An Incident Of The Rebellion

About twonty yoars ago, or in the year 1854, a planter living near Ilouston, in Texas, was inspired for adventure by tho curront stories of wonderful gold-findings at Pike's Peak, and importunod from bis wife her consent to his departure. While ostensibly thrifty, tho plantation was really oncuinberod by dobt, aud some uew tinancial departure seoincd nuoessary tbr its redemption. Perhaps this was the final reason inducing Mrs. Du Boso's assent. At any rate, the planter startod for the distant mining country, after taxing the family means seerely for hisoutüt, with tho hope of finding enough of the precious ore to return in a yoar or two as a rich man. Nearly always a desperate game of chance, gold-digging is a particularly porüous hazard for the adventurer of mature years who stakes the very homo of his flesh and blood upon it. Du Boso was not successful in it, His letters from tho Poak told of continuad disappointinent and hardship, thongh over expressive of a determination to fight the battle yet longer. What time his patiënt a ad devotedwife, and an infantson, bom a year before the amateur miner's departure, knew many denials at home in tho exigencies of tho embarrassed estáte, and could only respond to.the discouraging niessages ot tho husband and fattier with love aud prayer. Such was the story, told in much-interruptod correspondence„back aud forth, until the memorable tumult and disruptions of war in 1861 cut off all postal comniunication whatover between the warring seotions of the nation. Before that time Mrs. Du Bose had been obliged to sell tho unlucky plantation and remove with her little boy to tho neighborhood of somo of her rolatives in New Orleans ; and when hostilities began the mother and child were guests of Mrs. Jennings, a sister of the furiner, in the Crescent City. Borne down by her sorrows and the public anxieties of the times, tho poor lady died soon after the battle of Sumter, and the young orphan feil to the charge of his aunt. And now this boy becomes tho hero of the tale. Left chiefly to his own resources after his mother's death, the littlo fellow passed much of his time in the streets, and thus, when the national forces occupied New Orleans, becaine a familiar of various bariacks. One day Col. Vanee, of the Forty-seventh Indiana, whose quarters he had infested for nearly a week, was induced by his handsome face and negleeted appearance to question hiin of his history. As his childish ruplies suggested no definito idea of a good home, but did reveal hia orphanago, ho was taken straightway to the Hoosier officer's kind heart as i waif worth saving. In short, tho Colonel's imperfect understandiiïg of his circuinstances, and his own juvenile eageruess to go with the soldiers, resulted in his summary adoption as a son of tho regiment. Almost immediately thereafter the gallant Indianians were orderod Northward and took their protege with them ; and froni thenceforth to the end of the war the little Southron rode a black pony beside his Colonel's charger, and had a thorough baptism of fire. With that same ending of the war carao back the misguided miner of Pike's Peak, who, while cast off frora all hopo of Southern return or homo letters by war's wall of flamc, had wandered to California and there made the long sought fortune. In New Orleans they told him of his wife's death and his son's disappoarance. - Whither the lad had gone none could say ; he had lei't bis aunt's house one day to look at the Yankee soldiers and nover returned. As may bo iintnagined, this intelligenco filled the self-.iccusing man'e cup of grief. But he could not believe the missing boy was dead. In the New ürleans and other newspapers he advertised large rewards for the return or news of his straying child, and visited all his own and his late wifo's relatives and friends throughout the South for tidiugs or counsel. Nunierous impostora answered the advertisement : but when put to the test of question as to the family-names, v:c, -n-ure found wanting. Disgusted at theso atteiupted ïmpositions, as well as disheartened otherwise, Mr. Du Bosé at last disappeared again - going back to California it was supposed- andtho search restod. In the ïneantimt) the lost heir, upon th ïesumption of peace, went homo with h: Colonel to the latter's homo in Portland, Jay County, Ind. ; and subsequently, whcn his Western friends broke up housekeeping, betook himself to Atcliison, in Kansas. It was abont four years ago, while preparing hirnsolf for future selfsupport by studying at the Ciroleville College, in Kansas, that soine friend of Colonel Vanco's remeinbered taving seen his father'8 advertisenient in some paper, and told the student thereof. But the paper could not be found ; the details were very indistinctly recalled, and only lately has young Du Bose, now a clerk in a hotel at Indianapolis, become aware of all tho cireumstances of the paternal search and failure. According to the ever-readable Indianapolis Sentinel, which relates the whole romance in admirable style, the sou is now as much at a loss to discover the whereabouts of his father as the latter formerly was to reclaim him, having travelled all over the Southwest in vain pursuit of some recent clue to the ex-planter'a present placo of abodo. He has 8ecured ampio proofs of his own idenlity, however; believes that his missing sire is somewhero in California ; and doubts not that duo correspondenco with California postmasters, and advertisemcnts in proper journals, will yet restore him to tho paternal arm and a fino fortuno.