The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-02-01

told tfe.n that sle had been lying in the
ack where they discovered her for two
weeks, without a Irorsel Of food This
they could not credit At the time, think
ing that her Distress hat be" jidered her
recollection However, she -7ened lucid
Her story, which she still teadfastlv al
heres 20. in It's vildneSs no coniurations
ofthe most vividlv imaginative novelist's
brain could sprpass, if equal She gives
her name as Louisa Black SAYS If she
lives she will be fifteen in April next,
ami appears to be Il girl of intelligence
and religious principles. She ayers that
she resided in Missouri until the fall Of
1854, when her father becoming IRfatua-
ted with the Mormon faith { a number OF
Mormons being settled near them, and,
in opposition to the wishes of his wife
and family, made preparations to move
to Salt Lake City. AS he could not be
turned from his purpose, his family re
luctantly accompanied, and were mum
berei among the inhabitants of the poilu-
ted city, while Mr. Black was at once
enrolled among the saints. They
had been there for six months, during
which time matters had been growing
from bad to worse, when the crisis
rived in the shape of Mrs. Black No. ,,
whom the husband and father had the
audacity to install over the household -
The family were now wrought up to
desperation, and Mrs. Black No /, with
her three daughters, resolved to make
their escape from Utah, at the same
time being cognizant that the way was
rife with danger, and if captured death
would be their certain doom. Louisa
goes on to say that they succeeded in
eluding vigilance, and made their escape
from Salt Lake City, on the 10th of last
June, with only Sl2 in their purse, and
turned their faces toward the States.
The girl cannot recall much of their
journey, which is to her chaos of ap-
paling fear, privation ard dispar. She
SAYS they kept mostly to the woods and
ravines, and all covert places. to avoid
discovery, and gave their former home
in Missouri wide birth, for fear of the
many Mormons there. And so, accord
ing to Lousa's narrative, they travelled
on, and on, aud on, still eastward, with
with no idea of any destination, beset
with - fears within, subsisting on ber
ries, and roots, and whatever Glanced
them in their path. At length one of
the sisters died from exposure and pri-
walton, and covering her up in the woods,
they still wandered on Soon another
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81 III, = sao,,o'I lot daoth eyas -
be its only terminus. They were con
tiuEallv haunted with fear, djstrusted the
whole human race, while every sound
r,,,:s,,ors A. lo,o,b avr,austed nat,r,
gave way, and, in the lonely seclHslon
o.. - 10 a,rain -.-b,.n sba gie1 the
,,oo, stricI,on half craznJ var erer coy
,4 ~ -, 60, Vii, I,a,,as
49, - II 80, -, sLr,,l ,bat
J ,r r,lf,io -, oa,-I.1 Ioni.o
ser-e that mn To the hour of her death.
f.5,. IL! foo,s.} - lool- ,,efipd bnr
Iast .ha shorId heho1- +na r.thIess pur-
z,ars ON tboir tracks 60 thinks thai
l. ,npe. bova haap IN "a vicinity of
cleveland tn her mott. ~ died Instead
of askino ,,,v ossista-,.. ~he CLING to the
mania ~ fear and ranca4lmant that had
stricken each ,nemhef of the furitiye
hand aud vsnda,aa onward daso1ata
and alone She tells Of he3au at Green
VILE Ponnsvlvania and of finally arriv-
iner at Middlesex. where she saws She
lav concealed for tbraa DAYS. on the
farm OF NlF. f4an0NSOn. his WAS aeOut
tba Qfh of Deeember At this noint her
narrative becomes more and more
strange. and many thrilling romance
of brioands and Iiohwavmen has been
spun from a far slenderer thread. She
procaeds to relate that She was here
found by a couple of horse thieves, and
we next Gnd this young girl, on the eve
Of December II, employed by these
rogues to ride off horse that they had
just stolen from Mr., Edmonson field,
She states that they instructed her to 20
to Oil City, and gave her directions how
TO get there; also, that one of them gave
her two bills, a ten and a five, with
which to procure subsistence for herself
and horse, on the route. When asked
what she did with the money, she at first
did not seem to receollect, and at length
said she spent it, but did not say
what for. However, it is supposed she
lost the money These thieves told her