The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1847-06-08

by ice-giving ample time for the trans
mission TO market of all the immense pro-
duce of the illimitable West that may be
able TO reach Ogdensburg, on Mr.. Hay
wards own assumption!
Mr.. HAYWARD also permits himsel! to be
easily imposed upon, and to impose upon
those who RELY upon his statements, by
stating the distance from Rouse's Point
to Burlington to be more than fioenfy Jtre
DEL. cent less than it is. The distance
between the two points is certainly FORTY
EIGHT miles instead of 80 as stated in his
Report. This is an error for the commls-
sion of which we have but little charity,
because Railroad Engineer has no right
TO make affirmative statements IN regard
to the material matter Of distance that are
so far from the truth as this is. Ten miles
of distance is consideration of serious
consequence in railroad calculations.
The line of the Ogdensburgh road, as
projected by Mr.. Hay ward, has nothing
| in its favor but the easy ACTIVITY of its
grades and its alleged directness; while
It is liable 10 the following substantial OBJ
jections:-
/. It runs in direction as if purposely
to avoid the entire business region Of the
rich country between Ogdensburgh and
our Lake, through section that can new
err furnish any considerable amount OF
way-business for the road-a section well
known to be unproductive in agricultural
or mineral wealth, or in lumber.
2. 1t indicates railroad that would IN
no respect subserye the great commercial
and business wants of the Counties OF
Clinton, Franklin and St. Lawrence, a.
bounding, as they do. in mineral and tim
Der resources that are of unparalleled
richness and extent.
3. 1t runs for a large portion of It's
whole distance within almost a stones
throw of the Canada line and crosses the
Lake precisely at the Canada line. The
considerations that render such location
in the highest degree Objectionable will
occur to any one who understands the pc
culiar character ofthe popular feeling and
the intercourse between the citizens and
subjects of the two Governments whose
territorial borders it is thus proposed to
approach. These considerations acquire
especial force when we remember that the
diplomatic ink is scarcely yet dry that
happily ayerted an apprehended WAR be-
tween those Governments, and when we
in Vermont look back on the very recent
border difficulties that threw our State
into an angry ferment
In addition to this it is even said that
an application has been, or is about to be,
made to the Canadian Parliament, for per-
mission to carry this great Ogdensburg
Road for some ten or twenty miles or
more into and through the British Province
of Canada project than which it is i'm
possible to conceive Of any thing more
absurd! The notion of running a mag
ficent and immeasurably important Amer
lean road, like this, through foreign
country, has none of the shrewdness Of
calculation of Yankee notion, by long
shot
These are some of the objections to the
'practicability' of the line of the Ogdens-
burgh Road, as recommended by Mr.. Hay
ward They are hastily thrown together,
but we believe they embody the sentiments
and opinions of the great majority of the
people interested in the completion of that
great work. We regard the enterprise as
one of immense importance, and are sorry
to feel obliged to say that, in our judg-
ment, its prospects of immediate success
have not been improved by the labors of
Mr.. Hayward. He appears to US to have
very unnisely Ito say the leastj hazarded
prodigious results upon an uncomfortable
contingency, against the happening of
which the chances are strongly arrayed.
Mr.. Hayward proposes, also, 10 connect
the Ogdensburgh. (by means Of the auxiliary
line supplied by the Vermont and Canada,")
exclusively with the Central Road near Bur-
iington.' This point near Burlington con
be no other than one some miles east, and the
adoption Of it would effectually exclude the
Rutland Road from fair and equal opportu-
nitv Of participating in the advantages TO re-
suit in the construction of the Ogdensburgh.
and also effectually deprive the business and
trarelting public cfthe rery valuable pririiege
Of selecting, bettDeen competing lines Of road,
that one iohich ,Cculd transport themselves and
their freight, on the most favorable terms, to
Market.
On the whole, then. we cannot help look
ing upon Mr.. Hayward's peculiar plan for
connecting Ogdensburgh with Boston as very
ilI-consdered. worse digesied and 'impracti-
cable We have not the slightest belief that
half a dozen VOTES could be obtained in the
New York Legislature in favor of allowing
Lake Champlain to be bridged, nor that
'corporaI's guard could be found to favor
such a project in the Legislature ofVermont;
while Uncle Sam and John Bull, in view of
the existing comfy, 50 well suggested by the
Malone Stakeholder would be quite likely
TO put their noses amicably together to give
the rickety scheme fts.'
Entertaining these views, We presume our
correspondent will excuse us from going in
TO any laborious speculations as to who pays
the extra million
THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.
TRCI AND CANADA JUNCTION LINE.
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