New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-06-23
The Missing Steamer City OF Gla1pow-
An Affecting Stfy.y,

The Jersey Blue has the GLOWING affpetip,
story:
During the latter part o, t.,, oo.oo ~.
Philadelphia Post office, ee hao,,1a oc,,a;n+aI
amonS the mass Of hun .an beings Iy6asa f. .o
appeared daily at the General Delivatv win,
dow, where we Wer stationed, with m intelli
gent, happy y-lookln' Englishman, Of about forty
eYt @ e,'te VI tiSe' Sho came frequently toinqur,
M !or ies.s.s 'lotA Aome. He was a man of pleas
lug lh'liiels' and evidently had been wei
euusateu an accustomed to the refnements ant
e!egapcles OF really good society. Being :
stranger on our shores, he was glad to ayai
lllhseil OF an opportunity of conversing with us
ma Spoke freely Of his past and of his hoped fol
tit0re lie had come over to PhifHdefptia
oringng with him little son, apparently about
Twelve years OF age, to select residence for the
rest OF has family which he had left in England
M. 10 MAKE Az the arrangements necessary to
lhelf comfort when they should arrive He had
accomplished thls-had taken and furnished q
mouse n tlltadelphia, and was expecting letters
from ms wife, informing him Of her sailing with
| then other children IN the steamer City of Man.
chester.
We handed him letter--it smoke of her ox-
Pectauon 10 sail IN that steamer, and went AWAY
WIN Snch glad authorizations as might be sup.
E'ose1 10 NIL the heart of u husband and fat er
ioh9 Absent from the wife and children whom he
| y
lew days passed, and another foreign mail ar
rived and with ita letter to our friend from his
VIE, saying that she had not been able to make
her arrangements in time to sail in the Man.
chester, but that she should certainly sail in the
Glasgow. Snme time after this, letters came
which she had mailed at the time of embarking
! IN this ship, and now he was Inspeakably hap.
py with the almost certainty of seeing his wife
anu anu chll0ren III very few days, for the New
iofh niali steamers generally make the passage
nut lew days sooner than our screw steamers
soon he' with many others, commenced going
down every day to Queen street wharf to look
fof the incoming steamer.
But who shall speak of the horrors to come !:
Day after day did he, with the many others on
mat sad walk, go down to the wharf and strain
ms VISION to descry among the numerous vessels
DOWN the river the anXiously expected steamer
we saw Linn when the vessel had been some
thirty days out, and were startled al his aps
pearanee The plump, happy seemins 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 glaring upon US with
maniac expression He walked mopipgly away,
but his face haunted us still A few days after
lthls, steamer arrived bringing the report that
vessel somewhat resembling the Glasgow had
been seen off the Bahamas; this report brought
him to US again Oh how that false hope had
frightened his c0untenance His eyes had re-
gained their expression of intelligence, and he
clung tot tt,s baSeless hope as a drowning man
to.a straw
We LETT the Post office few days after this
Yesterday We inquired concerning this wrotehed
man, and was told TINT he had been for some
time in the lunatic asylum, n raying maniac
May Gea reward him in eternity