New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-04-01
VERMONT.
The Weather at Burlinston-Rival Steamboat
Companies - Railroads -Business Pros
pects and Temperance.


BURLISsroS VT Friday March g.
To TIE Editor Of The Tribune:
The weather here for the last two or three days
has been quite sPngike The ice ia still In tse sks and
thesnow apcn the mountains The Ice however, begins
show decided symptoms Of dissolution aad TO give place
the steamboats, and other craft The old Steamboat
Company have painted their boss In Shelburns Hsrbor
and hey waiting for the oHPpeSrsnce OF the Ice 10
out and begin work This company have already ad-
verified ard fixed heir prices 81 through the lake An
other Company has been formed, called the chsmplain
Company They have also advertised their fare al 81 and
determined 10 give the old Company particular IT'S
when their new boat which 10 now being built is placed
apou the waters OF this besutfu lake
The Rutland and Burlington Railroad Company last Fall
and Winter erec.ed spacious and convenient brick build
ing their Depot ground which has very much the air Of
business and enterprise about Their road Ia fms order
and The rapidly ard smoothly The hegvug OF The
ground by ros not 10 render rough and
lhs Spring snd the Is because IL 10 thoroughly
graveed up Its much TO be regretted tbs this Company
and the Central get along more amcsbly than they
do there 10 aspn OF uvary belW een he which does ne
Their any good The Southern s. feel the necessity
Of forming connection with the Ogdensburgh Road snd
suopg in that direction has recently been made
by the people Of Burlington. They are determined 10 ex
teuc The Rutland and Burlington ROsd 10 Swanon and
there form junction with The Vermont and Canada, and
so to Ogoensburgh but there seem 10 be some difficult
lies IN the way YET they may he overcome and me rosd
built in due time When the lake opens II 10 said boat
will run from Rouse's Point which will take Ihs
passengers from this road and place them 90 the Ogdens
buTgh Those who arrive now In the Southern train take
the cars THAT IT, when they will wait for henl to Essex
and thence ahe Vermont and Canada 10 Rouses Point
IL must be confessed there IL very cordial under
standing between the two Companies In relation to this
matter Last evening several passengers arrived 10 The
Southern train who desired 20 ROuses eont but by
some other the iron horse Of The Central Comps
nv could no be refined In he started with mort few
minutes before the oher arrived so the passengers had
remain here until The next day cane over the road from
Troy 10 Whitehall This road s now solid and smooth
and 10 much better condition than have ever seen Il be-
fore The track, too, from Whitehall TO Rutland, Is In
good running order and is excellent Tor new road
There IL a Contemplated route from Whitehall TO Plas
bursh on The western eide OF the lake TO ntersect with
the Ogdensburgh This road will be pushed with great
energy II one from Troy toward Boston should be
menced or tie one rom Troy Rutland 10 bIt Should
the road Whitehall to Patsburgh be built then when
the Hudson River Road Is completed there vii DO con-
tuuous railroad from your city to the 81 Lawrence al Og
deusburgh This route would unquesuonaby command
much travel and business and greatly benefit be CONNER
road from Troy 10 Whitehall viii surely go ahead Ia this
enterprise, II other contemplated routes are built SO
wags the railroad world In lhese regions.
The Temperance Cause in Burlington has recently re-
ceived new impulte, and | trust very sanitary ohe
SAKE the Vermont Poet Editor and SsIes Attorney has
covered himself with immortal glory. don't mean As
Editor OF the Sentinel Poet hut - an officer OF the
Government OF The Green Mountains STATE de mas re
Gently down the rumseers OF Burlington Ike
. thousand Of brick. There great many low grog-
holes 10 this village snd much liquor drank The evil has
been increasing here for time psst In spite OF all the
power which moral suason has been able 10 WELD. In
act the Tumseers here, elsewhere, have always
time they always favor because It 10 gentle, AID inter
feres little 18th their nefaOus business bug when legal
suatiop is applied to their case they cry ont Reaction
You will njuTe tie good cause by such hnsh me ans
q yes; when TIE legal screws are put 10 them heir
pocket nerve becon very sensitive and full Otlwnges
much more so than heir hearts were under he nh1
enee Of moral suhsioD, bicb they esteem 40 mighty u
10 be hoped these sos - the statute as we'll as
Of the moral law will ne followed up and hned uoul their
fines shA tbs re orU6ts o. their murder
Gus traffic when they will prODsny 74u Ia hsr horns aad
become lsw-abiding citizens hOtins suits rums-l'er
better moyal suasiOn and nothing has 90 tts effect
upon bis obdurAte and sOrdd heart especially 10 the pres
et state OF The Temperance movement after he mas been
preached 10 and prayed for during several yeas By lu
acious and energetic msnsg hese rulboes Ia Bur
linPton may be all cleared 10 few To- and q
healthy given 10 the morals u tbs place Ny s. ~
spsed iha dsv d.