Southern shield., 1852-01-24


 DIsTREssING.-A humorous correspon- dent of the Boston Transcript is in great perplexity and trepidation because the Hun garan fever has broken out in his family. his wife especially, having taken it in a most violent form. His afflctions are great indeed. Hear him, and hearing pity:
 "Four valiant ladies hold councils of war daily and nightly with my unfortunate spouse, forming a sort of informal Kossuth club, and have succeeded in flashing them selves into deplorable state of useless en- thusiasm. am continually dispatched to the booksellers for historical, geographical, pathological and controversial works, res- pecting this interminabIe affair: but have reason to believe that the reliable informa- ton which my fair friends derive from these desultory studies is in an inverse ratio to the extent of their reading; for they seem 10 be hopelessly floundering in a sea of contra dictory statements. Their industry is in the abstract, highly commendable, though their frantic, yet hopeless attempts, 10 mas ter the Magyar dialect would, under other circumstances, be highly diverting.
 "My better half looks upon all earthly matters as ot secondary consequence, con- pared with kossuth and the cause of Hunga- "; and consequently reads, talks and thinks of nothing but this now slightly wearisome subject. have had the privilege of read ing aloud to her by special request the man. fold speeches of this patriot, and 1 most devouty trust that some stop will be pro- videntaily put to his extraordinary speech making powers. That last seven column affair in the morning papers quite disheart- ened me, but managed by rapid articula- ton and occasional ingenious skipping to get through it about midnight, although during a pause for breath in the undertaking, Ma dam, while energetically denouncing the conduct of Austria, brought her clinched hand down upon the table with such vehe- mence as to shatter my glasses which had just laid down. Verify, we eat, drink, and digest nothing but Hungary and the sub- jects pertaining thereto. Russia at break fast, Turkey at dinner, Austria and Hunga- ry at supper, with the foreign policy of the United States as. an entertainment during | lllC CFtIllUS.
 "I should not notice all this, were it not for the many and serious personal discom- forts which the matter occasions me. l am often fiercely chidden formy heartless luke warmness on the subject, and uptraided for not joining these feminine politicians in fe- rocious maledictions upon the Emperor of Austria, the Czar of Russia, and the Euro pean sovereigns generally, always excep- ting His Sublime Highness, the Sultan of Turkey. l am implored 10 open my heart to suffering Hungary, and my buttonless shirt bosom continually reminds me of the subject, and is pleasantly suggestive of wo- mans sphere. My wife never trots the baby without the Tribune in her hand, keeps a volume on Hungary on her pillow, and babbles in her sleep of declaration of inde- pendence, non-intervention politics, and Heaven knows, what beside. The name ofour youngest, whom we had decided to christen Joseph in honor of a friend of thir- ty years standing, has suddenly been chang ed to Louis by its mother, who says that no child of hers shall bear the name of the Austrian tyrant."
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 THE SNow.-The sleighing, which for some time past has been so good in our streets, is getting no better very fast. The drays, and cabs and other wheeled nuis- ances, cut up the snow in such fashion as in many places to present almost bare sur