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The New York Evening Post remarking upon the
demise of Mr. CARROLL, says


"One Of the most remarkable circumstances at
tending the fortunes ofthe sgners ofthe declaration
of Independence, the tranquility in which their
after lives we're passed. and the late period to which
they we're protracied Most ofthem lived to good
old age, crowned with civil honors bestowed BY the
gratitude Of the republic, aud some perished BY
mere decay Of the powers Of nature.-Of the fifty
six who affixed their signatures to that document,
twenty-seven lived to an age exceeding seventy
years, and forty-one, to an age exceeding sixty.
Only two Of the whole enumber--Gwnnett, Of Geor.
gia, who fell in duel in his 45th year, and Lynch
Of South Carolina, who shipwrecked in his SIX
tiethLand died violent death Twenty-one liv.
cd 10 the beginning Of the present century, and
three were permitted to see the great experiment
Of representative confederacy confirmed by the
events Of fifty years, of all the delegates from
New York and New England only one Whpple Of
New Hampshire died at an earlier age than sixty
Never in the world had the leaders ofany grand and
political movement more reason to congratulate
themselves and their country on its issue. The
exertions and perls Of their manhood were succeed
cd by peaceful, honored and ripe old age, In which
theylwitnessed happy result ofthe Institutions they
had aided in devsing, and they we're gathered to
their graves amid the regrets Of the generation
which was in its cradle when they laid the founda-
tons Of the republic


"He who for eight years was distinguished as
the sole survivor Of this honored band, and who
seemed TO concentrate in his own person the ven
Grafton which was yielded to them all, is now Qone
happier than they, nasmuch as he lived TO see the
desires Of the good men and patriots, his contem-
poraries, realized by eight additional years Of ma.
tional hapPiness.",