Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-17
george d. Prentice in memory of hi.

George ID. Prentice i'm Memory OF his
Rebel Son.
William CORTLAND Prentice died on Mon
day last at Augusta, KY, of wounds re-
ceiVed in the conflict at that place on the
preceding Saturday. He persisted in the
cause of the rebellion.
1t is not in the columns of newspaper,
is only in the family circle or iu the hush
of solitude, that the emotions of parent
over such an event should have utterance.
The tears of weeping eyes and 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 aud his angel
time. Nay. there are griefs that time itself
has no power to allay or soothe, griefs that
like running streams are deepening their
channels forever.
Wm. CourtlAud Prentice was no common
young man. He was remarkable in his
powers and in his temperament, model
OF manly beauty, be bad extraordinary in-
tel.ectual energy, a strong thirst for
strange and curious knowledge, and deep
passion for all that is sublime aud beauti-
tul in poetry,aud nature. He was generous,
manly, high-hearted, and OF a courage that
could ddunt. he exulted in looking de-
struction face to face in all its Ways. He
loved wild and dangerous adventures for
tue very dangers sake. His eagle spirit
lived among the mountain erags and shout
ed back to the shouts of the storm. AL
though kind, unselfsh, and humane, he was
lmpetuous, passionate, and of uncouquera-
bic prejudices. He was not unfrequehtly
unjust in his judgments, cud he permitted d
nothing to stand between him and the exc.
cution of his purposes m
This young man, if he had always di-
rected his energies jndiciously, could have
made himself a distinguished ornament in
any profession OF liFet He might have
been an able and honored statesman in the
service of the republic. But al intense
Southern sympathy, in spite of the arGu-
mehts, the renioustrances, and the entreat-
les of those who dearly loved him, made
him an active rebel against his country,
and, after a brief Eve weeks service in
the rebel ranks, he fell, soon to breathe
out his fiery life, receiving meanwhile, far
away from bis family, the kindly ministra-
tions of those against whose cause bis
strong right arm had been raised. o, If be
had fallen in his couniry's service, fallen
with his burning eyes fixed in love aud de-
votion upon the flag that for more than
three-fourths of a century has been star
Of worship to his ancestors, his early death,
though still terrible, might have been borne
| by fathers heart; but alas the.reflec-
ton that he fell in open rebellion against
that glorious old banner nowthe emblem
OF the greatest aud holiest cause the world
ever knew, Is full of desolation and almost
of despair. adi
And yet we shall love to think of Court
land Prentice, that brave aud noble though
misguided youth, during the little remnant
of our lives. Our love for him, unjimmed
by tears and grief, is and will remain an
amaraIthinelaowrr upon the grave Of our
buried years. u IatJtt
Southern Political Economy. 81
A correspondent of the N. z World,
who was taken prisoner by the rebels at
Rienzi and subsequently paroled. reports
The following conversation with rebel
eaptain-a graduate of West POiut:
81 sYoir of the North have contracted an