Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-08-28

lie, DrouSHl III ouchets iron theit OWN
houses, the place would have been burned.
A piano was broken into fragments, and
even sliding doors pulled out aud their pan
els split. The lower parts of several heavy
bureaus aud portions of several bedsteads
and tables were left in the house, and moth
ing more"
THE TENDER MERCY OF THE MOB.
We published the other day brief ac-
count, by Mr.. j. S. Gibbons, of the manner
in which his house had been sacked by the
mob. The instance is only another proof
of the utter blindness of the malice by
which such an assemblage is actuated. Mr..
Gibbons is one of the most public spirited
and charitable men of our city, whose hand
has ever been ready for any good work, and
whose active benevolence among the poorer
glasses has long been known to his friends.
His wife, the daughter of the late Isaac t.
Hopper, who spent his life in promoting the
comforts of the poor, has been, since the
outbreak of the war, one of the most eff
cient of that benevolent corps of women
nurses who have followed the army TO soothe
the sufferings and assuage the distresses of
our wounded soldiers. Utterly regardless Of
| her own comfort, and often at the risk of her
life, she, with her daughter, has been in
constant attendance at the couch of the
sick and dying. Even while the mob was
plundering her house, scattering lis furni-
| ture, books and pictures to the winds, she
was hundreds OF miles away, giving what
consolation she could TO our poor invalids.
But perhaps this was her very offence in the
eyes of these lovers of peace.
AN INCIDENT AT TIE RUINS.
A lady yesterday passing the house OF
Mr. Gibbons, in Lamartine Place, which
was sacked by the mob, saw an Irish wo.
man sitting near the ruins, and weeping
most bitterly. She asked The woman what
was the matter, and received this repiy:-
Three years ago, Mrs. Gibbons saved me
and my children from starvation, and it al
most breaks my heart that this trouble
/, should have come upon one so good. Ar
invalid soldier, whose attention was attract
. ed by the circumstance, remarked: 1es
this was house that every man ought t.
: have defended, for Mrs. Gibbons and hel
daughter left all its comforts to go to distan
t hospitals, that they might take care of u
, wounded soldiers. ~. Y. Tribune.
The SOLDIERS AND THEIR NEGRO
ALLIEs.-A letter from Nashville, Tenn.
says:
? "The feeling of the army toward th'
+ negroes, / think, has reached sound
} healthy condition that is, it is mostly in
= difference, such as they might feel towar
: white laborers and refugees. As soldiers
f think they would respect them, for Mill
i ken's Bend and Port Hudson have settle
: the opinion of the army that negroes wi
[ fight How clear it is that the only pat
t of The negro toward a recognition of hi
j manhoc will be through blood. Nothin
e but hard blows will do away with the vul
: gar prejudice against him as a creatur
q without the courage or the nature Of
: white man.
t The army, it must be remembered. ha
become intensely anti-rebel, and SO far anti
slavery. A great change has passed owe
it during three years of war, and il ha
learned 10 hate with bitter hatred the in
stitution which has brought such ruin an
disaster upon the country. This revolu
tion in opinion was expressed to me re
Gently by an officer in language more ters
: than revereut: 1 was an out-and-or
Breekinridge Democrat once, sir; but nov
= sir, / am an Abo!itionist and not only tina
: sir. but am a - Abolitionist -"
There are one hundred and twelve poet
g in Vermont, of whom Montpelier has Mint
d Burlington, however, yields the creates
s amount of material. At least twenty
c the number received collegiate education,
# four have been judges, one chief justice
four college tutors, one college president, on
: bishop, three missionaries, and four artist