The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1847-08-07
FROM OUR NEW YORK CORREsPON
DENT.


Mn. EnIToR:-New York city and the East
crn section of the State ofVermont are, COM
parutively speaking, great strangers. The ia
cilitics for INSTRUMENTATION have not hith-
erto been such TO bring them more init
matelv together without much Inconvenience,
and both have, therefore, been satisfied to con-
tinuc strangers. While the former, clnging
blindly and tenaciousIy to the short-sighted pol
icy of caring for none but herself, has neglected
those means which are so necessary and so
indispensable to the healthy growth and pros
perty of a commercial towu--namely-th
cultivation and extension ola thriving country
acquaintance--the latter, with a due regard
to her own interests in taking the hand so
kindly proffcrcd by the more sagacious and
cntcrprising city of Boston, has clung with
increasing fidelity to the city of her first choice
her natural and worthy protector.
But it is not to be inferred that New York
will always look with an Indifferent eye up
on the rapid strides which New England is
now making along the highway ofprogress.-
She has already begun to discover, and to prof
it by, the grand secret of Yankee success the
"pull-aIl togcther-ish" policy, which, like the
power OF faith, can almost remove mountains,
and which makes the city Of Boston, in par
tculur, so formidable rival.-The subject of
Internal improvements, which, ever since the
days of the roble Clinton, has been smother
ed by Loco-Foco misrule,i is now beginning to
arrest the attention of the more far-sightcd of
our capitalists, and with a "oneness of pur-
pose" hitherto unknown in the public enter
prise ofthis city, they are uniting their labor
with their wealth in projecting and carrying
out plans which WILL in due course of time,
make up for the inactivity which has weighed
them down in years past.
Among the enterprises which are now, for
the first time, attracting the notice of the New
Workers, is that which contemplates n con-
necton with Canada by Railroad, via New
Haven and the vallies of the Connecticut and
Passumpsic Rivers. The road from here to
New Haven is now under contract, and por-
ton of it partially built. From that city to
Greenfield, through Hartford, Spring feld, and
Northampton, Railroad has been in operation
for a nsidcrable time; and it now needs the
combined energy and efforts of the Eastern
part of Vermont and of the city of New York,
III ofucF 10 push 'ic l'''e 'hrough Foh Hreeh-
field to the mouth of White River, and unit
ing there with the c. g. P. r. Railroad, to
give us n continuous chain of rails from this
city to-shol I say, Canada Line Yes, short
ly.--Edior
When this shall have been accomplished
and the day is not far distant-it is not dlficult
TO forescc the existence ola more intimate re-
atronship between the people of your valley
and of this great Metropolis, than has hereto
fore been thought desirable or important
In anticipation of this event, it may be
we'll for both parties to cultivate beforehand
such acquaintance and feeling of good will,
as shall render each an agreeable and profit
able neghbor to the other: and, in furtherance
ofthis desirable object, yourself and your reo-