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THE COURSE OF PROVIDENCE.The Poltsville Democratic Press statesthat a few days since, letters from Capt.James Nagle, and Lieut Simon S. Nagle, written from Vera Cruz, were received by their wives, enclosing a daguerreotype likeness of vach of these officers, as tokens of love, and a few gold pieces.— Lieut. Nagle, in his letter, bids his wife kiss their little son for him. “Poor fellow !” adds the Press, “he little dreamed that at the time his letter was written, his darling boy was quietly slumbering in his little grave, on the beautiful mountain side of his gratefully remembered home !” There is much in this simple but affecting incident. It shows the perfect uncertainty of life, no matter how seemingly secure. Here is a man who has left the quiet, retired family circle, to mingle in the strife and danger of war, with an impression, perhaps, of chances against his ever returning to the bosom of his family, but without the shadow or intimation of a thought that such a visitor as death can enter the home he has left. Men are falling all about him, and he counts it almost a miracle that he himself is not struck down : he does not once think that the insatiate archer has winged the shaft that quivers in the breast of the boy he has left behind him in apparent safety andsecurity, with the ever watchful eye of • •the mother upon him, and no less natural solicitude of relatives and friends to guard him from danger. The father sitting upon the very edge of tht? yawning cavern, with the groans of the dead and dying all about him, and the whizzing missiles of destruction filling the air on every side, is spared, while the child, far away, in the quiet, secluded mountain home, dies ! Such is the dispensation of Providence ! When, seemingly, in the very vortex of danger, w are frequently spared—while, when in apparently the greatest security, we are often struck down. In the language of the poet:“Fate steals along with silent tread,Found oftenest in what least we dread ;Frowns in the storm with angry brow,But in the sunshine strikes the blow !*’e
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Gettysburg Adams Centinel
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Jun 21, 1847
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