The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1853-11-12
co RRESP ENCE.
The Crescent City-by Pieoemeal.

sway, to greater or less extent in
every great city, and New Orleans is
far from exempt from either Of them,
those "hellish brothers" boon COM
panions.
But / purpose TO speak now Of two
characters that flourish in this com
munity, both Of whom gre friends, and
familiar acquaintance ofsRum, and
one of whom we will call BUNNY,
the better to distinguished him from
the other. They are both clerks, and
Rumny is of the top grade ; for here
there are grades among the clerks
through which the lower ones Of the
fraternity must pass before they get
to be real Rummies. The latter is an
old graduate at Sans" the "St.
Charles" and the CITY," and of course
is a good drinker," i'd fine
smiley," in fact he is one Of the
"Ghoys." Rum and BUNNY are on
good terms with each other, and
Clerhie looks upon Rummy with envy,
and longs for the day when he can "go
IT," as he does. The grand difference
between Rummy and Clerkie, is not
SO much in the number Of drinks they
can each stand, without getting into
the gutter, as in their occupations;
Rummy being "Cotton sales" or a
"big shipping clerk" lunches at the
Banks" and smiles at the "City."
Clerkie has to measure tape and calico
on Canal, Charter or Royal, and gets
but little time during the day to lunch
or smile anywhere. Rummy can tell
you the quality of"that sugar." wbeth-
it is heavy or dry, granny or light, and
il his is the cotton line, he can assign
its rank and grade by mere look at
it. lie talks glibly Of that "last in
voice." of fair Or good fair and tells
you how he sold it out Clerkie lis
tens with rolling eyes and gaping won
der at all this, to him slang wang"
but keeps mum about "them cotton
nades," and superior assortments' he
has to handle over and over again, to
every new customer that comes in,
whether it be Madame -, in her
carriage, drawn by the best bloods, or
new importation from Ireland or the
BeIrae. Rummy is erpbatically a
| 5ast boy,' and Clerkie is already after
him with a sharp stick Rummy drives
2:4O on the Shellroad or the Chan
lilly, down Rampant, or on the Espli-
made; whilst Clerkie gets 'brick in
hat" has to 90 to Lake end" on the
cars, or "knock down them tens" al
Murphy's.
Clerkie and Rummy are two differ
ent person, but both are fast rns, u
: ever ready to treat, or be treated, tc
spend and be spent. You may know
Clerkie by those important features ir
his make up" a high collar and 8
dogs head cane. Whether or moi
there is any thing in the shape of the
canine head, nose and ears peculiarly
suggestive of Relationship and origin
! can't say, but they are his outsid,
signs on all occasions. Clerkie is am
bilious to leave, Charter or Royal OF
, Bourbon and go in with some dile
house, upon Front Levee, Magazine 81
Camp, so that he can come the bia
talk, and after the fashion of BUNNY
",gmX Me greea,ies..' Once there, he
looses all of his former characteristics
aud becomes at once BUNNY Will
full right to swear at the Clerks o
Steamboats,, kick the drayman, and
damn the mistakes of the "junio
partner" These two grades Of clerk.
are easily distinguished from cacl
, other, and the city is full of them
from them the most useful and enter
prising men we have, come. Time sep
crates the chaf from the wheat, an,
the latter remains to fill the sphere o
, usefulness allotted to all who are in
dustrious and persevering, and receiv
the rich rewards that ever follow tn
truly deserving, among the sons 0
men in every rank in life.