
be thrown into the company Of JOSEPH
SLoCUM. Esq, Oi Wilkesbarre, Pennsylva-
MIA, and his two accomplished daughters,
who where on their way to the neighhor-
hood OF this place TO visit sister and an
aunt, who was captured by the Delaware
indians, in her sixth year, (sixty-two wears
ago. in the neIghbOrhoOd of Wilkesbarre.
Pa, and carried West by that tribe in their
retreat before the march Of civilizat atiOn, an.
I'll about tOrty-five years slHce, she was
carried TO the neighborhOod ol Fort Wayne,
at which place she resided neaI forty wears.
She was taken Immediately after the mas
Sacre OF Wyoming, the horrors which are
so faithfully pictured in the poem of that
name by the Poet CAMPBELL. After her
capture, she was adopted into the family Of
a Delaware Chief, who had lost his daush-
ter, ahd who, AFTER much persuasion, indu-
eed has wife 70 adopt her as a substitute.
In shis family, she resided until she got
married to a Delaware, with whom she
lived for a number OF years. After tha.
portion OF the Delawares joined the Miam
les, and among them, Miss SlOcum. She
being then widow, or deserted by her hus.
band; she married Miami, known in his
tribe by the soubrlquet Of the Deaf Man."
With him she lived tIll his death, the fruits
OF their marriage being Two sons and two
daughters. The sons are dead but the
daughters are now living nine miles from
Peru, at place called the '' Deaf mans
village" The mother, and daughters are
very much respected, own section of land
aud are very well of in horses, cattle.
stock &c. Onc of the daughters has been
married, bu, has LOST her husband and the
other is married TO hall-breed named
BRouILLETrE, one Of the mos, noble look
ing Indians have ever seen. The mother
daughters and son-in-law, live in a comfort
able log building, and their houses in lhe a.
bode OF hospitality and kindness.
The progress Of civilization, however
(slrange ~ say,) has not been able to win
either .he molner or daughters from a s,ric,
adherance 10 ths primitive manners of the
lEdian race. They are, in every respect,
completely Indian in IheiI dress and habila-
mems prelerring the loose Indian blanket
10 the meat dress oil the whites.
1.-The SlOcum family foI upwards of 60
years, used every means in their power 10
learn The fate OF this unfortunate member
OF theiI famlly-offerlng large rewards, and
expendlng much time and money in fruit
less search, until Col. Ewing, discovering
a white woman in the tribe, who could
speak just English enough 10 tell her name,
aud thai she came from near river called
the = Susquehanna," attempted to get the
facts published in Ihe Lancaster papers a.
bout .eree or four years since. The pub
llcatIon, no! appearing for year and half
after II was first written, it only came to
came to the notice of the family aboLt two
years ago al which time two Of her brolh-
ers and her sister paid visit TO their long
lost sister, a! this place They found her
no! only entirely welded to the Indian
mode OF life, but as utterly ignorant of The
sounds oil her naive language as if she
never spoke word of English. On the
present occasion, she Immediately recogni-
zed her brother, (whO had visited her be.
fore and appeared 10 be hiShly delighted
at seeing her beautiful and accomplished
nlsseS, whom she had now, for the first
time, seen. The "reminiscences of some
early incidents which the presence of her
broIhef called up. (who was three years old
when she was taken away,) was truly in
teresting. She recollecled, particularly.
the circumstances attending her capture +;
and other being taken from behind the
stair-slepts, (where she attempted TO hide,
by the Indians. Whilst tracing the yery
striking resemblance between this woman
and her brother and family was forcibly
struck with the effects produced by intelli-
gence and civilization upon the expression
OF the human COuntenance as we'll as upon
the manners and character of the human
family. Excepting her complexion, there
is nothing about Hiss Slocum that indicates
her origin, or that distinguishes her, in the
slightest particular, from the aborigines
with which she lives in contentment and
peace, She spurns the idea Of abandoning
her present mode of life, or exchanging il
for what we call the " comforts ard enioy-
ment Of civilization" Her ideas of happi-
ness are so inseparably connected with her
present mode of life, that she considers any