New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-12
Grent travelling.

| quadrennial contests with George Washing
ton Mellen for the Presidency of the United
States, used to drive his opponent from the
stump, which on these occasions consisted
OF solitary perpendicular brick of the Bay
State Company, was to assert that he was
the publisher of the Gridiron and travelled,
| while Mellen had no paper and stayed at
home. Mellen, when the stump crumbled
under him, used to say Pratt might be
| elected if he wouldn't be insane enough to
compete with him. For himself, like
George Francis Train, he relied on his own
eternal fitness and manifest destiny. Pratt,
after delivering his pledge Of the redemp-
ton of Prattville to the Chelsea people, by
putting new roof. three walls and cellar
on the family mansion, used to call Mellen
mad for allowing such imbecies as Polk,
Pierce, Buchanan and Lincoln to succeed,
when both might have ruled the country if
Mellen wasn't demented. Then he would
recite his poem on fitting away, put ne "
checker board coat of paint on his soft pine
cane and-travel.
Once when Daniel-D'n1 was what he
| usually called himself-as the great Ameri-
can traveller was pursuing his avocs ton, it
was before the day of Sergeant Bates, be
reached a farm house where the people gave
him supper and lodging. He was generally
content with one of these at single house,
and rather liked his quarters. So he stayed
to breakfast and was asked to help make
hay. He wasn't used to farm labor, he said.
but took dinner and supper. At night he
turned in as matter of course. In the
morning the farmer said, "Mr. Pratt, what
do you do for livin'l' Il travel" said
Daniel. "Weli," said the, farmer, carter
breakfast let's see you travel" which he
did.
Mr. Isaac Bush has been travelling. Mr..
Isaac Bush is porter and Assistant Attorney
General, and left New Orleans on the
thirteenth OF August, 1875, in company with
the Attorney General and General Ander-
son, of the State Senate, on the City of Al
ton. Mr.. Bush has no words adequate to
express his admirati ton for this splendid
steamer and his seven days sojourn on it.
Mr.. Bush uses the word sojeurn because he
has heard Ichabod Crane would have done
SO. At the Mound City he remained few
days, the guest of the Southern Hotel, to
visit the parks and other places of interest.
He formed important acquaintances that he
intended to cultivate but one thing mar
red the pleasure of the potter of the At
torney General. He found that there are
no colored people employed at the Southern
Hotel, only Irish, and he hastened his de-
parture to Chicago. After night on the
elegant sleeping car Illinois, he arrived and
found, to his great Joy, the halls and rooms
of that magnificent palace, the Palmer
House, filled with persons of his own color,
and became SO fascinated that it was diff
cult to get him away, he had formed so
many associations, which will always cling
to him.
After a stay OF three days, Mr.. Isaac
Bush, P. to A G., A. A. G., visited Canada
and made many friends. He visited Niagara
Falls, but kept away from the Cave of the
Winds. Water especially, 10 such quaint,
ties, he objects to, and to his dying day will
avoid being washed away. After q very
pleasant trip on the Michigan Central he
became so pleased with the country and the
people that New Orleans came near losing
him. But he thought of the impol tance he |
was to the Attorney General, and, returning,
is now more than satisfied.
Il tell yer" said Bush, as he supplied |
Colonel Field the law requisite to the proper
of the case he was studying.
yer can't fin no place like this yer. Don't
YER never 20 way. Dis is wlar you's ixed.
You stays herr; you's all right. You go
way, you's allus wishin' you's back. An
you'll come back sorry, for 'spense trab.
,eled. No mo- trabbln' to me. Time 90
ONE kunnul; car'ge waitin'."