Southern shield., 1853-08-13
GayIt is a strange fact. that. while

the conservative Demoeatic papers of the North with nearly one voice express strong disapprobation Of the admins tration's Freesoil appointments, the Democratic journals of the South, if they speak of those appointments at all speak of them with applobation. Yes, 1t IS strange, and 1t would be incredi- ble but for the ocular evidences of the fact, that Southern Democratic iourn- als, which have always claimed to re- gard Freesoilism and Freesoilers with the deepest scorn, should applaud the administration for making those very Freesoil appointments which the old hunker Democrats of the North treat as being at the best but an unfortunate administration blunder,
 The Southern Democratic papers tell us that there is 10 such thing as Democratic Freesolism at the North that the Freesoilers who voted for Pierce are all good compromise Demo crats standing upon the Baltimore plat form, and that it is night to distribute offices among them. Yet the Roches- ter (N. Y. ) Advertiser, an influential Dem ocratic journal, 1emarking upon a movement of the Frsesoil Democrats in that State, says:
 "There Is an instructive lesson in this important and significant desertion of the principles and measures of the Democratic administration, in which our friends at Washington will see that the prediction heretofore put forth by their reliable friends in this State, as to the utter unreliabilty of these Free soilers and their ulte,ior designs, are being fulfilled to the etter. Let them ponder on these things"
 The Hudson (N. Y.) Gazette ex- communicates the Barnburner members of the Legislature, adding:
 1.-The vote shows how these men can be relied upon in carrying out the prin- ciples embodied in the compromise measures which were adopted by the last Democratic National Convention. :"
 The Albany Argus, the most infu- ential Democratic journal in the State of New York, reads the whole Freesoil faction out of the Democratic party thus emphatically:
 "The stampede of tie Bufaloes in the Assembly, when brmght to the test of fidelity to the principes of and pol icy of the National Administration, under MT. Taylor's resoutions-is but the prelude, we trust, 0 the hegira of the entire squad of Freesoil renegades from the Democratic fod. The soon CT this most desirable coniummatlon can be brought about, the sooner will the Democracy of the State regain it's won ted strength and soundIess, and prove itself worthy of fellowship with their brethren of the confedemcy, As mat ters stand now, the Natonal Democra- cy may we'll regard the "reunited De- mocracy ofNew York" IS corrupt and disgraceful coalition"
 Now, in the language of Richmond Whig, we beg of our Southern Demo- cratic cotemporaries to inform the peo- pie who are the best opponents of the real opinions entertained by the Pierce Abolitionists-they or the Northern press? Who have the lest opportunity and the best evidence 10 judge of the fitness of those Abolitiopists to be en- trusted with the power and patronage of the Government? The latter surely. Yet the expression of every Northern Anti-Abolition paper, Wbig or Demo- cratic, has been condemnatory of those appointments. Has it come to this, then, that Northern journals have to assume the defense of those great national principles, involving the interests of the South, while Southern Democratic journals dare not utter word in their behalf, but strive to defend the power that spurns them, and meekly kiss the rod that chastises them, with the vain hope that "thrift mayfollow fawning." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~O~
 ROYAL BABIES. foreign advi-I ces have already announced the mo- mentous fact that the Prir ,e of Wales has the measles. Just think of 1t, The Queens baby-the heir to the proudest throne in Europe-is 'all broke out" and has been placed on a saffron tea diet We wonder where those measles came from. Are they royal measles? Have they been handed down through long line of kings" or have they run and ragged in plebian blood? This is an important point, for if the disease was caught from common infection, it would tend to show that the Queens babies were no better than ours--noth- ing more than human. By the way, this Prince of Wales is the same boyI that Prince Albert licked so the other day for kicking out two panes of glass. What between the birch and the mea- sles the little fellow has close lodging. IF bo will run away. and come over