Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-05-17

Then they wrapped the worn-out soldiers
clothes
And in his rude, unvarnished bed,
Laid him sadly away to rest.
Not hymn was sung, not Q prayer was raised
But the hireling's rude, uncareful hands
Piled the damp mould DER his head.
From the Louisville Journal.
A Romantic Incidento Of the
War.
Never shall we forget the scene we
witnessed few days since, when II
was our good fortune to place I'm the
hands of family q dispatch from a
son--whom they had long mourned as
dead-saying II will be with you to-
morrow ~ Early in 1862, when the
red hand of war was thrusting thons-
ands of our once happy people from
their quiet homes to become wanderers
and fugitives in strange land and
among strangers, young man enlisted
I'm the regiment i'm which we were
serving, from the vicinity of Cumber-
land Gap. He was an exemplary SOL
dier, and soon gained the esteem of his
comrades and the confidence of his off,
GERS.
But just after the short but terrible
battle of Cross Danes, Western Vir-
ginia, was fought, an unfortunate oc-
currance, duplicating him in q crime,
ofwhich subsequent events have shown
him to have been innocent, brought
him before court martial and he was
sentenced to be shot. His previous
good character induced the officers OF
Il 10 hn Il i.,fs
General to petition the President To
commute his sentence to Imprisonment,
which petition was granted, and he
was accordingly sent on to q we'll
known island prison between the coast
of Florida and Cuba.
His family, who had been driven
from their homes, were then residents
of our city, and the intelligence of his
incarceration almost crazed his mother
and sisters. But their confidence In
his truth, honor and goodness of heart
never faltered. They felt he was inno-
cent and looked hopefully for the reve-
lations of tomorrow TO prove it. In
few months, however, it was an
nounced i'm the mortality report of the
prison that he had died. After repeat
edly writing, his mother received no
contradiction of the report, and gave
him up with a resignation that only
such circumstances can vouchsafe To a
sensitive mother.
"Down her checks flow'd the round drops;
And as we see the sun SHINE through shower,
so looked her heanteous eyes,
Casting forth light and tears together"
A year passed, and the family moved
to the interior of the State. But what
mighty revolutions does year bring
forth. Circumstances transpired which
proved beyond doubt that our errone,
ously reported dead scomrade was inno-
cent of the crime for which he had
been imprisoned, and he was promptly
released. Being without money, he
stopped in. Northern city TO work,
writing to his former home for his
mother, and then advertising In several
of our State papers, but to no avail
The only Information he could get of
her whereabouts was that she was liv-
ing Somewhere in Kentucky" He
came to the State and locating in an
adjoining village, continued his exer-
tions to find his mothers family, whom
he had reason to believe were i'm desti-
tute circumstances, wherever they
were.
Now comes the finale. An attempted
outrage on young lady in Eastern
Kentucky, few weeks since, an ac-
count of which was published in the
Journal, came under the notice Of our
friend, and the almost victim of the
fiendish assault, on III yestigati0n, was
found To be his sis,cE. We were then
on business in that part of the State,
and received the before mentioned dis
patch and placed IL In the hands of the
mother. She read the little message,
started, looked closer, and read convul-
siyely, and tremblingly gazed into our
eyes, seemingly searching the depths
of our soul, sank upon her knees, and,
with upturned face, exclaimed in lam
guage that will ever reverberate ON our
brain, Father, ! thank Thee for to-
morrow 70
THE MILLIoNAIREs OF NEW York.
The following is the age and the
amount of wealth of number of New
York millionaires:
VIM. B. Astor Is 65 years old; worth
fifty millions; round faced, pleasant,
quiet hammered gentleman owns two
thousand dwellings, and Ia q lenient
landlord. "A. r. Stewart Is 60, thin,
nervous, dignified; worth thirty mill
lions, and liberal in cases of benevo-
lence which appeal to his sympathies.
Geo. Opedyke, five millions, fifty, but
looks younger; an agreeable gentle
man. Jas. Gordon Bennett, five mil
lions, seventy-three years old, dignified
i'm manner, broad Scotch accent, benev-
olent to the poor. Commodore YAM
derbilt is white haired, red-cheeked,
seventy, worth la millions. drives fast
horses, keeps fast boat. controls two
fast railroad companies with fast men,
and gives away his money very Law
ishiy.
The New York Evening Gazette
tells the young ladies what to beware
of IL they would have fresh, youth.
full appearance: late hours, large
crinoline, tight corsets, confectionery
hot bread, cold draghts, pastry, decol.
lette dress, modern novels, furnace
registers, easy carriages, late suppers
thin shoes, fear Of knowledge, nibbline
between meals, ill-tempcr, haste Il