Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-31
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had, with a sagacity beyond her years, at the
first appearance of the saVages, snatched up the
| youngest child and fed to the Fort, where she
gave the ALARM and party started at once for
| the house, but the Indians were already beyond
the reach of successful pursuit T. sr
In short time after the above melancholy
bereavement, Mrs. Slocum was called upon to
part with her husband and father, who were
both shot and scalped by party of Indians,
while foddering cattle near the house Thus
in the short space OF six weeks, was that hap
| py household broken up and destroyed, and its
surviving members wrapped in misery as with
| mantle. Her religion sustained Mrs Slocunl
in her day of trial and she threw herself aud
her remaining children upon the mercy of her
Heavenly father, and bowed her head, without
a murmur, to His DEGREES For the dead she
did not mourn; they were at rest, and no sor-
row or useless repinings could restore them to
her again. But her lost daughter, her darling
! Frances, was ever present in her thoughts =
Like Rachel weeping for her children, she re-
fused to be comforted, aud entertained Il live
ly hope that she would one day be restored to
| her arms again. Her spirits seemed buovcd
up with this hope, and she lived in the antici-
patton of again seeing her and pressing her to
! her bosom. Days, months and years rolled
on, and the lamp Of hope still burned as bright
ly 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 de-
clared, and many captiyes returned to their
homes and families, 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
! for her recovery, but all in vain, and they re-
turned to thermothcrwith the cheeress tidings,
convinced of her death Not so with her.
| She felt satisfied that her Frances still lived
and would not listen to any other suppostion.
At length her long-cherished hope seemed
about 10 be realized a woman was found
among the Indians, who had been carried cdaway
when a child from the Susquehanna and she
was sent for by Mrs. SlocuD, who cherished
her and endeayored to feel that her child was
restored. But the invisible link which binds
a mother to her offspring was wanting, and the
| bereaved mother was bcreayed still The found
| ling, too, felt that she was not the long lost
and looked for daughter, and ultimately return
ed to her Indian friends. Years rolled on
| Time had Whitened the locks Of the c0nlidinr
mother with age; her sons had passed the me-
ridian Of life, and their children had grown to
manhood, and vet she still entertained the be-
| lief that her Frances lived. Atength She was
called away to join her husband in another
world, and she went down into the grave
mourning" that she was not permitted, this side
/ the grave. to embrace her darlfi@
! Some years after her death, when her bro
| theirs were grev-haired men, and when all had
ceased to entertain thought of the lost sister,
! their feelings were aroused by an announcement
! which placed beyond question the fact that she
| still lived, and remembered her former home
and friends. An Indian agent in Ohio wrote
to the editor of one OF the newspapers in Penn
| Sylyania, informing him that he had seen and
| talked with a white woman among the Indians
who told hlm that her name was Slocum, that
| her father was a Quaker and wore a broad
brimmed hat. That he lived at place on the
Susquehanna 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 editOr-wh0 deemed the matter
a hoaX-thrcw among his waste papers, where
1t 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 Iatellgeaccr, in which it was publish
ed. 1t happened that, on account of a tenn
perance address it contained, an extra number
was printed, one of which found its way to
Wyoming, and two brothers and a sister i'm
medatcly started for the West to 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 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 town, 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 a young chief Of the Della
wares, (the tribe to which her captors belonged,
and after his death she joined the Miamis with
her people, and married again. She had been
widow now for many years, children and
grandchildren were growing up around her,
and her life was passing pleasantly away, She
was comparatively wealthy, having large
stock, and all the rude comforts 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 bade her final farewell.
She died few years since and was buried with
considerable pomp, as she was regarded as
queen among her people. .-..
RAJ You've LADIES, nova days, when they
are preparing for a walk, ought not to keep
their lovers waiting as long as they do, for
now they have only to put their bonnets half
on.
Besg- Mrs Partington advises all young people
afflicted with the preparation of the heart, to
apply the cataract of mustard to draw out the
information she says she has never known a