Litchfield enquirer., 1863-06-11
lCoRREsPoNDEsoE.l From New York to Troy.
NEw YoRK, May 30th, l86;

NEW YORK, May Sutn, loo5.
 MR. EprroR :-The experiences of your cor
 respondent, < Traveller" toward and in tho
 city of Brotherly Love, suggests to my mind
 some of my own recent movements in an oppo.
 site direction which, whether or not dessrv- 1 ing your attention, at least enlisted mine.
 must, however. caution you against mis print l ing should you think it worth while to put my
 remarks into type-for, among you, you made
 rad work of the $ Travellers" second para graph where, rum the connexion, suppose he referred to his own order to the coachman--- |" The Philadelphia Line"-a phrase that, in your columns, is put into the mouth q the coachman himself. x an somewhat in the predicament of your said Traveller for although he rather large ly assumes that title. he obviously has travel d" very little else. why should he be ignor- ant of the several ways and hours of getting to Philadelphia? Iconfsss, at the outset, that l am no traveller; and therefore, to ma, the as csrtaining of how to go to Troy was practical illustration of the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties. My newspaper, like your cores. pondent's, told me everything, except what wished to know. 1, however, had certain old fogy remembrances of what once considered the perfection of travelllng-to wit, day boat on the Hudson River and knowing that
 those boats were wont, in years past. to start from the foot of Courtlandt Street. l strolled down there, to make such observations and in- quiries as the emergency demanded. And l hardly need add that when thus took the ball by the horns sad sought information at head quarters, my "dif6culties' vanished. The thing was as plain as pipe-stem' My leisure did not serve for day boat. but there lay the ]" skiddy,r prepared for a night trip commence ing at six o'clock. P. M. which puts people through without s:opping, and delivers them at the Trey dock quite as early as one cares to rise in the morning. Iput my name down for stateroom and went about my affairs.
 | If fyou, Mir. Editor, are much of traveller.
 you doubtless have observed that some people
 make point ot being late in getting aboard of
 anything that is to carry them on journeys
 car. a. carriage. or steamboat, as the case may
 be. They seem to delight in risking the loss oi either neck or passage by steppinsson the I plank or the platform when it is in motion.
 They are of the large class of innocents who l are perpesuallY saying "there is time enough ; and who are perpetually proving that, in one
 way or another that phrase is the aim of hall
 fhe world. As a matter of course, there were dozen or two of this class dipping across the plank of the "SkidJy' while the men wsrs
 hauling it ashore, and was delighted to see that two of them were hustled ashore with it. One of them was woman with bandbox and the other dandy with cane. They both screamed to the boaa to stop !; but the boat did not hear them, and they stood on the pier the very pictures of despair. Served sm right Next time. let them remember that "thers ia not time enough"
 You will not be 50 superdaous, Mir. Editor as to expect des :ription ofa steamboat or of the banks and waters of the Hudson. But wish you could have seen how some of the passengers got their moneys worth at the sup. E per table A tabled hote at hotel is one ItEipg but if you have . fancy for the real thing, just put yourself among the crowd who lfeed on board North River boati 1.-the hos Ipitable wish of Macbefh should chance to be reversed in regard to such feast and good digestion should not wait on appetite. it would % hard with some of the good people who played knife and fork that evening on board the Skiddyi But I spent my time rather in noting the performances of my fellow passengers, than in attending to my own share of the prov ender and had my r1ward in my quiet state room, where made one nap oft from oppo. site Newbargh to the end of ny route. That is the advantage of boats over cars you lose yourseIfin one place and lind yourself in an- another-the tedious interval having Deen got
 over in an impercsptible period of time. It is
 the very next thing to travelling by telegraph. There. are no four miles of distance between the steaahoas landing and the hotels of Troy ; and therefore caught up my carpst-iAg inads of leather, however, and walked straight to
 the - not wishing to be invidiDus. 1 emit
 the name of the bouse. But the first thing did, after registering ny name. was to va X in
 to the sale q nanger, texcnse the seeming EpedautrY but you know. Mr. Editor, that we
 have no English equivalent for that term.)
 where @three hungry Frenchmen. multiplied by dozen or moro Of hungry Yankees, were
 conpsnsating for any omi, sious at the Skid. ldys supper table; that is to say. they were
 breakfasting. And whereas the pfofusion q
 the supper bill-of-fars could not daunt these
 energstic masticators; so, neither could ths lmeagrsness of the Troy breskfast discourags
 thsn. In the former ease. they ate az ds, I e0sld in e1atter. thsy ats a7z khsys eas. and
 aa:l there Vi" provsd to bs as cold and poo
 n asy anchorits cold dssse. Catch n
 breakfsstiDg in Troy se.int
 TEe sxisnal fsssusss -of ihis modern niunl