The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-07-13

which will not fail to promote her interests
as well as theirs.
DEATH OF Ex-PREslDENT Monroe on
The 4th INST. Intelligence of this remarka-
he event was received here on the 9th,
and although previous accounts had pre-
pared us TO expect the demise of the ven
cradle patriot before many days, its ocrur-
renee on the anniversary of Independence
seemed almost Incredible, as if it were too
much that the seal of Providence should be
again set, in SO signal a manner, on the act
which gave TO the world free and indepen-
dent nation. That after the lapse of Just
fifty years from the date of the Declaration,
two of its most illustrious authors should
have been gathered to their fathers. after
discovering consciousness of the arrival
of the day they had contributed to render so
memorable, was a wonderful and most sur
prlsing coincidence but that similar oc-
currrnce, in itself scarcely less remarkable,
should signaize another anniversary, seems
almost miraculous.
JAMES Monroe did not indeed affix his
name to the Decla ration, for he bad not
completed his Sixteenth year at its date but
he entered the army the same year, and was
honorably engaged in many ofthe most dis
tngushed scenes OF the revolution. His
name is assoc lated with the glory of that
period; and as nearly the whole of his sub
seqnent life was spent in defending and a
doInng the institutions ofthe country whirh
grew out of the result of the war, success
sively filling the most responsible offices in
the gift of the government and of the PEG
MI In &C bie in
connection with that of the two Ex-Pres-
dents five years ago, one of the most aston
ishing events in the annals of any nation.
To adopt the language of a celebrated
speaker, " If it he true that no one can safe
ly be pronounced happy while he lives; if
that event which terminates life can alone
crown its honor and its glory, what felicity
is here! The great epic of their lives 1.-THE
three Presidents how happily concluded !!
Poetry itself has hardly closed illustrious
lives, and finished the career of earthly re-
nOwn, by such contamination. If we had
the power, we could not wish to reverse this
dispensatlon of the Divine Providence. The
great objects of life were accomplished, the
drama was ready to he closed; it has clos
ell, our patriots have fallen but so fallen, Mt
such an age, with such coincidence, on such
day, that we cannot nationally lament that
that end has come, which we knew could
not be long deferred" i
THE SIAMEsE TWINS were exhibited in
this town on the 9Th and 9th insts. They
were attended by JAS w. Hale, who
was snpercnrgo of the ship 1.-THE Sachem,
Capt. Coffin in which they we're first brought
m fhic e.
Siam. Mr.. H. has had the care of them
since that time, during which period they
have been in perfect health with the excep-
ton ofan occasional slight cold. Their first
visit to this country lasted about weeks,
when they went to England, and have re-
turned the present year While in Eng
land they were visited by the Ex-King
Charles \ and family, by the English Queen,
the Duke of Wellington, and other dstin-
guished personages, and were regarded as
objects of great and rational curiosity. The
young men (they are now in their 21st yearl
are well formed, nearly of the same height,
good humored, and intelligent, and appear
to be quite contented with their two-foId
condition. Their impulses seem almost ST.
muItaneous, their attention being seldom
fixed on different objects at the same mo-
ment. They excel IN games OF chess and
draughts, but never play against each other,
nor separately with different persons at the
same time. 1t wonld be like playing with
the right hand against the left, they say, to
have one another for an opponent at these
games They never converse with each
other at any length, though an occasional
question and answer pass between them.
They uniformly use the singular number
when speaking of themselves, never saying
ace, but always l. They are perfectly will
ing to exhibit the ligatnre that connects
them, which is about three and half inch
es in length and eight in circumference,
united at the extremity of the breast bone
OF each, the lower part containing tube or
cavity, opening into the abdomen of each,
and rendering it unsafe to separate them
THE New ENGLAND MAGAZINE, The
First Numbero of periodical with the above
title made its appearance from the press of
]. Il. g. E. Buckingham, Boston, few DAYS
since, being the commencement of a month
! ly publication, of which those gentlemen
are the editors. The present number con-
tains no less than sixteen original papers,
in the compass of sixty-three pages, evil
IDENTITY from variety of hands, and embrac-
ing much entertaining and agreeable mat
ter. The ten following pages are devoted
TO a Monthly Record Of political and statsti-
cal information, relating to the general gov
eminent, and to the affairs of several States,