Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-11-12
Freall MontRelier.

TON RAILRoAD--sALARIEs Oh Off
cERs-noUoR QUESTION, &C., &c.
F., MONTPELIER, Nov. 4.
Editor Rutldad Herald The House
yesterday afternoon discussed at some
length the publishmeat question. The
motion pending was to dismiss the bill to
repeal that part of the General Statutes
which requires public notice of "mar-
riage intended" The ministers, of whom
there appear to be a good many in the
Legislature, are nearly all in favor of re-
pealing the law and some of the members
We're so naughty as to inslnuate that 1t
was because they were losing their mar
riage perquisites in consequence Of so
many going to "Gretna Green" MIR.
Deane, of Cavendish, advocated the repeal
of the law because marriage was civil
contract, and there was no more reason
why it should be made the subject of an
eight days. gossip than the intention OF
buying piece of land should be. Mr..
Dolph, of Warren, thought the law was
evaded, and would be, not so much be-
cause the parties were "ashamed" of what
they were going to do, as one member had
insinuated, as because they thought it was
nobody's business but their own.
Mr.. Skinner, of Barton, who is under
stood to have been Instrumental IN pro
curing the passage of the law as ii stands
in the General Statutes, made the priuci-
pal speech against its repeal. He claimed
that as parent he had a right to know
what his own daughters were intending to
do in this regard, even if they had passed
their minority and if he saw that one of
them was about to throw herself away
upon worthless husband, he should have
an opportunity to prevent it If he could by
persuasion. Upon the motion TO dismiss
the bill he demanded the yeas and nays,
which resulted as follows: Yeas 81, nays
81, and then the bill which repeats the
law requiring the intention of marriage to
be published was passed.
As matter of more particular interest
to Rutland County may be mentioned the
bill to increase the salary of the Probate
Judge for the Rutland District to 5000
ordered to be engrossed, and read the
third time.
1t may also be mentioned in this con
necton that Judge Barrett, of the Supreme
Court, has given a decision leaving The
Rutland and Burlington Railroad in the
possession of the Trustees of the secont
mortgage bondholders. The ground is,
briefly, that the road is at present in thell
hands, and as it does not appear but tina
everything is safely managed, there is NJ
: good reason for making change at pre-
sent.
The House seems to be blessed witt
the gift OF recoasideriag. One membe
remarked in private that the members
were like flock of sheep moving back
wards and forwards as the leader went
They have recensidered at least four bill
|, which had passed to third reading with
in the last twenty-four hours. 1t woul
seem as though such potent, grave an
reverend seniors, as most Of the member
are, might make up their minds to ques
ton and stick to it.
The bill relating to the salaries OF Ger
tain officers, which has passed to thlr
4 reading, gives to the Adjutant-Geners
$1,000, TO the Observation-Disclosures
ST. $50, to the State Treasurer $4,000
: and to the Auditor 81 900. There is
! great difference Of opinion among leadin
members as to the relative amount OF pa
! which some of these officers should RI
ceive, and good deal of spirit and carr
estness was manifested.
q The House have passed a resolution
g recommending an adjournment on Frida
]. of this week, at 3 o'clock, 7. NJ, but
. is not probable that the Senate will concur
J Among the bills which will be likely
E fail, though not for the want of able ei
e forts in its behalf, is one introduced b
Mr.. Burrows, Of Vernon, to license tn
9 sale of liquors. 1t has received secon
. reading in the House as a matter OF coul
Q tesy, the member who moved the secon
# reading being utterly opposed to the bill
: but still in favor Of s fair fight, and
: signal victory" The chance In the Ser
! ate is still worse. This will be good new
9 to all true friends Of temperance.
Among the objects Of interest to loo
at are Meade's statue Of Ethan Ale
with his chapeau under his left arm, an
: his right hand appraised, supposed to I
= pronouncing the words. {; In the name !
the Great Jehovah, and the Continents
/. Congress !" two six-pounder brass POI
s guns, 6 taken from the Germans at Bel
= nington, August l6, l777," and the cab
4 net Of minerals and curiosities under u
4 charge Of the Hon. A. D. Hagar. Prom
! nent in this cabinet is the skeleton Of
. fossil whale, found several feet below u
& surface, in the town of Charlotte ais
the tusk of an elephant found in Moul
Holly in 1848. Mr. Hagar has late