Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1858 — A Daughter of the Regiment. [ARTICLE]

A Daughter of the Regiment.

The beautiful fancy whiciit forma th* fllea of Donizetti’s opera, has suggested to more than one military corps the adoption of "the child of a beloved comrade deceased. The must interesting instance of which wo hawheard is that of the adoptiou, by the New York National Guards, of the daughter of a deceased officer. The regiment, one thousand strong, ure regularly taxed $1 each per annum, and the surplus, alter providing for her support and education, is invested to 1 " fyrm her dowry. An exchange paper says: “The young lady, now about 16 years old, has grown up beautiful, intelligent and accomplished, and is well off, and doubtless she looks upon her gallant guardians with all the love, honor and enthusiasm that Marie did on the brave SuTplce and the gallant 21st, in the opera. ’’