Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1845-05-29

We have Full eouhd.s,s 10 the .disestn-
men, end ,adeustr, Of The oo~ni,i.s .poin-
ssd b, ,hs Fnehbors directors, to examine
ssd report - ID ~ mssas q the Western
ana Ceussai fossss thVseh Vermont bu.
extremely issrss the, shsir ,ins vas 90 lin.
isd, ., The wssirn RsSn will bear sn..s,
ss,nstis
r.rws,s Of western vetrnou,, wiah
essld spssk W you on THE sohlset' 10 toiee
OF thunder. I void stand upon The top Of
X illine,oo Peak. and cry aloud, '0pen your
eyes the, you msy ses," 90 'hs,. - n By .
shock Of electricity, yeu would 81 pncs cast
aside your long cherish prsjudiesA your
doub,s, and fears, and indeed open Jour
drowsy eyes no, only to zee passing evsns
bot look, with your natural. native Yankee
shrswdnsss and foresight into the future
destiny Of our noble stale. which even nov
(wi,hout . single mile OF railroad or csnal.4
while our nsiehbors al Western New York.
and even OF Ohio, arc comparatively speak
ing sc,usliy nearer Boston market Than 1--WE
afe;) 10 10 an agricultural point Of view, see.
oud TO no state In the Union in proportion 10
the population.
! am willing to cd nit, that whe,her the
proposed railroad takes the Western or the
Central routes. it 10 destined from the very
nature Of the geography OF our country, to
DO tho best stock Of sny railroad In The Uni
ted States. No man, lie, his foresight, DO ev-
Or so great. can form any idea OF the busi-
| ness that may be done on this line OF rusd In
ter years he nee. ], would not only be 4
road taking the freigh, and travel along from
Boston and Burlington, and through 10 Mont
real and Northern Now York. bu, even to
tap tho Western Canal itself, al Ogdensbuig
Flour, wheat, Pork and all the Western
produce can be purchased - cheap a, Og.
densburg As a, Buffalo, in consequence Of
The ship canal uniting Lake Erie with Lake
Ontario. thus bringing Ogdsnsburg some
forty miles nearer TO Boston, than Buffalo Is
to Albany. Who, Then can bu, see tina, allNew
England will DO supplied with western pro-
duce via the Vernon, railroad, and ihsWes,-
ern Country in return, take our Marble and
Iron, our manufactured woolens and co,,ons,
Farmeres' and Mechanics tools and imple-
men,s. Tho mineral productions OF Nor
thernNew York aud Western Vermont alone
are immense. The marble Of Addison, Ru,-
land and Bennington counties is mostly Ia.
ken to the southern and western states, via
tbs Northern Canal and New York All
freigh, from Now England destined for the
| interior Of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois 20 via
New Orleans, and up the Mississippi and
Ohio Rivers. Ths great number of coast
ing vessels employed In conveying the pro-
duc'ions Of the south in crude state, to
Massachusetts 10 DO manufactured, and ma.
ny OF which..rs,urn in ballast, renders tho
heigh, from Boston, southwark. much less
Than from New York aud with the acil-
ties Of sil.road TO Boston, Western Yer.
mont. alone, can no, only give the ballast,
but all the freigh. they want.
In view OF Tho whole subject. I cannot but
believe the people interested In the Western
route, over the whole lace OF Bennington,
Rutland, Addison, ChitienJ on, Windhsm,and
all the southern and western paIts Of Wind
sor cosn,ies will come up TO he help Of this
grea, undertaking. according to tho means
that an AllWiss Providence has bcs-
lowed upon them. Although the man who
lives thirty miles off 1.-The route would not be
30 well accommodated - no who lives on
the route, ye, no will be accommodated.
Large streams from li,ils rivers flow. Lei
not tho mat OF small means stand back, be
cause he cannot take more than from ons 10
fire shares. these are just the kind Of stock
holders only have enough OF them, ,ha, will
secure success, as the personal interests o.
all will he interested IN the welfare OF the
road. AOUNTHOLLY GAP.