Litchfield enquirer., 1855-11-15
A Trip Out Went.

US to leave our goodly burg, even while
4 animated with the excitement of s. Cattle
Show and in few minutes we were
rafting on our way to the metropolis
Nothing Of particular interest is to be ex-
perienced in the crowded cars of the New
York road, and right glad we were when
our approach to the city intimated that the
time of Liberation from their sitting air
was at hand. Why in the name of health
and humanity this road does not adopt the
invention in use ON the Naugatuck Rail-
road, is more than we can learn-unless,
perhaps, it is thought best to save the re-
ceipts in case Schuylerism should break
forth again.
The return of residents and the visit of
country merchants from every part where
dry goods are worn and groceries consumed.
gave to the streets and STORES of the great
city much livelier appearance than was
presented a few weeks before. The heavy
crops Of the West make the credit of its
traders above reproach, and eastern mer-
chants are generally laying in for large
trade through the season. Tie various
places of amusement are nightly crowded
and the success of new troupes with
fresh attractions indicates that they will not
fall short of their share in the general
prosperity.
The next morning we were early seated
in the cars of the Hudson River Railroad,
and at the rate OF more than thirty miles an
hour carried along the banks of the noble
stream, past its growing towns and roman
tic country seats, and under the shadows of
the towering Misunderstanding Albany
in time to take the train West on the N. Y
Central Railroad. Here we travel for a
while in sight of the quiet and beautiful
Mohawk, passing through many pleasant
villages, some of which appear to have
kept pace with an Americans idea of pro-
gress, but many more seem to be regarded
as entirely finished, and we could not dis.
cover that plank had been added since ous
passage through them some four or five
years since. Two hundred and fifty miles
for mornings ride is an every day affair,
and we arrived in Utica at the dinner hour !;
then continuing through Rome, Syracuse
with facilities in sight sufficient to manu-
facture salt enough to save-the Union
and places Of lesser note, we left the main
road at Rochester, and took the Niagara
Falls Railroad to Albion. This is the
county seat of Orleans Co., and is one of
the pleasantest towns Of western New
York; like most Of the villages in that
section, it is regularly laid ou. in squares,
while the country roads run parallel east
and west and north and south at distances
of three-fourths of mile-a fine way of
laying out roads, but which would have
been found extremely inconvenient among
the hills and rocks Of old Litchfield county
Workmen are busy here in the great work
Of enlarging the Canal, and a deep interest
is expressed in the speedy completion Of the
enterprise; in passing along the line one
cannot fail to realize the importance of this
great artery in developing The resources Of
the Empire State.
This is one Of the richest agricultural
| districts of New York. AMI the farmers in
the different parts Of the county We visited
seemed well satisfied with the fruit and
grain crops Of the season After pleasantly
spending few days in visiting old friends
aud making new ones, we proceeded to
Suspension Bridge, passing through Lock
port and in full view of those stupendous
canal locks which crown the engineering
| skill OF the first great public work Of the
State. At the Bridge the train is divided,
passengers going west taking the forward
cars and crossing the Bridge; the remainder
are run two miles further up, to the Falls
We had desire to revisit the objects of
interest which surround the world. renowned
| Cataract, and concluded to spend the day
in that manner No description Of Sus-
pension Bridge can give an adequate idea
of the magnitude OF the work 1t forms a
single span OF 500 feet in length between
| the towers, and consists Of two floors; the
upper, or railway floor, being eighteen fee,
above the lower or carriage way These
floors are connected together at the sides by
| open truss work. SO as to form, as it were,
an immense car, 500 feet long 81 feet wide,
and Is feet high-all suspended by wire
ropes from four cables Of abou, Ten inches
in diameter, each. Two Of the cables have
detection Of fifty -four feet. and sustain
the upper floor; the remaining two, a deflec-
ton of sixiy-four feet, and support the
lower floor. The connection, however, of
the floors by means of the side trusses, is
such as to cause an equal strain on both
sets of cables, FROM any load passing over
either the upper or lower floor. The cables