Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-04-07

facts, as veti as much useful information, ~
relation 10 Tie manufacture, uses and abuse,
of ARDENT SPIRIT. 4jfer stating that The
three hundred thousand inhabitanfs of Neu
York, and the joining villages, consume an.
aualiy for food about two millions seven
hundred and .ninety-two thousand Two hun
bred and fifty bushels Of grain-and khatfhe
distiLieries and brescers IN The ADORE places
consume taeo millions, four hundred thousand
bushels Of grain annually, being nearly as
much grain as uouid serre for the support Of
The entire population, the srrifer makes The
toitowimg pery striking remarks:-
Mercantile Journal
Who can doubt that if the millions OF
bushels Of grain which have thus been de-
slroyedduring the year, could now be thrown
into the market. flour would be reduced to
nearly the former average of FIVE or six
dollars barrel, and other kinds Of grain in
equal ratio ? In England when bread stuffs,
either by failure of the crops or other caus-
es, rise TO a certain valuation. the distilation
OF grain is forbidden under severe penalties
Every dealer in the article knows that the
price Of -four is modified by the state Of the
market with regard to corn and rye. But
in this country. whereS Mere isfno law against
this merciless waste, the fires of the distil-
lery must be kept up. though they consume
the bread Of widows and orphans. though
the staff Of life is converted into stream
OF death. and pauperism, and crime, and
wrelchedness, and despairare spread through
all the laboring classes of the community
Yes, let who will suffer, the distilleries must
be kept in operation; and the demand thus
created beyond the consumption OF the peo-
pie and the produce OF our own country, &C.
tually regulates in the market the price of
bread stuffs Attracted by high prices, the
impor;ations Of grain from England, from
the shores OF the Black Sea. from the banks
of the Dneiper, and other parts of Europe,
have been larger. and at less cost, than ever
before known. but the relief these supplies
would otherwise have given, has been pre-
vented by the rapacity OF the distillers. A
baker in extensive business informed me
that in negotiating for a quantity of foreign
rye, il was placed out Of his reach by dis
tiller, who paid the extraordinary price Of
one dollar and seventy cents bushel, though
the original cost, besides Of importation, was
not probably more than thirty cents bush
Ell. And another gentleman, who imported
one hundred thousand bushels of rye, sold
il 10 the distillers a, a profit of sixty thous-
and dollars Thus is the last hope of the
mechanic and laboring man exiingushed BY
he distiller. The rich are not affected by
1.-THE pauper. being fed by the hand of
charity, is notafiected by this state of things.
II is the working men, the industrious pro-
dueing classes. who are the greatest suffer
ers. And where is there any rational pros
pect OF relief, so long as men prosecute the
UBIQUITOUS business Of difiiiafion wishout re-
Ifriefion, and thus fauen on the spoils of an |
injured and oppressed community
Horribie!-Thc Moniteur Algerien re.
ates the following horrible events as having
occurred in the city Of Morocco: One Of
hose dressers of meat, boiled in oil. 10
which the Moors give the name Of khelia, |
Employed a new method of supplying his
customers BY offering some money, he |
rev INTO the most remote pait of his house |
ONE OF those unfortunate women whose OBJ. |
Get in entering this Internal retreat was of
different nature. When there. these un. |
lappy beings were instantly killed and cut
niio fragments, and prepared and exposed
or sale IN the butchers STALL Eight wo-
men had disappeared At last his own wife
'aving conceived some suspicious. which
we're soon changed into certainty went and
brew herself at the Pacha's feet disclosing
him the attrocious conduct of her hus.
and. Justice was not slow; the butcher
vas seized, nailed to his counter, and four
egroes. armed with haichets were com.
handed TO cut him in pieces slowly. and in
UGH way that the culprit mig hit behold the
pigments OF his own flesh come out Of the
as! boiling cauldron, and be thrown as food
hundreds OF dogs collected for that pur.
ose from different quarters of the city.
government Loans-In copying a para
raph from one Of the Southern papers
ating that the Treasury Department at
Washington had loaned TO the Huntsville
ranch Bank 100000 for thirty wears AT
se per cent interest per annum, we enquir- ,
whether the government had right 10 ,
nd the peoples money for such periodic
Trend informs us that the money SO loan
!, does not belong 10 the people of the u 5
ates, but to the Chiekasaw Indians: being Z
% proceeds from the sale OF their lands
ID required by Treaty TO be invested by the I
overnment IN permanent securities. and (
g income paid over to the Indians. This |.
Iplanaiion Is perfectly satisfactory. We 8
lderstand that the proceeds of the Chick y
aw lands (in Mississippi) already amonn,
upwards OF S2,OOO,000 The S5OO,O0O d
aneu 70 'ie Branch Bank at Huntsville, is n
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