New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-03-23
Do Unto Others We would have Others Do
4g.r 1-.". Unto You.

A correspondent of the Blair county Pa.) Wing,
furnishes that paper the particulars of the following
interesting incident of which he eye witness.
It occurred few years ago the line of the great
international improvements of that State It was
one of those of genuine kind heartedness which
fill the mind with involuntary consciousness that there
Is something of the angel still in Our common nature.
AT the point, this sdesof the mountain where oe-
Cured the transhpment of passengers from the West
moored canal boat, awaiting the arrival of the
train ere starting its way through the East. The
captain of the boat, tall, rough, embrowned man,
stood by his craft experimenting the labors of his
men, when the cars rolled up, and few moments
after party of about half a dozen gentlemen came
out and deliberately walked up to the captain, adj
dressed him something after this wise: sT
Sr wish to so on East, but our further progress
depends on you. In the cars we have just left is a
sick man whose presence is disagreeable. We have
been appointed committee by the passengers to ask
that you will deny this man passage in your boat.
If he goes we remain, what say yol."
''Gentlemen," replied the captain, al have heard
the passengers through their committee. Has the
sick man representative here 7" ~ -
| To this unexpected interrOgutory there was no
swer, when without a moments pause the captain
passed over to the car and entering behind in one
corner found poor emaciated WORKOUT creature,
whose life was nearly eaten up by that cankerworm
consumption. The mans head was bowed in his
hands, and he was weeping the captain advanced
and spoke to him kindly.
80, SIR said the shivering invalid, looking up, his
face now lit with trembling expectation, are yon
the captain, and will you take me? God help me
The passengers look upon me as breathing pesti-
lence, and are so unknd You see, sir, | am dying
but oh, if am spared to reach my mother shall die
happy. She lives in Burlington sir, and my journey
is more than half performed. l am poor painter,
| and the only child of her in whose arms wish to
die!hJ 80
You shall CO." said the captain, if l lost every
passenger for the trip
| By this time the whole crowd of passengers were
grouped around the boat with their baggage piled on
the path, and they themselves awaiting the decision
Of the captain before engaging their passage.
moment more and the decision was made known.
as they beheld him coming from the cars with the
sick man Graded in his arms. Pushing directly
through the crowd with his dying burden he ordered
a mattress to be spread in the choicest part OF the
boat where he laid the invalid with all the care OF
parent. That DONE the captain directed the boat for
starting.
But new feeling seemed TO possess the astonished
passengers. With one common impulse they walked
aboard the boat, and in few hours after, another
committee sent to the captain entreang his pres
ence among the passengers in the cabin. He went,
and from their midst there whitehaired man,
who with teardrops in his eyes told that rough,
Drowned man that they felt BUNDLED before him, and
they asked his forgiveness. 1t was touching
The fountain Of true sympathy broken in heart
of nature, and its waters welled up, choking the ut
terance of all present. On the instant a purse was
made up for the sick man, with "God speed =" on
his way home to die in the arms of his mother