Kentucky Gazette

The following incident from a Mobile paper is perfectly characteristic of the people of that flourishing and spirited city. A generous and quick sympathy with every kind of misfortune is so frequently evinced there, that the conduct of the Rifle Corps. in regard to the orphan daughter of their lamented comrade, is by no means a solitary instance. Very many acts of the Mobilians exhibit similar generosity and good feeling.

Among other resolutions passed at a late meeting of the Mobile Rifle Corps, respectful to the worth and memory of M. J. Wheeler, late lieutenant of that company, was one adopting his only child, a beautiful little girl, seven years of age, and pledging themselves to cherish, support and educate her. This was a noble and magnanimous act, and cannot be extolled in a tone too high and exalted. The father was a man of high and ennobled feelings, was a better friend to others than to himself, and left that only pledge of his love to his wife, which the members of the Rifle Company have adopted as their own. This is a beautiful moral upon the character of our young population. They now stand to her as a father, and they are to cherish, educate and support her.