Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-11-30

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Greenland winter-life cannot be support
ed without the artificial warmth Of fires.
The owners Of coal mines and forests hold
IN their hands, in some sort, 1.-the issues
OF llte.' When government interferes to
make dearer an article of such prime, cap
ltaI, and indispensable necessity as fuel,
1t lays tax on human existence; it tax
es the breath of our nostrils.
Almost every other article necessary to
life may be procured at a cheap rate. The
poor man can wear coarse and cheap
cloths, he can eat coarse and cheap bread,
he can hire tenement humble and cheap
IN proportion to his means. But there is
no such thing as cheap fuel. There are
no kinds which, purchased at a lower
rate, will supply the same degree of
warmth. Economy, which does such
wonders with almost every thing else,
here throws up her hands in despair. This
indispensable necessary is also most ex
pensive luxury. 1t is as if the onl y bev-
erage were champai gne at dollar bot
tie, and the only food woodcock at dol
lar pair, and the poor man were obIig-
ed to satisfy his thirst and hunger at these
prices or starve. Yet to make the matter
worse, when it is bad enough without such
interference, Congress steps in and makes
this expensive necessary more expensive.
What renders this misgovernment the
more absurd, is that the money raised by
the tax on coal is not wanted. Our treas
ury is too full alread V, and we are at log
gerheads on the question what we shall
do with the excess which is constantly ac-
cumuIating. Some are for lending it.,
some are for giving it away and some are
for throwing it away. A wiser plan is,
to cease taking from the people more than
is necessary for the wants of government,
and the first experiment Of Congress in
this way, should in our opinion, be made
on imported fuel.
If the proprietors of the PENNSYLVANIA
coal mines could be conducted to the mar
row, crowded, ill-ventiIated, unwholesome
dwellings of the poor in this city, where
they huddle in cold weather to save the ex
pense Of fuel-it they could see the shifts
to which the women and children of this
class are reduced in order to pick up their
scanty supply for the day, collecting the
shavlngs in the streets, or struggling of
to the northern parts Of the island to gath
er twigs and splinters by the way side anc
in the woods-they would, we can scarce
ly doubt yield to a mingled feeling O
shame and humanity, and join in the de
mand for a reduction of the duty on for
eign coal. The ocean is the patrimony O
great commercial cities, which are emit
tied by their position to gather their sup
plies from all the coasts and all the isle'
where the necessaries of life are produces
for the service of man. 1t is tyrann,
when a government shuts up the paths o
the sea against US, in order to make u
: tributary to the owners Of a few coal quar-
ries
Congress will soon meet, and we hav
presented these considerations in the hop
that their attention will be early called, b
petitions from the people, to the expedien
cy of reducing the tax on fueI.-Ne1c
York Erening Post
, TExAs.-Some doubts may Justly b
raised and difficulties apprehended reIativ
to claims or titles to lands in Texas, il
consequence Of an article in the adopte
constitution ofthat country which saws ex
press y that no alien shall hold land, ex
cept by titles emanating from the govern
ment of Texas" 1t is certainly true thu
the scrip for one million acres, ordered t
be ISSUED by THOMAS TOBY, ESQ, come
, within that exception; and that the titles t
all public lands SO disposed of by him, ar
constl.utionally valid it is also true thu
many citizens ofthis country possess land
: IN Ie1as, under the names of Texan,
But it is seriously apprehended that NOR
lltIgatlons and disturbances will resu
from an adjustment oftites to the lands c
Texas, than has ever risen in any othe
: country.-Nev Orleans Times.
i Attempt 10 ossassimote the Emperor Nicj
y otGs.-The following is an extract from
letter received from the highest quarter
GU perhaps have received no furthe
=. information as regards the assassination
!. the Emperor Of Russia. His Imperi:
4 Majesty was shot at by a rufian. A
!. alde-decamp was killed by his sid
4 Whether from the effect ofthe violent COZ
y. vuIsions Of his dying neighbor, his Imp
rial Majesty had his shoulder dislocate
The result of this attack has been exa.
gerated: His Imperial Highness tt
o Grand Duke Michael, who was on II
n point of going to England, was sent ft
e by express, and his voyage thereby put o
- for time. HIS Imperial Majesty, how
70 ever, is completely recovered from his sal
:, culinary attack
Mt PRINTING FOR THE BL1Np.-Tt
manner in which the printing of the Ne
E. Testament at the Boston Asylum, for Il
re blind, has been executed, surpasses ever
e. thing ofthe kind attempted in Europe, al
10 is the admiration of scholars and mocha
TO les. Great credit is due to DR.. Howe, b