Southern shield., 1853-07-09


 this painful intelligence precludes curl saying more at present;--wc shall re- vert to 1t again in our next. 
 APoLoGY.-ln consequence oF the| "devil'' being on sort of D s'bust'' about the 4th, we have been unable to| get our paper out until to-day, Monday.
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 TIE RAILROAD MEETING ON SATUR- DAY LAsT.-Owing to the frequent showers that fell during the day, the meeting was not as full as it would otherwise have been. The Rev. T. $. N. King was called to the chair.- After the object of meeting had been| explained by tho Chairman, J. C. Pal mer addressed the meeting in his usual able manner. The speech of Mir. Palmer was able, argumentatiye, and to the point, the bursts of applause that greet ed the speaker again and again proved the electric effect of his remarks upon his hearers. Mir. Palmer introduced a series of resolutions which he discussed at length;- they were unanimously adopted.
 Dr. Jeh'eries submitted an esti- mate, in tabular, form showing con- clusively the propriety of the county taking stock in the contemplated Road from Helena to Little Rock. For par tculars we refer our readers to the official proceedings of the meeting in another column.
 
 THE WEATHER AND CROPS. Some parts of the county, within the last eight or ten days, have been blessed with genial showers, whilst other DOT tions are still suffering from drouth.- The plantations on Old Town, we un- .derstand, bid fair to turn out tolerably A crops of cotton,-but the corn bs are deplorably bad, in conse- q1ence of the continued dry weather. In fact, we are informed by an intel ligent overseer, that unless they have rain on the Ridge" within few days, the corn crops will almost prove fail MONDAY, July llth, s o'clock 4. M. Very hard rain on yesterday thro' out the county, as far as heard from; very wet this morning, and still raining. The rain that has fallen in the last 24 hours is worth $1O0,00O to the farm CTS of this county. They can now af- ford to take that amount of stock in the Railroad from Helena to Little Rock, in addition to the amount they would have taken before the rain.
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 EaD@ The communication of "A True Republican, has been received. In an swer to the request in the P. $. we would advise our friend to take more time, next time. To comply with his request in regard to corrections, &c., would prove fatal to his production; its fair proportions would be so mutilated that he would fail to recognize it.
 
 ssDWill each of our merchants and cotton shippers furnish us with a state ment of the number of bales of cotton shipped by them the past season? The question has been asked us how many bales were shipped from Helena. Hence the request.
 ~~~~~~~~~~ STEALING OUR THUNDER Will the] editor of the Ripley (Miss. ) Advertiser have the kindness to inform his readersl where he got the story, published in a! number of his paper, headed ssPleasantI thoughts for dying man?'' Let'sI hear from him.
 
 gs9@ Three runaway slaves escaped from our county jail, on the night of 9th inst, they sawed bolt forming al part of the hinge of the jail door in| two; the bolt was made out of II inchl iron.
 
 MEMPHIS < CHARLESTON RAILROAD From the Memphis Eagle < Enquir- CT we learn that this road is completed as far as Lagrange. syT Thanks to the polite Clerk of tbe steamer Columbus for late NeW|