Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1864-06-14
soR TIE STAR CHRONICLE.
Tires Days In Cumberland Valley,
and East of 1t.

HISTORICALLY AND LOCALLY.
Cumberland Valley has considerable im-
portapce. Some of its early settlers were
there in lIae, aud military defences were
thrown rp as early as 1853, in whi1h
yea, Benjamin Franklin and others forIsed
treaty Of peace with the IadiaD., end in
1857 "post" or mail was got up between
Carlisle and Philad. The N.,sisDs, cap
tuIed at Trenton, erected the hrst barracks,
and Maj. Andre was among the prisoners
coufued, at that safe distance from the
British. The army raised in 1894 tC
quell the Whisky Rebellion, rend zVoused
10 Carlisle, Gcn. Washington with them
The Tories we're Dot numerous ia the Val
ley, nor df3 they receive very gentle treat.
ueAt. Assassinstions o. Indials--the sur
prise asd murder OK abduction Of men,
women and children, by Inlians-and the
ssuscless as well as the just alarms Of the
scattered and peeled population Of those
dark days: these make up the sad and
startling detail, Of the private history Of
this now smiling land as it was one hun
cred years ago.
"The terror of the cirizans subsided but
little, until Col. Bouquet conquered the
Indians, in the year 1864, and compelled
them to sue for peace. Que of the condi
tions upon which peace vOs granted, was
that the Iudians should deliver up all the
women aud children whom they had taken
iato captivity. Among them were many
pbo bad been seized when very young,
sud bad grown up TO womanhoGd IN the
wigwam of the savage. They had c0ntrac-
ted the wild habits Of their captor-, learned
their language and forgotten their own,
and we're bound to them by ties of the
strongest affection Many mother found
lost child many were unable TO d'sis-
nate their children. The separation be-
tween the Indlaps aud their prisoners was
hear.-rending. Some uiersard. made
their escape, aud re'urGed TO TIE Indians.
Many had in,ermarried with the natives,
but all we're left to freedom Of choice, aud
tho.e who remained unmirr had been
treated with del!cacy. Ole female who
had been captured at the age Of fourteen,
had become the wife of au Indian, and the
mo,her of several children. When IN.
formed that she Was about to BE- delivered
TO her parents, her grief could not be ale
waited. 'Csn /, SAID she, eater my pa.
rent. dwellipgy Will they be kind to
ny children? Will my old companions
ss.ocia,e with the wife of an Iadian chief
And my husband, who has been 80 kind
] viii not desert him : Tbst night she
fad from the c4Bp to her husband nnd
children.
a great number of the restored prison
ers we're brought TO Ca5lisie, and Col ,
Bouquet advertised for those WHO had lost /
children 10 come here and look for them. /
A mong those that came was an old woman,
whose child, little girl, had been takeu
from her several gears before tn; she WIS
uuablc 10 designate her daughter or cou-
verse with the released cap'ives With
breaking hear, the old woman lamehted
to Col. Bouquet her tapiess lot, telling
him how she used many years ago to sing
.e her little dsu ughter by mo of which the
child was 50 fond Ste was requested by
the Colonel to sing it then, which she did
10 these words
Alone yet not slonA an Y,
Though ln this -oliiui- 20 drea5,