Houma Ceres. [volume] (Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, La.) 1855-18??, 1857-02-21

NEDONNE, La, OAl u Il
RAISING TEA-Cdshmere Goat.-A
correspondent of the Western Recorder,
writing from Grecnville, South Carolina,
says: as" .51 .Hs ia-
am within few miles of the place
where the experiment was made of raising
tea. 1t has proved failure. The plan,
will grow well enough, but wages are too
high in this country. We cannot afford to
pick, to roll up and dry any sort of leaves
here for half dollar pound. In China,
where man is hired for one dollar a
month and boards himself il may be done.
am glad to learn that the 'Cashme re
goat, introduced by J. Il. Davis, does well
here. The goat is hardy. prolific, and
produces a heavy fleece of wool, SO fine
that the finest French merino is coarse in
comparison, and then it is from six to nine
inches long. tAa
A son Of his, Mr.. Scott Davis, has a
cargo Of fresh Angora Cashmere goats on
their way to Gallatin, Tennessee, where
he intends to establish colony OF the Sc
Asiatics. Our ladies in Kentucky may
therefore expect, in few years, TO find
themselves employed in knitting cashmere
stockings and gloves, as find some of the
ladies here now doing.
A GAMBLER.-Among the innumerable
anecdotes related of the ruin of persons
at play, there is one worth relating which
refers to Mr.. Porter gentleman, who,
in the reign Of Queen Anne, possessed
ono Of the best estates in Northumberland
and the whole Of which he lost at hazard
in twelve months. According to the story
told Of this madman-for we will call him
nothing else--when he had jus. completed
the loes Of his last acre at a gambling
house in London, and was proceeding
down stairs to throw himself into car
riage to convey him home to his house in
town, he resolved upon having one more
throw to try to retrieve his losses, and inn
mediately returned to the room where the
play was going on. Ncrved for the worst
that might happen, he insisted that the
person he had been playing with should
give him one chance Of recovery, or fight
with him. His proposition was this -
That his carriage and horses, the trinkets
aud loose money in his pockets. his town.
house, plate and furniture--in short, all he
had in the world-should be valued 1t a
certain sum, and be thrown at single
cast. No persuasions conld prevail upon
him to depart from his purpose, He threw
and lost. Then conducting the winner to
tho door, he told the coacbn,an there was
his master,s and marched forth into the
dark and dismal streets without house or
homo or any creditable means Of support.
Thus beggard he retired to an obscure
Lodging in a cheap part Of the town, sub
sisiing partly on charity, sometimes acting
as the marker at Z billiard table, and oc.
casionally rs helper in livery stable.
Ia this Iniserable condition, with naked
ness and famine staring him in the face,
exposed to the taunts and insults Of those
whom be had once supported, he was re-.
cognizeds by an old friend, who gave him
ten guiners 10 purchase necessaries. He
expended Eve in procuring decent apparel,
with tho rcmainder he repaired to cons
mon gambling house, and insreased them
to fifiy; hs then adjourned 70 one Of the
higher order OF houses, sat sdDwn with for
mef associates, and won twenty thousand
pounds. Returning the mcknight, he lost
il all. was once moro penniless, and after
many years in abject penury.
died a ragged beggarsia St. Giles.
-. s5ys aEi
ot0T Tho head clerk Of 4 large mer-
camille house was Dragging rather largely
Of the amount of business done by his
!. fismm. - You may judge Of its extent, :"
said he, IS when / tell you that tho quilts
for our correspondence only, 5 cost TWO
thousand dollars year!" a'.' Pooh !" said
the clerk Of another house who was sitting
BY what is that 10 our correspondence,
when l save four thousand dollars a year
ia ink, from merely omitting to dot the "
IaEod 9ts ~ as--.-- e ho'i'sa' az
A THO OF .ARABs.-Three Of the Be-
douin Arabs which came TO this country
with the last Government importation Of
camels, created no little excitement yes
terday when passing down Common street,
in company with their interpreter. They