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Connecticut and Tennessee, have sent a delegation of their sons and daughters to the sepulchres of a foreign clime. The names of each, though almost all person ally unknown, touched the chords of tender sympathy, as if for a relative or friend. One of these, for many years a resident in Boston, though a native of Portu gal, will awaken the affectionate recollections of some

who knew and respected her.

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Died, March 1st, 1832,

Frances Ann,

Countess Colonna de Walewski, Widow of the late General Humphreys,

of the United States, Minister in Spain and Portugal.

Trees and shrubs of slight root and rapid growth, adorn that part of the cemetery which is appropriated to the common people. They are buried in temporary graves, the better class of which may be held for ten years by a payment of fifty francs, after which term they are revertible to the cemetery, even though mon uments should have been erected upon them. The other class, or the fosses communes, are where the poor are gratuitously buried in coffins laid side by side, with out any intervening space. This spot is reopened and buried over again every five years; that period of time being allowed for the decomposition of the bodies. The wooden crosses, which designate the respective

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