Phenix Gazette

The adulation—the nauseous adulation—paid by the court journal to the President during his progress to the north, and the minute recounting of his most trivial actions, remind us of an anecdote gravely related in one of the ultra papers of Paris, during the reign of the miserable and misguided tyrant Charles the Tenth. In 1827, if we recollect rightly, the King, on returning from hunting at Rambouillet, slipped his foot on dismounting from his horse, and instinctively threw forth his hands to break the fall. The journal gravely stated, in narrating the incident, that "his majesty graciously extended his royal arms to prevent his face from coming in contact with the earth."=Telegraph.

"Upon the whole, there was perhaps less adulation exhibited here than in Philadelphia towards the President, though too much is evinced every where. The whole matter and manner of receiving and showing the President, here, and we believe it was so in Philadelphia, were of party origin and management. The mass of citizens, the clergy, the learned professions, and the great middle class, could not approach him at all."—N. Y. American.

All this last, it has been easy to perceive, from the list of committees, &c. who have taken the President into custody wherever he has passed. The party leaders were evidently disposed to make the most of their opportunity. But we do not see how the President himself could have avoided this approbation of his presence and countenance to party ends and purposes. If the clergy, the learned professions, and the honest middle class, did not approach the President, he could not well approach them. It has happened before now, that the most forward have been the most conspicuous, and, from being conspicuous, become exclusive. It has been no less the case with the President in his palace, probably, than when on his travels. There is, in fact, no other way of accounting for the influence which has been supposed to have occasionally been exercised over him heretofore, by wholly irresponsible advisers.—Nat. Int.