A Visit To Geo. D. Prentice's Grave

Trom the Louisville Courier-Joiirnal. The visitor who markawith admiration ,he love which so liberally rears the richy soulptured marbles from every clime over the silent sleepers arrivés in the course of his rauibles on Spruce avenue, about 100 feet west of tbe receiving vault, and a little east of the luxuriant magnolia tree upon the Shurley lot, iu Cave Hill Ceiuetery, he finds hiinself ooking down a slope which taces the sun when he rises frotu his billowy clouds, upon which are tour graves side by side. l'his is the resting-place of the Prentice 'amily. The grave on the east side is that of' W. C. Prentioe ;. the next grave is that of Mrs. Prentice; the next is the grave of George D. Prentice ; upon the right lies Dlarence Prentice, who was accidentally killed last year. The grave of the illustrious Prentice, who once wrote thoughts which the Nation thought after hi.ni, is bare and barren. The drouth of surn nier has burned the grass trom it. At the head a simple shell of mother-ot-pearl lies on a suiall, square piece of marble, This is all. There is no Btone inscribed with his name ; no polished obelisk feeling its way upward with his name ; no sculptured marble to arrest the attention of the passer-by. A nameless, mentless grave is that oí tne great .frentioe. The stranger, if haply he may discover Prentice lies there, is filled with amazcment that the people atriiftig whom the great poet and journalist lived and labored have not, with one accord, and willing hands, brought their offerings wherewith to raise an enduriug monument over the grave. Is it not possiblo, since the subject of a monument has been recently agitated, to place the matter in the hands of a few well-know citizens, that they may obtain subscriptions 'i " I would subscribe to it myself," said Superintendent llosa to the Courier-Jour nal representativo on yesterday ; "I could go to men to-day who would give $5 aud $10 toward this object." Mr. Koss is right. If the proper men were to devote a little time with a subsoription paper in Louisville, they could obtain $40,000. The grave itself stares the beholdar in the face with piteous pleafor recognition The dust which is there inhumed is too precious to be forgotten. Louisville wil! not be true to herself, if, when the leaves of another autumn tall, the bareness o: George D. Prentice's grave testifies to her indifference.