Southern shield., 1852-10-02

"o0Oi ht<iho Oi 0llO paper, luellIllylng then = as official, and with printed stamp, for sin : gle or double postage, with suitable device
 These envelopes are to be sold at all the pos offices, at the price of the stamps now sold s with the very small addition of the actual cos
 of the envelopes. This will enable person, to deposit their letters, prepaid, in the offices ' at all hours, without trouble or inconvenience
 and without the risk of having double post
 age charged on letter, by reason of the
 stamps slipping off by the time the letter gets
 in the office, if not before, as is too often the
 case now. It will also admit of the safe trans
 mission of letters by private hand, when pre-
 tefred, without a violation of the post office
 laws, which after the first of October, will be
 very stringent on the subject.
 GEN. Scorr's SISTER. Natchez Cou-
 Tier says:
 "A sister of Gen. Scott, Mrs. Walker, re-
 sides in the vicinity of Richmond, Itawamba
 county, Miss. That has been her residence
 for several years. The whig and and demo-
 cratic electors called upon her, while canvass ing that county, and paid their respects to
 her and her married dau ughters. Mrs. Walker
 is widow, younger than General Scott, in
 person about the medium size, exhibiting
 much of the vigor of life and health, and
 altogether a Virginia, lady, ''of the olden time.'' Her daughters are described as en- phatically ''fne-looking ladies'" of prepos- sessing appearance, agreeable manners, intel lectual countenance, and tall elegant figure. They bear in feature and general appearance, striking traces of resemblance to theold hero.
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 Es5@ An attempt was lately made to de- stroy train of cars on the Hudson River Railroad, by digging a hole in the track and placing in it a rail, with one end elevated so that the locomotive would strike it, the same manner as a steamboat on the Mississippi runs against snag. Fortunately, the obstruction was discovered in time to prevent any serious damage, though the train was detained some two hours by it.
 RARE CURIosITIEs.-A Philadelphia pa- per says purser Ramsey, of the U S. Navy, | has recently brought from Brazil number ofvery elegant head dresses for ladies, which. in their material and fabric, may justly claim place among curiosities of the age Many | of the head dresses are made of scales, eyes and bones of fish, in form of flowers, beauti- fully arranged into wreaths and bouuets, while others are made up of the feathers of birds of the brilliant plumage; rivaing the hues- oi the far-faulcd bird of pa. adise - Several oi the ornaments represent delicate little birds Tn the most natural pastures, while others were made of the breasts of humming birds, forming gorgeous flowers, ot varegated hues of the most beautiful de- | scnptlon. These ornaments were made by h the nuns of one Of the convents of Brazil, It and are intended as presents to Purser Ram sey'S relatives here.
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 D7 Billy Bowlegs, and the five other Seminole Indians who went north few days IC since in charge of Mr. Luther Blake, had ( an interview at Washington with Mir. Lea, the Indian Commissioner, on the 10th u.t The Commissioner strenuously urged upon Billy the expediency and necessity of his | people emigratng west of the Mississippi, in compliance with the terms of the treaty ' ot 1852. Billy was the incarnation of non- on the' occasion. To every question put to him by the Commissioner, lis answer was 'very wel.' He complained i oia bad cold which prevented him from en t -ering into negotiations, but he promised to ( talk on the subject next day. He also want ed time to think, he said. He described fguratively the. impossibity of inducing Sam Jones 10 leave the hafnnocks I and go to Washington. He might, he said, l( have brought Sans "dead flesh but could ! not get him 10 go alive" After the inter- | view was over, Billy had talk with his old ' acquaintance, Gen. Jesnp, in the Quarter masters Bureau. To question casually put z oy Gen. Jesup, "are you going 10 the coun- :. 'y Vest" Billy, though previously con- 1ersing in English, suddenly stopped, and 'eferred to Abraham, the interpreter, to s give the reply, which was, Y do not knoso P jet." O
 A QUANDARY.-A man returned 10 this [ ty last Monday, after an absence of four ( vears, expecting again 10 taste the joys of \ tome and welded life and found to his f urprise and horror, his beloved had be- A ome another's wife. In this instance, the : ady had not proved trail, but had been de- eived by reports of the death of her absent ord, when it appeared that somebody else a ., the same name had been put under the '' od of the gold regions. This case is strict 7 true, and presents fine field for legal a a rgument as to the ownership of the female, o ,hich will, however, be obviated by the ol