COUNTY POST.

TUESDAY, lMORNTNG,) JULY il.

REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE.
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On the Fourth of July, 1776, JOHN

 ADAMS signed the glorious instrument ol our Independence, well aware of the toll,

 and blood, and treasure it would cost to

 maintain the Declaration but through all

 the. gloom that hung over the destinies of the colonies, his patriotic mind could dis

 cern sufficient rays of light and glory to

 enable him to predict that posterity would triumph in the deed that day done. On the Fourthof July, 1926, the Venerable JOHN ADAMS, having seen the gloom dispelled, and fulfhalo of light surround ing the pathway of the states, calmly yiel- ded up his life to his Maker, and was !" gathered unto hi" political brethren.

 The ten thousand ideas which rush upon the mind when we reflect that this venera-

 ble patriot has thus hallowed by his death

 our half century celebration of national in- dependence, seem to choke our utterance,

 and we indeed need the pen of "ready writer to give even a minute view of the

 immense interest which this event will

 throw into the page of American history.

 We cannot mourn that the patriot is gone i've cannot but rejoice that he was taken

 away at the very moment he was. Fifty

 years ago he heard the predictions of the

 enemies of rational liberty, that the ex- pertinent then about commencing would not succeed ;-that half century would

 crumble down the Temple of Freedom, (the conner of which was then just laid, ) and that the builders, if they should not be crushed beneath the falling timbers, would descend into an obscure and unhonoured grave. How different the reality !-One after another, the master-builders have sunk into the tomb, and redeemed na- tion has mourned their exit One, 4avour- ed above the rest, was permitted to see and hail the dawn of the Fiftieth Jubilee of Freedom, to realize that ten million of freemen would that day rejoice in the la bours of himself and his compatriots, and linen like Simeon to say, " now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace,'' and breath ott his soul in prayers for the prosperity of his beloved country. The subject pre- sents theme which will immortalize ma ny apoet; we feel like treading upon en- chanted ground. and dare not display our weakness by pursuing it. Let those who tell of Adams death, say that he died on the fiftioth anniversary of our National Independence. s.