Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1860-10-17
EBENSBURG. PA. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER II, 1860.
''Do you speak of young PiermOnt3" ASK

''Do you speak of young Piermont?" ASA
ed another.
''Yes. be fell yesterday pierced by three
balls, poor fellow; it was hard fate for such
boy"
For one moment the cheek OF the widow
was blsnched, the heart of the mother shock
ed, but she spoke almost calmly as she ask
ed;
(which one was it. sir?"
''Heury Piermont. if am not mistaken.
Was he known to you!'
Was he known to her? Oh, the torment
that followed that question, Henry, Her
noble first born, He who had taken the place
of the dead at their board, aud with a gray-
ity, beyond his years carried out the plans
his father had left unfinished. And now
his blue eyes were closed forever, his bright
locks rolled in the dust, o. the thought was
anguish. 4 deatbly paleness came oTes her.
but she rallied with great effort, aud said
IS calmly as before, as she turned her whit
ened checks away:
He was nay son, sir.
| They did not see her face as she walked
/ quickly aud firmly from the room.
Now. God forgive me. l feel as if 1
had done cowardly thing" murmured the
officer while his lips grew pale with emotion.
Coming here to partake of this woman 5
hospitality, have cruelty stabbed her to the
heart"
You are not to blame, my friend" said
| Washington, in his deep tones, In which was
blend sudden pafhos. Neither, if L read
her Alright, would she recall the child bravely
fallen u his country's cause. This Is no
common wOman-her very face speaks of her
souls nobility. Mark me, when you next
a. l.. Il
row will Issue from her lips Our motGers,
our wives-I am proud to say it-are heo-
rines in this trying period. And this, he
continued, pointing TO the Bible, this Is
the secre of their greatness; whenever you
beholc that volume opened, bearing evidence
of constant perusal, there you will fad wom-
an capable of any emergency. L repeat it,
when We meet again she viii be calm and
fearless although q mother bereaved of her
Guild"
Aud so it was Madame Piermont had school
ed her grief for the time into a sudden and
sacred submission, and the officers were cal
led into another room to partake of the smo-
King viands she had prepared, they found her
collected, unchanged IN her manner, and Sc
rene in couDtenance. The officer from whom
the news had so rudely burst, was lost IN ai
nirEtion of her conduct, and was often heard
TO say, subsequently,, that be yenerated wom-
ea more for her sake
Towards night the trio departed, thanking
the kind woman with grateful hearts for her
courtesy. They found their horses ready
saddled and were forced to conjecture that
Madame Piermont had herself performed the
duty of hostler
General Washington kindly took her hand
before be mounted his charger, and address
sed her tenderly and affectionaIely. Tears
came 10 the eyes of the officers while they
listened, but though sn increasing paliOr over
spread the widows face, she murmured:
Il am thankful, thankful to my God, cir,
that He has deemed me worthy of deman-
ding my first born in this glorious struggle;
he was ready, sir, for life or DEATH
But when they had gone, aud she returned
to the silence of that lone house, the mother
wept exceedingly bitter tears. Draw we
the curtain before her sacred anguish
Farewell, old PiermOnt house, with your
carpet of mallows, aud old-fashioued flowers,
in old fashioned pots standing upon the stoOp.
| feel sad at the thought that L shall never
again see its doors wreathed il vines, where
on hung clusters of lux1riating grapes; nor
Its windows on the lower floor, all opened
with the white curtains of snowy white mus
lu floating with dreamy, undulating mo-
ton IN the pleasant breeze