Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-04-01

4 SONu MAS CDILJl. DIV som
means brought her dress in contact wit
Tue llre' aud in moment her clothes wer
~ q oiaze. BY the purest accident he
' husband was on the threshold of the doc
~ the act OF going out, but on hearing he
Scieam' rushed In In time 10 save he
rom probable death.-N. Y. Speeta
DIRECT TAxEs.-The State of Penn
syiyanla has become so deeply involve.
J IN debt that the committee of WAYS ane
means IN the Assembly have reported tina
resort to direct taxation is necessary. &c
meet the liabilities of the State. They
nave reported bill for that purpose, o
winch the following archie leading items
OK on personal estate, notes, stocks
oeoaS from solvent debtors, money at inter
esI' and ground rents, one half of one per
cent. on every dollar. On household fur.
n nnofe and silver plate, lin value over
ooo dollars and pleasure carriages, 2
per cent per dollar. On gold lever watch.
eS' . oO per annum: all other gold watch
es' 0l silver levers. 81; all other silver
watches 80 cents. All salaries and emol.
uments OF Office one per cent. per dollar
Ihe amount of revenue which It is est;.
mated will Re derived from these sources is
0ooo QUO. Boston Press 4. Post.
The TIMEs.-Plenty Of cotton! Pen.
ty OF cornl Plenty of pork and potatoes
| Plenty of calico at ninepence ward, and
shlrtlng for sixpence, and broad cloths for
dollar and half What on earth makes
TIE times so hard? Answer.-Tbere is
not money enough. You can not borro,o
money to pay debts with, as YOU used to
"The currency is deranged" That is
the difficulty. But how came it about2
Have MT we had banks enough2 And
don't they make money plenlier & plenti-
er SO long as they can 60 on lending and
collecting their loans with interest? No
mistake about that; but they lent till thew
couldn't get their pay. The heaviest
borrowers were the growers Of cotton and
the dealers In it, at the South. They ex-
pected high prices; and borrowed to buu
up t@borers; and to buy up crops before
they were grown, and by and bv we be-
gan to hear of failures 10 New-Orleans
and Natchez and Mobile, for So 600 OO0
and SlO,00O,000. Cotton was down. and
the bubble was burst Thus went down
into perdition, not less than 100000 600
OF northern capital, vested in southern
bank stock, by the INTERNAL SLAVE
TRADE.-as much more Went down in
commodities and luxuries supplied to the
shareholders for which they could not
pay'-half as much more, (of the peoples
money! to the shareholders on pretence
OF fighting the Florida Indians! All this
comes by raising cotton by forced labor
instead OF the natural way; and is it not
enough to account for the times? The
wings would cure the times by great
bank to lend us the money which the
shareholders ought to pay. The demo-
Gratis, SO called, would effect the same
desirable result by collecting the federal
revenue in gold and siver-and pouriny
It INTO the gulf just this size the Gulf Of
Mexico The Human Rights party would
90 1t by abolishing sLAvERY-the cause
OF the disease.-Abolitiouist
INSTRUCTION FOR THE BLIND
have received the annual report of this in.
The number of pupils al the
of 1889 was 63.-Durino
the year "a were received, IL dismissed.
and one died-leaving SO at the commence
Inent of l840.-Sixty-three of these are
from New York, five from New Jersy.
and one from Michigan. The total a.
mount of expenditures Tor the support of
the institution the past year was SII,344
81, being less by by morethan thousand
dollars than the expence ofthe preceding
year. The amount of articles made at
ne institution in 1889 is less than that of
me preceding year. being only S947 43.
Ihe manufacturing department has been
mostly confined to basket maxine. ard has
not only paid its expenses, but yielded
profit.
A new building for the accommodation of
he institution has been commenced, ON
which the operations will be resumed as
early IN the spring as the weather will al
ow. This building is now under con-
ract, ard will cost $26. 8s0-N. Y. Spec
'GtOr.
Correspondence of New York Com
mercsal Advertiser.
TURKEY.-The Porte is vigorously pros :
Acuting the work of the new charter, and /
such IS the security experienced under
his important reform. that new quarter
S about to be bull. in Constantinople, and
property is greatly on the rise. The tax
s will no longer be levied by rapacious
.tiz0ms (who farm them) but by regular
government collectors. f.
CINCINNATI Flour TRADE.-The I
Cincinnati Chronicle of the 18th, says
L IS now just thirty days since the open
ng of canal navigation at this place. In