The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-07-22

ernment!
This it seems to me is the spirit in which the
matter should be viewed and considered, and
such spirit commend to the thoughtful and
intelligent men of our beloved territory.
III"
Rev. DIX. VAN INGEN.--Touching the removal
of this faithful minister from the Diocese Of
New-York to st. Paul, the Church Journal
speaks as follows. The Doctor will assume the
rectorsbip of this parish about the first of Au-
gust:
1t is no unimportant piece of news. that this
able and laboriOus clergyman has removed from
Western New York to Minnesota. and taken
charge of the parish in st. Paul, the chief town
Of that thriving territory. No one needs TO be
Informed of the prominent place which DR.. Van
Ingen filled in the diocese he has left, or in the
Church at large; and we deem it good sign
when cicrgymen of his note are found to under
take the work Of building up the Church. in the
newly peopled districts Of the West. That the
country is young. and the community feeble, is
no reason why the clergymen who go there
should be young and feeble also yet this has
been too much the case hitherto. Men of ma
ture age and extensive influence, have not been
readily found to quit the permanent parishes
of the east, for western missionary work. The
Church would have gained in more ways than
one, had such acts of selfdenial occurred more
frequently. We trust that DR.. Van Ingcn's re-
moval may be justly pointed to as an instance
and example of this kind OF religious zeal,
and that the fruits Of steady. perscvering toll,
may crown the impulse Of devotion to the
Church's welfare, which has carried him to his
distant post.
If DR.. Lees election to the Episcopatc of To-
wa should be followed by his CONSIDERATION. the
two chief parishes in Rochester will be LETT va
cant, and the Diocese of Western New York
will be greatly the loser by the Church's gain
in the farther West. No one should live to him
SELF however, in the Church. and no Diocese
should grudge to share her beAt things with her
feebler sisters"
THE CITY OF GLASGOW. - The jersey Blue
has the following affecting story connected
with the probable loss of this noble ship:
"Durng the latter part of our career in the
Philadelphia post office, we became acquainted,
among the mass of human beings whose faces
appeared daily at the general delivery win
dow, where We were stationed, with an intelli-
gent, py-lookins Englshman, of about for
ty-tive years of age, who came frequently to
inquire for letters fl ON home, lie was man
of pleasing manners, and evidently had been
well educated and accustomed to the refine
ments and eleganccs of really good society. -
Being q stranger on our shores. he was glad to
avail himself of an opportunity of conversng
with US. and spoke freely of his past and hoped
for future. He had come over to Philadelphia
bringing with him son apparently about Il
years of age, to select a 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 &C.
complished this; had taken and furnished q
house in Philadelphia, and was expecting let
tiers from his wife, informing him OF her sailing
with their children in the steamer City of Man
chester.
We handed him q letter; it spoke of her eX-
pectation to sail in that steamer, and he went
away with such glad anticipations us might be
supposed to fill the heart of husband and ia
thcr long absent from the wife and children
whom he soon expected to meet and embrace
again. A few days passed, and another foreign
mail arrived, and with it a letter 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 Glas-
gov. Some time after this letters came which
she had mailed at the time of embarking in this
ship, and now he was unspeakably 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 going down ev-
cray day to Quecn-street wharf to look for the
incoming steamer.
But who shall speak of the horrors to come :?
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 numerous yes
sells down the river, the anxiously expected
steamer. We saw him when the vessel had
been some thirty days out, and were startled at
his appearance. The plump, happy seeming
face of one month before, was haggard 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 glazing upon us with
maniac expression. He walked mopingly
away, but his face haunted us still. A few DAYS
after this steamer arrived. bringing the report
that vessel somewhat resembling the Glasgow
had been seen off the Bahamas this renort
brought him to us again. o. how that false hone
had frightened his countenance! Ills eyes had
regaincd their expression of intelligence and
he chung to this baseiess hope as drowning
man to a straw.
- We left the post -office few days after this.
Yesterday we inquired core .rDiug this wretcbed
man, aud was told that he had been for some
time III the Lunatic Asylum. a raving maniac.
May Zoo reward him in etcrnityu'
IHE GREAT NAvIEs OF THE WoRI.D.-We find
In our exchanges table showing the extent Of
the hrst five navies in the world. It purnorts
to come from pamphlet published bv'an intel
hgent American officer. and is doubtless cor.
rect or nearly so. Here it is:-
En.,.,s Vessels of War. No. of Guns.
France '''''....66I 1880
EA"oCe'..... 328 71LI
ii nusccias l70 ooc
tt0iianQ. .......,lOo 800