Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1848-11-16
An Incident Of Travel.

Among the passengers in the steamer
Commodore, from New York to New
Haven las, Saturday morning, were the
wife of Cornish miner by the name oi
Rowe, and five or six children, chiefly
girls, the oldest ns exceeding ten or E.
Icycn years OF aye, and the youngest a
babe. They arrived here from Wales
only about two weeks since, and were on
their way 10 the Bristol (Conn copper
mines, where they hoped to meet their
husband aud father. A. the steamer was
leaving the wharf, the mother stood at
the gang-way, almost frantic with anxiety
and sriei. II ii the kind hearted cap
tim (L"ityre) been present and under
stood her case, he would have waited ill
her daughter had come on board, or un-
I'll the mother aud her other children
could be put Oh shore. But as II was,
the family were separated, under cIrcum-
stances of peculiar trial. 1t appears that
a few moments before the steamer start
ed, the mother sent her oldest daughter
a girl between L., aud l3 years of age, TO
buy some bread Before she returned
the steamer was of for New Haven
What the poor girls thoughts were when
s.:e returned - the wharf aud found the
boat gone, and herself left alone in a
strange city OF half million inhabitants,
We know not, but can partly imagine.-
The mother was if possible still more
wrctchcd. When she found that the
steamer was actually oil, aud that there
was no hope of returning TO the wharf,
all the tender sympahies of parents
heart were awakened within her, aud
she ran abou, the boat crying, "Oh, my
child III, poor child Oh-oh-oh"
The steward of the boat and some Of
the passengers tried to console her tel
Ing her that the little girl would no
doubt be taken care of, an be sent up
to her a, New Haven by the evening boat.
This afforded her CLEAN of hope, but
her fears s,lll predominated. What could
Matilda do, pennlles', IN the midst OF
strangers, without a home, or friend, or
knowledge OF any thing around her
" HON conld she trust how liable to be
dccoyed away by Williams, and reserved
TOR doom worse than death ! liogarth
could not have desired more lively
RECONCILIATION Of grief, than when that
SIT sobbing in her chair, nursing her
iifant and hugaing it to her bosom, while
hen other children, except the lost one,
sat around her on the floor, not one OF
them uttcring a cry, but every connte-
nance expressive Of the deepest sorrow,
Presently Capt. Leievre came and sat
down hy them, and after some soothing
yemarks, returned them the whole oI
their passage money. Several dollars
were also given them by passengers
This was was the more needful, as by
waiting for Matilda at New Haven until
Saturday evening, they. were under the
necessity of spending the Sabbath there,
a there was no subsequent train for
Bristol until Monday. But what if Ma
tiIAa should not come! What if they
should never see her again These APP
prchensions, together with the anxiety
already endured, produced symptoms OF
mental alteration in the mother, even
before she arrived at New Haven.
Immediately on their arrival, a tele-
graphic despatch was forwarded to Messrs
SaNtIn and Webb, agents Of the line
in New York, requesting them to send
by the afternoon boat the little girl that
vas left in the morning, and stating that
her mother would wait for her at New
Haven. On receiving this message,
Messrs Saxton & Webb, who had no
preyious knowledge ef The mishap. went
10 The wharf aud found the little girl cry
iny. This must have been at least five
hours after the steamers departure. -
They told her the message they had re-
ccived from New Haven, and that they
would send her safe to her mother in a
few hours, which they accordingly did ,
free Of cost. Thus after day Of fearful
ANXIETY aud suspense, the family circle
was aga'n united, to the grea, Joy of all -
though the shattered mind Of the mother
prevented her from full appreciation of
the fact. The family where she spent
the Sabbath, informed us that she was
evidently good deal deranged. and that
Matilda SAID she had been so before
Her former arrangement was occasioned
by the loss of a husband, and child. (he
latter heing bu'm or scaldcd TO DEATH.
Dn Monday she aud all her children took
the Rail Road train for Bristol, and must
have cached their destination in a few
hours afterwards.
Here is one small chapter in the life
If poor, hard-working woman aud if
we could read the unwrltten history of
families aud individuals, how many such
scenes, or others equally aud still more
aiilictna, would rise upon our vision -
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