New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-22
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MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER =, 1853.
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According TO Mr. Simpson, who has written a
history Of the gipsies, there are Riosies in
America more, ia fact, than people are aware Of:
Gipsies may be said to have been IN America
ainost from the time of its settlement We have
Aifea0y seen now mang of them foundt their gay
anere, dnring the revolution, by being impressed
ns soldiers, and taken as volunteers For the bpnetii
Of the bounty and passage: and how they do
serfed on landing. Tented gipsies have been seen
Aheut baltimore for the last seventy wears In
New England, colony is known which has ex.
been looked upon with d singular feeling If ala
trust and MYSTERY by the inhabitants who are the
uescenaAnts O. the early emigrants, and who did
ny ny snspecs me origin u lately. These gipsies
nave never associated in the common sense Of
3Ie word, with the other settlers, and, Judging
taSm from their exterior, seem poor and miser-
2gsst NJ ateVer their circumstances may be. They
42aloa pretty much the employment and modes Of
\ US same class in Europe; the most striking
5eatuse being that the bulk Of them leave the
homestead for length Of time scatter in different
laLeetons and Teunite periodically at their quar-
members of the band =
Ferhaps the foundation of the American broom
manufacture Wasl laid by the British gfpsies, by
Whon y may be partly Carried on al the present
uays business they pretty much monopolize in
rough way in Great Britain. We will doubtless
and among the fraternity some Of those whiting,
NEEDING Sam Slick peddlers so often described.
nave seen some Of these itinerant vendors of
ana SUCH anEee n0fl0il9,
with dark, glstening eyes, that would s'pass for
@he aruete.8 Some Of them would live, by less
legitimate business. entertain no doubt what
from The general fitness of things and the appear
anee Of some OF the men, that we will find some
% the descendants of the old British mixed gipsies
members Of the various establishments of Messrs.
Feter Funk al Co, of the city of New York, as
ven as elsewhere. And Ientertain as little doubt
Snat many Of those American woman who tell
fortunes, and engage in those Emany curious bits
OF business that so often come up at trials, are
descendants Of the British plantation stocks Of
gipsies, But there are doubtless many OF these
glpsles5 an respectable spheres of life, 1t would
he extremely unreasonable to say that the deseen-
daats OF the colonial gipses do not still exist as
gipsies like their brethren in Great Britain and
other parts of the old world.
The English gipsies entertain no doubt of it
tae more especially as they have encountered
snch glRsies OF at least two deseents. have my
$seI met with such gypsy following decidedly
respectable calling, whom found asmuch one o
tue tribe. barring the original habits as, perhaps,
any in Europe. There are many Hungarian and
5ernaan gipsies in America-some of them long
settled IN pennsylvania and Maryland, where they
own farms Some OF them leave their farms in
s charge Ct hired hands during The summer, and
proceed South with their tents. In the State of
Eennsy lFana there is settlement of them on the
+ river, 4 little way above II, where they
have saw mills. About the Allegheny Mountains
there are many Of thes tribe, following somewhat
the original ways Of the race. In the United
states generally there are many gypsy peddlers,
- G9ut
many gipsies ia New York-English, Irish and
conhnentalsone of whom keep tin crockefy
and basket stores; but they are all annexed gip-
sies, and many Of them Of fair complexion The
9ln5Yare which they make Is generally Of plain,
coarse kInd5 SO much so that a gypsy tin store is
easily known. They frequently exhibit their tin
ware and baskets on the streets, and carry them
about the city. Almost all, If not all, Of these
Itnerant cutters and thinkers to be metWith il
New York and other American cities are gipsies
principally German, Hungarian and French.
here are good many gypsy musicians in
America.