Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-01-24

o. JuG COuLu heretofore, aHU promise IC
retard indefinitely its recovery. The
views promulgated by these leaders are
bat bundle Of glittering generaHtes
meant for compromises, suggesting prop
oSltiOns intended to be carried out by
men who would use them TO foster the
acrimonious rebel spirit yet existing, II
is well they cannot be moulded in the
organic law Of the land.
TARIFF ON MARBLE AND SLATE.-Iu
the recent tariff reported by Hon. D. A.
Wells, special commissioner, we find the
following rate of tariff recommended,
and also the present and those proposed
by the House bill:
On marble, white statuary, broca-
tella, sienna and antique, in slab or
block, 81 per cubic foot, and in addition
thereto, 25 per cent, AID raloyea, same as
at present and provided in House bill.
On all other marble, in slab or block,
so cents per cubic foot, and in addition
thereto, Is per cent. oI rolorem
Present tariff, 80 cents per cubic foot,
and 90 per cent. nd yol0rcm.
House bill provides for 81 per cubic
foot and no I'D rolorGN.
On marble monuments, figures, pillars,
and ornaments slabs and tiles and cut
marble of every description, not other
wise disposed Of so per centum od ro1o-
rem, and the same as provided by the
House bill. Present tariff, so per centum
GaYal0rcm.
On marble bust, statues and statuettes,
not the work Of professional artists, IS
per centum ad eolo,m, Present tariff 30
per cent. ad ralorem. House bill free.
On slate; on roofing slate, slate for
schools, slate pencils ana all manufac-
lures Of slate, 40 per cent. o3 roloyim,
the same as at present. House bill pro-
vides for 49, 60 and so per cent, od ro-
loren.
MYSTERIOUS demonstrating in hu-
man life is more remarkable, than the
prophesy or prediction Of events, and
while many Of them bear the impress of
divine power and are in accordance
with revelation, there are others that
seem purely supernatural 1t is no I'M
common occurrence for persons to feel
that at some particular hour or moment
a great calamity has happened, They
cannot account for this feeling. nor
trace it TO any known cause, but such
impressions in very many cases, often
become realities. Here is q sad evidence
of what we say from Seminal" Of the
World, and as the writer says, it is
always easier to doubt than to explain.
II have just had sent to me, the sad
narrative of the drowning in Crooked
Lake, near Penn Yam, Of two young
boys, whose deaih thus from the flush
Of their opening life is a desoati0n to
the hearts of their kindred but it is
not for this fact that | rementiOn it. At
almost the very hour Of their death, a
child playing with its doll, in a res
idence about twenty miles from the
place where the deaths occurred, sud
denly spoke to it's relative in an excla-
nation that her cousin, meaning the
youngest Of the boys, was drowned.
Here was the fact and manner of it
stated as ifby a revelation-under cir
cumstances where there could be no in
vention and scarcely imagination. The
exclamation was suddenly repeated, and
SO impressive has to terrify the lady who
was present. In a few hoHis the tel
egraph told its confirmation of that
l make record of this be-
cause know all the parties, and it is so
near US in eccurrance that it deserves to
be laid away in the proofs, most .sus-
tanned, that either very strange chance
occurred or very deep mystery. When
Charlotte Bronte describes Jane Eyre
as rushing forth to follow the voice of
Rochester, declaring her hearing of it.
we admired or smiled over it as a dar-
ing picture. Sometimes the voices of
the air may speak. .Macaulay blames
DR.. Johnson for not utterly discrediting
secoDd-sight. The old doctor
was the most profound philosopher of
the two.
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