CHAPTEE Xn.
 

(Bt\n Inn^ntts.
 

Undee this head are arranged some interesting
narratives brought out in the course of the Meetings,
and not properly referable to any of the foregoing
chapters.

One of these is a signal example of fidelity to prin¬
ciple in the case of the captain of a western steam
boat. A reference having been made to him one
morning in Fulton street, a correspondent of the
New York Observer sent to that journal the follow¬
ing full statement.

THE   STEAM  BOAT  CAPTAIN.

"Cai^tain------was, comparativelj^, born and reared

on the Ohio river, among the keel boatmen, as reck¬
less and immoral a set of men as inhabited our
country, but who are now extinct.     When steam

power came into use. Captain------being an active

and enterprising man, he soon became one of the

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