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/ AMERICAN GIPsIEs.--Gipsies are known in all


countries in European idle vagabond race,


without settled homes, living by theft, beggary,


ana fortune telling, and the mending Of pots and
Kettles. They are of uncertain origin, but show


the same characteristic marks, wherever they are
found. No attempts have hitherto succeeded in


reducing the gipsies of Europe to the habits Of
civilized life. 1t has been supposed that none Of


this singular race exist in America where, in our


woods and wilderness, their wandering propensi-


ties might have bad double space for exercise.


Yet, in fact, there is acoIony of gpsies, who were
broughtto. America by the French, in early times,
and whose posterity now live and flourish
on the shores Of Biloxibay, in Louisiana. phi
losopher, contemplating the points OF similarity
between the European gypsy and the American
Indian, both untameable-one the wild man OF
civilized countries, and the other Of the forest
might have imagined that the two races would at
once have mingled, and the gypsy have settled
in the Indian wigwam. On the contrary, ever
since their settlement on this side ofthe Atlantic,
gipsies appear to have thrown off their heredita-
ry characteristics. No difference can be percei-
we'd between them and other descendants Of
French colonists, exceptin personal appearance;
their complexion is much darker, and their hair is
coarse and straight. They still call themselves
gipsies or Egyptians, but are industrious, orderly
IN their habits, and retain nothing Of their an
,estry, except the name.