Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-07-01

For the Telegraph.
Verm 0nt---Scenery---Rai Roads.-.NIar-
bic Qnarries---LiquOr Law.

For the Telegraph
ferm Ont-.-Scenery---RafI Roads,. Mar.
bic Qnarries---Liquor Law.
MEssRs. EDITORS AS MANY of your readers
are Vermonters originally, and others of them
feel an interest in the prosperity of this New Eng
land State 1t has occurred TO that brief sketch
OF Its present resources and prospects wou Id not
be uninteresting to them
ne present season is one of great promise to
the farmers thus far. The growing crops are for
ward and appear well. The hills, not to say the
mountains, are covered with verdure TO their very
SUBMITS; and even the rock crowned mountain,
with its beard of evergreens looks bold and impo-
sing. Vermont is exceedingly picturesque in all
Its physique. and especially the traveller from the
praries and oak-openings of the West, is irresist-
IDLY attracted by the contrast.
a new era is opened to this railroad State by
the greatly multiplied lines of railroad which ira
verse tmore or less in all directions. now think
of least ten, already contracted and of several
others in prospect. Some of them have been built
at great expense and have failed as vet to make
any dividend to the stockholders. The West
ern Vermont" road as you are probably aware
has been compelled to make an assignment re-
Gently and the possession will pass into other hands
Nevertheless they all seem to be doing good bu-
sness at the present, while the difficulty is in the
greater cost of the original construction beyond
what the builders estimated-a fact which it seems
to me, railroad builders at the West may use to
III LuClI Chlcip ElSSs Out WHdltFeT the
railroads may cost i'll this State, and however ma
nystockhoders may lose their investments in build
ing them, the roads are a fred fact, which prove
of inestmable advantage to the community at
large. Through them, the mountains of this State
are enabled to deliver the rich contents of their
bowels with great facility to the sea-board and the
far West
The marble quarres which are found in abund-
ancc on the west side of the mountains, produce
/ some of them an article of surprising finencss-
even equaling, if not exceeding the quality of the
Italian marble for statuary. Indeed it is said that
several blocks from the Rutland Quarry have re-
Gently been ordered from Rome in Italy, for that
very purpose. The demand for marble from all
parts of the country, exceed often, it is said, the
possible supply. From the town of Rutland alone,
the past year, orders were filled amounting to more
than half u million of dollars.
There are also among the resources of this State
beds of iron ore, excellent in quality and abund-
ant in quantity. One of the most extensive of
these mines is now worked extensively at Bran
don. Already two shafts have been sunk-one to
the depth of 100 feet, with drift uniting the two.
In connection with this one bed are found several
substances of much economical value-such as
Quartz Sand, beautiful white and stained Kaoin,
or Porcelain Clay, Yellow Ochre, Manganese, and
Ignite, a kind of half-formed brown coal. This
last is used for smelling the and for other pur-
poses of fuel in the works. The kaolin forms
beautiful pottery, specimens of which saw in the
extensive potteres at Bennington.
But among other of the resources of wealth and
prosperity i'll the 4" Green Mountain State" is her
" Maine Law policy for suppressing the manu-
fncture and traffic of Intoxicating drinks. The
law, as in operation here, is fine illustration of
an enlightened legislation. 1t has been adopted
by the people, and it works admirably in all its
parts An excellent and efficient feature of the
law in this State, is, that any individual fonnd
drunk or in any way under the influence of liquor,
he arrested and made IN oath whore
he procured the liquor, and upon refusal SO TO
make oath, may be imprisoned until he can find
in his conscience to do it. This measure is said
to work we'll in lettering those who sell clandcs-
timely, from letting those have liquor whose indis
erection under its might bring to light their ne
flrous work Withal, the law, in its effect, is
working eminent good for Vermont. Beside the
order and dcccnCy which are observable through
out the State, in the Hotels, and other places of
entertainment, by reason of the absence of intoxi
eating drinks from the basement and dark recesSes
of such places and beside the aurement and
temptation which the often brilliant exposure for
sale of the Intoxicating beverage presents to the
young, and to those whose appetite has been form
ed by its use, being by this excellent law remov-
edit saves to the taxpayer i'll the community,
an immense amount of means, for noblcr and more
useful purposes. The law, therefore is very pop
ular. 1t is said to be gaining friends every, day.
And the idea that it will be repealed as some Who
dislike its restraint, would gladly, realized is,
in the cstnaeion of the more considerate, vainly
cherished Vermont is not the State that is prone
TO go backward in her reforms. The law will be
maintained and will thus prove another triumph
of the principle of that wise legislation which, |
hope to very carried out, on the same sub
jcct, i'll Wisconsin.
l am happy to find in my Intercourse with the
inhabitants of this State that there is an extensive
and interesting sympathy felt by them for the pros
perity and advance of the interests of our State.
Wisconsin is held in high estimation here, and
many of the entcrprising families of Vermont are
making arrangements TO exchange their hill and
dale for a possession in the praires and openings
of the West. No State need regret to receive a
large quota of VermOnters into its community.
The condition of, the religious communities,
among which | am laboring for few weeks, pre-
scnts nothing of remarkable interest Mt present
Order and harmony and the regular admnistra-
ton of the ordinances of religion, seem to charac
tcrzc thcm usual, and the most of them APP
pear ready to contribute of their ability aid the
cause of bencvolcncc, which | AT present adj
vocatng With the hearty hope that Wisconsin
this year will realize an abundant harvest of the
fruits of the field and experience good in
her railroad enterprises, am
Yours &C., j. G.
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