Houma Ceres. [volume] (Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, La.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-22

veal than many of the mos: severely pun
ished crimes of society. by its general i'm
punity.
sGood name in woman,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls,
Who steals my purse steals trash,
But he that fches from me my good name,
Makes me poor indeed"
And yet the man who steals the purse is
called a thief, and suffers thief's reward,
while for the robber of character there is
no fixed punishment, at least in ordinary
cases. The more is the pity.
The fruitful neither of scandal is idle
ness. Busybodies, as some one has terse-
ly said, are almost always idlers. The
less business man or woman has, the
more they are apt to NEEDLE with that of
their neighbors and
''satan finds some mischief still,
For idle hands to do
It is melancholy to see how fearfully a
little calumny, carelessly and thoughtlessly
uttered, at first, goes gradually swelling on
to the gigantic proportion of damnlng
scandal. The mother of the mischief is
no bigger than a midge's wing, but the
tulsCHieI Is OIit vi tue sW iIttst pIO"lus anu
most pernicious influences. A word, nay,
a shrug. has often been amplified into
whitening defamation of character, where
there has Eeen no foundation, or next to
none, for the aspersion. ..... ST..
A satirical philosopher has said that
there is something in the distresses ofour
best friends that gives US pleasure. This
harsh judgmen; of human nature is rejected
by an ingenious mind, inexperienced in the
world and the worlds ways; but it gains
his reluctant assent when he sees the read
mess with which one friend is apt to lend
an ear to the detraction of another. 1t is
la dismal admission to be compelled to
make, but Rochefoucault is correct in his
satire.
There is no sin against our neighbor
that would be more surely avoided, il SUBJ
iected to the operation of the christian law,
than this. For upon slight grounds, or no
grounds at all, to malign the character Of
a fellow-being, is not to do unto another as
we would have another do unto us. And
yet we are quite as liable to be its inno-
cent victim as that other. As we would
be fairly treated by our neighbor, in such
a case. so should we, upon the first whis.
pering Of a SANDER, treat him, and judg dge
not lest we be judged.
Scandal rises, in most instances, like
the first sigh Of the gentlest summer eve
ming zephyr. Softly its voice breathes
amidst the flowers, scarcely bending sim
gle leaf as it passes. Presently the zephyr
gale; s as .0s. .-
"Prende forza a POGO POGO, 81
VOLTA gia di loco in loco"
Bye and bye this simple little breath has
become tempest, and carries before il
irremediable wreck and ruin te its unfor-
tunate victim. Surely of all the vices of
which man or woman can be guilty, there
is none more contemplate, as there GER
tainly is none more deadly, than the vice
of scandal.-N. O. Picayune.
TERRIBLE FR1cHr.-A Hoar.-Capt.
Squires, of the llth Ward Police, makes
report as follows to Chief Mitchell. He
says: -.- e.
"Mr. Lloyd Briant, one Of the Consta.
bles of this Ward, came rushing into the
Station house, last night, about II o'clock,
pale and trembling with excitement, with
out.stretched arms, and bundle in his
hands, which he deposited on the floor
exclaiming between each effort to get his
breath-sChild child = schild!'
"On unrolling the bundle from many
pieces Of old rags and newspapers, it was
found 10 contain small dog which had
met an untimely end, and which some wag
had placed at his door as joke on the
worthy official. On seeing the content:
of the bundle exposed Mr.. l.. looked deci
dedly chop-fallen, and left without unne
cessasy loss of time assuring all concerned
that the child was not his.''
rThe following daguerre,ype of hi:
Satanic Majesty was given by a negro
preacher in Virginia to his ''colored bred
dren:"
"Stan' side niggers, let me tell you
hab a dream, and see de debbil! He hal
an eye like de moon; he hab nose like
a canoe he hab an ear same as 'bacc;
leaf; he hab a shoulder like de Blue Ridge
and hab tail like de rainbow!''
i @ An lrishman named Eagan wa.
arrested in Boston a few days ago on {