Pickings from the portfolio of the reporter of the New Orleans "Picayune" : comprising sketches of the easterm Yankee, the western Hoosier, the quaint Cockney, the droll Irishman, the patient Hollander, the volatile Frenchman, the self-sufficent exquisite, the henpecked husband, the jolly tar, the eccentric African, and such others as make up society in the great metropolis of the South