The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-09-21
THE GRAVE:
Where sleep both Sire and Son!
An DER true Tale of the yellow Fever.

An Ger true Tale of the Yellow Fever
How mysterious is that invisible chain.
forged by nature, which, in bonds of the
purest and strongest affections, binds parent
10 child and child to parent! Distance can.
not sever it: time cannot destroy its tension:
with death only do its links dissolve their
connexion. OF all the streams through
which the social affections flow, parental
love is the one which more Immediately
gushes from the hearts centre: the conduit
through which filial affection passes is free
from all the impurities Of selfshness, =
These, however, are but truisms; and with
out further indulgence in them we shall
proceed to narrate recent event in which the
force of parental love and filial affection has
been sadly but slrikingly illustrated.
When the last call for volunteers was
made on Indiana, Edgar Derwn was the
first to enrol his name among the active
upholdcrs Of his country's standard. He
was daring intrepid, athletic youth, know
ing no fear a patriot by intuition, endowed
with all mans most enobling leelings
though, mamhood's threshold he had not yet
crossed. Ills father, fast verging towards
lile's winter, heard his purpose with silent
approval, for in truth, he felt a secret, sat-
sfactory pride at the patriotism so promptly
evinced byNhis son. Not 50 his mother
She looked to him as the prop of her de-
clining years, and presentment audibly
whispered TO her that he was about TO leave
her, never to return. She interposed no
obstacle to his resolve, though the tears
that coursed down her furrowed cheeks as
abe embraced and blessed him when leaving
too plainly told how acu,ely painful to her
was The separation. ,.....
Young Derwin had progressed no further
than Matamoros with his regiment, when
he was seized with a severe nit of sickness
Being unable to proceed he was placed in
the hospital. His regiment marched on
The captain of the company to which young
Derwin belonged lost no time in informing
his father of his sons illness, him telling the
same time he need entertain no apprehcn-
sions for his life as his recovery might be
pronounced certain. This assurance not
withstanding, that letter, when il reached
the quiet western home of the sick young
soldier, proved TO his fond parents missvc
surcharged with sorrow. The first burst Of
grief over, old Derwin, prompted by the
quick instinct of parental affection, conclu-
ded that duty to his child, lying on asick bed
in foreign country-perhars in grave
made by strange hands. required more Of
him than unavailng tears. He brushed
them away and ere the early rays Of the
next mornings sun g,lded the roof of his
blelog cabin, he departed, to seek in
Mexico the son he so much oved--to sue
cor him if alive, and if Dead to transport
his corpse where j, would mingle with its
native clay-where he and his stricken
wife might in death lay beside it.
lie speeded on without impeachment till he
reached this city, and while here, waiting
for a conveyance down to the Brazos, itplea-
sed Providence to aiilict him with the yell
low fever. From the boarding house where
he was staying, he was sent 10 the charity
Hospital, which he entered on Wednesday
of last week. His cease" was severe one
it unsettled his reason. All the imagn-
ings of his fevered brain had reference TO
his son. AT one time he witnessed him in
battle doing deeds of mighty daring, and he
cheered him on. At another time, he saw
him manaced captive, i'll prison dungeon
and he would offer lalge sum for his ran
som. Again, he would call on the Mexi
cans not to desecrate his grave.
Skilful medical aid, and the watch(ul
nursing of the Sisters of Charity, carried
him through the most violent stage Of the
disease: if they did not snatch him from,
deaths door, they at least prevented him
from stepping over it. Thus, he was, his
reason restored, himself lingering on the
confines of eternity as it were, when, about
noon on Monday, an emaciated youth was
carried into the same ward and placed in the
bed beside him. His glazed eye gazed on
the young, emaciated patient with intense
anxiety. He trembling ly looked andlooked
till it might be said that he had well nigh
looked his life away. He sprang from his
bed; with convulsive grasp he clutcbed
the small paper label which the Porter had
just placed at the beds head of the recent
y arrived young patient, opening tin his
tremu!ous hand he reld-
Edgar Dcrwin, jun'r, Indiana"
".My Sonp'said he, and no more did he say,
for as he uttered the phrase he fell and cx-
piled. Young Derwin, who on account Of
his sickness had been discharged, was on
his return home, when he too, was taken
by the epidemic, and hence the painfully
singular coincidence of this meeting between
father and son, and its tragic termination.
He soon, though not Immediately, recog-
nized his father The scene was too much
for his already shattered constitution, before
the bell Of the Cathedral tolled twelve that
night he was corpse. They now, though
not al their homestead in Indianna, sleep
where the mournful cypress and the death
burthened north wind chant the last re-
QUEEN DER the strangers grave.
" o. Delta.
The nett proceeds says Mr.. Walker, of the tariff
Of 1916 for the first nine months Of its operation
exceed by three millions the nett proceeds Of the ia