The Litchfield County post., 1826-07-25
COUNTY POST.
TUESDAY. {MORNING,} JULY a5.

CHARLES CARROL.--Eyery thing of interest relating to the signing and promulga- ting the Declaration of Independence, is pub lished at the present time with the greatest avidity and although fifty years have rolled away since the glorious deed was done, almost every thing said about it appears to the yonn- ger part of community entirely new. It isl but short time since "reminiscences" ofthe deeds and actors ofthe revolution were begun to be published; and we hope that those in whose memory, or private writings,is chron- icled the minute incidents of the ''olden times" will continue to interest and instruct their younger brethren until every thing is told, that can be told. The venerable man whose name heads this article is the only survivor of the signers of the charter of our liberties and this day,-July s5-closes fifty years since ills signature was put to the instrument. Be- Ing Catholic, he was, on the fourth, on a mission to his catholic brethren of Lower Can ada, whom he hoped to bring over to the pat riot cause, and did not return until twenty
 
 one days after Adams and his compatriots had immortalized their names, among whom he immediately enrolled himself. Thus he was the last to sign, and is the last survivor of those who did sign the instrument which sep arated us from England. It needs hut one event to complete this grand climax of politi- cal condolences, and this is, that he should this day be called to join his brethren who have gone before him,-which may Heaven in'mercy avert, by sparing him still longer to his country and his friends.
 Breaking cf Banks.-Our readers cannot be too cautious in taking bills of Banks at distance. For week past "rumour with her hundred tongues" has been busy in circulating doubts as to the credit of a great number of the Ncw-YOrk banks, both of the city and country. The Tradesmen's and Fulton Banks have been hard run, and their solyency is con- sidereddoubtful. The Middle District (Po Pough- keepsie,) Bank is said to be in good credit |; but the Green County, (Catskill,) Bank is said to be down. The citizens of New-York,- and would that they were the only sufferers, and of them. only the friends and supporters of the lobby-inhuence-faction, of 1924, are now reaPing some of the fruits of the labours of their ever memorable legislature of 1928 and 1894. Maj. Noah, in his Enquirer of the I4th, gives formidable list of Banks posses sing a splendid capital of or 5OOO,OO dol lars of-paper money, while their vaults present but beggurly account cf empty bores.
 We-copy the following accounts of certain Bank failures from the New-York Statesman.
 For several days the city has been filled with alarm in consequence of the stoppage, one after another, of several monied, or rath- CT ue-monied institutions, which it seems have been under the control of some bold specula- tors, without much other capital than what they raised by the fictitious paper they set a. float under the name of the companies they governed.
 The Jersey Bank snapped several days since, and no explanation has yet appeared of the cause, while curses loud and deep are heaped upon the active managers of the insti- tuition. ~
 Yesterday, after many severe bangs, the United States Lombard, and also the Frank lin Manufacturing Company, breathed their last; and to-day the Hudson Insurance Com pany, which yesterday gave signs of ap- preaching dissolution, expired amidst the groans of the. gulled and disappointed specu- lators in their bonds.-The bills of the Greene County Bank cannot be sold at any rate this morning, and On enquiring the cause, we could only learn that this Bank, the Lombard, and the Hudson Insurance Company were all un. deR the protecting care of the same parents.
 President Adams. it is said. is to be ths compiler of the biography of his deceased father. This work. which will comprise | highly interesting and important part of ou