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Show Ne crocs of New Orleans. The negroes are instinctively polite, and, in Creole families, especially, many hjye attained at-tained a degree of polish not unworthy American imitation. They are fond of copying copy-ing the customs of tho whites, aud at their commencements, for example, their speeches are apt to bo at least as long and their floral tributes as profuse as in similar assemblages of the lighter race. In New Orleans, at least, there is no department de-partment of labor for which they are fitted into which they are not allowed to euter. The men are coachmen, house servants, letter let-ter carriers, carpenters, masons, shoemakers, chimney sweeps, gardeners, carpet layers, upholsterers, mattress makers, furniture movers, and they enjoy a monopoly of the organ gi-mding business, while the women who are not engaged in strictly domestic service pursue the occupations of seamstresses, hair dressers and vegetable vege-table and fruit venders. One is in great demand when a fashionable dinner or lunch is pending, for she is not only a cunning cun-ning artificer of the old time dishes, but she understands, besides, their proper arrangement arrange-ment upon the table. Another, who was formerly herself a slave owner, drives about the city iu her little cart selling sausago meat aud hogshead choose of her own manufacture, and she owns several littlo houses whose foundations have been laid iu her jars of pickles and preserves. As a rule, however, the negro population is unambitious. unambi-tious. New York Post. |
