Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1855-04-04

/ Children, she refused to be comforted, and
entertained lively hope that she would
one day be restored to her arms again
Her spirits seemed buoyed up with this
hope, and she lived in the anticipation of
| again seeing her and pressing her to her
bosom. Days, months and wears rolled
on, and the lamp of hope still burned as
brightly as ever. No sidngs had ever
reached her of her child, and all gave her
up but her poor heart-stricken mother
When peace was declared, and many cap
tives returned to their homes and fami-
lies, she sent two of her sons to Canada
IN search of their long lost sister. They
sought her wherever there was the slight
est chance of her presence they offered
| rewards fonher recovery, but all in vain.
and they returned to their mother with
| the cheerless tidings, convinced of her
death. Not so with her. She felt salts
fed that her Frances still lived, and would
| not listen to any other supposition At
length her long cherished hope seemed
| about to be realized; woman was found
among the Indians, who had been carried
away when child from the Susquehanna,
and she was sent for by Mrs Slocum, who
cherished her and endeavored to feel that
her child was restored But the invisible
link which binds mother to her offspring
was wanting, and the bereaved mother
was bercaved still The founding too.
felt that she was not the long lost and
looked for daughter. and ultimately re
turned to her Indian friends Years
rolled on Time had whiteued the locks
of the confding mother with age her
sons had passed the meridian of life, and
their children had grown to manhood, and
yet she still entertained the belief that
her Frances lived At length she was
called away to join her husband in anoth-
er world, and she went down into the
grave mourning" that she was not per-
mitted. this side the grave, to embrace
her darling.
Some years after her death, when her
brothers were grey haired men. and when
all had ceased to entertain a thought of
the lost sister, their feelings were aroused
by an announcement which placed beyond
question the fact that she still lived. and
remcm bered her former home and friends
An Indian agent in Ohio wrote to the
editor Of one of the newspapers in Penn
sylvania, informing him that he had seen
and talked with white woman among
the Indians who had told bin that her
name was Slocum, that her father was
Quaker. and wore broad brimmed hat
That lie lived at place on the Susque
hanna river, which was near a town where
there was a fort. and that she was taken
from thence while child, by the Indians
This letter the oditor-who deemed the
matter d hoax-threw among his waste
papers where it laid for year or more
until his wife, one day in looking them
over came across it. Her sympathetic
feelings were aroused. and she sent it to
the I3afe7ffee,tccr, III which it was publish
ed. 1t happened that, on account of
temperance address it contained an extra
number was printed, one of which found
its way to Wyoming and two brothers
and sister Immediately started for the
West to find the long lost Frances They
found her, but OH how changed She
was now an aged woman. With grand chill
dren about her, and fast approaching the
grave The interview which took place
between the long separated brothers and
sister was affecting In the extreme. She
Informed them, through an interpreter.
(she had lost her native language.) that
after her capture she was treated in the
most tender manner by the Indians, who
took her to their towns, when she soon
became attached to their rowing. nomadic
life, and came to dread being discovered
by her friends. When she grew up, and
her foster parents died, she married
young chief of the Delawares (the tribe
to which her captors belonged,) and after
his death she joined the Miamis with her
people. and married again She had been
a widow now for many years, children and
grand children were growing up around
her, and her life was passing pleasantly
away She was comparatively wealthy,
having a large stock, and all the rude com
forts of Indian life in abundance. besides
one thousand dollars in specie, which she
had saved from the annuity which, as an
Indian. she had drawn from Government.
After spending several days with her, her
friends babe her final farewell She
died few years since. and was buried
with considerable pomp, as she was re-
garded as queen among her people.
CURIosITIEs OF NATURE In an inter
esting letter to the New York Courier d
Enquirer. Mr. Z. Merriam states that there
is in Lockport. n Y, an artesian well 450
feet in depth, from the bottom of which
rises vein of salt water, holding in com