Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-01-08

-tructive hour nny be spent, if one will bet
search out from the confused figures of the cen
sis, the number Of persons following various
cupaiiGns in the United States. Thus re-
jpce, as a nation, IN having two thousand per-
sons who pronounce themselves artists tho1 eli
there probably not afe a score who will live in
mems memories. and certainly not one who APP
pears likclv fn de;hrone Raphael
OF authors we have. according I, The c"n-as.
nuy Eighty two: that is, hut eighty nre will
ling t. c.,ufr-- 10 genius ind garrett" though
If Publishers advertisements to he credited
rg.ry new mouth gives birth Ia n new literary
star. and nne more brilliant than any that eyer
went bei"re. 10 pas {" bank officers and bro
her, j. nau,ni TRANSITION, aud Of the former
afr favored with fourteen hundred; IF the lat
ter With -iN tbou-a employing The old adag"s
thai ii never rains hat i pnur-" aud that "ble>s
ines never come singly.' Luckily, there II
hundred thousand honest, stout hearted black
-mili-. as n make weight against this Egyp-
tain plague Il tIrs IN the shape If hrokrr. and
laHker~. Moreover. there Are six Thousand bar
Lcr- To shave" the six thousand hrokers, aud
;aas rcven2 tia community. which Is
tlally "Sbated" hy the latter.
We have two millions an half nf farmers,
seventy Thousand mnrinrrS. one hnndfed ihau.-
aud merchants: sixty four thousand lna-"n>, and
nrurly two hundred thousand curpenter-. We
have fourteen thou sand bak = to make our bread;
twenty -four thousand lawyers To set rs by the
rhrs: forty thousand doctors tn kill or cure"
aud Fifteen hundred editors Ia keep this moiely
mas- in order, by the potent p"vr, Of public
opinion, controlled and mtnafactueed through
the press. We have eleven thousand hnttrrs.
ton thousand tohacenn>t-, aud thirty thous
and wcavcrs. Against thirty Thousand teachers
we can set OF fifty thousand tajirr,, 81 that we
care twice n, much fnr ad"rning the body we
do for decking out the mind. Only twenty. two
a.. / -
selves down as servants though most # rs serve
others, in capacity or other. from ihe boot.
black, who poESheS our shnes. Ia the book seller
who hrightens the public intellect. Nohody. ac-
cordmg Ia the census follows the trade Il politi
cian. though there afe euough. hrnYeh knows
IN this city alone, 10 Anvc condemned a dozen
Sodains or Gomarrahs, The census fails to re-
cord, likewise, the existence uf any patriots
among rs, though we have long thought that pa
trialisn was especially profession profession
and nothing else.
The forty thousand physicians support five
hundred undcrtakors, which give the important
statistical fact that it fakes eighty doctors TO
keep one undertaken in a ricf business. We
have fifteen hundred wagon makers three thoas-
mud watch makers; seventy eight vinegar max r.
incindlnE,wc suppose, Nil the wiye-, cru~ty
bachelors, mud Nrrjuice old mail~: thirty thon-
and wheelriehts; thirty three shnwmen. We
have iuut thousuud cutters twenty three thoas
and saddltrs; and five thousand railroad men.
We have one hundred and fifty fbur opticians
and ten occuiSt~, but nearly four thousand cen
tectonors, proving that we cale more, infinitely
morefor eating than for esieht. 1 his reminds
Us that there five thousand brewers and scy-
on hundred wine dealers, bat the ccusus. strange
10 say is silent To the number who drink beer
and "quutf the rosy" In all, have about five
millions and a half, above the age Of fifteen years
WHO are bu~lly employed at some trade. profess
'ioa, or other occupation, by which to earn II
lNeilhoo II is plain we are not nation of
singgar1S. We nearly all do something. Nay,
t" DC an idle drone. i, happily no recommends
/ ton in Anerca, rs it is in the nristocra,ic nnd
m1nrehictl countries of Europe. - Phil. Pab
Leigsr.