Southern shield., 1857-01-17
The Mexican Deserters.

which are of no little importance l regard to the events of the late wa with Mexico. He spoke at som 3 length of the bad treatment of Mexi cans by foreigners. Among othe things he said:
 "During the Mexican war 2,30 men deserted from the American arm and settled down in Mexican Provinces where the United States troops did no
 penetrate. They managed to ingra
 tiate themselves with the inhabitants and most of them married into ricl families. After all the inquiries
 have made, 1 learn that only seven Q
 Mese acere .4naericans,. nearl y all wer'
 Catholic Irish. They married daugh
 ters of rich families, had children b,
 them, and then left the country, an(
 have not been heard of since.'
 It will be remembered that during
 the Mexican war, in addition to the
 returns of the "killed and wounded,' >
 q very disproportionate number of the American forces were continually re- ported "missing" Here then is the solution. Two thousand three hun dred of the enlisted soldiers desertea the American flag while in an enemy's country, but, of this whole number, onl ly seUen were native born Americans. This fact is surely sufficient to show the propriety of enlisting in our army and navy none but native born Amer jeans. "Put none but Americans on guard. "-Lou. Jour.
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 FAST LIFE IN NEW Y0RK.-The following is portion of the testimony given in the case of Huntington, the forger. It discloses a truly extraor- dinary picture of fast life in New York. Such recklessness and extravagance are we'll calculated to startle, and the only wonder is that the miserable spendthrift was enabled to keep up the system so long:
 Samuel Berry examined--I am the father of Huntington's wife; the pris- oner's family were at my house for some months last spring; heard Mir. Clarke describe the contents of the house of the prisoner; he was correct in his description; some of the vases. I understood, cost S700 each; he had small dog which would weigh two pounds; he gave $36 for him; he had another dog that weighed one hundred and fifty pounds; he had house full of servants; he had eight or ten during the absence of his wife; he had two coachmen and two grooms; he had a 'n2Fl 22g7l ei..,araa tssy a,a Eye -nrssiS girls; 1-issllP -islP.c tash e~5ond cook; thRepubica' nlss IS wife is absent; some of them were dis charged when she returned; 1 under stood he had band of music in hi: house; he made purchases every day
 he had meat served in silver dishes or
 the Sabbath; was very particular abou
 his meals; I understood that he some
 times ordered very sumptuous ban.
 quets; I understood he had six or eigh
 horses; l knew he was preparing sta bles prior to his arrest; l knew tha
 he had purchased piece of land a ; ! YOnkers for summer residence.
 
 UNIFORM WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
 The National Intelligencer, in repl,
 to a suggestion from the Philadelphi;
 Ledger, that Congress ought to pro , vide a uniform system of weights ant measures, states that Congress has al ready done its work under the require ments of the Constitution. By a join resolution of the 14th of June, 1886 , it directed a complete set of weight } and measures, adopted as standards to be delivered to the Governor 0 each State, to the end that an uniforr l standard of weights and measure might be established throughout tn e United States. And by the 30th sec ton of the act of 30th August, 1842
 provide revenue, &c.,, it is enacte that, wherever the word "ton' is use
 in the act in reference to weight, shall be deemed and taken to be twen ty hundred weight, each hundre e weight being one hundred and twelv :. pounds avoirdupois 2,240 lbs.
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 6 MONSTER SHEEP. We saw a sheer 6 three-year old, yesterday, reared i Bourbon county, Ky, exhibited in tn z stall of Mir. Beresford, in the Lowe Market, which weighed taoo hundre
 and sirteen pounds. There wer
 several others, weighing about on
 hundred and ninety, at various stalls Two beeves were drawn through tn : streets few days ago, weighing twen
 ty-six hundred pounds, also the pro
 duct of old Kentucky.-Ctn. Eng. ! Oo.o~~~-~No.o~~
 AN OLD VEssEL.-The Savanna News announces the arrival of tn c British brig Marys, Capt. Thompson at that port, from Lancaster, { Eng e land, with cargo of coal, and says :, Frb;c I,,. o Joo.,o .r Ge4-r 4L..