Houma Ceres. [volume] (Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, La.) 1855-18??, 1856-02-28

A. PARISH TERREBONNE La THURSDAY 28 1856
What We All Do.

What We All Do.
An amusing, and even instructive hour,
may be spent if any one will search out
from the confused figures of the sensus
the number of persons following various
occupations in the United States. Thus
we rejoice as a nation in having two
thousand persons who pronounce them-
selves artists, though there are probably
not a score who will live in mems
memories, and certainly not one who
seems likely to dethrone Raphael. Of
authors we have, according to the census.
only eighty-two that is, but eighty-two
are willingly to confess to "genius and a,
garrett" though if publishers advertise
ments are to believed, every new month
gives birth to a literary star, and one
more brilliant than any that ever went be-
fore. To pass to bank officers and brokers
is very natural transition, and Of the
former we are favored with fourteen
hundred ; of the latter with six thousand
exemplifying the old adages that it
never rains but it pours," and "blessings
never come singly." Luckily, there are
a hundred thousand honest, stout-hearted
blacksniths, as make.weight against this
Egyptian plague flies in the shape Of
brokers and bankers. Moreover, there
are six thousand BARRIERS to "shave" the
six thousand brokers, and thus revenge
the community, which is SO essentially
s. shaved by the latter.
We have two million and half of far
mers; seventy thousand mariners; one
hundred thousand merchants; $4,000
masons, and nearly two hundred thousand
carpenters. We have fourteen thousand
bakers to make our bread twenty four
thousand lawyers to set US by the ears !;
forty thousand doctors to "kill or cure, .
and fifteen hundred editors to keep this
motley mass in order by the potent power
OF public opinion, controlled and
manufactured through the press. We
have eleven thousand hatters ten thou
sand tobacconists, thiry-one thousand
weavers. Against thirty thousand teachers,
we can 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, thoug h most Of us serve
others in some capacity or other, from the
bootblack who polishes our shoes, to the
bookseller who brig ghtens the public in
tellect. Nobody, according to the sensus
follows the trade Of politician though
there's enough, heavens knows, in this city
alone, to have condemned dozen Sodoms
or Gomorrahs. The cencus fails to re-
cord, likewise, the existense Of any patriots
j among US, though we have long thought
that patriotism was especially profession
and nothing else.
/ The orty thousand physicians support
1 five hundred undertakers, which gives the
4 important statistical fact, that it takes
/, eighty doctors to keep one undertaken in
a brief business. We have fifteen
hundred wagon makers; three thousand
watchmakers !; seventy Eight vinegar ma
kers, including. we suppose, all the cross
wives, crusty bachelors and verjuice, old
4 maids; thirty thousand wheelwrights, and
Thirty. three showmen. We have foul
thousand cutters; twenty.three thousand
Isaddlers, and five thousand railroad men.
I'VE have one hundred and ffty-four Opt.
ftcians and ten oculists, but nearly foul
| thousadd confectioners, proving that we
: |care infinitely more for eating than for eye.
t sight. This reminds US that there are
: live thousand brewers and seven hundred
!. wine dealers, but the census, strange to
, say, is silent as to the great number who
|, drink beer and "quaf the rosy. II
Ill, we have about five millions and q hal
: above the age Of fifteen years, who ar
busily emplayed at some trade, profession
I or other occupation, by which to earn
J livelihood. Il is plain we are not natio'
) Of sluggards. We nearly all do some
! thing. Nay, to be an idle drone is hap
/ PLY no accommodation in America, as
Ills in the aristocratic and monarchia
q countries in Europe.-[Pha. Ledger.
No ACCOUNT roR TAsrEs.-On the oc
y casion Of two opposition boats startin|
> from Pittsburg, one employed Germa'
! band to attract passengers; the other be
ling minus, and not desiring to be outdont
l.tsr,ed the steam whistle, which con
e nletalv drowned the music Of the banl