Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-09-25
THE GRAvE-WHERE SLEEP BOTH SIRE
AND SON.
FEoM THE NEW ORLEANS DELTA.

I'm Ger True Tale of the YeioW FeUer.
When the last call for volunteers made Indiana
EDGAR DERwIS was the first enrol his name among the
active uphodes of his countys standard He was daring
intrepid athletic YOUTH kowning fear patriot by ntu
ton, endowed with all mans ennobng feelings though
manhoods threshold he had yet crossed His father fast
vergng to es winter heard his purpose with silent approva
TRUTH he felt satisfactory pride at the patriotism 50
promptly evinced by his Not so his mother she looked
to him the prop OF her declining years. and pesenment
audby whispered to her that he about leave her
to return She interposed obstacle his resolve though
the tears that coursed down her owed cheeks she
baced and blessed him when leaving plainly told how
acutey painful to her the separation
Young DERwIS had got further than Maamoros with
his regiment when he seized with fit of sickness
Being unable to proceed he placed in hospital his
gment marched The captain Of the company to which
young Derwn belonged lost in informing his father
his sons illness, telling him at the time he need
tain apprehensons for his life his recovery might be
pronounced certain This Notwithstanding, that
letter when it reached the quiet of the sick
young soldier proved to bis fond parents mssve surchaged
with sorrow The first burst of grief over, old Derwn,
prompted by the quick instincts parental Affection concu-
ded that duty to his child lying a sick bed in foreign
couny-pehaps in grave made by strange
than unavang tears He brushed them away and
the early Of the gded the roof of the
humble log cabin he departed seek In Mexico the he
much loved to succor him alive, and if dead
init his corpse where would minglc with his native clay
where he and his stricken wife might in death lay beside it,
He specded on without impedment until he reached this
city, and while here waiting for conveyance down TO the
Brasos, pleased Providence afct him with the yellow
fever From the boarding house where he staying
sent to the Charity Hospital which he entered the
Wednesday of last week. His a it un
settled his All the imagnngs Of his evered brain
had reference TO his At time he witnessed him in
battle doing deeds Of mighty daring, and he cheered him
AT another time, he maDaced captive in prison dun
geon and be would offer large for his Again.
he would call on the Mexicans not to desecrae his grave
Skilu medical aid and the wachu nursing of the Sisters
Of Charity carried him through the most violent stage of the
least prevented him from stepping it. Thus his
son restored himself lingering the confines Of eternity
as 1t wien about Monday emacaed youth
carried into the ward and placed in the bed beside
him. His glazed eye gazed the young emacated patient
with intense anxiety. He cmbngy looked and looked
I'll might well nigh be said he looked his life away He
spang from bis bed with convulsive grasp he cutched the
small paper label which the porter had just placed the beds
head of the recently arrived young patient opening his
remulous hand, he read" Edgar Der,ca J Indiana"
My son." he said and did he say, for, as he
uttered the phrase, he fell and expired Young Derwip who
account Of his sickness had been discharged on his
return home, when he taken by the epidemic and
hence the painfully singular coincidence Of this meeting
tween father and SON. and its tragic termination He soon
though not Immediately, recognised his father The scene
was too much for his already shattered constitution Before
the bell Of the cathedral toled twelve that night he was
corpse They now, Though ot their Homestead in Indiana
sleep where the pournu cypress and the deathburdened
north wind chant the last requiem the strangers grave