The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-03-16

where she gave the alarm, and paity started
al once for the house, but the Indians were al
ready beyond the reach of successful pursuit.
la short time after the above melancholy
! bereavement, Mrs. Slocum was called upon 10
part with her husband and father, who Were
both shot and scalped by party of indians,
while toddrrlng cattle near the house. Thus IN
/ the short space Of six weeks, was that happy
household broken up aud destroyed, aud its sur
viving members wrapped in misery with a
mantle. Her religion sustained Mrs. Slocum in
her day oftrial, and she threw herself and her
nine remaining chIdren upon the mercy OF her
/ Heavenly Father, and bowed her head. without
a uurmur, TO His DEGREES. Fer the dead she
did not mourn; they We're at rest, and no sorrow
| or useless repinings could restor. them to her
! again. Bot her lost daughter, her darling
! Frances, was ever present in her thoughts
1 Like Rachael weeping for her children, she re-
/ fused to be comfortcd, and entertained lively
hope that she would one day be restored TO her
arms again. Her spirits seemed bneyed up
with this hope, and she lived 10 the anticipation
/ Of again seeing her and pressing her TO her bo-
som.
| DAYS months and wears rolled on, and the
| lamp of hope still burned as brightly as ever
! No tidings had ever reached her OF her child.
and all gave her up but her poor heart stricken
/ mother. When peace was declared, and many
captivps returned 10 their homes ard families,
! she sent two Of her sons to Canada 10 search OF
| their lost sister They sought her wherever
was The slightest chance Of her presence. They
offered rev ards for her recovery, bat all in vain:
! and they returned 10 their mother with the
cherries tding, convinced of her death. Not
so with her She felt satisfied that her Frances
still lived, and would not listen TO any other
supposition. At length her long cherished hope
seemed to be realized--as woman was found
among the Indians, who had been carried away
when child from thu Susquehana, and she was
sent for by Mrs Socum. who cherished her,
and endeavored to feel that her child was re-
stored But the invisible link which binds a
mother TO her offspring was wanting, and the
/ beseaVed mother waS bereayed still. The found
| ling, too, felt that she was not the long lost and
/ booked for daughter, and ultimately returned to
her Indian friends.
/ Years rolled on. Time had whitened the
/ locks ofthe confding mother with age her sons
/ had passed the meridian Of life, and their chill
dren had grown to manhood, and vet she still
entertained the belief that her Francis lived. At
length she was called away TO join her husband
in another world, and she went '.down into the
grave mourning" that she not permitted
/ this side the grave to embrace her darling.
Some wears after her death, when her broth
l.erS were grey-hared men, and when all had
ceased to entertain a thought Of the lost sister,
/ their feelings were aroused by an announce
/ ment which placed hryond question the fact
that she still lived, and remembered her for
mer home and friends. An Indian agent in
/ Ohio wrote 10 the editor of one Of the n~wspa-
pers in Pennsylvania, informing him that he
I bad seen and talked with a white woman
amang the Indians, who had told him that her
name was Slocum, that her father was Qua
! ker, and wore broad brimmed hat. That be
/ lived at place on the SuSquphanna river,
which was near a town where there was fort,
and that she was taken from thence while a
1 child, hv the Indians. This letter the editor-
who deemed the matter a hoax-threw among
his waste Papers, where il laid for wear or
more, until bis wife, one day in looking them
over. came across it. Her sympathetic feelings
were aroused. and she sent it TO the Ineligen-
Ger, in which il was published 1t happened
! that, on account Of temperance address it con-
tanned, an extra number was printed, one OF
which found lis way 10 Wyoming, and the two
brothers and 4 sister immediately started to the
West 10 find the long lost Frances. They found
| her, but oh, how changed She was now an
aged woman, with grandchildren about her,
and fast approaching the grave. The interview
which took place between the long separated
| brothers and sisters was affecting in the eX-
treme.
! She informed them through an Interpreter,
tshe had lost her native language) that after her
capture she was treated in the most tender man
ner by the Indians, who took her to their
towns, where she soon became attached TO their
rowing, romantic 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 Deawares. tthe tribe to which her
capors belonged) and after his death she joined
the Mams with her people, and married again.
She had been a widow now for many years,
children and grandchildren We're growing mp
around her, and herself was passing pleasantly
away. She was comparatively wealthy, hav-
] ing large stock and all the rude comforts OF
an Indian life n abundance, besides one thou
/ sand dollars in specie that she had saved from
an annuity which as an Indian, she had drawn
/ from Government. After spending several days
with her, her friends babe her final farewelI.-
She died a few years since, and was buried
with considerable pomp, for she was regarded
as queen among her people.
Excitement at The City Hotel.
One of the most dastardly outrages we have
ever heard of, occurred at the City Hotel yes
terday morning. A gentleman named Thomas
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