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One Of the most remarkable circum- stances attending the fortunes of the slgners of the Declaration of Indepen- dence, Says the N. Y. Evening Post) was the tranquility in which their after lives were passed, and the late period to which they were protracted. Most oi them lived to good old age, crown ed with civil honors, bestowed by the gratitude of the Republic, and some of them perished by mere decay of the powers of nature. Of the ffiy-six who affixed their signatures to that doou- ment, twenty-seven lived to an age ex- Iceeding seventy years, and forty-o to

 an age exceeding sixty. Only two of

 the whole number, Gwinnet, of Gcor- gias who fell in duel in lis 18th year, and Lynch, of South Carolina, who was shipwrecked in his sxtieth-died violent deaths. Twenty-one lived to the beginning of the present century, and three were permitted to see the great experiment of a representative confederacy confirmed by the events of fifty years. Of all the delegates from New York and New England, only one, Whipple, of New-Hampshirc, died at an earlier age than sixty. Never in the world had the leaders of any bold and grand political movement more req son 10 congratulate themselves and tkeir country oniis issue. The exertions and perils of their manhood were succeeded by peaceful, honored,. and ripe old age, in which they witnessed the happy result of the institutions they had aided in desisng, and they were gathered to their graves amid the regrets of the generation which was in it's cradle when they laid the foundations of the Republic.