Southern shield., 1853-07-09
ANNoUNc,Nn CANDIDATES:
q Slack Twisted Girl,


 frst-rate manager, 1 assure you. In the first place, she is always late to breakfast, she never combs and ties up her hair but only gives 1t smooth and twirI, sets her comb awry, and so . much is completed. Her dress eener- ally has two or three grease spots upon the front breadths, her shoes are down at the heel, and she shuffs about rather than walks. She is too lazy to open the windows to air her chamber; too indolent to take her night dress out of her bed; too inefficient to throw back the bedclothes. She yawns over her breakfast, laughs with her brothers about some young gent, hopes some body can take hints,' looks over the papers and reads the marriages, and then sits over the parlor tables with 8 yellow covered book Of the last trash literature, until her mother says, 'sSo- phia, dear, do you know how late 1t is? Do, child, make your toilet. Mr. Woodfun may call, and what would he think?' for this pretty piece of clay IS engaged to be married to our Tom.
 We'll, she goes into her nicely ar ranged bed chamber, which the maid has so carefully putin order. Heavens, how pretty 1t looks in few moments, Stockings thrown er-skelter, a pair of boots both stringless and worn threadbare; the morning dress left just as she dropped out of it, and two old faded skirts all tatered about the bot tom. Her brush is full of hair, her comb looks as black as ink, her toilet cover is bedaubed with "Macassar," "bear's oil,' and rosemary" But she is now dressed for the parlor, ready to receive Mir. Woodfun. Her hair is combed over her cars as smoothly as as if a poishing-iron had fattened every stray lock, her dress is all neatly hooked up, and what trim little form she assumes! Her boots laced closely, and she holds the identical piece of ruffling in her hand to hem which she began month ago. Her mother speaks of "Sophia's industry-she is afraid she will sew her eyes out of her head. She is thankful Mir. Woodfun has call cd, to invite her out.o And previous to going there, another dressing takes place, and her room again looks as if Bedlam were let loose, which makes only three times day that the cham bermaid is called to put things to rights.
 And the worst of all is, "our Sophi,I ( is expecting to marry Tom, whose EaeA CT is 8 rich man, but has put his seAseSSH a clerkship, at the sum of five hundred per annumi Tom, do take another look before you leap-.iust one more, my good fellow Take off the finger rings, take out the watch, take off the ribbon around the neck, and see how greasy it IS inside-and, as I live, her pocket-handkerchief isn't hemmed.- What wife you are getting! Think of her management. How your shirts and dickeys would be made; how your drawers would be folded; your stockings darned, your pants mended, your rips sewed, and your pockets feeced to pay for gewgaws, and dressing maids, and cooks, and chamber girls. With your five hundred salary all spent in your first three months of house keeping, and you, with your mouth, asking your father to lend vOu a thousand or so'---
 And then to comfort you, the slack twisted woman is your wife, and she is yours, entirely yours. Don't talk now about hanging, or drowning or being swallowed up, only let your wife go her own way, and, my word for it, something akin to the cholera will take of-for malignant diseases find their smart marks where dirt and vegetable decomposition goes Uninterruptedly.-- Yankee Blade.
 E5'The Buffalo Commercial Adver. tiser speaks thus of the conduct of the Ad ministration in giving to the Barnburn- CTS or Abolitionists all the offices in New Y York:
 The Union Knows how well the Sec retary of the State has kept faith with the former rebels of this State. The Union knows that the power he posses ses over the President has been used unscrupulously in rewarding those who were the most prominent among the traitors of l84S. The Union knows that had'Pierce and Marcy so wlled it, the Rarnburner faction of New York State might have been crushed in the earth, ith all the soctonalty and al Us isms, beyond the hope of resurrec- ton. The Union knows too, that the course which has been pursued by the Administration is the only one which could by possib Iity, have revived agita- ion, and given renewed vitality to the abolition faction of the Democratic party: Aad yet that prolessedly national organ attempts 10 excuse the action of the President and his adviser, on the score of ''expediency," and to find reasons for their policy which the Barnburners mast ridicule, and their own friends must scorn.
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