The Empire County argus., 1856-03-08

! WHAT WE ALL Do. An amusing and even in
sructlve hour may be spent if one will but search
out from the confused figures of the census the
number of persons following various occupations in
the United States. Thus we rejoice, as nation,
In having two thousand persons who pronounce
themselves artists, though there are probably not
score who will live in mems memories, and certain
~ not one who appears likely to dethrone Raphael
VI authors we have, according to the census, only
elghty-two; that is, but eighty-two are willing to
confess to "genius and garrett" though if pub
fishers advertisements are to be credited. every
new month gives birth to a new literary star, and
one more brilliant than any that ever went before
10 pass to bank officers and brokers is natural
transition, and of the former we arc favored with
fourteen hundred; Of the latter with six thousand
eXemphtylng the old adages that 'it never rains
but 1T pours,' and BLESSINGS never come singly'
Luckily, there are hundred thousand honest
stouthearted blacksmtbs, as a ma<e-weight against
this Egyptian plague of flies in the shape of brok
ers and bankers Moreover there are six thousand
BARRIERS to shave the six thousand brokers' and
thus revenge the community which is so essential
ly ''shaved" by the latter
We have two millions and half of farmers
seventy thousand mariners one hundred thousand
merchants sxty-four thousand masons, and nearly
two hundred thousand carpenters We have four
teen thousand bakers to make our bread twenty
four thousand lawyers to set us by the ears, forty
dred editors to keep this motely mass in order by
the potent power Of public opinion, controlled and
manufactured through the press. We have eleven
thousand hatters; ten thousand tobacconists, and
thirty-one thousand weavers. Against thirty thou
sand teachers we set off fifty thousand tailors
so that we care nearly twice as much for adorning
the body as we do for decking out the mind Only
twenty-five thousand people have been willing to
set themselves down as servants though most of us
serve others, in some capacity or other. from the
boot-back who polishes shoes, to the book-sel-
Ter, who brightons the public intellect Nobody
according to the census, follows the trade of pol
itician though there are enough, heaven knows, in
this city alone, to have condemned a dozen Sodoms
or Gomorrahs. The census fails to record like
wise, the existence of any patriots among us
though we have long thought that patriotism was
especially profession, q profession and nothing
else
The forty thousand physicians support five hun
dred undertakers, which gives the important sats-
teal fact that it takes eighty doctors to keep one
undertaken in brief business We have fifteen
hundred wagon makers three thousand watchma-
kers seventy-eight vinegar makers, including, we
suppose all the cross-wiyes crusty bachelors and
verjuiee old maids; thirty thousand wheelwrghts
and thirty-three showmen. We have four thou
sand cutters; twenty-three thousand sadders ant
five thousand railroad men We have one hundred
and ffty-f opticians and ten occulists but near
ly four thousand confectioners, proving that WI
care infinitely more for eating than for eye-sight
This reminds US that there are five thousand brew
ers and seven hundred wine dealers but the census
strange to say is silent as to the number who drink
beer and ''quah the rosy" In ALL we have about
five millions and half above the age of fifteen
years, who are buslly employed at some trade pro-
fession, or other occupation, by which to earn a
livelihood 1t is plain we are not nation of slug
CARDS. We nearly all do something Nay, to be
an idle drone is happily no recommendation, in
America, as it is in the aristocratic and monar-
chical countries of Europe.-PhaadelPhia Public
Ledger.