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got as low 20 city. The next lecture of the course will be delivered on the 4th and 8th of February, Rev. Mr. Balch, OR Constantinople John and the Turks, and on the 11th, a poem by G. Saxe. The annual meeting of Abanaqui Engine Co., will be held in Chase's Hall to-morrow evening, for the choice of officers and other business. The adjourned corporation meeting was held at Chase's Hall, on Monday Evening, the result of which was a settlement with the Water Company, who take fifty per cent of their debt against the village, and are to be paid fifty dollars a year hereafter, and furnish water for the reservoirs, the expense of carrying the water from the pipes to the reservoirs to be paid by the corporation, and the water company reserve the right to annul this contract on giving The notice to the clerk of the corporation. village and water company are therefore both to be congratulated on the settlement of a question of long standing. C.F. Pease has a superb lot of perfumery for sale, put up in the most captivating the style of bottles, admirably adapted to toilet, or parlor of a prince. The Westminster Cornet Band hold their first concert and levee at the Town Hall, on Tuesday evening of next week, under the direction of S. F. Merrill, of this place. The ladies have charge of the levee, and they have already on other occasions, proved themselves thoroughly sufficient to carry forward such a project with complete success. The arrangements are ample for a capital good time. The proceeds are for the benefit of their Band, and we trust will abundant. The Hutchinson Family sing at Chester this evening. Success to them. The Chester folks believe in enjoying good sleighing, and accordingly about sixty couple seceded on Tuesday to Ludlow, where Mr. Adams gave them a warm reception. A correspondent wants to know if we in were aware that Cotton can be raised Vermont. He has seen a ball that was raised in Andover last season, by Mr. Gut- He terson from seed planted last May. says let South-Carolina go to-market with her cotton, we can raise our own." All right. Hurrah for Mr. Gutterson His cotton is better than any compromise yet proposed. RAILROAD ACCIDENT.- down freight train on the Rutland Railroad, ran off the track on Monday Evening, about 9 o'clock, while on the bridge about three miles above The Rockingham station, in this town. bridge gave way, and five cars went down, killing some five cattle and forty or fifty sheep, and mixing up in about equal parts a quantity of corn, rye and oats. Wonderful to tell, no person was injured though two went down in the wreck. The cars has were badly smashed and the train since met on either side, the passengers crossing the place on foot. Several Irishmen at Brattleboro, having become alarmed about war and secession, the have withdrawn their deposits from savings bank there. The reason assigned was-"Ar sure, there'll be war-r." In one of his recent appeals for compromise before the House committee of thirty. three, Tom Corwin said. "The people must agree to some terms, or see the opening of the Sixth Seal." Turning to the 6th chapter of Revelations the great significance of the illustration is at once apparent. The commencement of the Spring term Springfield Wesleyan Seminary is changed 14th. to the 28th of Febuary, instead of the The advertisement has been changed The accordingly, to which we call attention. advertisement of the Chester Accademy has also been changed this week and that we would direct the readers attention to also. The Whitingham Agricultural Society, held a meeting on the 12th inst., and heard addresses from L. Brown, J. French, T. E. Warren, and others. This is one of the best town societies in the State, and they have now passed a vote inviting Hon. F rederrick Holbrook of Brattleboro to address them. The Bellows Falls Library Association has been re-organized, with the following officers for 1861: President, H. E. Stoughton ; Secretary, J. D. Perkins: Directors, H. E. Stoughton, A. S. Clark, 0.1 Arms, D. Lucius Harlow, Carlton E. Webb, J. Perkins, J. Bowtell. At the annual meeting of the Bellows Falls Savings Institution. the following officers were chosen: President, Merriek Wentworth Vice Presidents, John A. Farnsworth, A. A. Stone; Secretary and Treasurer, James H. Williams, Jr.: Trus- H. tees, Ira Goodhue, Elias Olcott, II. Stone, J. D. Bridgman, Gates Perry, C.E. Chase, Francis Daniels, Wm. Conant, L. Amadon, S. S. Stoddard, L. A. Grant, John Billing, Wyman Flint, Marvin W. Davis