The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-08-26

felt q swimming in our head, which
to this blessed moment effects us as
we think about it. Miss Ks, CONVEX
sation became rather nsipd, it twas
not her fault" We tried TO laugh to
keep company with her. bat could not
We tried to go, but so busily did she
keep talking to US tina, to leave would
have been abrupt, especially after we
had told her nothing was the matter.
The gong sounded for supper and then
we looked anXiously to see her leave
but then "sIc did not" We could
hold in no longer, bat arose and went
10 our berth, indifferent rs to what
she said as we left. Ga our way we
stumbled over every chair we met,
and when inside the berth down on
the bed our body went, our head TAX
rather lean out position. Friends,
were YOU ever sra sickl Great Hcav-
ems! How our head swimS now as we
think about it. We have learned
what il is to "ride round to New
York We have some idea now what
a mariner means when he speaks OF
a "north. caster" To ride on calm
sea and be rocked gently is gloriou s..
but to be tossed up and down, h"Itcr,
scclter, hithcr, thlher. here and there
and everywhere, and to be sick in the
neutrality-suspicious., Miss H., may like
it. but rs for u.s. we beg to be excused.
Next day we arose, washed our face
and got out just in time TO behold
New \ ork as we entered the port
and meet the miscellaneous glancemnd
victorious, yet silyey, sweet laugh OF
Miss H., who had 50 bravcIy wealth :
cred the storm. We can hardly for
give her for hejping our sickness on,
but as she done so to test our braga-
docio assertion, vel Glide her not,
hoping that if chance ever throws us
together once more on boat at sea,
she will find us more "uscn to 1t. -
Long may she live and Heaven be her
portion. But we Shall not soon for
get that romantic trip. We wished
before starting that it might be blua'
terry, but our wish was too fully fulfill
ed. .,. .... ...
We'll. we are safe in New York
at the St. Nicholas, where, if there be
any. virtue in elegantly furnished
sleeping apartments, good attention
and extra yicluas, we shall soon CEASE
10 feel the effects of our ocean ride.
Yet one thing we have missed at
New York and every other place
we've been to since leaving home
We mean a good cigar, Positively
ICE cannot Cad anything in this line as
rood as Crane in Winchester makes
excerpt we pay ~ cents apiece IoI
en-, and then they'll not be as good a>
Cranes 1.-TWO for iivc cents Yes
sirs, it is fact, WHEN we GOT to Rlch'
mond our lot OF Cranes cigars gave
out and since then we've been almost
lost We thinL, our New York tobnc'
conists ought to get few OF him
This is our honest opinion us well as
our friends, Mr.. y. .,.
One Inconvenience in Northern CT
1;es is the making of change. lot
never pay five or ten cents Tor any
tbins-it is six or twelve. Ride IN NJ
omnibus and the charge is six cents
Buy newspaper and you pay lou
cents or eight. Take a glas, OF tod
dy and it is twelve cents. Tins las
ar cle we speak Of is from hercs"y'
five cent changes seem scarcely TO D'
known. Sxpcnccs are all the go
! Now, we think the practice abomln'
bic. Southern men don't like to b'
boihcrnrd with cents. They don
count cents. Anything smaller thar
five cents they don't want, ana from
i've cents they willingly skip to ten
The TACT is. we'd rather pay a maj
ten cents, almost for an article thar
to hear him ask six for it. Oar peck
els are already full Of copper cents
given us in changing our money whcr