JAMES MONROE, OF VIRGINIA, DIED 4TH JULY, 1881. AGED "A Years.
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James Monr0e-The National fntegencer in re- marking upon the death of Mir Monroe, says:-

 The circumstance of the death of this venerated patriot and statesman on the National Anniversary is not as extraordinary the coincidence of the pre- cedng deaths of two ExPresidents on the same day but we think fiji had not been preceded by that most extraordinary of events, it would have been considered something beyond the common course of nature that ont of five living Ex Presidents of the United States, three should have expired on the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence which two of them, by their civil courage and wise counses, and the third by his gallanry in the field assisted in achieving.

 We do not know what influence these occurrences may have on the minds of others. but to us they seem to add sanctity to the day of independence, and confirmation 10 the principles approved by its ce- ebration IL is hardly possible that the anniversary can ever again arrive without our associating with it greatful and affecting recollecons of the personsal worth and public services of the patriots ADAMS, JEFFERSON, and moSRoE.

 Col. MONROE was we believe, in his 73d year. His has been an eyentful md busy life, almost en- tlrely employed in public service In the field whilst youth, he shed his blood for his coun- try; and, with no less zealous devotion to its inter- ests his best talents have since been exered to promote them in the important stations of Member of Congress, Minister excessively to France, Spain and Great Britain, for years Secretary of Sate Secretary of War, (durng the trying six months pre- cedng the last peace) and lastly for eight years as President ofthe United States In all these stations he sustained the reputation purity and uprghtness and maintained his counry's rights with firmness, dignity and ability and he had the honor to retire from public life, after fifty years spent in the pubc service poorer than he entered it. The evening of his life has been chequered with worldly troubles bnt we have tho satisfaction to know that its sunset wa, serene and cloudless.