The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-20
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A HEAD IN FURRIy PARTS.
QUEBEC, Sent. 10. Isl

QUEBEC, Sept. 10, 1868.
Dear Crescent-I am furriner elect your pre-.
sident yourselyes-have a" copperhead" If you
want limits none Of my funeral I'm a subject
rule the waves. I'm not only subject of bern,
but I'm subject for charity; SO give me all you
can.
l arrived here full of the devil-ed ham sand
wiches which Araminta had prepared for my
appetite on the Grand Trunk Railroad, and Pm
glad she did for il the wites on the line Of this
r. r. amt better than the road is, its rough that's
all. Why i had some cold coffee vita only q
great spoonful Of milk in it, and the milk was all
churned into butter before we had got 10 mild !;
affairs in my coffee, at all, at all But the less
said about the Grand Trunk the better. thought
my life insurance company was in for $4,000, but
they Amt; never had any luck in making $4,000.
Quebec is one Of those cities built on q rock,
that cannot be hid. 1t is "up hill'' business get
ting into it, and il Is up so high that they have
built wall all round il TO keep folks from falling
out Of town when they go home late nights from
the lodge!" (Hic) -.---
Quebec locks to me like ancient Jerusalem with
its back up ~ II was going TO live in Quebec, as
a steady meal, would not live there. Ii may do
for bilious folks, but it'll never do for consump-
tives with bunion's pilgrims progress. 1t would
be good place foT the president Of the United
States 10 live, as the Office seekers wouldn't get
up TO town very often to trouble him.
The people Of Quebec are good people, and
must be fond of exercise should think the local
editor of a newspaper there would earn the big
gest part Of his salary every day.
Quebec is the Oldest city in the United States,
ard was first discovered by Amerigo Vespucius,
the elder. saw where Montgomery FELL but was
not surprised any man would fall IN the same
place. Likewise, saw where Wolf fell it was
not healthy place for wolves. The "Plsins Of
Abraham" are as plain as Abraham was himself,
when be was president, and that's plain enough
But let rs leave Quebec. Its good place to
leave, so we will make our bough, take up our
Trunk, bark up some other tree, and branch out
for some other and more accessible town. And 30
-" Our bark is on the sea-
and We fetch up next morning at
MONTREAL.
This is the right bower of Canada. II is much
Ike New Orleans In point Of people, manners,
customs, habits, languages, and drinkin'. l
arrived here on Sunday, and went to the Not er
Dam Cathedral in the forenoon, and some other
in the afternoon.
Montreal is q temperance town on Sundays !;
OWN to the Maine ticker law.
i found, on arrival, the following valuable
printed notice stuck up:
Montreal Fox Hounds meet at the Blue Bon
nets, Sept. 18th. Of ii O'clock"
] don't know anything about fox hounds meat,
although haze eat horse flesh in Paris. ! sup
pose it is their reglar IL O'Clock free lunch at the
" Blue Bonnets"
shall stop in Montreal until 90 away, and
hope to be able to say something cheerful for you
in the future. In the meantime conduct the presi-
Dental election the same as though was there
and elect sey coal and Blsyrsnt If you can. am
voting for Bell and Everett still, Sundays ex-
pected. don't like TO talk politics. bat it seems
a. II years stealin' ought TO make any party
rich; il they don't be smart enouzh TO get rich in