Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-10-02
WATCHMAN e. JOURNAL
+. p. WALTON, JR., EDITOR.
MONTPELIER, THURSDAY. OCT ., ISIS.
RAILROAD MOVEMENTS.

RAILROAD MOVEMENTS.
VERMONT CENTRAL.-We rejoice to learn that
Mr.. FELTON, is recovering from his severe illness,
and may be expected upon the line of the road in
the course of week. a committee has been APP
pointed by the Directors of the Cheshire road to
meet the Directors of the Central road and arrange
the point of connection which meeting will doubt
less take place at the next regular meeting of the
Central Board of Directors on the Sd Thursday of
October. During the past week the engineers have
progressed rapidly and the prospect is now fair
that contracts can be let at an carly day. The in
terests adverse to the Central road are at work as
hard as ever; indeed they seem to have increased
in desperation while the friends of that road have
certainly given no provocation for these continued
assaults, unless it be by forbearng to reply The
following indicates the species of warfare carried
on by some persons in Boston. Few will wonder
that warfarewith such weapons is unsuccessful.
VT. CENTRAL RAILROAD.
There seems to be no end to the warfare, and no
restrictions upon the means used by different par.
ties against and TO prevent the proposed connection
of the Cheshire and VI Central Railroads. No
sooner is one scheme found impracicablc, or the
stamp Of untrulh fixed upon statement, than some
new plan is proposed or some new Imagination
sorted to- to effect the W ished for object SO far,
all has been Ruthless and to the end, we believe,
all attempts yet in contemplation, will prove equal
ly unavaihng. The last effort of desperate OPP
position, is bug uboo story set forth in the follow
ing terms
"That the Railroad Commissioners of New
Hampshire have refused to approve of the location
of the Cheshire Railroad any farther up the Con-
'nectcut river than is necessary to connect with the
Rutland Railroad. The jig is therefore up, for
connection with the Central railroad"
The answer to the above will be very brief:-
The Commissioners of New Hampshire. without
consulting Mr.. Addison Gilmore, tool hare laid
out The Cheshire Railroad "as TAR up The Connecti-
cut rtuer" as the line of the totrn Of Ciaremont NJ
n. Therefore the jugglery, not the Gig" of stop
ping it short of Charlestown by exercising any in
fuence, improper or otherwise, over the &C Commits
sioners of New Hampshire" is cup" The road
has already been laid out repeat to the line of
Claremont, and the duty of the Commissioners, in
this respect, was ended before the stock for the
road was subscribed. This answer, we trust will
prove both gratifying and satisfactory.
Another statement, following the above, is as
follows:
1.-The Rutland route will probably meet the Cor
nectcut river about mile and half below Bel
lows Falls, and IN order to connect with the Chesh-
ire, the Central road must be carried down TO that
point and across the Rutland road.
MS also Is entirely incorrect: the Cheshire
road cannot be extended a mile and half below
Bellows Falls, and If the Rutland road is to strike
The Connecticut al such point ii cannot connect teih
The Cheshire The Cheshire road, extends from the
State line of Massachusetts, via Keene, Walpoe
and BelioWS Falls to the North boundary of Chaes-
town, N. H., adjoining Claremont, and ,riW connect
with the Central road at or the town of Spring
field, Vt (Which lies nearly opposite Charesown,l
in the vicinity Of Cheshire Bridge.-Bunker Hill
aurora.
In addition to The above we learn that the COM
missioners have located the line only as far as Keene
and that the question of stopping at Bellows Falls
or elsewhere has not been raised by the commits
sioners The first news they had of the report
came from Boston.
OoDENsBURG.-On the 25th, a meeting of the
friends of this road was holden in Boston, Hon. Abb
bolt Lawrence presiding and u large committee
was appointed to solicit stock. We presume the
work will now go on energetically and successfully.
CHEsHIRE.-The contracts for building the
Cheshire road from Winchcndon, Mass, to Keene,
N. H., have been let on very favorable terms the
masonry at lower rates than on any New England
road heretofore.
INExPEDIENr.-The projected route from East
Sentinel, This was projected for the purpose of
connecting the Rutland route with the Nashua road.
CONCORD AND LEBANoN.-On Thursday of last
week the engineers reported their surveys of four
routes from Concord to the mouth of White River,
as follows
New London route, 60 miles,
Blackwater, IS
Boscawen and Salisbury, G3
Franklin route, 20
If we are rightly informed, the commissioners
have already accepted the Franklin route, and the
Governor has approved it, and there is a question
whether this decision can be set aside or overrued
The Directors were to decide upen the route on
Monday last
PORTLAND AND MONTREAL. The stockholders
of portion of this route in Maine have organized
by the election of Observation-Disclosures without
having heard of the following news from England.
1t is damper upon the Portland project We
copy from the Sherbrooke Gazette, paper printed
at the seat of the British American Land Compa-
N.Y. whose Secretary Mr. Galt) was the agent sent
out to England to secure stock.
From the sherbrooke Gazette Sept a5,
IhE hAIL RoAD.--A report has gained great
currency, that the st. Lawrence and Atlantic
Railroad has tailed, for the want of the Stock be-
ing taken up IN England Although this report is
incorrect we ieei due to our readers to state that
the news recently received on this subject is not SO
encouraging as we could wish. The Stock was
taken, as first reported, and large surplus subscr
bed for but under the Provincial Charter the sub
scrbers in England could not be compelled to paw
the instalmens, and hence il became necessary 10