Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-10-11
VALLEY OF oMIN G.
THE LOST sIsTER.

After the battle and massacre of Wyo-
ming. most OF toe settlers fed. But here
and there straggler returning from the
mountain ofwildernsss, and in the course OF
three or four months cabins were going up
over the ashes OF their former homes, and
quite liitIe neishborhood was collected
But the Indians kept proving around on the
mountains. now descending here and now
there, killing this family, scalping that, or
making il captive All lilile distance from
the present Court House at Wikesbarrc
lived family by the name Of Slocum, upon
whom the visilations oftbe Indians crueliies
were awfully severe. The men were one
day away in the fields, and in an instant the
house was surrounded by Indians, There
Was in il, the mother, daughter about nine
years OF age, n son aged thirteen, another
,Iaughle- aged FIVE and n liule boyaged two
and half A young man and boy by the
name OF Kingsley were present grinding a
knife. The first thing the Indians dld was
10 shoot down the young man, and scalp
him with the knife which he had in his
hand. The nine-year old sister took the III
lie hoy two years and a half old, and ran out
of the back door to get 10 the fort. The In
,lians chased her just enough 10 see her
fright, and having hearty laugh as she ran
and clung 10 and lifted her chubby little bro
Their. They then took the Kingsley boy and
Young Slocum, aged thirteen. and iIttle
Frances aged five, and prepared TO depart
But finding young Slocnm lame, al The earn
est entrea,irs of the mother, they sci him
down and left him Their capiives were
Then Young Kingsley and the little girl
The mothers heart swelcd unutterably, and
for years she could moi describe the scene
witbou, tears. She saw an Indian throw
her child over his shoulder, and as her hnlr
fell over her face, with one hand she brush
ed il aside, while the tears fell from her DIS,
tended eve and stretching onl her other hana
towards her mother, she called ioI her aio.
The Indian turned into the bushes anu ms
was the last seen OF little Frances This
image, probably, was carried By the molhe'
90 her grave. About a month after this they
came gain, and with the most awful cruel.
ties. murdered The aged grapdialheri ana
sho, ball in the leg OF the lame boy THIS
he carried with him in his leg nearly sixty
wears, TO the grave. The last chld was
born few months, after these tragedies =
What were the conversations. what were 'he
coniectures, wha, were the hopes and the
fears respecting the fate Of linle Frances,
wiII not attempt to describe Probably the
children saw that in all aher-liie, the heart
of the stricken mother was yearolng Tor The
liule one whose fate was so uncertain, and
whose face she could never see again
AS the boys grew mp and became men,
thew were very anxious 10 know the fate ol
their little mir haired sister. They wrote let
tiers, they sent inquiries. they made journeys
through all The west and into the Canadas,
if peradyenture they nigh, learn any thing
respecting her fate. Four Of these long
journeys were made 10 vain. A silence deep
as the deepest forest through which they
wandered, hung over her fate, and that Tor
sixty years
NV reader will now pass over 90 years
from the time of this captivity, and suppose
himself far in the wilderness in the lor'her'
est part OF Indiana. A very respectable
agent nftbe United States is lravellng there