The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1854-06-29
The Kissing steamer. City Of Glasgow.
The .yersey Blue has the following affect

The Jersey Blue has the following aHec'-
! ing story :,
During tho latter part Of our career IN the
Philadelphia post office, We became ac-
quainted, among the mall Of human beings
whose faces appeared daily at the uenera'
Delivery Window W here we were stationed
with an intelligent, hapPy-lock'ng English
man, of about forty five ycars OF uge, WI"
came frequently to enquire for letters from
home. lie was man Of pleasing manners
and had evidently been well educated ana
accustomed 10 the retnements and clegan'
cies Of really good society. being stran-
ger to our shores. he was glad to avail him.
self of an opportunity Of eonyersng with
Us. and spoke freely Of the past and OF his
hope for the future
He had come over to Philadelphia, bring
ing with him 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 arrange
ments necessary 10 their comfort, when they
should arrive. lie had accomplished this
had taken and furnished house in Phila-
delpha, and was expecting letters from his
wife, informing him Of her sailing with Their
other children, in the steamer City Of Man.
chester.
We handed him letteri, spoke Of het
expectation TO sail in that steamer, and
he went away with such glad anticipation
as might be supposed to fill the heart OF u
husband and father long absent from the
! wife and children whom lie soon expected
to meet aud embrace again. ie. day
passed, aud another foreign mail arrived
and with tia letter for our friend from his
wife, Saving that she had mol been able 10
make her arrangements in tine To sail in
the Manchester. but that she should certain
II sail in the Glasgow.
Some time after tits, letters came which
she had mailed at the time Of embarklng in
this ship, and now he was unsPcakab'y hap
py with the almost certainty OF seeing bis
wife and children in very few days, for the
New York mail steamers generally make
the passage but few days sooner than our
screw steamers Soon he, with many
others, commenced going down every day
to Queen street wharf u look for the in
coming steamer
But who shall speak Of the horrors To
come, Day after day did he with many
others on that snd walk, 90 down TO the
wharf and strain his vision to desery among
the numerous vessels down the river, the
anxiously expected steamer. We saw him
when the vessel had been some thirty days
out, and were startled ut his appearance
The plump, happy seeming face Of one
month before, was haggard as the face oi
death; the eyes that we bad shortly before
seen dance in the ligh, Of inward JOY, were
blood shot, wild, and glazing upon Us with
maniac expression.
lie walked mppingiy away, but las face
haunted US still 4 few days after this, Q
steamer arrived bringing the report TINT q
vessel somewhat resembled the Glasgow
has been seen of the Bahamas this report
brought him to " again. Oh how thai
false hope had frightened his countenance
His eyes had regaiurd their expression o
intelligence, and he chung t. this baseles.
hope AS drowning man 10 a straw.
We left the post Office few days after
this Yesterday we inquired eoncernin.
this wre,ched man, and was told that h.
had been for some time in the lunatic asy-
lum, ravng maniac. May God rcwure
him in eternity.