The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-01

America. That term was thence adopted by
Portuguese and Dutch, English and French,
Immigrants into the colonies of North and
South America. We have seen, that in the
lapse OF years the term was misapplied to
negroes, muhtoes, animals, vegetables and
fruits. This, in Louisiana, was and is now
true to the very letter. Go back to any file
OF newspapers, dating even twenty years ago.
and you Can read, as 1 now read in the col
umns of the Louisiana Courier OF the 28;h of
February, 1880: "For sale, likely young
Creole negro, twenty seven years of age; is
something OF carpenter" etc. Runaway,
q stout American negro, with wen on his
neck-runaway with wen on his neck is
simply delightful-he is a Jack of all
trades. Here, you see, we have
stout american negro, in contrast with q
| likely Creole negro. From what admitted
geography of the earth could you, good
Moran, suppose that stout american negro
and likely Creole negro could lawfully have
come? Farther on, in my old newspaper,
find: "Estray, sorrel Creole horse, with
white spot on his left forefoot." Very well,
for the stray Creole horse l read little
farther on and I find an "Amer;can bay
horse, fifteen hands high, with blaze on his
face" Attracted by this newspaper zoology
and probably urged by slight curiosity Of
knowledge, pass on with the hope of ascer- |
tanning whether might not, in this goody |
company. find some other respectable quad |
ruped, hemmed within the com pass of com
posing stick. In the columns of the paper,
however, find no advertisement for either a
Creole or an american donkey. The fact
compelled me, with memorable logic, to infer
that there were, then, no animals of the
kind in Louisiana. OF other specimens
of creolsm of which you daily hear,
we have "creole cows" to distinguish
them from the four-hoofed ladies that come
from Texas or Kentucky. We have creole
chickens to difference them from the pipped
and dropping brothers and sisters that travel
in railroads and steamboats, from st. Louis
and Cincinnati. When the hens have become
climatized and drop their eggs on Louisiana
soil, they become "creole eggs" by virtue of
which fact, the huckster women will charge {
you i've cents apiece for them, while they !
will readily give you two american eggs for the i
same price. Ask why this difference and the
answer is ready: Them's none of your Louis /
vile eggs; them's creole eggs, laid right here g
n New Orleans. Then again you have creole 1
cabbage, not so firm and white as the West I
srn, bat how much more tender in t
Iavory creole onion out of the grand |
Ioil of Louisiana, instead Of the large I
ough Connecticuts. The creole sugar cane | L
% soft in fibre and as slender as an aspara-
,us stalk, pitted against the half saccharine d
)taheiti, or the hard Cuban cane The oily, r
elbow creole corn, for the rich hominy of o
he breakfast table, against the white flint of n
)hio and Kentucky The creole rice, which, v
1hen carefully polished, so as not to break p
he plump grain, is more esculent than is the b
ice of the Nile of Egypt or that Of the banks tt
+ the Irawaddy and safer to the molars than f
be rice from the pebble fields of South Caro- o
ina And lastly, my good friend. this special A
creole nonsense, for which your indulgence K
! begged by your servant and friend, tt
ALE1'R DEdITRY. al