The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-10-16
A beautiful Tribute from a Father to a
Son.

GEORGE D. Prentice, the able and &C
complished editor of the Lou is vile journal.
the poet and patriot, thus mentions the late
domestic afl lotion which he has sustained.
The article is worthy of the warm and gen.
erous heart of Mr.. Prentice aud OF the inner
feelings of the soul. What comment is
this notice upon the sal and te rrible contest
in which the country is enga ged-how il
sunders families and tho dear est domestic
ties. The Journal says:
"OB1ruARY.-Willam Court an Prentice
died on Monday last at Angus ia. Ky, of
wounds received in the conflict at that place
on the preceding Saturday. He persisted
in the cause of the rebellion"
"It is not in the columns Of a newspaper.
it is only in the family circle or in the hush
of solitude, that the emotions of parent
over such an event should have utterance
The tears of weeping eyes and the fast trick
ling drops of bleeding hearts are not for the
public gaze. The deepest agonies should
be content to fold their somber 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.its has no power to al
lay or soothe, griefs that like running
streams are deepening their channels fOrev-
err.
"Wm CORTLAND Prentice was no COM
mon young man. He was remarkable in h is
powers and in his temperament. A mode
Of manly beauty, he had extraordi nary in
telectual energy, a strong thirst for strange
and curious knowledge, and a deep passion
for all that is sublime and beautiful in poet
~ and nature. He was generous manly, o
high hearted, and a courage that no mortal
peril, come in what form it m light, could
daunt. He exulted in looking destruction
face to face in all its ways. He loved wild
and dangerous adventures for the very dan
gers sake.a His eagle spirit lived among the
mountain crass and shouted back 10 the
shouts of the storm. Although kind, un-
selfish and humane, be was impetuous pas
sonate and of unconquerabe prejudi ces.-
He was not unfrequently unjust in his judg-
ments, and he permitted nothing to stand
between him and the execution of his pur-
poses.
'.This young man, if he had always di-
rected his energies judcously, could have
made himself distinguished ornament in
any profession of life. He might have been
an able and honored statesman in the SER
vice Of the Republic. But an intense
Southern sympathy, in spite Of the argu-
ments, the remonstraDces, and the entreat-
les OF tnOSe VINO oearIy IOVeG MIN, made
him an active rebel against bis country
Aud after brief FIVE weeks serv ice in the
rebel ranks, he fell, soon to breathe out his
fiery life, receiving, meanwhile, far away
from his family, the kindly ILLUSTRATIONS Of
those against whose cause his strong right
arm had been raised. On, if he had fallen
in his country's service, fallen with his bur-
ming eyes fixed in love and devotion upon
the flag that for more than three -fourths Of
a century has been star of worship to his
ancestors. bis early death. though still ter
rible, might have been borne by fathers
heart, bat alas, the reflection that he fell in
armed rebellion against that glorious old
banner, now the emblem of the greatest and
hottest cause the world ever knew, is full of
desolation and almost of despair.
And, yet wesha!! love to think Of Court
land Prentice, that brave and noble though
misguided. youth, during the little remnant
of our lives. Our love for him, undimm ed
by tears and grief, is and will remain an
ainaranthine flower upon the grave of our
buried years"