LOUISVILLE.--There wuz a magnificent demonstration here. His Imperial
Majesty, who wuz in a eggslent condition to make crowds large enough,
remarked to me as we wuz ridin through the streets: "'Splen 'splay!
'Mor'n ten 'unerd sousand people--mor'n ten million people--mor'n ten
'unerd million people--mor'n ten 'unerd sousand million people--and
alluvum 'sporters my policy. 'Rah for me!"
His Majesty ondoubtedly eggsagerated towards the last; but it is safe to
put the throng down at a good many. That estimate is entirely safe.
There wuz the finest display uv banners and sich I hev seen since we
startid. The red white and red wuz displayed from almost half the
houses, ladies waved their handkerchiefs ez we passed, and men cheered.
A pleasin incident occurd here. I noticed one gushin maiden uv
thirty-seven wavin her handkercher ez tho she was gettin so much per
wave, and had rent to pay that nite. I recognized her to wunst. When I
wuz a citizen uv Ohio, and wuz drafted into the service uv the United
States, and clothed in a bob-tailed blue coat, and hed a Oystran muskit
put into my unwillin hands, and forced to fite agin my brethren, our
regiment passed thro Looisville and stayed there some days. I wuz walkin
one afternoon, when I met this identical angel. She saw my bloo kote,
and enraged, spit in my face with sich energy that she threw out uv her
mouth a full sett uv false teeth. I returned em gallantly, wiped my face
with my handkercher, and vowed that handkercher shood henceforth be kept
sacred. It wuz; and when I seed her wavin hern at our party, I wept like
a Philadelphia Convenshen. I stopped the carriage, met the patriotic
female, called her attention to the incident, and handed her my
handkercher which hed, four years before, wiped her spittle. The
incident gave new vigor to her arms, and from that time she waved two
handkerchers, and mine wuz one uv em. I narrated the insident to the
President, and he wept.
There wuz a large perceshen and a great variety of banners. Among the
most noticeable, wuz a company uv solgers uv the late war, each with a
leg off, dressed in the gray uniforms into wich they hed been mustered
out, with this motto: "We are willin to go the other leg for A. Jonson."
Another company uv solgers, who hed each lost an arm, carried this
inscription: "What we didn't get by bullets, we shel get by ballots."
The President cut down his speech jest one half here. In swingin around
the cirkle he omitted to menshen that he found traitors on the Southern
side uv it. But he left the constooshn in their hands cheerfully.
CINCINNATI.--A very enthoosiastic recepshen--continyood and loud cheers
for Grant, wich the President acknowledged. A unsophisticated
Postmaster, who jined us here, wanted to know why the people cheered for
Grant instid uv the President, to which His Highness answered that they
wuz considrit--they knew his modesty, and wanted to spare his blushes.
Another man, who wuz also unsophisticated, asked him, confidenshelly, ef
he didn't think there wuz a samenis in his speeches, and that ef he
didn't think he'd do better to give a greater variety. His Eggslency
asked him how there _cood_ be more variety. "At Cincinnati," sed he, "I
observed the followin order:--