Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1843-12-07

RAIL ROAD.

RAIL ROAD
Il is gratifying to those friendly TO internal ion.
provemcu,, to observe the movements and efforts
now being made in didcrcn, sections Of Vernon,
and New Hampshire, with view to connect Bos
ton and Canada by a Rail Road. The inhabt
ants ofthe di1eren, y~ieini,ies interested, eon,cnding
tina, their respective localities are situated in the
mos, direct line, and would form the shortest route
from Boston TO Burlington.
Through such a mountainous country as Yer
mon, ami New Hampshire, it would be some.
thing OF a curiosity to see some two hundred miles
of Rail Road on n perfectly straight line, partic-
ularly in a North Yves, and South East direction.
The advocate Of its practlcability ,(exccp, by tun-
melting the Green Moun,ains) would be onsider.
ed insane. Yet, we find men OF s,anding IN soci-
ETY., even one whom The people Of New Hamp.
shire have honored, with the Gubenatorial chair,
advocate, through the columns Of the public press,
a position6aually ridiculous, by making the cold
but ERRONEOUS assertion, 'that the route from Boston
TO Burlington, via. Concord, Lebanon and Mont
pelier, was some hundred miles shorter, and would
cos, less by millions Of dollars, than any other
route" Such statements, coming from such a
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therefore give the public a wrong impression. To
counteract these newly formed ideas, which, with
those that examine and think for themselves can
never take deep roots, let US peruse the map of
New England, (which will probably be as cor
rect for one party as the other.) Let Boston and
Burlington be the extreme points, through which
draw a straight line, we fud it will pass through
Scarborough, Betheland Windsor, in VI, Clare
mont and Hancock in N. FL, and Carlisle Mass,
leaving Lowell some 10 miles to the N E. AT
right angles with this straight line, in the vicinity
of Hancock, is Concord, to the N. E. about the
same distance that Brattleboro' is TO the S. w.
Again, at Windsor, Lebanon lays N. Z. about the
same distance tina, Mt. Holley IS TO the S. W
From the latter place to Burlington (via. Rut-
land) it is nearly a direct line. While from Leb-
anon, Montpelier is off Tie track seine three tier
of towns. How then can the Ex-Governor make
the Concord route the shortest, BY some hundred
miles, when BY passing through the points above
named. ii is actually the longest by twenty miles !
But this is not all. On the southern route would
be a continuous advancing to the point of destina.
tion; while on the northern a continual half semi
circle lodging, between lofty mountains, whose
SUBMITS ever and anon screen the sun from the
view Of the weary traveller.
1t is a well known fact that on the northern
route, particularly IN the vicinity of Montpelier,
~ ----. :. .-.~I deeper and remains longer than
on the West side of the Mountain, which as a mat
ter OF course, would be a large additional item in
The expense o! ciearing The track.
The Bostonians, ever watchfuI of their own in.
terests, have already stolen a march oftheir great
rival, New York, and have established customs
IN the Jar West, that even a rail road from Alba.
ny to New York would never take away. What
then are they not Yankees enough to perceive
that their city-their whole city-(not a few cap.
ltalists already interested in extending the Con
cord road is more deeply interested in the choice
OF routes to Canada, than any other equal portion
oflhe people of New England. On the south.
west route (via. Rutland) Boston would take to
her market the flocks and the f%lceces, the butter
and cheese, the treasures of the earth and the tim
Der of the forest, which now on a Limited scale 90
to New York, Albany and Troy: thus takins Gus.
toners by force of interest from their (nou) natu-
raj market, and at the same time securing all the
trade on the east side of The mountain, that they
would BY the Concord and Lebanon route.
/ would barely suggest to our neighbors at Bur.
lington, Vergennes, Middlebury, and the other
towns bordering GU Otter Creek, to be up and do
ing. Noc is the time; delays are dangerous
Why not have a Rail Road Convention at Mid.
~dlebury2
Since writing the above, | learn that the good
people OF Montpelier, are much troubled about the
gap in Mt Holly. Don't fret gentlemen; a COM
petent engineer has demonstrated to our sa.isfac.
lion, that the gap in question is perfectly practica.
BILE. Tha, big State House and those tall noun.
tains can never blockade The Mt. Holly gap.
Rutland, W.. Nov. 81, ls43.