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SIcHERs DS THE Deer ARAr1oh o. liz
DEPgHDEscx.--Of the -6fiy.s sin signers y,
The Declaration, Of indepssds.ce. ii Is
slated thai nine were born in yMassachu
selts; eight in Virginia; FIVE in MaryIaoL; !;
four 10 connecticut; four in Me- Jsrse Y !;
fonr in Pennsy lvanis; four 10 South Car
olina; three 10 New York; three in Del
aware; two 10 Rhode Island; one 10
Maine; three 10 Ireland, two ID Scot
land: and one in Nxles.
FTwenty-one were attorneys; ten mer.
chants; four Physicians; three farmers;
one cleFs lyman; one Printer. sixteen
were men Of fortune.
Eight were graduates Of Harvard COLI
|lege; four Of Yale; three s,f New Jer.
|seys two Of Phaadeiphia: fwoyof Will
ism and Mary; three II Cambridge,
England, two of Edinburgh; sod one 1t
81. Oners.
Al the time OF their deaths Eve were
over ninety years Of age, seven between
seventy and eighty; twelve between six
ty and seventy; eleven between City and
sixty; seven between forty and Fifty; one
died al the age Of twenty seven, and The
age OF two uncertain.
At the tire Of signing the declaration
the average age OF members was forty.
four years
| They iived 10 The average age Of more
than sixty five years and ten months -
The youngest member was Edward Rut
tedge, Of South Carolina, who was in biz
ltwenty seventh year. He lived TO be
the age Of iifty one. The mex, young
est member was Thomas Lynch, Of ,hs
same State, who was also in his twenty
seventh year. He was cast away at SCI
in the fall Of seventeen hundred and sew
enty six.
Benjamin Franklin was the oldes
member. He was in bis seventy 6rsl
year when he signed The declaration. 49,
He lived until 1890, and survived sixteen
Of his younger brethren. Stephen Hop
kins, Of Rhode Island, the next otsIesl
member, was born in 1907 and died ia
1885. M
Charles Carroll attained the Creates
age dyisg in his nine,ysixih year. Wm
Elery, of Rhode Island died,in his nine.
y 6rst year.
Ma. HeNDensos's wrIE We mea.
toned few days ago report concerning
the will Of Mr.. Henderson, Of this city,
who lately died, leaving an estate worth
nearly two millions Of dollars. The will
bas since been 6Ied in the court OF Pro-
bates. The following abstract Of its pro-
visions we find 10 yesterdays Herald:
The greater part Of the contents con-
sisfs ia directions as to the management
Of bis slaves the work they are 10 per
form--and ,l,s manner they must be trea 4
led. His sediments and orders upon The
subject bespeak the kind and affection
ate master.
He leaves $4,000 per annum to the
families OF his brothers and sisters. He
bequeathed the same amount per annum,
70 The Boys Orphan .Asylum--the Fs-
male Asylumm--,he Charity Hospital;
the Methodist. Episcopal, nv CIapps
Church. and the Catholic Cathedral.--
He leaves $500 per annum to the Fire
mans Charitable association. he makes
provision for the emancipationspf all The
slaves born upon his estate within FIVE
years alter his death. He directs that
twenty Eve years after his death ! city,
be laid out upon the Destrshan planta-
tion, situated on the Mississippi river
He give. $4,000 per annum 10 the poor
If tbe City Of New Orleans, to be dis.
tributed Hhder the direction Of the judg-
es Of several Of our courts; and also
$4,000 pei annum to be distributed 4,
Inong tbs poor ct his'native town ia Scot
knd.
He leaves funds, likewise, for the erec-l
lions Of school house and churcn 10 bis
native town and for the erection of
church upon one Of bis plantations.
RrcrrnocAE LovE.-There is hardly
! more unalniaole feature In the whole
character of man, than the light esteem
IL which he too frequently holds the trus.
linz affection Of devoted woman
W5st can we expect from the generosity |
Or truth oi that man who can repay tbe
Of attachment from woman
Nm neglect or indifference? Jesus SAID
,hat III your righteousness exceed moi
the righteousness Of the scr'bes and pnar