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1t is the fashion all over the United States, to talk about the brevity of human life, the in salubrity of this climate, S<c, When we come to inquire, there is as great an average of longevity in this country, perhaps, as in any other section of the world. The few annuity offices in the United States, make a very small profit, calculating as the most of them do, or have done, upon the English estimate of the probable duration of human life. They have, it is likely, within the few last years, been acting upon different principle. Our pen sion law, forty-six years after the revolution, showed that one fifth of the whole army which fought in that revolution were living, though they had been exposed to the chances of ra- pid dimanition by poverty, exposure, and the bad habits acquired in camp. And when we recollect, that many of the officers, from various causes, did not avail themselves of the law, we may safely say that one sixth of that gallant band survived. Out of 200, ,000 men, who first and last were under arms in that contest, 24,000 applied for pensions No par ticular instance of great longevity, in this State, occurs to us; but in Louisiana, although jnterspersed with sea-marsh, swamps, ponds, lagoons, and bayous, and subject to the peri odical inundations of several large rivers, the average length of human life, particularly in the French parishes, is as great as in the valleys of Switzerland. On the Teche, the La Fourche, and other streams, it is no un- common sight to see grandfathers and some times great grand sires, mingling in the same cotillon with their children's children.

 .Natchez Gazette.