Southern shield., 1851-07-26
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 thence, either private or public Off Bar negat, we fell in with fishing smack, hav- ing on board a man and boy, father and son. We wanted some fresh fish, and the father coming on board, we soon made bargain with him, receiving in exchange for F. real Indian bandana handkerchief, pien- -t;fe! snpply. @
 "Teli, skipper" said I, after the barter was over, "what's the news!'
 He nodded his head thoughtfulIy for a moment and said, "Potatoes is twenty-five cents bushel."
 "Is it possible!" I asked; "but the news, friend--what is the ne,cs2"
 "Wal," said he, "there was great crop on 'em last fall!''
 "Never mind the potatoes" I replied, "tell us the news, what's going on la the political world?"
 "Poitikir" said the fisherman, standing silent for few moments. "PolitkilI!- dye you see that fellow in my boat, yon- der?" pointing to his son, a mop-headed fel- low of eighteen; "Wa, captain. that are chap made two hundred dollars last winter"
 There was no use in trying to get any thing out of him, so we parted. Three or four years after, on my return from another voyage, coming on the same coast, again met this fisherman. He remembered me, took the identical bandana had given him and waved it with cheer above his head, and swore 1 should have the biggest and best fish he had. 1 had made another pur- chase of him, and was again anxious for the news. "What's the news?' 1 inquired,-- "Who'S .President?"--it was just after general election.
 Said the fisherman, "D'ye recollect my boy that had in the smack with me--the one who made the two hundred dollarS?''
 "Yes," said I.
 "WaI," he replied, his hard eyes bocom- ing watery, ''the d--d little cusS is dead." "And that" said the captain, in concIu- sion, lis all 1 ever got out of the fisherman of Barnegat. ."-Spirit of the Times.
 
 A WHOLESOME TRUTH.-The Selma Southern Enterprise, paper neutral in pol to the encouragement and advancement of Southern improvement, pertnentIy re- marks:
 "lf men who go to sleep murmuring Rights;' when the morning dawns drawl out Southern Rights,' and name their children Southern Rghts,' would devote little of their attention to the development of Southern resources, they will soon have rights that would maintain themselves"
 
 OPINIoNs.-"Al judicial opinions are in favor of this Ohe Fugitive Slave) Law Daniel Webster.
 Yes-but public opinion is against it, TSyracuse Journal.
 No--but public opinion is not against it as is evidenced by the Congressional El- ections which have resulted in the election of men who voted for it, or who did not op- pose the law, as we'll as by the general ac- quieScence of the country in it.
 The country is not particular village, city, or county--but a continent almost, that stretches from the Passamaquoddy to the Pac6c-and before that country there is no more chance of repeating that law, assaulted in the way it is, than of repeating the constitution itself Ten votes cannot be got in the United States Senate, out of the sixtv-two there, to touch it now. This is "public opinion."-TN r Express.
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 DEspERATIoN-A letter to the Tribune mentions the circumstance of a merchant at San Francisco, who, having been burnt out of all that he owned by the previous fires of that city, when the flames of the last conhagration surrounded his building, III which he had all he possessed, cooly invited his wife to WaIkout and see the lire. When theE, had passed into ttIe street, in q mo- ment of mad phrenzy, he drew revolver and shot her through the head, and then in- stantly ended his own life with another shot.
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 JEALoUsY.-Tormenting yourself, for fear you should be tormented by another.- "Why," asks Rochefoucald, ''does not jeal- ousy, which is born with love, always die with it?" He would have found an answer to this question, had he reflected that self love never dies. Jealousy is the greatest of mislortunes, and excites the least pity.
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 David Crockett used to say of the late Philip Hone, with whom he was in Con- greSs, that he was the perHteSt man he ever knew-'cause why?" said the Colonel, "he alters puts his bottle on the sde-board be- fore he asks you to drink, and then turns his back so as not to see how much you take! This is what call raeI PerIateneSS."
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 The new Constitution of Maryland went into effect on the 4th inst.
 It abolishes imprisonment for debt which for so many years has been foul blot upon the statute book of the State. A correspondent of the Lowell Courier writing from the San Jose Mission, says that the bulls in that region live to such an age that their owners have to fasten long poles to the end of their horns 10 fet t1e ,minkles gro,O out on!