Morning journal and courier., 1880-03-13
SCREW STAEMER WESTERN TEXAS,
 March 9th, 80. ]
To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 "Oncs more upon the water yet once more And the waves roll beneath me like 8 steet
 That knows ita rider-Melcome to their IoIr t'

To the Editor of Che JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 "oncs more upon the water yst once more!
 And the waves roll beneath me like 8 steet
 That knows its rider-welcome to their ro1r ]!
 When I awoke Thursday morning, March 4th, tho air was filled with the melody of the birds of early spring, and the soft sweet notes of the blue birds were especially noticeable. The air was as warm and genial as that of pleasant morning in May. Gentle zephyrs sported with the leafess branches of the or chard and forest trees, and lovingly kissed and quickened with new energy the arbu- tus, the crocus, the daffodil and other flow CTS, that were courageously pushing their long buried heads out Of the ground to sec if winter, their natural enemy, had retreat ed to it's Arctic home. What folly, exclaim- ed, to leave the shores of Connecticut and en- counter the perils of an ocean voyage in search of a summer that is already here But had good reason to mistrust appearances. The northern March has an established repu- tation. It's record is as old as the centuries that have passed away. Though it approach ed concealed in the gay mantle of spring, and greeted me with sunny smiles, knew that more disease and discomfort lay ambushed W1LnlQ lCS -CAS Ohys GAdA SdA OS AOuAA in any of the remaining months of the year. It might deceive the fowers-they have per ished in it's frosts before; and the birds that have more melody and beauty than mind and brains; and tempt the fish back to their old spawning grounds-a shad cannot be expected to know any better-but as for me, said, l will geek for summer where summer lives and ho of the revolving year, where the northern March is unknown.
 Our arrangements were soon made, and the steamer Elm City landed us safely in New York. after a refreshing nights sleep. Be- fore the break of day, while we skirted the eastern shore of Manhattan Island, I looked out of my stateroom window, through the murky and humid air, upon the sleeping city, md unused and marvelled at the wondrous changes which an hour or two of daylight would produce. Its shipping and great busi- ness arteries were but dimly revealed in the eas-light and lamp light, while gloomy vapors concealed from view its dome of stars. The fevered and mad pulses that so wildly beat and throb by day, were soothed and quieted by kind natures grand opiate and restorative, sleep. Day and night work wondrous chang es in our country's great commercial capital Ocean in calm and storm is not more unlike 8 o. how abominate the horrid noises of it's crowded streets-the awful solitude of it's thoroughfares.
 It was between eight and nine o'clock in the morning that the astonishing fact was discovered that our trunks had not accompa- nied us to New York, having been left un- checked upon the steamboat dock at New Haven't Our stateroom in the Western Tex as was engaged, and the steamer was adver- tised to sail at p. m. of the same day. Had we lost our money we could have drawn for more, or borrowed or got trusted, perhaps. If we had even lost our reputation or character we might get along among strangers by leading virtuous life in the futurs and we know that God forgives us if man does not. Even the loss of reason may prove to be temporary affair which the quiet and medlcated air of the ocean has pow CT to sometimes restore. But to lose ones clothes-to leave behind ones wardrobe, just as the ship that is to carry you to distant countries is getting up steam to take you away, is calamity so crushing and over whelming that one would hardly desire such a misfortune to befall his bitterest enemy. Why, character and responsibility, social position, civilization, everything that makes man among men and lady among women, IS m volved in one's personal dry goods. when one begins to wear clothes he ceases to pc a savage, and is indeed almost a Christian. It is true we were bound for the isles Of perpet- ual summer, where clothes are not required to meet any physical want, and are only worn to indicate that man is not 8 brute beast; but still we, and especially the female half Of us, were really mortified at the idea of leaving New York upon a long journey, almost as naked as we were born.
 Al young and efficient officer of the New Haven Steamboat Company, (Mr. Garrety