Litchfield enquirer., 1871-09-07

EARTH; SLOW COACHES; OLD INHABITANTS.
 L1TcHFIELD, CONN, August, 1871. On the hottest day of this summer, l left the O6sercer office, at P. M, lacking ten minutes; and this is said to be a fast people, and our railroads are reckoncd fast, and nothing that Is slow is tolerated This letter shall show that some things ale slow enough to suit the most grabbed disposi 1 tions. From Park Row to 27th sire. | about three quarters of an hour were con l sumed: It was hot: we went slow, as We l should, the driver having a wholesome fea1 | of the sun and MT. BeIgh. At New Ha
 ven Depot, 27tb street, We buy a ticket fol Lltchfield, III miles, and pay $3 50 for ii being more than you would pay if you
 were going to Albany or Troy, 15O miles | and more. In two short hours we We're at
 Bridgeport, a fourishing city, where we l leave the cars of the New Haven road, and immediately the Naugatuck tram comes up. Not word is said by conductor or master to notify passengers of tue departure of the train, but those who are so fortunate as to know the fact get on board. We have now forty miles before us: the road is in good order: the cars are clean and com fortable: the conductor IS civil and obfig- ing: even policeman is OF hand, and sev eral extra cars are on the train.
 CAMP MEETING.
 For after leaving Milford Junction. we soon come to a host of women and men standing by the roadside in the woods, and we learn that a camp meeting is in progress. The encampment was not in sight, and these crowds were waiting for the Cars to leave the ground. The vast ma. Jorlty were young men and women, who had come in couples from the rural dis tricts to have holiday. Their manners in. dicated anything but serious impressions. D Perhaps hundred or more entered this train. All could not obtain seats young woman sat down by my side, and her beau stood up. She was very lively, and spread Ing little. asked him to sit in. her lap. He, more bashful or decent than she, de- cllned the offer. She urged, but he was firm. At the next station some left; they got seat together and made the Car iubi. lant with their uproarious hilarity. Very few ot the company gave any signs of hay Ing been at religious meeting. Doubt less the preaching had been solemn and earnest; but these were mainly young peo. pie who had made picnic holiday of it, buying an excursion ticket and going in for frolic. In other days in New Eng trn ibesa sna n sems parts of the vantages. Many wise and thoughtful Christians are of the opinion that they have ceased to be necessary, and they are now largely abused by the wicked. The question is broad one, and not to be dis. posed of in a paragraph.
 In the seat behind me. young woman q n t<No okr kha it's and abilities of her pastor-an eloquent Methodist minister. She said:
 ''I live in Brooklyn, just across the river. you know, from New York; it's all one, for that matter, only we think our side is the you know. We go to church, and our minister is the Rev. J. H. M.; he is jest the greatest man on this earth: now you think I'm kind of extravagant; but there ain't another man, nowhere in this whole world, not one, that can begin with him. Henry Ward Beecher 8 int circnm stance. Why, he jest goes in to the pulpit, opens the bible, and pours it right out,-O such words: he's just the sweetest, most beautiful preacher: and he's so tumble: father says it does him good jest to go in his house and listen to him talk little while of an evening. Don't you never go to New York? We'll, when you do, jest you go over to Brooklyn and hear him: re- member the name, will you? We had hard work to get him for our church: he was wanted in ever so many places; but our folks went on and made it all up and got him fixed for our church; and I tell you, he's jest the greatest man there is in this whole world" And so on ad nauSeam.
 THE SCENERY.
 All this time we had been slowly making our way up the beautiful Naugatuc. The scenery IS picturesque and always lovely. Between the winding and wooded hills the little river flows: often arrested in its progess by dams where prosperous towns spring up with their rich manufactures: Derby and Birmingham, Ansonia, Sey- mour, Naugatuck, Beacon Falls, Union city, Waterbury and Waterville, and oth- er. places, all showing enterprise and wealth. We stop at each of these places, and more, and take 1t very leisurely between them. In the midst of lovely scenery the train would come to a stand still and then go backward half mile or so, giving you am- pie time to study the prospect three times over. Ifyou wished to make sketch of any particular point, perhaps the kind con- ductor would have the train stopped to oblige you. A colored woman was carried by her station(as the names were called out only about half the time) and the train was brought to; she was allowed to alight and walk back mile or two, home This is a great convenience, and very few roads are so considerate. Night came on, and then the outlook was not so attractive. But the rate of speed was sensibly diminished. We reached Lltchfield, the station, at about half past eight. having made the run of forty-nine mile in less than three and a half hours. Considering all that we had seen, and the detention by reason of extra passengers and camp meeting, this may be taken as pretty fair. The time table al lows something less than three hours for the forty-nine miles. It is believed by those capable of forming an independent { judgment, that the distance might be made in even less than that time, without run.
 ming very great risk. But the first thing on railroad is safety; and this road is
 safe. though, like much study, it is a wear. mess to the fesh
 When you get to Litchfeld, you are not
 there. This is the station only; and foul
 weary miles-each of them like a German
 mile, up hill all the way-are still before you, and the numbering stage awaits you.
 Into it and on it are now to be placed the
 passengers and their miscellaneous bag.
 gage. boxes. bags. bundles, babies, Sc. (which are are as carefully and deliberate
 ly put on and of, and on again. as if time ware of m value and alf nirht xvoc oA on,