The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-01-07

AEfD BE AfHT s tH@fsH Railroad
lasl year undertook g deprive the pao-
IL II Weston Yeruoui n I.ailraaa
eaild - Fetssng 6 rn cars 70 the
STATE hre fof lhe pu4peas d slatirg T.
Is part ~ rsrheso5 tha tie Yer.
uellers interested would lsIy and
% outlet add aae dlat oujd prove d
eatoa e Trey Tbe Troy TINES and
TIE hsiiraad n4gnz'es here r.3icnlod
idea that p4fk ana S. friends would
Judd the Lebanon Springs II i unless
tie broken connection vas restored. rs
they threatened 3 90 Whore vas the
money coming from said these Saga
c.aua Ifolans, aud they laughed den-
snely at the bare idea that yJrman
va @ dlg oat and build oul Id Il 5b
ialIea railroad communications pilh
tie outer world Well time has passed
~, and how stands the case now
Here follows an account 81 the pro
gross 81 work On the Lebanon Springs
Foad. ID substance tie same az 40 gave
tao 81 three weeks since. In Joun
Al
This cutoff 70 Troy might have been
avoided and would have been but for
the stupid obst macy O. Dan. Robin
son & Co Had the BuD8rr advice
been followed the Lebanon Springs r.
Il would not have been built. the cars
would bo running to Vermont nov via
the Troy Il Boston r. r., and Troy
merchants and business men would
have had the benefit Of at least uu-
Laos DOLLARS worth OF trade that has
been driven off elsewhere. In March
last We warned the Troy & Boston r.
r. that the Lebanon road would GER
tainly be built unless connections were
restored We then said
"All Western Vermont. suddenly cut
of from its railroad connections, is in
q fever Of excitement over the sudden
ISOLATION IN which they find themselves
placed, aud they are making extraordi-
nary efforts 10 get out Of the dilemma.
Il il wise to drive them into building
the Harlem bnk Of the road? Is it wise
to ALLEVIATE large section ~of country
tributary 70 Troy and drive off our
good customers elsewhere? Stubbon-
ess and grit is good thing sometimes
but 10 bite ones own nose off las
never been considered the height Of
human wisdom, &c,
The Troy & Boston r. r. thought it
wise ito bite their own nose of.
They have done SO, and our predictions
which were ridiculed and sneered at by
the Times then, have come true. Very
well. Now We want to put one or two
more predictions on the record. and
we ask the public to wait and see wheth-
en- they come true or not, and they are
these:
Unless the ..lroy & Boston r.. n. res
torres the broken railroad connections
70 the State line the following things
viii happen sin due course Of time !"
(l.). A raiload viii be built to con-
meet Albany via Steph entown with
Bennington and South Western Yer
mont so as TO give the latter re gion d.
rect connection with the Hudson River
and the West And work will be com
nenced ON this Railroad before the lst
Of September next This will he an
other and worse cut off than the Leba-
non Springs r, r. for Troy
"a. When the Lebanon Springs r. |
Il. is completed and the connection is
made with the Harlem r. II. there will
be direct through line from New
York to Montreal Then Cornelius
Vanderbilt. who controls the Central,
the Hudson River and the Harlem
Railroad, will put his great broad hand
on the Rensselaer, & Saratoga r. r., |
whose influence has been like a bale
ful shadow throughout this unfortu
nate difficulty, and that railroad will
experience the full folly Of the policy Of
"biting ones own nose Off The Hud- |
son River, Harlem and Central will
throw ali obstacles they can in the
way or ticketing 10 or connecting with
tho Rensselaer, & Saratoga r r. The
r 4 S. r. r. won't have even the
White Elephant to console itself with
then. That win be the result Of greed
oyerreacliing itself That's what's
soming WAIT AND SEE Troy budget
Jan 5.
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On Saturday afternoon an order was
issued at Washington making several