832 {SLES OF SUMMER. 
While our passenger list was small, we were remarkably favored. 
in respect to the general good character of all, and the excep- 
tionally high character of some of our passengers. Among them 
were included the venerable ex-Chief Justice of Connecticut, the 
Honorable Origen 8. Seymour, of Litchfield, and his wife; the 
Honorable George C. Woodruff, a veteran of the bar of Litch- 
field county, for legal ability probably second to no lawyer in 
our State, and formerly a member of Congress, and his wife; 
Mrs. Sanford, the widow of the late Judge Sanford, formerly of 
the Connecticut Supreme Court, and several members of her 
family, and an old sca captain who had spent the greater part of 
some forty years upon the ocean. We never looked upon the 
Litchfield delegation without feeling a strong sentiment of state 
pride, and personal veneration and admiration, What a grand 
stock! What a place is old Litchfield for mental, moral and phy- 
sical development! At the ripe age of seventy-six, with what an 
elastic step our old judicial chieftain trod the steamer’s deck! 
How keen his intellect! How bright and sparkling his soul-lit 
eye! How youthful, evergreen and sunny his spirits! The great 
leader. of judicial reform, there was not a fossil or a barnacle 
about him. But, towering high and strong above all, was his 
tender devotion, his unremitting care and watchfulness, his de- 
voted and unflagging affection and love for his aged and sea sick 
wife, the mother of his stalwart and able sons! Turning from 
him to the hale, hearty, rugged Woodruff, full of the learned 
lore of the law, we inwardly exclaimed that the dream of the past 
is a veritable fact—there is a “‘ fountain of perpetual youth,” and 
it bubbles up on the top of Litchfield hill, and these are they 
who have drank of its wonderful waters. May their shadows 
never grow less, nor their blood cease to circulate in the veins 
and arteries of the men of the future! 
Having freight on board for Fernandina, it was necessary for 
