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^\)t iarmefs illoutl)li) JJigitor, 



Ogdensbnrg Railroad. 



Upon ttic coiiiplelioii of this line lo the St. 

 LiiwreiiCP, !i Vii.it region will be opeiieil lo llie 

 triidt; of Boston, one of tlie most viiluiilile of 

 wliich will liu U|i|it'r Cannila. At present, this 

 important Province is almost a ^' terra incognila" 

 to l$oslon. 



Shonlil a iravellor from tljat region clmncc 

 lo visit this Histaiit rily he is dislingnished as 

 " the Cantidian," ami is regarded as mnch an oh- 

 ject of cnriosity as a visiter from Cochin China 

 or Simrapore. 



The^Ojideiisbiir-i line will hriiiR the Canadian 

 meichant to Boston in a sinif/e duy, and /or less 

 than a leu dollar bill ; in less time and for ahout 

 the sanie cost it now recpiires to carry him to 

 Montreal. 



Upper Canada will l>e placed by this Railroad, 

 for all jiraclical purposes, as near Boston as Nevv 

 Hampshire and Vermont were ten years since, 

 when ihev fnrnished to onr dealers in dry goods, 

 hardware", crocliery and West India goods, one 

 half their ciistomeVs. This district alone must 

 give a great impulse to the trade of Boston. 



Upper Canada now combines about six hun- 

 dred thousand people, or nearly as many iidiabi- 

 tants as Vermont and New Hampshire cond)ined. 

 lis soil for wheat and grass far snrpasses the soil 

 of these New England states, and rivals the cel- 

 ebrated Genesee county of Nevv York. Upper 

 Canada enjoys n decided advantage over Michi- 

 gan and Wisconsin, in. the same latitude, from 

 its greater proximity to the sea, and to the man- 

 ufacturing districts of New England. 



Some of its towns, Kingston, Toronto, Lomlon, 

 and BrncUville, are large and populous, and one 

 of them, Bvlown, on the Ottawa, almost unknown 

 to Boston,'contains 20,000 people, being nclually 

 larger and more populous than Salem. 



A great intercourse must spring up between 

 all Upper Canada and Boston .Factory girls will 

 come down to supply the wants of our factories, 

 and the merc^balits and traders resort to this mart 

 for loreign and domestic goods, and the sbip- 

 uient of their produce. Another most important 

 district of Northern New York, bordering on 

 Ciuiadn, and St. Ljiwrence, and Lake Ontario, 

 with a population as large as that of New Hamp- 

 shire, now entirely estranged from Boston, will 

 find in this ciiy its principal seaport. 



This re:;ion furnishes annually for exportation 

 n l;u-ge surplus of catlle,wool, grain, builer.cheese 

 nnil iron. The coimly of St. Lawrence, alone, 

 annually exports sixteen thousanil beail of cattle. 

 The gr.iziug country and grass lauds of the lake 

 ami nver shore are auxuig the finest in the slate. 

 Thft Black lliver country, in particular, is cele- 

 brated for its ilairie.", and the produce of these 

 regions will lind its best niaiket at Boston. 



We have, then, in addilion to the business of 

 Ohio, iMichigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and 

 Miiiesola, which must pass over this Kadroad, 

 three imporlunt districts, iieai ly il' uol qiiiie equal 

 in popul.itiou and agricniiural products, lo all 

 that poriion of New England which has traded 

 wall Boston. When this trade is once secured, 

 its importance will be feltand appreciateil. How 

 would our nierchanls ft-el to-day, were it proposer! 

 lo reinovr, by some newly discovered power, the 

 Plates of Vermont, New Hampshire and iMauie, 

 to the distance of three hundred ami filiy uules, 

 and to obliterate the lines of railroads which en- 

 ter or approach them ? What p(U-lion of their 

 business would perish with such removal?— 

 How iiiucli would it (h'press the value of their 

 slocUs and slnivU, their incoiiK! and aimiial snv- 

 iiigs'.' Heverse the picture, and ha us pn.'seiit to 

 Iheiii, instead of the proposeil loss, the addition 

 lo their customers and trade of three i-ucli dis- 

 trie.lH as Vermont and Ni^w llanipsbirc, to say 

 nothing of rising states beyond, and how mucb 

 will In: added to tbirir revenue, capital and accu-' 



miilation ? ■ i> 1 J 



Does not a cheap and productive Uailroad, 

 which promises such accession, and may be built 

 in little more than a twelve nionlli, deserve the 

 comitenaiu-i; mid patronai.'e nf the merchant, tra- 

 der ami real esiate bolder of Boston ?— Boston 

 Courier. "" 



It is only a few weeks pince, tliul the attcntinu 

 of the capilalisls of Boston lias been turned to 

 what is to be their most easy and natural, and by 

 conse(iuence greatest, avenue of traile with the 

 West. Tlic stock of llio Ogdensbnrg lailioad has 



been within a short time taken uj) so that the 

 work will commence forthwith. Beyond lake 

 Cham|)lain the route in the state of New York is 

 fixe<I on as running on the 45tli parallel of north 

 latitude, quite, near the Canada line. The route 

 extends from Burlington northerly near the lake 

 shore, crossing an arm of Missisque bay unil 

 the outlet of Champlaiii by bridges of no incon- 

 venient length, making the passage at all seasons 

 without interruption of ice or water. The whole 

 work is in such progress that we may anticipate 

 the comijletioi) of this road and all this sitie of 

 the lake within the next two years. 



One great point in the route this way is, the 

 trifling rise and fall upon it in the whole distance, 

 rendering the expense of locomotion much less 

 than any other route. The first hundred miles 

 from Boston to Franklin has nowhere a depres- 

 sion or elevation exceeding fifteen feet to the 

 mile. From Franklin over the ridge to Connec- 

 ticut river the undulation is not greater in the 

 whole distance than the ridge to be surmounted, 

 and this is so small at the summit, that the route 

 proceeds about thirty miles nearly upon a level. 

 The greatest inclined plane probably between 

 Boston and Ogdensbnrg will be found in the 

 eight miles between the mouth of Mascomy 

 lake in Lebanon, N. H., and Connecticut river, 

 falling to the west. In this distance, (44,238 feet) 

 the rise is 414 feet, being fifty feet and a fraction 

 to the nfile. Over this distance fourteen bridges 

 are to be thrown, the span of each varying from 

 82 to 138 feet. The bridge over the Connecti- 

 cut here uniting the Northern road in New 

 Hampshire with the Central road in Vermont 

 will be forty feet above water level with the Ver- 

 mont road coming down White river from the 

 west: it will be two hundred feet long over the 

 river, with ibree granite pierc, two abutments, 

 and four spans. We have not the particulars of 

 the depression and elevation through the State of 

 Vermont, but niiderstand them to be less in that 

 State than in New Hampshire. All the way this 

 road has no rival in advantage over any and eve- 

 ry other railroad westward, that is or can be 

 iiiaile. 



By this road, all the northerly trade of the 

 great West, iiichiiliiig norlh Ohio, Indiana, 

 Illinois, all Michigan, Wisconsin, Minesota and 

 the vast country southerly and west of Lake Sii- 

 |,eii„,-_a great part of Iowa, part of Michigan, 

 and the passage to the Pacific through the Rocky 

 Mountains — will come several hundred miles 

 nearer to Boston than over either through ibe 

 •M-eat Erie canal or any other Erie railroad to the 

 ciiy of New York, ^h Hie slutrcs are all or ncarlj 

 all taken for Hie making of this road, not a moment 

 should be lost for its commencement and comple- 

 tion. 



A riaiu tjuaker Example. 

 CuiTUAUV. --The demise of a useful citizen is 

 emphaiically a loss lo the community in which 

 he; resided ;' and there is no man whose useful- 

 ness w. is more fully felt ibaii that of Mr. Jesse 

 Brown, long and I'amiliaily known as ilie propri- 

 etor of ihe Indian (iueeii Hotel, of ibis ciiy. He 

 bad acquired an exleiisive accpiaintaiice in every 



H ho 



section of our country, but there are lew 

 were liimiliar with bis history. iMr. Brown was 

 born in Ci^il county, Maryland, in 17(l'.>, ol Uiia- 

 ker family, and was a carpemer by trade. In 

 eailv life he emigrated to Virginia, and there pur- 

 sued bis profession with success. Shortly afier 

 he married, and ctMiiiiienced hotel-keeping in 

 Hagerstown, Maryland ; and from iheiice be 

 iiiovimI to Batilelown, Clarke county, Virj;inia, 

 ami ibeii to Alexaiidriii, where ho was not suc- 

 cessful. The energy of his character was ex- 

 bil)ite<l in evcrv vicissitude, which caused him to 

 eslublisb the Indian Queen, of Wiishinglon, 



through whose industry and enterprise it became 

 a popular house, and tiom which be amassed a 

 large Ibrtiine. Mr. Brown was a blunt, plain 

 man, but was remarkable for bis devoteil friend- 

 ship for those whom he liked. He was a vsrful 

 citizen and an honest man. — Washington Union. 



We consider the deceased Mr. Brown the [lio 

 neer and first mover of those agricultural and 

 horticultural imjirovements which already so 

 much beautify and adorn the city of Washington 

 and its neighborhood, and which are of still 

 greater importance as conlribnting lo the com- 

 forts and cheapening the living of the fast increas- 

 ing population of the district of Columbia. 



The editor of the Visitor knew Jesse Brown 

 soon after be moved into the Indian Queen Ho- 

 tel, more than twenty-five years ago. At that 

 time it was the only public house on the Penn- 

 sylvania Avenue all the way between the Capitol 

 and the President's House, the distance since be- 

 ing filled up most of the way with capital hotels, 

 public balls, elegant dwelling-houses and other 

 buildings. At that time the venerable Brown was 

 poor as he always has been plain : whenthe mail 

 contractors came there from all parts of the Un- 

 ion their tarry to fill bis bouse for a week or fort- 

 night made to biin a harvest. lie gave to them 

 all the best accommodations possible — cheaper 

 and better than any where e!te could be had with- 

 in the district. 



Twenty-five lo thirty years ago, while at the 

 Indian Queen we used to go to the Central Mar- 

 ket of Washington to see what the country peo- 

 ple brought in. So diminutive and poor was the 

 meat of all kinds, the chickens, the pigs and iho 

 veal and lamb quarters and the sirloins of beef, 

 that we have aliriost ever since nauseated fresh 

 meat at Washington: we pitched then upon cur- 

 ed bacon, and for many seasons we lived there 

 almost exclusively on bacon. 



But if the meats at Washington were poor, the 

 scarce vegetables coming into ibe market vverc 

 even more |)Oveity-slrieken. Brought in gener- 

 ally by ragged negroes along with lank rabbits 

 and quails, ihey were loo spare and poor to ho 

 taken into any account. 



Mr. Brown followed Mr. Davis, also a clever 

 fat gentleman of Quaker plainness, as the keep- 

 er of the Indian Queen at Washington: the sec- 

 ond time of going there in the fall of the year 

 while Congress was not in session, we saw Mr. 

 Brown's garden, made not on his own ground 

 but upon the open space of land belonging to the 

 United States, between the Kinal bridge near the 

 Market and the Potomac landing. All about 

 Washington the lands, supposed to have all their 

 virtues extracted in the tobacco cultivation, wero 

 sterile and dry — worse in appearance to u.s than 

 our most barren pine plains. Rlr. Brown took us 

 out to see his garden as the only oasis in the 

 great desert. In it were growing and had grown 

 tine melons and abundance of beauliliil <-elcry, 

 which from that time to the present has been bel- 

 ter in the Washington city market than we have 

 ever seen it any where else. Peach trees had 

 also commenced bearing under the rapid sliniii- 

 laiils Mr. Brown bad put upon this field enclosed 

 on the public grounds : be had here erected n 

 small temporary house for the accoiiimodatioiiof 

 a gardener or other sojourner. The grow tli of 



vegetation seemed to us magical: Mr. Brown 

 explained it by showing bow he irrigated the 

 grounds with a pump carried by horse power, 

 raising the cold water to a cistern, from wiiicii 

 alier it was mellowed it was communiciilcd lo 

 various parts of the garden by spouts or trougliH. 

 Mr. Brown said liis vegetables raised in this way 



