Houma Ceres. [volume] (Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, La.) 1855-18??, 1856-03-06

We like fearless and Independent mode
Of speaking out on the part OF any one'
The editor of the Calcasieu Press, an
eight by ten sheet published at Lake
Charles, gives vent to his Indignation in
regard to the election Of Banks as Speak
er, in the following laconic and Pithy style.
If any of the wise Solons this side Of Ma
son and Dixon's line, should have been
guilty of the improvidence of having cast
ed their votes for Banks, we would advise
them 10 stand from under: $50.
Election of Speaker.-The long agony
is over, the Federal House of Representa-:
tives after squandcring about $4,000 Of
the peoples money, have at last effected
an organization, by placing in the Speak
er's chair, N. P. Banks Of Massachusetts
"a rabid abolitionist and practical ANAL
gamationist,
Freemen Of the South! what think you
of this ? man chosen to preside over the
councils of this government, who is in ia
yor Of seeing the black African negro
lead to the hymenial altar the fair daugh-
tiers of America /! What atrocity! What
outrage may we not now expect 3? We fear
that the days of our Republic are number
ed !; that the rich boon Of Republican lib
erty bequeathed TO US by our forefathers is
gone. We have not seen the yeas in sup
port Of this damnable measure, but should
any member South of Mason's and Dixon's
line have countenanced it, an eternity Of
disgrace awaits him; the people Of the
South will never forgive him, and it is
questionable whether God himself would.
o. The news from Mexico is Of the
most thrilling nature. This benighted
land is again in perfect furor-com-
pletely reyolutionized-law and order be.
ing set at defiance, and red riot running
stark mad "Vot country Vot a peo-
ples" So Mexico wags on, and so will il
continue until the civilizing Anglo Saxon
blood be instilled into her veins.
The following in relation to this once
proud, but now mysterious and changeling
country, may not be irrevelant:
MExICo.-Who shall describe Mexico
the Mexico Of that age? It ought to be
one who had seen all the wonders of the
world and he should have for an audience
those who had dwelt in Venice and Con-
stantinople, who had looked down upon
Granada from the Alhambra, and who had
studied all that remained to be seen of the
hundred-gated Thebes Of Babylon. and
Nineveh. The especial attributes Of the
most beautiful cities in the world were
here conjoined; and that which was the
sole boast ofmany world.renewned name,
formed but one Of the charms of this en-.
chantress among cities. Well might the
rude Spanish soldier find no parallel but in
the imagination Of his favorite romance.
Like Granada, encircled, but not frowned
upon, by mountains fondled and adorned
by water, like Venice; as grand in il.
buildings as Babylon of old, and rich with
gardens. like Damascus-the great city o.
Mexico was At that time the fairest in the
world, and has never since been equalled
Like some rare woman, Of choicest paren.
tage, the descendant Of two royal houses
far apart, who joins the soft, subtle, grace.
fA beauty Of the south, to the fair, blue.
eyed, blushing beauty Of the north, and sits
enthroned in the hearts Of all beholders
$50 sat Mexico upon the waters, with a
diadem Of claiming towers, q fair expanse
Of fiowery meadows on her breast cir.
Gle Of mountains as her zone; and, not un
woman.like, rejoicing in the reflection o
her beautiful self from the innumerable
mirrors which were framed by her streets
her courts, her palaces, and her temples,
The Spanish Coquets in america.
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or In. the celebrated case of Wilson &
Heirs, VS. Craighead & ais, pending be.
fore the United States Supreme Court, the
Southern Sentinel, of Plaquemine, chron.
icles high compliment paid to Zenon La.
bauve, ESQ.,, OF that town, by Hon. Rev.
erday Johnston. He says: 700
As might be supposed, there were in this