The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1876-01-14
A Run to New Orleans.

A visit to New Orleans is an event of
magnitude in rural editors life.
Whether he be a common country bump
Kin, or the leading man, say, Of the Teche
region, or of the Florida parishes, it is all
the same with the thousand anxious readers
ofhis ably conducted journal,-he is OK
pected to say something ofwhat he saw and
especially what he did during his trip to
New Orleans. True it is matter ONO con-
sequence, Quoting Toots,) to New Orleans,
or any individual of the ennobled TWO hun
dred thousand people living in that city,
what the rural editor has to say of his
"trip" but to rural mankind the subject
possesses deep Significance. And true it is
also, that the country editors observations
on his trip are generally comprised in the
heading to his article, always the leading
one of course, and that pretty much the
same phraseology used last year would
answer for this years recital. Thus, he
starts from home on such a day; goes to the
City on Capt. So-and-so's magnificent
steamer; gets his hash at tho elegant City
Hotel (lnore likely at the free lunch:) visits
Canal street and the horse theatre; saw that
prince of merchants Col. Fatjo, who was
doing a staving trade; found business won
uerfully brisk for every one (save himself;)
was highly pleased (lnore likely thoroughly
disgusted) with his trip, and winds up his
article calmly and self-complacently with
out the use of the imperial ''we" more than
fifty times i'll his one-colnmn article. But
none of these considerations at all
weighty with tho country EDITORS ten thou
| sand attentive paying subscribers. He is
expected, and expected in such a way as to
| amount to Il command, or tho loss of half
his ten thousand paying patrons, to tell
what he can of his "trip to the CITY,"
Now, how our readers have ascertained
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mystery one in this office can solve,
because both the contemplated visit and
| the fact that the Editor had gone to New
Orleans was kept a profound secret. We
perfectly we'll knew, unless this were done,
| that friends would burthen us with COM
| missions and especially with money or its
| equivalent, and that we should be e.rpccteel
! to relate our experience, our friends the
Baptists say, upon our return. Alas! dear
reader, you would stop ut the coming
period if you knew how inexpressibly sad
| and inournful that experience was.l Per-
haps some spiteful enemy has told our
| secret to the signing breeze, or some proud
| md ambitious friend has conversed with
| the spirits, or perchance the devil has been
| telling the small boys that the e" boss - was
lway-wcnt on tho Ouachita Belle; and i,
| is possible that our secret never got out n,
III, before, like an expectant bride, we told
it ourself, and if this be there is one
secret having an enviablc distinction, since
it is the first one we cvor told in "all oul
life" 1t is out, certain, whoever stands
guilty of the uttcrance, and we proceed tc
! | tho work of consoling tho poor hungry
: souls waiting anXiously for our story
l the sum OF substance OF which is that
We have been to Now Orleans, did not
make IL nicke ell and return tiat-brokc! There
r is information and comfort for you, reader
q quite as much as if we had written a full
l. | column more,