Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-11-20
Aiatfllatlrntts.
THREE SHORT STORIES.
Noble Conduct.

A correspondent of the Blair County
(Pa. Wing, furnishes that paper with the
particulars ct the following interesting incl
dent, of which he was an eyewitness. 1t
occurred few years ago on the line of the
great internal improvement of that State.
1t is one of those scenes of genuine kind.
heartedness which fill the mind with the
involuntary consciousness that there is
something of the angel still in our COM
mon nature" @
At the point this side of the mountain,
where occurred the transhipment of pas
sengens from the West, was moored ca
nal boat, awaiting the arrival of the train,
ercstzrting on its way though to the East.
The captain of the boat, tall, rough, sun
embrowned man, stood by his craft, su-
perintending the labors Of his mea, when
the cars rolled up, and a few minutes after
aparty of about half dozen gentlemen
came. out, and deliberately walking up to
the captain, addressed him something after
this wise: e To
Sir we wish to go on east, but our far
ther progress to-day depends on you In
the cars we have just left sick man, whose
presence is disagreeable. We have been
appointed q committee by the passengers
to ask that you will deny this man pas
sage on your boat. If he goes we remain ;
what say youg"
"Gentlemen," replied the captain, 81
have heard the passengers through their
committee. Has the sick man q representa-
tive herep @ A7l ,=2a-
To this uexpected interrogatory there
was no answer; when, without a moments
pause, the captain crossed over to the car,
and entering, beheld in one corner, poor,
emaciated, worn-out. creature, whose life
was nearly eaten up by that canker-worn,
consumption. The mans head was bowed
in his hands, and he was weeping. The
captain advanced and spoke to him kind
iy. al5=s
"oh! sir" said the shivering invalid,
looking up, his face now Lit with tremb-
ling expectations, "are you the captain,
and will you take me? God help mel The
passengers look upon me as breathing
pestilence, and are SO unkind! You see,
sir, am dying; but oh! if 1 am spared
10 reach my mother, I shall die happy.
She lives in Burlington, sir, and my journey
is mere than half performed. L am a
poor printer, and the only child of her in
whose arms I wish die!"
"You shall go" replied the captain, ''if
lose every other passenger for the trip"
By this time the whole crowd of passen-
geswere grouped around the boat, with
their baggage piled on the path, and they
themselves awaiting the decision of the
captain before engaging their passage.
"A moment more and that decision was
made known, as they beheld him coming
from the cars with the sick man cradled in
his arms: flushing directly through the
crowd with his dying burden, he ordered
mattress TO be spead in the choicest mart
Of the boat, where he laid the invalid with
allrthe care of parent. That done. the
captain directed the boat to be prepared
for starting. a Z f
But new feeling seemed to possess the
sstonished passenges.--that of shame and
eontrition at their inhumanity. With ons
common impulse they walked aboard tht
boat. and in few hours after, another
committee was sent to the captain, en-
treasing his presence among the passengers
in;the cabin. n. -
He went and from their midst thert