Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1866-01-04

| A few years ago, while passing over tn
Pennsylvania State improvements, the write
was n witness of one of those scenes of genu
inc kind-heartedness which makes the hear
thrill with an unutterable blessing, and fill
the mind with involuntary consciousness tha
there is something Of the angel still" in ou
common nature. -'
At point this side the Allegheny noun
tains. where occurred the trans shipment o
passengers from the west, was moored ca
nal boat, waiting the arrival of the train er,
starting on its way through to the cast, The
captain of the boat, a tall, rough, sun-em
Drowned man, stood by his craft, superintend
ing the labors of his men, when the cars rolled
up, and few moments after party Of about
half a dozen gentlemen came out, and delib
erately walking up to the captain, addressed
him something after this wise: s"sir, wo wish
to go on cast--but our further progress to
day will depend on you In the cars we have
just left, is sick man whose presence is dis
agreeable. We have been appointed a com
mittec by the passengers to ask that you viii
deny this man q passage in your boat. If ht
goes we remain-what say your "Gentle
men, replied the captain, u have heard the
passengers through their committee Has
the sick man representative hcre?' 70 the
unexpected 'interrogatory there was no an
swer, when, without moments pause the
captain crossed over to the car, and entering
beheld in one corner, poor, emaciated, worn
out cyeature, whose life was nearly eaten-ur
by that canker worm consumption. The
mans head was bowed in his hands, and he
Was weeping. The captain advanced and
spoke to hun kindly ~ q u sirls sold tllf
fshfvefing fnvnlid, io0kiifss up, hsEfce nov III
up with trembling expectation, ''arc you the
captain--and will you take me? God help
me! The passengers look upon me as a
breathing pestilehce; and are you so unlsind?
You see, sir, ! am dying-but; oh! if ! am
spared to reach my mother / shall die happy.
She lives iii Burlington, N. j., sir, and my
journey is more than half performed, | am a
poor printer, and the only child Of her in
whose arms ! wish to die!
you SHALL col" replied the captain, "if |
lose every passenger for the trip!'
BY this time the whole crowd of passengers
were grouped around the boat, with their bag.
gage piled up on the path, and they awaiting
the decision of the captain before engaging
their passage. A moment more and that de-.
cision was made as they behcld him coming
from the cars with the sick man cradlcd in
his stout arms Pushing directly through the
throng with his dying burden, he dercd Il
mattrlss to be spread in the choicest spot on
the boat, where he laid the invalid with all
the care of parent That done, the cap,
tain directed the boat to be prepared for
starting
But new feeling seemed to possess the
astonished passengers-that Of shame and
conrition at their inhumaniy With the
common impulse they walked aboard the
boat, and ina few hours after, another com
mttee was sent to the captain, enreatng his
presence among the passengers in the cabin.
He went and from their midst arose an aged,
white haired Utah, who, with the tear drops
starting in his eyes, told that rough, sun en-
Drowned Nah, that he had taught them all a
lusson--tEat he felt humblcd before him, and
that they asked his forgiveness 1t was a
touching scene. The fountain of true sym.
pathy was broken up in the heart of nature,
and its waters *tlled up, choking the utter
ance and filling the eyes of all present On
the instant purse was made up for the sick
man, with a generous contribution from the
captain, and the poor invalid was started
with "God srccdr' oh his way hoinc, to die
id the arms of his mother
The true hearted captain Of that boat was
Gen. Samuel D. Karns; and the above Incl
dent is worth remcmbering.-Ptts Com.