The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1855-03-09

him to leave her bright-eyed darling, the
light of hor homo, and tie Joy of her house
hold. As well might SHE have wasted her
words upon the stern rocks or the idle wind;
therugged nature Of the savage was not to !!
moved by the earnest appeals Of the pale |
faced squaw. Grasping with one hand the
mantle which enwrapped him, and With the
dress of her child, the clung to both with d
tenacity which had well nigh accomplished
her purpose. Finding himself iinpedod in
his exit and fearful of approaching assis-
tance, the savage drew his tomahawk and
raised it finish at a blow her importantly
aud herlife. Reading in his eyes his stern
determination, and wrought to pitch Of
of agony beyond which her system refused
to 90, she yielded her grasp, and sank in
a swoon at his feet. The Indian, relieved
of her annoyance, now took his departure
with little Frances in his arms. and as he
passed through the yard, seized upon the
other son of Mrs. Kingsley, whom he also
bore off prisoner. All this was but the
scene of a few moments, yet how much Of
terror and dheart-breakng agony was enlbrac-
ed within that short period Of time. How
many years Of terrible. suspense and derp.
despair had their. birth in those few brief
! irioiIieuts. Mrs. king,l,y who hid stood u
terrified .behoider of the scene, when she saw
her second and only liying child torn from
her and carried into captivity sank under
the affliction aud gave herself up to a>stolid
apathy, little short of despair. One of Mrs
I ESlotums children had, with a sagaeitv, he:
yond her years, at the first appearance of the
savages snatched up the youngest cllild and
fled to the fort, where she gave the alarm,
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but the Indians were already beyond the
reach af successful pursuit. .... L..
Ina short time after tie above melancholy
bereavement, MIS-. Slocum was called upon
to part with her husband and father, who
were both shot and scalped BY party of In
dians, while foddering cattle near the house.
Thus, in the short space Of six weeks. was
| that happy household broken up and de-
kstroyed, and its surviving members wrapped
in misery, as with a mantle. Her religion
sustained Mrs. Slocum III her day Of trial,
and size threw herself and her nine remain,
ing children upon the mercy Of her Heaven
! ly Father, and bowed her. head, without
murmur, to His DEGREES. For the dead she
did not mourn they were at rest, and no
sorrow or useless rep:nings could restore
! them to her again. But her lost daughter,
| her darling Frances, was ever present in her
thoughts. Like Rachael weeping for her
I 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 anticipate on of again seeing
her and pressing her TO her bosom. -.
Days, months and years rolled on, and the
Imp of hope still burned IS brightly as ever.
| No tidngShad ever reached her of her cllId,
and all gave her up but her poor heart
stricken mother. When peace was derlar'-
ed, and many eaptives returned TO their
I homes and faniilies, she sent two other sons
to Canada in search of their lost sister. They
sought her wherever there was tho slightest
chance Of her presence. They offered rewards
for her recovery, but all vain and they re-
turned to their mother with the cherries
'tidjngs, convinced Of her death Mt so with
her. She felt satisfied that her Frances still
lived, and would not listen to any other sup.
position. At length her long cherished hope
seemed about to be realiZed--a wPmau was
found among the Indians, who had been car
,ried away when child from the 5usquelIan-d 4
na, and the was sent for By Mrs. Soc,m,
who cherished her, and endeayored to-
feel that her child was restored. But the
Invisible link which, binds another to her
offspring was, wanting, aud the bereaycd4
mother was hereaved Still. The fonndiug, /
too, (: :,ss,:stat she was not the long lost aud
looked for daughter, and ultimately return
ed to her Indian friends. .,,s-t = 4
Years rolled. on. Time l,adwhitened the
locks Of the coniding mother with, age; herr
sons had passed the meridian Of life, and
their children had grown to manhood, and
set al,e still entertained the belief that lterl
Fainces lived. at length she was called
away TO Join her husband ipg ailother world, !
and sho weBt.ilowh into the grave m6urn3
ing" that she was not pefInitte1this side the
grave to- embrace her darIiilg. I
Some years afterdeath, when hcr. hotliersl
were gley.haired men. and when al had
ceased to entertain q thought Of the lost siss
ter, tlleir feelings were aroused hy ap am
nouncement which placed beyond question:
the fact that she stiii lived, and renember.sl
cd her former home and fiepds. AnI
Indian agent in Ohio wrote to the editor
of pnssof the newspapers in PENNSYLVANIA,
Informing lli,n TINT he had seen aud talked
with a white woman +among the, IndiaDs,}
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