The National Republican And Cincinnati Daily Mercantile Advertiser

From the Baltimore Republican.

Receptions of Washington and Jackson --The editors of the National Intelligencer have prepared to our hands an account of the manner in which President Washington was received by the people on his way to New York in 1789. to enter upon the duties of Chief Magistrate of the Union. We are quite obliged to them for the service; as nothing can be more appropriate, while the people, in different places are vieing with each other in manifesting their attachment to the second father of his country. that an account of the scenes which transpired when his predecessor made a similar passage through the country.

The editors of the Intelligencer have republished the account for the purpose of exhibiting to the view of their readers a striking contrast in the manner in which the two great Chiefs were received; But we have not been able to discover any very great contrast in the two cases. except such as has resulted from the march of improvement which has occurred in our country since the days of Washington. Steam boats now occupy the places of the barges of former days; but the employment of thirteen pilots on board of one barge, in passing from Elizabeth town in New Jersey to New York, while 'Thomas Randall, Esq., acted as coxswain,' does not appear to us so extremely simple and plain a mode of proceeding, as to form a very striking contrast to the manner in which President Jackson was conveyed on board of a steamboat, surrounded with other boats containing a vast number of citizens all anxious to see the honored and beloved Chief Magistrate of the country.--

Instead of a contrast between the two cases, it strikes us that considering the improvements which have been made in the mode of travelling and in almost every thing else, there is a great similarity in the manifestations of attachment which were displayed by the people on the two occasions. In both instances all the means which could at the time be commanded were employed to add to the grandeur of the scene to inspire admiration, and to manifest the liveliest feelings of love and esteem.

How gratifying should it be to every patriotic heart that we have for a Chief Magistrate one for whom the people generally feel such an attachment as to display it in such a manner and how miserable must be the feelings of those who cannot look upon such scenes but with dissatisfaction and a desire to find fault. Surely no one can envy their feelings, and but very few, we suspect, will respect them.

Sickness.--The attentions paid to the President by the people generally, during his tour, continue to turn the stomachs of the bitter opponents of the administration. They are in a quite bad state of health; but the next elections will probably have the effect to carry off the bile with which they are at present afflicted.-- ib.