, 1862-12-13
William Courtland Prentice.

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George D. Prentice publishes the following obit.
uary of his son who fell fighting for the rebel
cause, at the battle of Augusta, KY, in the Louis
vile Journal of the I'd October:
William Courtland Prentice died on Monday
last at Augusta, of wounds received in the con-
Aict at that place on the preceding Saturday. He
persisted in the cause of rebellion.
1t is not in the colums of newspaper, it is
only in the family circle or in the hush of solitude
that the emotions of a parent over such an event
should have utterance. The tears of weeping
eyes and the ast-troklng drops of bleeding hearts
are not for the public gaze. The deepest agonies
should be content to fold their sombre wings in
the soul. Consolation could not come from the
worlds sympathy; it can be looked for only from
God and his angel Time Nay, there are griefs
that time itself has no power to alay or soothe,
griefs that like running streams are deepening
their channels forever.
William Courtland Prentice was no common
young man. He was remarkable in his powers
and in his temperament. A model of manly beau
ty, he had extraordinary intellectual energy,
strong thirst for strange and curious knowledge
and deep passion for all that is sublime and
beautiful in poetry and nature. He was generous,
manly, high-hearted, and of courage that no
mortal peril, come in what form it might, could
daunt He exalted in looking destruction face to
face in all its ways. He loved wild and danger
Gus adventures for the very dangers sake. His
eagle spirit lived among the mountain crags and
shouted back to the shouts of the storm. Although
kind unsefsh, and humane he was impetuous,
passionate, and he permitted nothing to stand be-
tween him and the execution of his purpose.
This young man, if he had always directed his
energies judiciously, could have made himself
distinguished ornament in any profession of life.
He might have been an able and honored states
man in the service of the reIulic. But an intense
Southern sympathy, in spite of the arguments,
the remonstrances, and the entreaties of those
who dearly loved him, made him an active rebel
against his country. And, after brief five weeks
service in the rebel ranks, he fell soon to breathe
out his fiery life receiving meanwhile, far away
from his family, the kindly ministrations of those
against whose cause his strong right arm had been
raised Oh if he had fallen in his counrys service,
fallen with his burning ey fixed in love and de-
votion upon the flag that for more than three
fourthS of a century has been a star of worship
to his ancestors his early death, though still ter
rible, might have been borne by fathers heart,
but alas, the reflection that he fell in armed
rebellion against that glorious old banner,
now the emblem of the greatest and holiest
cause the world every knew, is full of desolation
and almost of despair.
And yet we shall love to think of CORTLAND
Prentice, that brave and noble though misguided
youth, during the little remnant of our lives Our
love for him, undimmed by tears and grief, is and
will remain an amaranthine flower upon the grave
of our buried years.
A New MUSICAL CELEBRITY.-A New York
letter of Nov. 1st has the subioined:
Grau will inaugurate the opera season on the
10th instant, at the Academy of Music, on which
occasion Mdme. Guarrabele will make her bow
for the first time on an American stage This
lady is heralded in the following paragraph, which
I clip from yesterdays Daily Programme:
She is an American lady, and native of this
city; the daugter of Samuel Ward, formerly
Uuited s. Sttates consul at Bristol. She has fine
figure, dignifed anu graceful bearing, and re-
markably handsome and expressive face She
is not only a splendid vocalist but S1 admirable
actress. musical paper says with reference to
her performance at a concert in Bristol, England
"She sang in a manner we have never heard sur
passed, and her vocalizaton quite equalled Son
tag or Alboni. Her voice is much more extern
sve than either, including three octaves, and her
constant flights do re mi above the lines took
her audience manifestly by surprise, and proved
her to be of that rare class now to be found-a
pure soprano. Mdme. Guarrabela is a Princess,
she having married Russian Prince in Paris a
few years since. A few days after the marriage,
however, he absconded taking with him the
whole of his wife's valuable jewelry. She follow
ed him to St. Petersburg, and stated the case
personally to the Emperor Nicholas who COM
PEELED the Prince to marry the lady according to
the rites ofthe Greek Church, to return the jewels,
and then banished him to Siberia"
MCCLERNARD's COAMAND.-General McCler-
nards new command is called the Department of
the Mississippi, and comprises all the territory
between Gen. Grants department and that of Gen.
Butler Gen. McClernard is entrusted with the
important duty of opening the way from Vicks-
burg to Montgomery. Gen. Wallace will be as
stoned TO division under him.