New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-03
vermont and her Progress.

BURLINGTON, VT Friday, May "a.
Iwrote you from Bratteboro, beautiful village
in the valley Of the Connecticut, where they manu-.
facture elegant iddles, melodeons, violincelos and
contra bassos, which show the handiwork of the
vermonters for they can turn their hands to almost
everything to get an honest living. From Brattle-
boro took the stage to Walpoe, and then the cars
to Bellows alls, passing over the ground where
the "yermont Valley Rarosd" is to be built in
sbout wear from this date. To NEWCOMERS this
road is of more interest than they may dream OF in
their philosophy. When it is completed, there
will be continuous railroad from your city TO Bur
lineton, furnishing ready communication with
Western Vermont and giving the pleasure travel
or Ito say nothing OF business aifarsl one oil the
most romantic excursions TO be had in country.
The stakes are now driven down; Irish shantees
are going up, and the pick ak and shovel are
busily engaged in grading the work. Bravely the
enterprise is going ahead, and another year the
smoke of the engine will be seen curling along the
hanks of the noble Connecticut and the sound otis
whistle be heard echoing through this fertile valley
and along the sides of the green hills Those who
have subscrbed their money for this operation need
have no fears about the issue 1t will pay, and pay
well too
The same day left Bratteboro took the cars
et Relloys Falls about ! O'Clock Z M and started
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about Bellows Falls is grand, and we lost nothing
bv going ahead at the rate Of about % or 80 miles
! an hour for our progress opened to Us more ana
more Of the grandeur Of mountain scenery: Some
times would stand on the platform and thrust my
| head out TO gaze ahead and see what was coming
| next IL seemed as if we must soon 60 plump
against the base Of some towering mountain and
| o1r Journey be abruptly ended, but gentle curve
| in the track would again give hope and daylight
| would shine through the mountain gorges On we
90 and upward, until the iron horse stood puhing
upon the summit Of Mount Holly. What pros
pect was here We were now more than 700
| hundred feet abov3 the lev ell OF Lake Champlan,
| 10 whose shores we were bound, and yet we were
not sensible of having reached this glorious summit
until we looked abroad upon the hills and valleys
| below u.s. As we stood in the deep cut OF this
| rocky crown, which has covered for ages the head
of Mount Holly, we seemed 70 near the spirit o.
this progressive age exclaim, Nothing stops me
And surely nothing does seem to stop 1t IN its glo
| rious career. Here we are upon the mountain top
| brougi hther by the power OF fire and water, and
Al easily too, as If we had been gliding along the
bosom Of some placid lake Although we were
thus high toward the clouds and almost amone
them vet the grade il not more than so feet 70 thu
mile. 20 gradually have we ascended. But the
reader vho is not acquainted with the nature o
Vermont soil may suppose Mount Holly must b
dresry place, and it only TO hold the world to
eether. Stop, gentle reader not quite so fast :
Non must bear in mind that the mountains Of Vel
mont are clothed with rich soil and verdure quit
10 their SUBMITS. And here on Mount Holly ar
made the finest butter and cheese in the world, 7
.y nothing of the hundreds flows that are grain
mon every hill side. Even this mountainous re
zion il one of the finest agricultural districts i
New England, and the milk maids are more charm
inc than those whom poets have sung Of old,
But must proceed. Now we begin to descen
and most easily do we go. The iron horse is nov
no longer needed, and the breath is not let int
him. He rests from his labors and the brakeme
attend faithfully 10 their duties and we glide dow
into the valley Of the Otter Creek aregion Of coul
| try unsurpassed by any other in New England
| The beautiful town OF Rutland bursts upon OF
view and Otter Creek goes winding through Ii
| fertile meadows. How beautiful the prospect
green grass and pure waterl On on we go. som
, times on an air line for several miles. and the
] gently carving. stopping ct Pistsord. Brande