Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-01

The MISSING STEAMER City OF GLASGOW
AN AFFECTING SToRY.-The Jersey Blue has
the following affecting story:
During the latter part of our career in the
Philadelphia Post-ofice, 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 intel
ligent, happy-looking Engishman, of about
forty-fve 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 accustomed to the refnements
and elegancies of really good society. Being
stranger on our shores, he was glad to avail
himself Of an opportunity Of conversing with
us, and spoke freely of his past and of his
hoped-for future. He had come over to Phila-
delphia, bringing with him little son, appa-
rentlv about twelve years Of age, to select a
residence for the rest of his family which he
had left in England, and to make oil tie ar
rangeMents necessary to their comfort when
they should arrive. He had accomplished this
had taken and furnished house in Phila-
delphia, and was expecting letters from his wife,
informing him of her sailing with their other
children in the steamer City Of Manchester.
We handed him letter-it spoke Of her ex-
pectation to sail in that steamer, and went away
with such glad anticipations as might be sup
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long absent from the wife and children whom
he soon expects to meet and embrace again. A
few days passed, and another foreign mail ar
rived, and with it letter to our friend from
his wife, saying that she had not been able to
make her engagements 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 en-
barking in this ship, and now he was unspeaka-
bly, happy with the almost certainty of seeing
his 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, COM
menced going down every day to Queen 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, 60 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 glaring upon us with a
maniac expression. He walked mopingly away,
but his face haunted us still. A few days after
this, steamer arrived bringing report that a
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 countenancel His eyes had re-
gained their expression of intelligence, and he
chung to this baseless hope as drowning man
to straw.
We left the Post-ofice few days after this.
Yesterday we inquired concerning this wretched
man, and was told that he had been for some
time in the lunatic asylum a raying maniac.
May God reward him in eternity.