Southern shield., 1856-02-23
What we all do.

An amusing hour may be spent i'll search ing. out from the confused figures of the cen sas, the number of persons Following various occupations in the United States. Thus we rejoice, as nation, in having two thousand persons who pronounce themselves artlsts, though there are probably not a score who will live in mems memories, and certainly not one who appears likely to dethrone Raphael, Of authors we have. according to the census, only eghty-two; that is, but eighty-two who are willing to confess to genius and a gar ret though, if publishers advertisements are to be credited, every new month gives birth 10 new literary star, and one more brilliant than any that ever went before To pass t0 bank officers and brokers is a natural transition; of the former we are favored with fourteen hundred of the latter with thou sands eXemplifying the old adages, :" that It never rains but it pours,' and that /" bless ing8 never come singly." Luckily, there are hundred thousand honest, stout hearted blacksmiths, as @ make-weight against this
 Egyptian plague of flies in the shape of bro- liers and bankers. Moreover, the six thou. sand barbers '' shave ' tbe six thousand
 brokers. and thus revenge the community, which is So essentially l" shaved " by tho latter.
 We have two and half millions of farm CTS; seventy thousand mariners; one hundred thousand merchants sixty four thousand ma sons. and nearly two hundred thousand car penters. We have fourteen thousand bakers to bake our bread; twenty-four thousand lawyers to set us by the ears forty thousand
 doctors to ''1ill or cure" and fifteen hun dred editors to keep this motley mass in or der. by the potent power of public opinion, controlled and manufactured through the press. We have eleven thousand matters ten thousand tobacconists. and thirty one thousand weayers. Against thirty thousand l teachers we can set off fifty thousand tailors, So that we care nearly twice as much for ad6rning the body as we do for decking out the mind. Only twenty-two thousand people have been willing to set themselves down as servants; though most of us serve others, m some capacity or other, from the boot-black who polishes our shoes, to the bookseller who
 brightens the public intellect. Nobody, ac-
 cording to the census follows the trade of politician. though there are enough heaven
 knows, in this city alone to have condemned
 a dozen Sodolas or Gonicrrahs. The census fails to record, likewise. the existence of any patriots among us, though Ne nave long
 thought that patriotism Was espeelaliy pro
 lessioll- a profession and nothing else. The forty thousand physicians support fye hundred rndertskers, which gives the impor- tant statistical fact, that 1t takes eighty doc fers to keep one nndertaker ill brief busl- ness. We have fifteen hundred wagon-rna- kers; three thousand watcb-makers; seventy Eeiebt vinegar makers, including, we suppose. | all the cross grained wives and crusty old
 bachelors tE.irfy thousand wheel wrights ana thirtY-tnree showmen. Ne have four l thousand cutters twenty tloasand saddiers and five thousand railroad men. we nave one hundred and ffty-iour opticians and ten oc0lists. but nearly idnr thousand eonteetion- ers- proving that we care infinitely more for eating thau for cges:aht. This reminds us thaf fhere gre five thousand brewers and seven hundred viae-dealers but the census, 1 stfanee sss say. is silent $ to the number who dr;nk baer and quaf the rosy. 7 In all, 1 Te have about five aud { half millions, above inc aoe of fifteen years, who are bnslly en- ployed at some trade, or protesslon, or other oceupation, by which to earn livelihood, 1. III is plain we are not a nation ot suggards- Ne nearly ell do something. Nay. to be an lidle drone is happilyno recommendation m America, IS 1t is in the aristocratlc and rnonarehial countries of Europe.
 Philadelphia Ledger.
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 E1sg-A Yankee doctor, 1t is salo, has cens rived to extract from saasagss a powerful tonic, which, he says. contains sll the strength of the original bafk. Democrat. The editor of the Democrat has repeatedly it,;imatea that sausages are made of dogs. We have no doubt that those he eats are, His 1laraegs indicate his diet
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 1 An aifray took place oi last onbds- morning in Anderson, .irilas8 county, m which Bob Barker and Thomas Cobb were killed by MT. WolnssS. Mir T. has pGen noted desperado for seyelal years, ana Ills
 death will not De regretted by the civil DOT l tion of the community.
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 asgA Vegetables are getting plentiful m | ca;.a We have been informed that ttTDPs