The President of the United States, in his journey from Washington to the Hermitage, with arepubIcian simplicity and dignity peculiarly his own, avoided all parade and ceremony, as far as pos sible. Whenever he witnessed prepa- rations for any thing of the kind, he modestly but firmly suggested to his friends, that after the fatigue andceremo- nies of office, calmness, quietude, and simple freedom of manners were more congenial to his feelings, and the free. open and ndunceremonious greetings of his friends, far more gratifying and fatter- ing, than showy and formal manifesto tions. Yet generally it was impossible to restrain the enthusiasm of grateful and afiectionate people, and though he firmly declined all public dinners, and

 like formal attentions, he could not re- straiat the citizens from coming i.a crowds hundreds of miles to meet him, on horse- back, and in steam boats. His route appears to have been crowded through out, by people of both sexes, and all ranks of society, from the highest to the h1mblest: all anxious to testify. in the most cordial and affectionate manner, their heartfelt regard for the illustrious individual, who by the force of his own individual merits, alone, has rlsen from n iie i;i c.; to tt:c high

 est honors of the republic, or the world, and by a series of the most distinguish ed and valuable services, "hlled the mea-