Show A live hoosier in new orleans an original character is your genuine housier hoosier by genuine we mean such a one as has all ail the attributes th thai at peculiarly belong to the backwoodsman backwoodsmen men amen of the west one whose manners have suffered neither change nor by connection or association with men of jn more re conventional habits one in a word like the tre treba or of his native forest had no uther other culture than that he towed on him by nature he way well be called a geni genuine tine hoosier there is an all originality ity in his pit phraseology amse which being the imitation of no other known idiom by none can it be successfully imitated and there is ie a primitive freshness in his minner manner and in his tippo dearance arance which show that while the fl etters of fashion and eti etiquette queEte enchain their millions among what is called the I 1 enlightened clas classes es he dis disdaining dahang all such artificial nc brances of both limb wd and language dresses as he willeth 1 leth and talks na he be plea seth indeed with tile the f future antiquarian it must be a matter of mystery to account for the noble stand taken by the hoosier lio osier against the effeminate frivolity ol 01 our times time when almost ill all of those thoe who pique themselves on being more refined than their fellows are the victims of its enervating embraces so much tor for the hoosier booster in general one of them a fellow with and sinews sufficiently strong to cope with a bear visited the city last week and here he still remains As he is no bad specimen of the class we mean to chronicle in part his sayings sayin and doings but first of his appearance as he jumped jumpe is from his flatboat 01 on to the ilie levee when by the tha way he was heard to remark ark that he Idi idida see the reison reason of folks livin in a lacall h aap this way where they grew no corn and had bad no bars to k kill ill he wore a clay colored linsey coat and pants neither neit lier i f which were cut on the now new system or deoine principles the woolen flat of opaque crown had been originally a muddy white but from exposure to the sun it hid become a clay color too his brogans brigans were of a uniform color so was his bis beard and so wai wa his hair 1 nt not the embodiment aps of whig pi principles p 1 es 11 he h was certainly the embodiment men of clay lorig at alter 1 log in ill ole ine city chiy some aadi alter after in looking fir the lions having seen the elephant and aft after r his funds hd bid h b id d become nearly exhausted or whittle zed do ilowit w it to the small end of f nothing as he himself classic illy expressed it ho he thought held hed look out for a job to i e ruit his waited finances with this view he wa ani directed dir toan evien sive contractor and wo we might ald addas LS extensive an expander for lie he has men in almost all parts of the city repairing the older street re paving and expanding the newer ones ile ho met this of the we tern world on sunday last standing near the entrance to the st charles hotel or to use his own words lie dropped on him like a catamount w n a coon of course the tedious formula of an introduction intro diction was dispensed w will ith and our n hero hounded at once to 01 siness tie he how are you squire how dye rise contractor im well sir whom have havelt I 1 the be pleasure of addressing llo hoosier osier wity why squire my names ruth ben ruth but you know as I 1 heard the play fellow say in louisville there aint lothin in a name now you be a tolerable slick lick lookin fellow yourself but art frt d have jest as gret greit a respect for you if your name is smith john smith names amt aint nothing bothin no how bow con trac lot your liberality does you great credit but can an I 1 doiny donny thing tiling tor for you llo hoober osier I 1 reckon you see the fact is they had an alin al almighty in eighty deal de il to say up tip in our parts about orleans and now how all alred easy it is to mate make money in it but its no hamand and all hominy 1 I reckon but now to U ikin the barat bar nt once can call you give me and five other gentlemen employment contractor if you and five other gentlemen will W work ork ut at the labor which I 1 am having done and for tile the wages Y ages which I 1 pay five other gentlemen and you may go to work tomorrow Hoor hoosier iier good as pork squire what dye give bonti actor ten bus bits a day hoosier llo osier why squire I 1 was told give us two dollars and eat cat us contractor two dollars a day and eat cat you why coundi man do you take me for a cannibal eatrou cat you hoo hoosier ier oh ob told hold your bosses squire there is is i no use gettin ailed riled I 1 meant that I 1 heerd heard give give us two dollars and throw in the chicken figins and corn boins 1 but you cant give it you say contractor no sir hoosier well as I 1 aint flush in the financial ways I 1 1 accept let there be no mussing between us the hoosier then learned from the contractor where his of office ice was and at what hour he w m be there next morning g and there he be was before the appointed time N w it happens that the bedroom bed room of the contractor grisim is J immediately mod lately over his of office fice he was yet in bed and indeed asleep when the hoosier reached there for it was not well five in tile the morning but lie jie was soon awoke by a very loud ifft if not a very musical matin effort of his western employs emp loye singing hurts for tor korcuba cuba itis surp how soon well bellsee wellsee see the country 9 f let the country rise and be d 11 said tile is con in a loud and petulant manner who is that T 0 s g er goo i mornin squire kanai vh KW i wilar nai keeps 11 i in n bed ro fo long it is a right nice mornin to be out cut I 1 a lust rote rate morain mora into to po on a mint hunt mt nt 0 0 you be shot are you prepared to 10 go to 10 gk im just awa awaiting itin tile the w wj itt as sal sai cummins cammins id when she was asked will why she he a Z nt n marry you ant know sal squire did you ii 1 ie q B was an buncom I 1 on ion nasty 11 itty lookin gal and abo contractor 0 01 I 1 have not a s tell I 1 hear ar her history Is in e you ou a hovel il hooker ner no h I 1 re contractor then y a work housier H m r eliut but spose b buy 10 ohe ne what will it cost klitte contractor ten bi bits hoosier ten bits wh a day squire ten bits tree kree hundred and sixty five days fifteen years i why quire I 1 think I 1 aint worth more than five thousand iovele ken els at that kalk lation contractor Cont racior I 1 send for you my friends friend to study bakers arithmetic get a shovel and go to work if oil ii will if not go about your business hoosier anit sed he went be bought ight the shovel anil and was shown the me scene athis his labor which was to be root rooting ing or ripping up the id paving stones in street before commencing iterations rations however be went into a merchants wits office r ard r by deliberately stripped off the coat vest and pan timons he e had bad on hung them up giving tho the place the of an old cothes clothes sho she and taking his work ag 1119 suit out oot of his saddlebags put them on the owner altho office came in and expressed his displeasure that wit a liberty should be a stranger in his office he hoosier asked him if iche he thought him darned fool enough to dirty his sunday go to cloth clothes esl said gaid he was goin TO take a glass of ginger pop and that if held hed line jine him hed sport aport ten cents he inow working away arwa owr ways daily he complains that it dont come natural to him the 1 Tri Ins liers he says imil an beat him at it but at making a clearance cleir ance chopping wood or working it a flatboat fla thoat he I 1 hoerts that he could beat half a dozen of them picayune pickings |