Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-02-21

The C}sremont zsdcocdte. writing at 3
y. III. Monday, says, /" Great Rejoicing !
All he bells in towa ringing, and patriotic
Joy Is beaming upon every countenance'
Az Darlington the people were wild with
Excitement, The bells were rnng and sa-
Mo 81 FIFTY guns fired. And so Il was over
4hc whole North. Music and banners,
lorch.iight processions, speeches, fireworks,
salufes, bonlires, and Examinations, were
~ order. SO great a feeling of joy has not
probably prevailed in this country since the
eursender Of the British at Yorktown and
Saratoga. In those days the cause was
rokjonal existence. Ii is the same cause
to.12y. Well may the people rejoice. The
great victory just won is glorious promise
.of bright and prosperous future T!
BRIEFs.-Air. L. S. iSabin, Esq. of Sax
stonTs River, has kept an account OF the
amount of snow fallen the present winter,
ard 6nds that in the months of November
and December, the amount was % inches.
In january. it was 81 ] inches, making just
Hre feet in all, up TO the lst of February.
--- Brattleboro has furnished III vol
un4cers for the war, being about one in p
cf her inhabitants. The friends OF
Rev. Robert G. johnson Of Felchville, gave
him bountiful donation visit at the village
Hall, on Friday evening last week. Near
II seventy dollars were placed IN his hands
w token Of their appreciation OF his la
bors as their spiritual adviser. AL
.amander Wilkins has been appointed post
master at Reading, vice Carlos Hawkins,
removed. - We understand there Is
q patriotic old lady in Chester, named
Good, who is ninety-three years of age.
She knit socks for the soldiers in the Rev
olutionafy war, and is now engaged in the
same work for the soldiers of the grand
army for the Union. A series oil
accidents have recently occurred in An
.asver. Benz III. Dwinnell, few days since
swas Thrown from a load Of wood, but for
ltunately was not seriously-.ajured. ii. b
.Stannara had his arm broken by the fall oil
q tree while chopping. The 1rgts says he
haruessed his no rse and went to Chester
for The surgeon, himself. A son of Rev
Afr. Grain fell from the high beams OF a
barn and broke his shoulder. Dana Dodge
had his shoulder dislocated by being thrown
from his sleigh, and G. w. Putnam, Esq.
fell upon the ice, breaking his arm.
For excellent jewelry and gold and silve
ware, those who are in Brattleboro will b
cure 10 find the same at c. A. Trips.
The late war news make
almost everybody feel jubilant; only nov
and then secessionist, who is chop-fale'
and does not know what to do with himself
Geo. Hawkins of Reading, privat
in company c, 9th VI. Regt., who has bee
at bis fathers for the past month, on fur
Tough, has returned to Cansp Griffin. Hi
heaiih has much isapuoved, although Their
are doubts of his being able TO endure III
,hardships Of camp life. We under
stand that several barrels of liquor seize
at the hotel in PToctorsville some time since
were destroyed last week by the constabl
of Cavendish. The same has also bee
done in Weston. A fire caught j
John Church's house on Tuesday moruin:
Ia closet which had been visited earl
with light, but was discovered and extir
guished before doing much damage. :
r- On receipt of the good news MOI
1ay noon, two large United States fla:
were run up on the depot grounds, an
some eight or ten smaller ones were throw
out on Chase's building. The We
mont State Agricultural Society has issue
= call for wool-growers' convention, to
held at Rutland in the afternoon of Il
FIRST day of the State Far next Septembe
COUNCIL OF CENsoRs.-Mr. Editor :
The inquiry is sometimes made as to the ma
ner of nominating ticket to be voted the Ia
"Wednesday in March for Council of Censor
see the Vermont Standard suggests tn;
convention of the people be held at Nor
pelier, on the FIRST Wednesday in March,
put in nomination ticket that win be nc
thy the support Of the voters. What thin
you of the ides? Let all the editors IN 4
State join in such a call through their P
pers and the thing can be done. The mol
jpation can't be done by Counties, for the
are fourteen Counties and only thirte'
members Of the Council Of Censors to
elected. VIII the editors, irrespective
party, attend to it and make the call. L
fha nennle .,f each Connfv send delenat.