Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-10-08
POOR GIRL.
We find The following article going the
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HARTwELL's HoTELL. ,

we Hhu iuo ioifOWlHS uIlSie SoiuS 1He
rounds Of the press:
HARTwELL's HOTEL,
Philadelphia, Tuesday, Sept. B.
Marriage of Ross Another grand we'd
ding party has " come Off; at this delightful
house, so Celebratedlor affairs Of this ma
ture.
John Ross the celebrated Cherokee chief,
was married in the Presidents parlor Of
this hotel last night,to Miss Mary B.Slapler,
of Wilmington, Delaware He is abou,
So, and she only Is years of age. She is
a very beautiful girl and highly accom-
plished, and belongs 10 the Society OF
Friends, or did. Her father was formerly
highly respectable quaker merchant OF
this city.
She was given away by her brother,
and attended by her sister and neice Of
John Ross as bridesmaids. He had colcc-
ted several of his daughters and nephews
from boarding school, &C., in New Jersey,
to be present at The wedding; and after the
ceremony, family party Of 20 Of the Ross
(all half bred lndians) sat down to most
sumptuous banquet, for the preparation OF
which he had gwen Hariwe! carte blan-
rhe, and most elegant affair 1t was
Ross is considered to be worth half mill
ion of dollars. He purposes sojournng
with his beautiful bride at this excellent ho-
tel for short time, after which he goes
straight to his wild home in the South West
Prairies.
Bitterly, most bitterly, will "Miss Mary
B Siapler" yet rue the day that saw her
made the wife Of John Ross, the Indian
Not only is the fellow old enough to be
her grandfather, but he is is brute Of in
temperate habits, as we have often heard it
stated, and have no doubt is the fact.
"Ilalf million OF dollars, " though a large
amount, will lily compensate the deluded
young creature for he suf1erings and pri-
valions which she will probably undergo,
when removed from her friends into The
wilderness.
We have, however, once known Of an
instance of a marriage of white woman
TO an Indian which resulted in apparen,
happiness of both paIties, and that indian
was no other than Lewis, the younger
brother Of this same John Ross He mar
ried Virginia woman, whose maiden name
we have forgotten. but on visiting the
Cherokee country in the Southern part OF
Tennessee and North Alabama, some years
age, on business, we found them living to-
gelher, and apparently as happy as any
people we ever saw. But then their re-
spective ages were more suitable, and
Lewis Ross was very much Of the gentle
man. We stopped with him at his house
for several weeks. and never lived better
any where. He dressed like white man.
and stranger would have discovered
nothing of the Indian about him except the
eye and dark complexion. Mrs. Ross was
one of tho neatest and most tidy house
wives that we ever met with. With an
ample supply Of china, silver waro, linen,
&c, g., both at table and 10 chamber. her
house was cleanliness and comfort itself.
Her children, too, were sent TO the cas-:
and liberally,educated, and were probably
the nephews and nieces alluded to as hav-
ing been present at the wedding Of old John
to g Miss Mary B. Staploi, '-of whome,
we repeat, bitterly will she rue the day
when she made HIM ner liege lord Mis-
sourian.