Southern shield., 1855-05-26


 | My heart will ever turn to thee, AMERICA l--ny home!
 
 SERVING IN THE PENITENTIARY BY ] DEPUTY. We have once or twice (says the Indianapolis Journal ) alluded to the case of Muir, the rich rascal of Ripley county, who was lately sentenced to the Penitentiary for forgery. We find the following anecdote of him in the Lawrenceburg Press:
 Old Mir. Muir who was sentenced to the Penitentiary from Jennings county lately, is pretty hard case. He has long went unwhipt of justice. We be- lieve the Ripley folks had about given up trying to convict the old man.
 Since his conviction, good one is told on the old man, exhibiting his dog ged stubbornness. It runs thus: A friend of Muir, after his conviction, asked him how it happened, as he had certainly extricated himself from sev- eral much harder cases than this one.
 "Ohn' said the old man, "my wit nesses thought they could extort ten dollars piece for swearing me out of the scrape, when I never, in all my life, paid over S5, and have frequent ly only paid $2 50 for the best kind of swearing. Five dollars is all 1t is worth. Itis liberal price. I told them 1 would see them in Tophet be- fore I would pay over $5. I am de- termined to let such villains know that they cannot practice their vile extortions upon old Muir.
 "Why, don't you think fellow asked me $20 per month to serve my time out in the Penitentiary. I told him would give him $12-and not one cent more, for it is all 1t is worth. The labor would not be as hard as making slaves or girdling beach trees. My property come too hard to be paid out at such rates"
 IMPROVEMENT IN TRELAND.-The Irish are buying up Ireland, and cap ital operation it is. Under the "En- cumbered Estates bill," which pro- vides for the sale in small lots of large landed estates burdened with debts, land to the value of one hundred mil lions of dollars has passed into the hands of the poor people. The efforts of the measure in stimulating enter prise and thrift, is said to be wonder ful, and its fruits are seen in the rapid decrease of paupers in the public aims houses. There is a future for Ireland, sure.
 ssg@lf we were only half as lenient to the living as we are to the dead, how much happiness might we render them, and from how much vain and bitter remorse might we be spared, when the grave, the atoning grave,' has closed over them.
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 "Father,'' said boy to his parent al protector, a venerable Quaker, q can lick that chimney sweep"
 '"That may be all very true my son; but if thee does, thee will get thy hands blacked in the operation,'' was the wise counsel of the peace Friend. A counsel which every sagacious editor sees frequent occasion to follow. 
 POSTPONED. The confagration of the world. The MiIlerites had fixed Saturday for the awful catastrophe, but-for some reason or other-it did not "come off, There is g. screw loose somewhere.
 -~~~>~-o-~~~-~-~~ WHY Dow THEY? -ssMa,o said an inquisitive little girl, "will the rich and poor people live together when they go to heaven? there,'
 ], Then, why don't rich and noo, Christians associate together herea, p'0' The rich mother did not answer
 ~->>c----~->S- f The following verdict, delive,. ed at Rome, Georgia, in the cass, < ot Abe Johnson vs. Thomas Cameron shows that a Philadelphia lawyer does
 
 not monopolize all the intelligent jury men in the United States: "We the gury choszen and swoarne agre that tom kamyron must pa abe gonsign the full amount of 20 fge senfs that the plaintiff pay over the won kwart of liker forthe beneftofthe guvy and kosts will be rooled out. Dobbs says he would have died of cholera in August, if 1t had not been l for thing s'the doctor gave him Up. 2