Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-06-30
GBe 4ailg SPY,
FRIDAY, JUNE 80, 1854.
Missing of the City ofGIasgow-An Anect.
ing Story.


The Jersey Blue has the following affecting
story During the latter part of our career
in the Philadelphia post Office we became ac-
quainted, among the mass OF human beings
whose faces appeared daily at the " General
Delivery Window where we were stationed.
with an intelligent, happy looking English
man, of about forty-hve years Of age, who
came frequently to inquire for letters from
home. He was a man of pleasing manners.
and evidently had been well educated and ac-
customed to the reHnements and elegancies of
really good society. Being stranger on our
shores, he was glad to avail himself of an op-
| portunity of conversing with us, and spoke
freely of his past and Of his hoped for future.
He had come over to Philadelphia, bringing
with him a little son, apparently about twelve
years OF age, TO select residence for the rest
! of his family which he had left in England,
and to make all the arrangements necessary to
their comfort when they should arrive. He
had accomplished this--had taken and fur
nished a house in Philadelphia, and was ex-
| pecting letters from his wife, informing him
| OF her sailing with their other children in the
steamer City of Manchester
We handed him a letter--it spoke of her
expectation to sail in that steamer, and he =
went away with such glad anticipationa as
might be supposed to till the heart of hus-
band and father long absent from the wife and
children whom he soon expected to meet and
embrace again. A few days passed, and an
other foreign mail arrived and with it letter
to our friend from his wife, saying that she
had not been able to make her arrangements
in time to sail in the Manchester, but that she
should certainly sail in the Glasgow Some
time after this, letters came, which she had
mailed at the time of embarking in this ship,
and now he was unspeekably happy with the
almost certainty of seeing his wife and chill
dren in very few days, for the New York
mail steamers generally make the passage but
a few days sooner than our screw steamers.
Soon he, with many Others, commenced GO
ing down every day to Queen street wharf to
look for the incoming steamer
But who shall speak of the horrors to Gomez
Day after day did he, with the many others
on that sad walk, go down to the wharf and
strain his vision to descry among the numer-
Gus vessels down the river the anxiously ex-
pected steamer. We saw him when the yes
sci had been some thirty days out, and were
startled at his appearance. The plump, hap
py seeming face of one month before ives hag-
gard as the face of death, the eyes that so
shortly before we had seen dance in the light
of inward joy, were bloodshot, wild, and glar-
ing upon us with maniac expression. He
walked mopingly away, but his face haunted
us still. A few days after this, steamer ar
rived bringing the report that vessel some
what resembling the Glasgow had been seen
off the Bahamas this report brought him to
us again. Oh, how that false hope had bright
ened his countenance His eyes had regained
their expression of intelligence. and he chung
to this baseless hope as drowning man to
straw.
We left the post Office few days after this.
Yesterday we inquired concerning this wretch
ed man, and was told that he had been for
some time in the lunatic asylum, raving
maniac. May God reward him in eternity.