Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-08-06

When Mr. Slocum was giving M this
history, / sad 10 him--abut could she not
speak Enalishla @Noi ! word" "Did
she know her age?'' stNo--had no idea
Of itD 1But was she entirely ignoTant"
isSir, she did not knop lOheR Sunday
ccmcs!n This was indeed the consum-
nation Of ignorance in a descendant Of
the Puritans.
Her whole history might be told in
word. She lived with the Delawares, who
carried her of, till grown up, and then
married a Delaware. He either died or
ran away, ana she then morriad Miami
Indian, chief as believe. She has two
daughters, both of whom are married,
and who live in all the glory Of an Indian
cabin, deer-skin clothes and cow-skin
head-dresses. No one of the family can
speak q word of English. They have
horses in abundance, and when the lndl-
an sister wanted TO accompany her new
relatives, she whipped out, brdled her
horse, and then, a ia IRrk, mounted
astride and was of. AT night she could
throw blanket around her, down upon
the floor, and at oncg be asleep,
The brothers and sisters tried 70 per-
suade their lost sister to return with them.
and If she desired il, bring her children.
i They would transplant her again TO the
banks Of tho Susquehanna, and Of their
wealth make her home happy. But no.
She had always lived with the Indians
they had always been kind TO her, and
she had promised her late husband on his
death bed that she would never leave the
Indians. And there they left her and hers
wild and darkened heathens, though
sprung from pous race,
Mr.. Editor-Your correspondent "ClV
= is'' in the North American of this morn
) ing remarks that by some unaccountable
blunder the letter (written by the lndiaE
trader) was permitted TO lie unnoticed to
, two wears. II was the very unaccounta
: BILE bluuder which caused il 10 reach th'
y object it was designed 10 effect. Th'
J whole train Of circumstances as detailet
: by your correspondent, was n0rrated t
: the writer Of this communication som'
u months since by near relative of one 0
the parties. The letter was addressed I
{ the post master in Lancaster, the trade
not knowing Of any more likely spot I
y which TO direct Il; it was regarded as
= hoax, or at least having so little intere'
: that il was carelessly thrown aside. Altt
y the lapse Of two yeats, II was though
y ! lessly picked up by the wife of the POI
y master, and after reading it, she dete
% mined to send it TO tho editor Of one Z
. the Lancaster papers, in which it was i
serted simultaneously with an address {
2 temperance, which il was thought desir
p BILE TO disseminate as widely as possbl
70 Extra copies were accordingly strick'
= of, and one Of these sent TO clorgyma
is whose brother was resident Of the w
y oming Valley, and who had heard Of
y circumstances that Il family in that vail
. hsd lost a sister during the Indian wal
y for whose recovery they had always ma
=. Tested great anxiety. He according
y enclosed the paper 10 one of the brot
10 crs, and the letter was thus carried 10 !
. proper destination. The mother had e
"a acted from them a promise that thu
should never intermit their exertions
. recover their sistersout all their eior
2 had been vain. The ultimate resul
% which will flow from the transaction, moi
y, can tell--bat surely It is impossible
y esiat the congiction that some superi
= tending Ruler has drawn together Il
y link Of such chain.
y Philadelphia, Aug. 20, 1880.