The Camden Weekly Journal

Another Speck of War—Three Steamers Sunk.—The inhabitants of villages on Lake Champlain, says the Ogdensburg Dispatch, are now engaged in a quarrel about railroad and steamboat matters, which is not likely soon to end. It has already resulted in violence and outrage upon persons and property.

It appears that the Plattsburg people are building a railroad from that place to Montreal, a portion of which was completed. The company owning the railroad from Rouse's Point to Montreal purchased the Montreal end of the Plattsburg route, and left the people in the latter place in a bad fix.

The Plattsburg people owned a steamboat called the Saltus, which they designed to run in connection with their road this season. The boat wintered at Sherburn Bay: and when the proprietors were about to move her they found that a part of her machinery had been stolen. They attempted to tow her down to Plattsburg but the people of Burlington cut the lines, and took her back. The following night two old steamers (the Burlington and Whitehall) were drawn beside the Saltus, and sunk in such a position that the latter cannot be moved.

The Plattsburg people were much exasperated. The Captain and owners of the steamer Saranac were supposed to be concerned in the outrage; and when that boat came to their village four hundred persons rushed on board, armed, lashed her wheels, and threatened to sink her, arrested her captain, and pelted him and others with rotten eggs. So the matter stood at last accounts.