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The QUEEN OF SPAIS.--Thc London cor
respondent of the Boston Post INDUCES in

The QUEEN OF SPAIS.--The London cor.
respondent of the Boston Post INDUCES in
the following hit of gossip:
"Among the noble persons one most fire.
quentIy meets ut the Paris Exhibition is
Christina, the Isabel of European courts in
the nineteenth century. Notwithstanding
her hard treatment in Spain during the last
wlnter-whch one regrets was not much
harder-she is in apparently good sprits,and
is never absent from any of the festivals of
the gay capital. At the gay fete given by
the municipality Of Paris to the Lord Mayor
of London last week, Queen Christina was
present, the gaycst of the throng. The arts
of dress, rouge, aud manner, no one UNDER
stands better, and to one of the initiated she
might very well pass for a lady just losing
her bloom, and yet she numbers fully sixty
years.
at is stated on change, upon apparently
fair authority, that the Emperor of the French
suppresses Crmean intelligence, when it is
OF great or unexpected Importance, for sever
al hours, for the purpose of operating IN the
funds. 1t is perfectly well known, that when
Louis Napoleon lived in London, he got his
living by doing II little stock jobbing now
and then. At that time Corsican, named
Orsi, was employed by him, and it was in his
name that the transactions in the stock were
carried on. The same person is still intimate
with the Emperor, and, as he has several
times lately made large and successful opera
tons immediately prior to the receipt OF intel
ligencc which creat d II sudden change in the
value Of securities, it is fully believed that he
is authorized in high quarters to do so. Any
one who walks into the gardens of the Tu.
ileries, and sees the electric wires dvrrging
from small cabinet at the Northern end to.
wards every point of the horizon, will find
1t difficult to believe that the present tenant
of that cabinet will let any opportunity cs
cape him of fcathering his own nest at the
cost of the flock he manages to drive"
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UvEEEA.T Wv q NJ ~ .xnO :
u MON HOTEL,

a LARGE lot of good Wheat wanted for which the
"a highest cash market price will be paid by
JulyG =. II. KEITH & co.
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RNETT u ROBSON,

Factors and CGUinissiot Merchants.
Nos. and Atlantic Wharf,
Charlcston, &. &.
GSPEClAL attention given to the sale of Wheat Hour
~ Corn, Sc. and from long experience Ia the bust
ness. we feel confident of giving tislaction Liberal
advances made on cons gntncuts
Retr to Hon Jno p. King, Augusta, Ga; Hon. VI. A.
Cooper, Etowuh, tia. july l3-Iya
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TRY THE MEDIcINE!l

Decatur Academy.
rEliE Trustees Of Decatur Academy take
4 pleasure in informing the public gene4
rally that they have secured the services of
7. }. Capps, who is a graduate of East Ten
ncssce University, and whose written trsti.
moriaIs entities MS to recommend him as every
wGy qualified for the business ofNteaching.
TERMS oFTuTroN.
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic $500
English Sciences $500
Languages and Higher Mathematics $3.50
Boarding can hc-had on moderate terms.
The session will commence on the Esd Of
July, 1855, .s.
BY order Of the Board,
join Il. NEIL, Chairman.
June 90, lS55-if a53
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Ss9E R Eayv ARD.
Circuit Couri,>sa eonnty. Tenn.

Circuit Court, 40 county. Tenn.
Abner W, Frazier Admnsrator Of Samn Frazier decd
~.
The Widow and Heirs NJ The said Samn Frazier, decd
II pursuance to decree made in the above cause, nj
Il the July Of said Court lSjj will, the 10th
day of September next on the premises, sell n public
sale to the highest bidder credit Of twelve months,
except the of Fifty Dollars be PAID i'm hand the
Tract OF land wherein tile said Samuel Frazier resided
before his DEATH with the exception Of the widow, dow
err, which has been allowed and apart ont of said
tract. Said Land lying on the waters of Wolf Creek in
said county, aud containing, by estimation,
lI3 "a s..
BOND and security will he required from the pnrcha
and a lien retained upon the Land for the purchase
money, DARIUS WATERllOusE, Clerk.
Aug 3, lS55-td Prs fee s. 35S
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Valuable RC0ks,~

a LCOTTS Letters to Sister, Letters to Young Men;
"A Sears Family Instructor; Memory and Intellectual
Improvement; Human Rights; lIydropathic Encyclo-
pedin Combs Lectures Mental Science; Marriage;
Woman in All Ages; Domestic Life; The Daughter at
SCHOOL, supernal Theology; Rcligon Alcohol, &c, &C.
The above works for sale Enquire Mt
W. q. HORTON co.'s.
p. s.-1Any orders for Books not on hand will he
promptly attended to. Aug. 3-lt
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-08-24
Is IA ..sAs,....i..:!.sii:. .i:s.-...s:sss D.
Northern, n. H., Railroad.

After Tueiday, May /, 1853 Passenger trains
leave Bl.i on al 7,31 Bbd Concord 20 IS A. u. tor
Whue River Ju1clisn, Wen. Risef, Liulttan, 81.
Johu.bury, Burlington. Rouse's POui, hoauegl, pg-
censhurgh add all stations 90 the Osdershufghi VI.
Cesfrsi. Pas,umpsir and Whue Mouattina kaifoadsi +
theur. by stage to White aud fraueona Mountains-
Iaarastsf, Barton, piuFie, st'n,iead. and all the
utincipal towns ~ Northern u sud VT
Leave Boston al - ~. apd Concord at3 NJ, Tor
White River Junction, proceeding esfls next noruios
over VI Genital Railroad 10 Koose's fvInt, Monueal
aud OsdsastuFgh.
Leave Nh,ts River Junction.. for Boston, Lowell,
Lawrence. Worcester, &C, "a 7 An ani lafo T. ".
or IN arrvsi OF ths Trains tfom VI Ccnlfal ano
fa,sumpstc Railroads
Both down trains connect with ttains 20 Nrw Mar
Act dover, Gres, F.iis, Portland, Rss Hhd Hampton
Beaches. Plrtsmouth, Lawrence, Lowell q Nofeesicf-
Pasensct. Tor Grotou June ton, Lancasfof and al
siatons on Tho Wurdesief Nashua, New pnfi, ffuNi-
dence aud Worcester & Ncstefs Roads, sod Tot Nor
~ch, Nrw Nofk. &c, &c, connect a. Nashra with
tain. direct tor those places b1 snhcf TRAIN over toe
Northern Raj broad.
oNsLOW STEARNs. Agent.
Concord. \. II. Anil .5 ,lsi5.
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4}urtrp.
The Beam of Devotion.

BY GEORGE r. MORRIS.
| never could find good reason
Why sorrow unbidden should stay,
And all the bright JOY Of life's season
BE driven UNDECIDED away
Our cares would wake no more emotion,
Were we to cur lot but resigned,
Than pebbles flung into the ocean,
That leave scarce ripple behind.
The world has a spirit of beauty,
Which looks upon all for the best
And while it discharges it duty.
To Providence leaves all the rest.
That spirits the beam of devotion,
Which lights us throus h life to its close
And sets, Ike the sun in the ocean,
More beautiful than when it rose.
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qpatrbman K 5tntr auurual.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.

PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
TERNs--s .50;a'h inidvance s2,0oifPaymeo
not made Ia ,dvauoe intercstal-Hys charged iron
he ead oflhe year.
AnneSodisalist Of agent, tofscsive subscriptions
dystt,ements add communications, aud aeknowiaig'
paymentfot the same.
Bakersfield, .ToMERoY,
Bfoos6sld,s 3. H.sMiTH,
Cabot, c. c. BROWN,
Danvilic, CHARLES :. DANA,
imoic, L. CIRCUIT,
HJdsparE, EDWARD B.shwYER,
Joho,on, G. w. SCOTT,
Mafsh6sid, +. D. PUTNAM,
Monn.viile, }. c. MOVES,
Middlosex, JESSE JOHNSON, IT,
Notthdeld, Z. SMITH,
Orange, CARLOS CARPENTER,
Paindsld, A. r. BANCROFT
son,h uardwct, c. sniPMAN,
stowe, JOSEPH e. RAYMOND,
suaaord, WILLIAM ROLLINS.
south sirafotd, DANIEL ". JUDD,
Tanb,idge, AARON y. KING,
wait.Geld and Fayston. ORANGE SMITH
Warren, FRANKLIN 4. WRIGHT,
waterbury and Duthufy,
wiiiiam,towu, DARIUS PRIDE,
Worcester. JONAS ABBOTT.
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THE RESULTS.

When the battle OF Inkerman was
fol ght, the bombardment had con-
linued for nearly three weeks with
out doing any damage to The enemy's
works, which were in fact stronger
than on the day our fire commenced,
and their armgment becoming more
and more formidable, aud the inner
delenses of the town had so far been
finished that il was evident that an
assault was becoming daily less prac-
iIcable. II was, in fact, certain that
we had not the means of taking The
town then, and there was no reason
able prospect of our being able to do
so during the Winter months. 1t
was, indeed, admitted that we mus.
winter on the spot, and wait tho re-
turn Of fine weather to resume active
operations.
! Under these circumstances the OBJ
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Trains Going South.
IL. siiERBUIsNE

suoi. Trans. V. &. v. X d.
Northsoid, VI, July %, less. 40
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BY these two operations OF tho
Esd of May and 7lh of June, the
Allies obtained possession OF all the
works of counler-approach which
the Russians had erected outside
their original lines after our lombard
ment of the l7lh of October. In
front OF the eastern quadrant OF the
town the Allies are now established
within 500 yards of the real deienses
of the place, and on the western
side the French have completed their
third parallel everywhere within 200
yards of the place, and on some
points much nearer. The French
are, in fact, now where they ought 10
have been within fortnight or three
weeks OF opening trenches, and
would have been had they been act
ing against Fashioned fortress. The
English are now where they ought
(Sse lth poge.)
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or 81 guns and As morlars.

or 81 guns and As morlars.
1t is not known what the arma-
ment of the French batteries consist
ed of; but, assuming il to be about
the same, we may assert that IN round
numbers the fire commenced from
200 guns and 100 mortars -throw.
ing heavier weight OF metal than
ever was thrown by siege train since
the invention Of gunpowder The
batteries opened at daybreak, each
gun throwing about 100 or l1O
rounds per day, and was continued
without interruption for about ten
days, though at the end of that time
il was reduced to about 100 rounds
per day il afterwards fell of TO 30.
and al last ceased almost entirely.
The Russians were at first taken
by surprise, but soon replied yigor-
ously, and continued to fight us on
at least equal terms during the whole
time. Sometimes they did not fire
a gun for hours together, and then a.
gain their fire ilarcd up as If they
had suddenly awakened from
trance. But they did US as little da-
mage as we did them il is by no
means clear that the better policy Tor
them would not have been TO close
their embrasures, to Withdraw all
their guns, except those for defensive
purposes, and let us waste our shot
aud shell on their invulnerable ram.
parts.
THE RESULT.
The result Of this slupendous OPP
Grafton was absolutely nothing. II
is true we occasionally gained a su-
periority Of fire over the Redan, the
Mamelon and the Flagstaff batteries,
for the simple aud obvious reason
that these works pariook more or
less Of the basliou trace, and though
they could not be exactly enhladed,
they were opposed to cross raking
fire, which was very destructlye.-l
The truth is, they ought never to
have been armed for oiiense, but used
merely for defensive purposes still
we never silenced even these, and at
the end Of The combat they were re-
paired and rearmed, and were as ef-
iicIent as before. On the other hand,
we never sllenced nor gained any
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0AABAGs Of hae aud cleaa Butter IA Il for sale
ASVO al the Depot Store " hoiesale aud Retail
Wa are pferued to supl, orders 10 the trade a, 'bt
esest rates. FULLER = SMITH.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-01-04
WIDOWS.

Some people have prejudice against
widows, but for our part We never could
tell for what. Girls will do very well
in their places, but one widow is worth
half dozen of them any day. Girls are
80 shy, so ti,nid, SO reserved, SO bashful.--
Very few Of them know how to make love,
and when they do understand it, il is awk-
wardly done. But widows understand the
whole process. They know when to adj
vance and when to retreat. When to lay
siege to the heart, ard when to attack II by
storm. More cases have succunbed to the
dazzling bright eyes Of widow clad in
weeds, than were ever taken by the drea-
nv, melancholy orbs Of maidenl,ocd. Be-
lieye US, there is more real danger in the
dark and waving tresses of a berpaved one
of twenty-five, than Turk in the golden
locks of girldom. See, there goes one of
them now. Scarcely a tweivemonth has
softened down her excessive grief But
women can't weep always. They are made
of something else besides tears; and she
has already found out that her charms are
not entirely faded. She has not thrown
aside her sable weeds yet, but the heavy
and som5re bombazine has given place to
HIGHT anu EfdIetus ihoiiS, WbiSh osf01 2
! beneath its folds the white petticoat, and
sets OF more beautifully her symetrical form
and falls more elegantly from her polished
shoulders. Notice her little foot as she
trips along. how daintily it touches the
ground, ard how adroitly she manages to
exhibit Lie well propor.ioned ANGLE. Alb,
that is woman for you! But look at her
bonnet will youi Seventeen summers could
never manage to wear it after that fashion.
See how jauniiiy it covers her head; how
! many sly chances she is enabled to throw
from beneath il, and every one barhed al.
row that iranfxes the heart Of some love,
sick swain.
Did you ever notice how much more ap
rather young men are TO fall in love with wi
dows and girls that have passed the summe
Of life, than with young girls : Well, herr
| IS the secret Of il. They are experienced
! anglers. They know with what sort Of hook.
10 fish, what bait to use, and how to drag il
their prey. In this they have great adyan
laaa over girls who are sill only in Apr
or Nav. The former do three-fourths Of tn
counting, while the latter leave il I'll 70 s.
done By their suitors.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-01-04
s.EArr rrugrC.

Why mott Why not have musical in.
siruments blown by steam They might
be constructed something after the manner
Of the organ. A writer for the Scientific
American says it is his candid opinion that
the Western boys will yet hear !" Old Dan
Tucker" "Auld Lang Syne," &C.. played
on the Western waters by steam, at dis
lance Of ten miles. The Lafayette (Ind.)
American wants to know what could be
more pleasant and grand than the music Of
the locomotive three or four miles oil coming
en- stearning you !" Hail Columbia" !" We
come with songs to greet you" Come rest
in my bosom, my own stricken DEAR
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-01-04
spEncH or zAcHARrAn spIcER.

On the question, Which enjoys the great
est amount Of happiness. the bachelor or the
married man?
/ Mr.. President and Gentlemen--l rise to
advocate the cause of the married man T.
i And why should not! claim to know
something about the institntion, do. viii
any gentleman pretend to say that do not!
Let him accompany me home. Let me con-
front him with my wife and seventeen chill
dren, and decide.
High as the Rocky Mountains tower above
the Mississippi Valley, does the character
of the married man. tower above that Of the
bachelor. What is a bachelor! What was
Adam before he got acquainted with Eve
What but poor, shiftless, helpless, insig-
ed with his after.self, than mill-dam TO the
great roaring cataract Of the Niagara. Zap
piause.
say it, when too was bachelor; and q
more miserable creature you would hardly
expect to find. Every day / toiled hard,
and at night came home to my comfortless
garret-no carpet, no fire, no nothing. Ev.
erything was in a clutter, and the words Of
| the poet,
I" Confusion was monarch Of all he surveyed
Here lay pair of pants, there dirty pair
of boots; there play-bill, and here pile
of dirty clothes. What wonder that took
refuge at the gaming-table and bar-room.
found it would never do, gentlemen, and in
lucky moment Vowed to reform. Scarce
ly had the promise passed my lips, when
knock was heard at the door, and in came
Susan Simpkins after my dirty clothes.
Mr.. Spicer,' says she, I've washed for
You six months, and ] haven't seen the
irst red cent in the way of payment. Now
I'D like to know what you are going to do
about itl'
l fe!. in my pocket-boos. There was
nothing in it, and knew it well enough.
Mis- Simpkins, said /, tits no use de-
nyingit. haven't got the pewter. | wish
for your sake had.'
There said she promptly, Il don't
wash another rag for you.' y.
STOP said |, Susan, will do what
can for you. Silver and gold have none
but if my heart and hand will do, they are
at your service
'Are you in earnest 7 says she, looking
little suspicious.
Never more so,' saysI.
men, says sue, dS tneIc ScemS 70 20
no prospect Of getting my pay any other
way, guess I'll take up with your Offer
Enough said. We We're married ina
week and what's more, we havn't repent
ed it. No more atiics for me, gentlemen.
live in good house, and have somebody
to mend my clothes. When was poor,
miserable bachelor, gentlemen, ! used to BE-
as thin as weasel. Now am as plump
as porker.
In conclusion, gentlemen, if you want
10 be poor, ragged fellow, without coat
TO your back, or shoe to your foot; If you
want to grow old before your time, and as
uncomfortable, generally, as hedgehog
rolled up the wrong way ! advise you to
remain a bachelor, but if you want to live
decently and respectfully, get married. I've
got ten daughters, gentlemen, [overpower-
ing applausel and you may have your. pick.
Mr.. Spirer sat down amid long continued
plaudits. The generous proposal with which
he concluded, secured him five sons-in-law.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-01-04
REFLECTIONS CT an OLD EDITOR.

REFLECTIONS CT An OLD EDITOR.
George d. Prentice, Esq, the able editor
of the Louisville Journal, while on visit
to Memphis recently, was invited to pub
lie dinner, by about 100 gentlemen of both
political parties. Senator Jones presided,
and in Mr.. P's reply to a complimentary
toast, he remarked:
81 know that my Wing friends will both
pardon and justify me, when | say that
prize this compliment, coming from Wings
and Democrats alike, far more than could
a similar one from members Of my own party
alone. There was a time years ago when
cared little what my political opponents
thought or said of me. so had the regard,
the support, and the applause Of my politi-
cal friends. But have long since ceased
to feel thus. l have learned to appreciate
| and desire the good opinion Of all good men.
have learned that candor, and truth, and
honor, and honesty, and wisdom, and patri-
| otism, and virtue are confined to no polti-
cal party. My devotion to the party with
| whom | have acted throughout my life is
unfaltering, but time teaches to all true
hearts the great lesson Of political economy.
have published some things, which al
though well intended at the time, l could
wish hlotied from the memory of my read
ers and from my own. have written some
bitter things Of men, who have since pass
ed away from the earth, and whose memo
ries revere, and on whose graves ! could
shed tears of sorrow and regret.
.Ah! when | look back through the
twenty-six years of my editorial life, and
! think how many once denounced who af-
forwards became my personal friends, OF
/ proved themselves their country's friends.
and how many once eulogized and toilei
for who have since turned their hands ruth
iessly and carelessly against me; when
| reflect how often the NEST arduous and de-
voted political services are forgotten by
those TO whom they are rendered. and how
often the deepest political prejudices are
magnanimously forgiven by those 10 whom
they are done; and when ! remember how
many Of my political friends have striven to
crush me, and how many Democrats have
gathered around me as band of brothers in
the days of personal peril, should be gull
] ty of an outrage upon my own conscience
and on every feeling and impulse of my
heart, if | were not to weed out from my
nature the pariizan bitterness that once -four
ished there. / am a Wing, but will greet
every ,rue-he.rted Democrat as my brother,
| and will greet no faIse-hearted Wing as
such. What the future of parties is to be,
/ l know not, and the wiscs, CT US are mol
! wise enough 10 know. Disorganizations
and re-organizaiions are in progress, and In
all probability many who have for years
been battling desperately against each nth,
or, viii find themselves arrased shoulder II
shoulder in defence Of the great cause o
human rights"
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-01-04
I'D. CONN.,, THURSDAY, JANUARY A, 1856.

iethargy that seemed like the fore-runner of
dissolution. AS the evening shadows deep
ened, the grandparents began to feel alarm
at the protracted absence of their darling,
/ and search was made for her in every di-
rection; until some one suggesting that she
might have gone to see Mrs. Gray, party
went through the woods in that direction,
carefully scrutinizing each side as they went
along and at length discovered her near
the path, more than half-mile from home,
her cheek pale and cold, pressed against the
rough bark of a tree, against which her
trembling form rested, her thin garments
damp with the heavy night dew
The bore her tenderly home, but from
that death-like lethargy she awoke only in
watched her lovingly from day to day, wept
ed every heart; for they knew that the ex-
! element, the fatigue, and exposure had
been too much for that delicate child, and
that soon she would pass from their yearn-
ing sight.
1t was on the tenth day of her illness
that Maggie awoke from long and quiet
siumber, from which her anxious friends
ventured to expect favorable result. The
wildness of delirium had vanished from
her eyes, which now beamed with the soft
lustre that had made them SO beautiful and
reckoning to the dear ones that came
around her couch, she clasped her wasted
arms around each one, kissing them with
long, clinging kisses, that expressed at
once the depth of her affection, and her
conviction tina. she was about leaving them.
Not word was spoken by that sorrowing
group, for all were bathed in tears, and for
a moment as she looked upon them after her
mute, but touching farewell, the ehiid's lip
quivered, and tears dimmed her lustrous
eyes; Blu, she wiped them away, and rails
ing her head from her pillow, whispered to
her grandfather her desire 10 know if the
family of Mr.. Gray was safe.
"Yes, Maggie = said the grandmother,
weeping afrcsh. "Sarah Gray has been
here most all the time of your sickness,
she told us how you had saved them from
d attn !; for when the tories came that night
all was prepared, and they captured the
whole party, fifteen in all. And when Bob
Gray's major had examined the dispatches,
they were of such conseq uence that he sent
them to the general. All Of the Grays have
been several times to see you, dear Maggie;
and they prayed for your recovery with
anxious heerts, for they say that to You
alone, under God, they owe their safety.
AS the dying child listened. smile,
overspread her face-not her usual smile,
so patient and sad i: hut one of seraphic Joy
that illumed every feature, and gave new
brilliancy to the beaming eyes that were
for moment lifted upward, while few
L.. L
tips. The bright smile faded slowly, and
was replaced by that calm beauty, that in
eitable loneliness which the kiss Of the
death angel leaves on the placid brow
Of the holy dead-the pure and innocent
heart that had suffered so much during its
brief pilgrimage had throbbed its last.