Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-07-17
MATTERS.
[Fr0m Last Evenings EditIOn.l /

AN AFFECTING MEET1Eo.-We have wit
messed in the course of our life some Affect
ing scenes produced by the workings of hu-
man feelings, yet we were never moved by
any such exhibition as we were by what we
we're accidentally spectator to this morning
at the depot The Pittsburgh train had ar
rived, and the passengers we're hurriedly
alighting in that confused jingle peculiar to
such OccasiOns-old men jcstled and jostling;
well dressed gentiIity seedy vice or respect
ability lin the world's eye one is as bad as
the Other) J women and babies; pretty girls !;
wrinkled hags sunbrowned soldiers coming
home to '' see the fOlks;" pale eOnvaleseents
from hospitals and camps dashing officers
with shOulder-straps and bright buttons,
wen oiled curls beneath jaunty caps, pulling
jetty mustaches at pretty girls sOiled and
Wsather-beaten veterans from recent battle
fields, hobbIing painfully on crutches cid
lady with bandbox, frantic about ner "chsst; .
little children who are continually getting
under foot and getting away from their
mother, who cIncks arOgRd d,tfsd IN ID Brood the
man With the everlasting carPot-Ssg,- aad
the man without anything at all, (happy
,fellov); distracted husband, who has the care
Of his wife, half dozen children, trunks,
ba1dbo1es and an indefinite number of bags
and bundles jolly fellow without any Of the
above membranes, jinging a solitary ten
cent scrip in his pocket; the conductor,
cheerful and complaeent at the termination
Of his days work the brakeman, dusty and
soety, picking cinders out of his eyes ex-
prsssnen and baggagemen working with
might and main to clear the cars of freight
and baggage > policemen, ready to stop q
pickpocket or roW-alI constituting a scene
which We somehow never tire of being a
spectator to. ....
It was while we were enjoying such aspec-
tacIe this morning that We heard sudden
shrek, and then female who had been
standing near US observing the thrOng of
passengers, rushed wildly forward and threw
her arms around the neck of pale and ema-
ciated soldier, who with several others had
just alighted from a ear. He dropped the
crutch on which he was leaning, and en-
citcied her form with his arms. She seemed
nearly frantic with joy, and shoWered a hun
dred kisses upon his wan and haggard face.
The words she spoke were hurried and low,
but uttered with that esgerness which denot-
ed the depths of feeling from (which they bnb-
bled up. We caught the words, " husband =
dearest wife," and turned away. The
scene was too sacred for an idle spectator to
look upon. She led him away, her freil per
son fondly supporting his feeble and tOtter-
ing steps, and oh ! the look of love and af-
feotiOn with which she would look up into
that thin and PsIlid face as they conversed.
Coarse men who rarely knew the melting
moed, turned away to brush moisture frsm
the cheek as they witnessed that meeting.
The story is short. The soldier belonged
| to a Michigan regiment that was in the bat
tie of Gettysburg. He was wrongly reported
a1Aops tbe dssd, aud his almost distracted
wife was on her way to the battlefield in the
insane hope of recovering his body from
among the thousands slain. She arrived but
this morning on the Detroit boat. The rest
we have alreadytold. The shock of surprise
and joy at seeing her husband whom she con-
sidersd dead, was very great, but she with
stood it, and tonight they go on their way
home, the hapPiest couple that we have met
in long, long day. With such loving and
attentive nurse as she must be, tho soldier
must recover from the wound he received a
the memorable battle of Gettysburg.