Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-09-24
Interesting Incident.
A correspondent of the True Democrat re-
lates the following;

A correspondent Of the True Democrat re-
lates the following;
To-day | nave been put in remembrance
of a little scene | witnessed some six weeks
since upon a steam boat between Cleveland
and Buffalo. There were many enligrants
on board coming west; among the rest | no.
ticed a woman about thirty years Of age, and
a little boy about six. These drew my at
tention from their taking a bed upon the deck
of the boat separate from all others, upon
which they lay. The woman looked pale
and feeble, and did not sit up during the day.
Her eyes were closed most of the time, and
when opened she gazed anXiously upon her
little boy, who sat constantly at her head,
holding one hand in his, and with the other
brushing away the flies, as they lit upon his
mothers hand and face. The boy, too, was
poor and pale. They had both been sick
with the ship fever, the boy first, and then
the mother. AS soon as sufficiently recover
ed they had started anew upon their journey.
Both looked intelligent and interesting
But they were poorly clad, what they had
on being worn and torn. 1t had once been
valuable and indicated that they had been in
comfortable circumstances.
| saw them many times during the day,
and thought | had never witnessed such de-
votion as that child paid to his sick mother.
| could not but think il was a scene on which
a painter might gaze with interest. AS eve.
ming approached, | supposed they would
move their bed to the steerage cabin. But
they made no change. | suppose they could
not breathe the confined air of that place.
About twelve o'clock that night, | awoke
from my slumber. The wiud whistled
around, and the boat was tossed upon the
dashinS waves. The air was damp and chill
w.. | bethought me of the e~migrant mother
and her little boy, and | arose from the settee
on which | slept, and went out upon the deck
TO see their condition. The mother was
asleep. The little boy, still watching, had
fallen into a slumber, and laid his hand upor
her pale cheek. He had covered her with &
small thin blanket, their only covering, bu'
had nothing but his clothes upon himself
l approached them carefully, and laying hin
down by her side, spread over them my cloak
which was sufficient to make them colnforta
BILE.
1t was late in the morning before they
awoke. When they saw the cloak, they
looked around with anxiety to see who it was
that had shown them kindness. Standing a
a little distance, | saw that the night air haC
made its impression upon her frail body, ant
as soon as | could obtain them, | carried he
a glass of wine and suitable REFRESHMENTS
They partook of it freely, and | learned /
was the first they had eaten since leaving
Buffalo. When | asked them the reason
she turned her face aside, and the big tearI
chasing each other down her cheeks, forbad,
any further inquiry.
Before leaving the boat | gave her wha
little money | had left. felt, circumstance
as | was, that it was hardly mine to giv'
away but then | remembered that | owed
debt TO humanity, imposed by nature itself
superior in obligation to all other claims, ant
that it was my duty to discharge it. Sh'
, made no reply, further than to ask my nam
and residence; then looking up to heaven
l she said was an hungered and We fe,
me, naked and We clothed me, a stranger an,
We took me in; surely we will have your re
: ward"
| thought no more of this circumstance
until riding out to-day, / was met by a gen
teelly dressed, gentlemanly, and intelligent
Irlshman, about thirty-ive years of age, VIII
addressed me by name, and as he informe'
me, he was the husband of that emigran
mother, and the father of that devoted boy
and pressed into my hands the money | ha
given, the fast rolling tears bespoke hi
gratitude. | learned from him that he wa
the youngest son of one of the nobility {
Ireland. That when a youth he had forme
: an attachment for his wife, a beautiful CIR
. hut one of the common people. He was bid
den to break of this attachment, or leave hi
fathers house. He was one of your romal
=" tic minds, who feel that man can love bl
{ once, and he thought that better was a dil
. ner of herbs where love is, than a stalled G
e and hatred herewith He too was one
u .rour iplonopdopt rnin1s uuho fnlt that in III
. choice of a companion for life, he should |
his own master. He therefore forsook h
d fathers roof, married the girl of his choic
and for several years they had struggled
, their own land TO obtain responsibility and
home. AT length they had become discoI
u aged, and determined to emigrate to Anne
d. ca. He bad arrived in this country last ia
- and intended to return for his family ne
y fall. But the famine was so severe, and I
: expense of living so great, that he fear
u starvation awaited his family. He thereto
~ collected what money he had earned viii
was thought to be sufficient, and sent for b
IS to emigrate with some friends. She wou
is have come IN comfort, but her friends b
" sickened and died, and she and her boy h
barely escaped the grave. But they b
u safely arrived. Their health had been
gu stored. He was well situated in busine
es and they now looked forward to years of ii
no and prosperity.
lot We parted-he, overlooking with or;
'e, tude, and myself made happier to think /
] been, in some little degree, the means of C
IRE ferring happiness upon others.
MIAsMA OVER CITlEs.-The Register G
eral of London, seems to think, that over
N. densely populated cities, there hangs an
he mosphere totally different from that Of
taI country. TO the human animal its eff,