found the people so generally united, and so strongly attached to the principles of our excellent constitution. In the union of the people, our government is sufficiently strong, and on this union I confidently rely. Our government has proved its strength. We have terminated, with honour, a war carried on against a powerful nation, and that nation peculiarly favoured by fortunate circumstances. Our army gained glory; our navy acquired equal renown; and all classes of citizens, as opportunity offered, and where the pressure was greatest, acquitted themselves with honour.

This nation is now respectable for numbers, and more respectable as an enlightened people. That its future happiness and glory may answer to its present prosperity, is my sincere desire.

Be assured, Sir, that I shall always take a deep interest in the prosperity of this institution. It is known at a distance among scientific men. You have chosen for it a name not unknown abroad to science, and which to me is peculiarly interesting. I avail myself of this opportunity of bearing my testimony to the talents, learning, and great public services of that venerable statesman and philosopher, whose name you have prefixed your institution.

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Accept, gentlemen, my grateful acknowledgements for the kindness with which I have been received, and my sincere wishes for your individual happiness and prosperity.

Cannonsburgh is situated in Washington county, Pa. The country around it, is fertile and charming; the town, although small, is handsomely built; and the university there established, imparts to it a consequence, which a well organized seminary, for the education of youth, secures to the place where it is established.

After enjoying the delightful and exhilirating interview at Cannonsburgh, the President left that place, and arrived, the same day, at Pittsburgh.

At this place, the President found himself at the head of one of the most beautiful streams, probably, in the universe. It has not yet been celebrated by the muses; for it has, for nearly six thousand years, rolled, in silent majesty, through the towering forests of the new world. Though this mode of expression may be deemed a solecism, yet that portion of the world that has remained in a state of nature, from the time the fiat of creative power brought worlds into existence, and commanded light to be, and it was, may be called new, when the light of science begins to shed its beams upon its bosom, and the production of art becomes the handmaid of nature. It would not be the madness of a deranged imagination, to conclude that this stream, in process of time, will become as much celebrated as the Ganges of Asia; the Nile of Africa, and the Danube of Europe. In giving this future importance to the Ohio, the Mississippi and the Missouri cannot be forgotten, as exceeding it in length and in importance. These astonishing streams may, hereafter, as civilization progresses in the wilds of the American Republic, become rivals to the Ohio. The expanded works of nature, and the unceasing energy of Americans, are both calculated to make that portion of the Western Continent which lies north of the Isthmus of Darien, the most important theatre upon which men have exerted the faculties belonging to them.

The Ohio first takes that name at the city of Pittsburgh. All the great streams in North America still retain the names given to them by the natural proprietors of the soil; and many of the States have taken their names from these majestic rivers.

The Monongahela and the Alleghany, each seeking a passage to the Atlantic, unite at Pittsburgh, and form the Ohio. Their united waters, with the tributary streams that flow into it, pour into the Mississippi, and, through that, reach the ocean, at New-Orleans. The length of this noble river, from its head at Pittsburgh, to its confluence with the Mississippi, is 1100 miles. It is navigable to Pittsburgh, in the time of a fresh, for square rigged vessels.

"On Friday, the 5th, the citizens of Pittsburgh were gratified by the long anticipated arrival of the President. On this occasion we believe that no exertion was spared, and no mark of attention omitted, to render the reception of our distinguished visitor cordial and respectful. A few miles from the city, he was met by the Committee of Arrangement, and conducted to the ferry, where an elegant barge, rowed by four sea-captains, waited his approach. As he descended the hill to the river, a national salute was fired from the city, and a band of music attended the barge while crossing. On landing, he was received with military honours by Capt. Irwin's company of volunteer light infantry, and by the citizens, with loud acclamations. A coach with four horses waited to convey him to his lodgings, but observing that the authorities of the city were on foot, he chose to walk also.

He was conducted to the house of William Wilkins, Esq. where preparations had been making for his reception.

On the following morning, the municipality of the city waited on him, and the following address was delivered

by James Ross, Esq. President of the select council, and chairman of the committee of arrangement.

TO JAMES MONROE,

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

MR. PRESIDENT :

The select and common councils, the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of Pittsburgh, have intrusted me to of fer you their congratulations and most cordial welcome on your arrival in this city.

We rejoice at seeing a President of the United States for the first time upon the western waters; and the interest we feel in this visit, is greatly enhanced by the lively recollection that we see in his person, the early, uniform, active friend of the western country, who was finally successful in securing to us the invaluable right of free communication with the ocean through the Mississippi; an attainment second in magnitude only to national independence itself, and inseparably connected with it.

We anticipate the happiest results from your personal examination of the frontier, as well as of the interior of this portion of the union; your confidence in the resources of the great republic over which you preside, will be strengthened by observing our unexampled increase of population, our habitual industry, our progess in agriculture, manufactures, and the useful arts, and the immense region of fertility which yet remains a public stock.

While the people witness your paternal attention to their local advantages and wants, as well as to their external safety, and see the public good anxiously sought out and cherished in the west as well as the east, without distinctions of persons or places, we are perfectly assured, that their affections, as well as their duty, will every where unite them in support of the measures you may find most conducive to the public interest during your administration.

We ardently wish you the continuance of long life

and health to pursue the course you have so auspiciously begun, and that at the end of your career you may receive and enjoy the richest reward of a patriot's toils-national gratitude for having augmented national happiness.

With great pleasure I avail myself of this occasion to renew to your the assurances of my own very high consideration and respect.

To which the President returned the following Answer. TO JAMES ROSS, Esq.

Chairman of the Committee deputed by the city of Pittsburgh.

SIR-Returning from a Tour along a large portion of our Atlantic and inland frontiers, which was undertaken from a sense of duty, I am happy to pass through this town, and have been much gratified by the friendly reception which has been given me by the Select and Common Councils, and by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of Pittsburgh.

Knowing no difference between the just claims of one portion of our country and another, I consider it my duty to attend equally to the rights and interests of the whole. It is on this principle that I undertook this Tour, and that I shall extend it hereafter, should I be blessed with health, to other parts of our union.

Having, from very early life, in every station I have held, used my best efforts to obtain for my fellow citizens the free navigation of the Mississippi, no one could be more gratified than I was, at its final accomplishment. The favourable opinion which you kindly express of my services, in support of that great right, is peculiarly gratifying to me; I owe it however, to candour to state, that I have no other merit than that of an honest zeal exerted in its support, in obedience to the instructions of the government, under which I acted, and in harmony with my venerable associate in the treaty which secured it.

I have seen, with great interest, in this Tour, the