Connecticut western news., 1871-12-15
WE TRAVEL.

l matter, we allowed the company to haul dozen or fifteen car loads of ore on this train,) and arriving in
 -CnMnam.
 at about l o'clock, found that place still in ex istence, with lattering indications ot growth. The merchants, lawyers, landlords, drug gists, timers, harnessmakers, and represen- tatives of the various other trades, met us with smiles beaming from every feature of their countenance, which is an unfailing token of their continued prosperity. Everybody as busy as their popular 'tinker" staying around with sleeves rolledup if needs be, ,de- termined ''to make or break" Among them there appeared none happier than Lawyer Hardenburgh. It has never been our good fortune to meet that gentleman, till last Friday. AS full of fun as he is of right down solid sound sense, it is treat to hear him ''go on."
 Those houses so recently erected in the west part of the village, add wonderfully to the beauty of the place and are models of neatness and good taste. Another we understand, 'of the same sort, will soon be erected back of the Methodist church by conductor Curtis, of the Housatonic railroad. The foundations for the double perpendicular right angled triangled Union depot are rapidly assuming finished as pect, and when all is done will be astructure worthy of the two railroads it will repre- sent. Steering to the eastward, linked on the arm of Lawyer Roraback, we ruthlessly entered the premises of one of Canaan's suc- cessful merchants Mir. s. c. Beckley. We hastily alluded to this new house some time since, which time it was sufficiently advanced in it's completion, to enable one to form something of an idea of what it was 10 be. The east part of this house is now SO nearly completed that MT. Beckley occupies it with his family, while the car penters are hammering away in the other part. This house from the outside has indeed the appearance of an elegant and costly structure, and an examination of the interior from cellar to garret, corrobolates
 fully this impression formed by the exter- nal view. It needs tue pen of an architect
 to designate accurately the various features
 of the inside finish, and an attempt on our
 part to do more than give general idea,
 would be presumptuous. The cellar is
 hewn ou: of the So5id rocE. The ceilings
 are high and made of ''hard finish; ;" the
 castings of every door and window in the
 house are decorated with mouldings, and ] many of them beautifully arched. The
 floors of part of the rooms are made of narrow strips of boards, (perhaps 3 or
 inches wide,) of alternating black walnut
 and some kind of light wood; cant now } tell what it was, if we ever knew have , forgotten carpenters will know what we mean if other people do not. The mop , boards are high and made of the narrow strips to match the floors Suf1ceit to say,
 every part is skillfully planned and elabo- rately wrought. The whistle of the loco
 motive blows and we must be at the depot,
 prepared for the extensive and tedious rail road ride of tsco miles to .
 Ashley Falls.
 AS the new depot at that place is the all absorbing topic just now, we must confine our remarks concerning that village, exclu-
 sively to that. This depot is now com
 plete. It is the largest on the road between
 Pittsfeld and Bridgeport, and is furnished
 with every convenience the business
 demands. A large windlass with tackle
 in the center of the large freight room,
 enables one man to move to any part of that room, the heavy bales and boxes, and
 a huge crane outside with capacity to easily move five tons, makes the business
 of handling the heavy freights, a compara-
 lively easy task. The offices and rooms
 for the accommodation of passengers, arc
 very neat and comfortable, and the office of the agent, MT. Strong, (arranged as per
 his direction is as convenient as it seems ,. possible to make it, every drawer being
 furnished with experiments to accommodate
 the respective bills and papers of the office.
 We understand that the freight for the
 month of November, from this station, has
 averaged 23 tons per day; the greater part
 of it coming from the paper mills of Mill
 River. At about quarter past five o'clock,
 somehow or another we found ourself in | West Cornwall.
 This is a very large place, and full of ob-
 jects of interest, considering their number
 and size. We might pen an article col umn's length on the natural beauty of this
 place; it's lofty mountains, navigable riv- CTS, &c.,, &c., but it is sufficient for this hasty visit during the evening to say that
 as usual, Geo. Henry is as polite and atten-
 tive as ever, dispensing drugs .and-and-
 extra copies of the NEWS; John Q. in his
 office boring over some recent law ques tion; Selectman Ocain ratlling around
 Cochrane & Scoville's store, making great , deal of noise, trying to say something that sounded like ''lottery tickets;" Johny S. trying (and with very good success) to gel , people interested in Colds celebrated hea. ters; Crandall the depot agent looking always with an eye to the interests of the railroad company, and Deacon Pratt ;- we'll the Deacon treated us handsomely anyway, and this is the way he dld- it. When he invited us to his house to tea, we declined, as we were already provided fol
 in that respect, but as we gently whispered,
 ''no sir; thank you, but if you will ask us to stay over night with you, guess very likely would be glad to- We lodged with the Deacon last Friday night. Saturday , morning, Agent Crandall way-billed us through on the morning freight for
 | Cornwall Bridge.
 7 We really wish our time and space would g admit of an extended report of all we saw
 in this village; rather quiet as we saw il Saturday, but somehow everybody seems