Houma Ceres. [volume] (Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, La.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-01

advantages 10 COntcnu Win Sno 10 all HUI
or and glory to the South, and noble
re6atation of Southern lack Of enterprise
1t is said that when an old and young
person sleep together, the young vigor OF
the child is transferred into the system Of
the older. A contrary effect takes place
amongst nations. The strong and robust
sap the life from their weaker neighbors.
The stronger, like the vampire bat, hovers
over and overshadows the sleeper, and
slowly but surely e1tinguishes life. En-.
ergy and enterprise is matter Of life and
death between nations, provinces or Sec
tons. Like the adventurous travellers
amidst the snow and icy breezes Of the
the north, the only way to preserve life is
to keep awake. Should he 60 TO sleep
when exposed to their influences, his sleep
is the sleep Of death. Arouse then! Let
there be no slumber, no folding ofthe arms
to sleep-keep awake-keep moving if you
wish to exist.
Avarice is one thing-the love of money
for its equivalents is another. The miser
boards up his treasures for his own sake.
The man of enterprise and industry gen.
orally is far from being miser. Avalue
may sometimes be carried to excess and
become vice. To a Northerner it is
needless to preach up frugality or industry.
The GOODNESS of his climate, the baroness
of his soul, dreariness of its population and
the consequent difficulty of getting liv.
ing, ali conspire to teach him an early res.
pect for the ''almig hty dollar" But in the
South it is different. Our winters are not
so long or so cold, our soil generally is
more fertile, our population not SO dense.
From these circumstances it results that
we are not so industrious as our Northern
brethren, and we may yield too readily to-
the enervating influences Of southern
climate.
We have theory that the love ofmoney
will always help to make people great,
We don't mean languid desire for money,
but strong passion for it. Where that
passion exists in full force commerce will
spread its sails, manufactures spring up,
arts flourish. To those who love gold
there is magic in it, which will stimulate
man to his big hest efforts TO obtain. What
is England's greatest stimulus Why do
her spinning jennies increasingly revolve ?
Why do her sons bury themselves alive in
her mines. What prompts her advent,'-
rous mariners to dare the dangers Of the
deep and to circumnavi gate the Globe ?
Gold, Gold, Gold.
Are we no. right then to speak Of it as
the potent cause Of the prosperity Of ma.
tons? Would the Dutch republics ever
have been heard Of, if gold had not prompt.
ed them to embark extensively in COM
merce? Would Carthage or Tyre have
lived in history had they not loved gold !?
1t is true that Gold does not figure in so
prominent a manner as the main s,imulant
in the early histories of Greece and Rome,
but how soon dees it assert its dominion
even there. Athens and Corinth engaged
largely in commerce, and the Romans liv.
ed and fourished upon the wealth Of con-
quered nations. Even in Sparta when its
legislator, Lycurgus, prohibited it and only
allowed iron to be used as q circulatingl
medium. How short was it kept out
Gold figures prominently in the after his.
tory Of Sparta as in other nations. What
we wish to arrive at is this: That the
South stands in need of this love for Gold.
We have frigid, languid sort Of love for
il, but not the real genuine passion. But
what sort of moralist are you, might some
one say, astonished at the new doctrine 3
All we have to say is that when vessel
leans too much on her larboard, it is wis.
dom to shift to the other side, and when
she threatens to turn over ON the starboard,
it is our proper policy to change back.
And yet in both cases we would be acting
wisely. There is no danger in urging
Southerners to love money. With all
possible efforts that way we don't think
they could be persuaded to get ''too deeply
in love" with its charms. We think at
best, that they could only be induced to
carry ON Temporary Irritation" At all
events it seems to US plausible way for
accounting for our listlesness. There isl
no lack of mind in the South, how comes
it then that Va, for instance, has not COM
pleted her R. r. to the Ohio, when it will
bring her in so much wealth! Ansrcr Il
She does not truly 'love it,
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A Man uah Nine Wipcs.-The no.
torious Nathan Brown, the most remarka.
BILE bigamist ever koown in America, was
brought by officer Elliott the other day,