Litchfield enquirer., 1863-06-11

| .Ass s1aSe =" oPs VsCt v sho Atvy eSnAnS tuttuu have been told by great philosophers that
 whether the world knows it or not, there is : skeleton in every house and sore objec, among the inhabitants of every town. Nov, fknow nothing in detail ab@t Troy skeletons, but fancy that . stranger need not pas. much time among its people to discover what their sole object is !; to wit, that everlasting bridge across the Hudson at Albany, which has been So long talked about, legislated upon and quarelled over. Albany ia determined to have the bridge and Troy swears they shall Eo have it. The present posture of the case illus trates the advantages of that abominabls hab. it ofprocrastination in which Judges of court, 50 often indulge. The matter has been argued all the way up to the United States Court, and the Judges of their tribunal had agreed or their decision but they took the usual scanda loas license of delay in putting their decision cn paper. until one judge died and another se- ceded, leaving live majority on the opposite side 30 that the decision stands virtually re. versed before being formally given. The pres. snt vote is for the bridge.
 This Is all have to say about Troy, except . word or two on my method of leaving it. remarked in the forn CT part of this letter that am no traveller :; by which mean that am not much of q traveller; yet there are few ways of getting over water and ground that have not tried. One way only remained us tried to my experiences, and that disposed of last evening. came down from Troy by the Hudson River Rail Road in . sleeping-car What do you think oft you inquire, of course, And reply that think much off it. Itis next in order of excellence to the boats, because in the berth of a car as in the berth of boat, you go to sleep in oneplace and wake in another How are they ventilatedl Ican't tell. How are they arranged IcaEt tell. But they ar, ventilated and they are arranged. A mat comes along and takes hold of something and shakes, or pulls, or pushes 1t into several things till they all become one thing namely, com modious berth with mattress. . pillow, . counterpans and . curtain. You turn in and all is over alwaya excepting an episode The episode is an interruption. You have just begun to dose under the rocking of the car, which as gentle as a cradle, when the man aforesaid po4es globular lantern ints your face and demands your ticket and dollar ex l tra for your berth. You poald give the fellow kick if you thought it woald 'pay;" but a, you 1" don't see" that result, you submit
 sleep and--wake up at 3oth Street,
 Yours, faithfully, A. B. 0. NorE.-SaHe manger. The proposition of oar correspondent. A.. B. O., that ws have no Ensiisi, eqaivaisnt for ztbisp phrassy- sseas questionable at first sight but the point ii well taken. We have diniag room and eating. room but the former does not cover the eround--ths room being not only dining room, but also room for breakfast, tea and lunch while the latter smacks of vulgarity when applied to an apartment in dwelling house for example. the esting-room of Wind sor Castle The advantages of the French term is, that it expresses all that is conveyed by "eating-room," without however involving any of its tayern-like associations. We never
 thsless think that, in the particular instance our correspondent need not have been 50 nics in his avoidance of "eating-room Y that term wss surely good enough for room that con tainsd sxch breakfastl