Southern telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1834-1838, 1838-12-05
CRIMINAL COURT.

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CRIMINAL COURT.
This court was an experiment. Its Or
ganization was intended to stay the commits
sion Of crime in the @Riyer countless and
the legislature in establishing fhis tribunal
acted with good intentions. They thought
that high crimes had become too common
that offenders too easily escaped the penal
lies duo their onences-that our Circuit
Courts were ton heavily burdened with civil
business, to allow sufficient investigation
Of cases where the state appeared as party
plaintiff. To obviate these inconveniences
this court was erected. The question with;
US now is: has the court answered the ends
Of its creationa Has it relieved the circuit
courts of any burden or Of any material La
Dor? In answer TO the first question webe-
lieve the whole body ofour citiaens would rise
up and with a voice as Of one man respond
in the negative, Witnesses, Jurors, plant )
ifs and defendants, counsel and officers OF
court have been doubIy harFassed. We say
doubly harrassed because tue criminal court
in failing to adiudicae upon crime, has
thrown that labor upon our circuit courts
The court under consideration has often
failed to sit aud Of this the records Of onF
circuit courts afford convincing testimony.
Cases, which should have been heard ah.Is
determined BY the criminal coufs, have been
thrown upon the circuit judges, thus defeat
ing one principal aim Of the Legislatures IN
the creation Of this court, 10 wit: the afford
ing time to our circuit judges to dispose
| finally at each term of all the litigation be-
fore them.
When any tribunal has failed to reach
the purposes of existence, good sense and
common convenience require that il should
no longer stand as sinecure among the
people.
We understand that an effort will be made
at the approaching session OF the Legislature
TO abolish this court and TO make such alter.
atoms in the times of holding our circuit
courts as will secure to the public all the
advantages that the court under view was
ever calculated to attain.
do not intend to cast censure upon
AZ who have been chosen to preside IN.
our criminal Judges. So far Otherwise wee
accord to Them al merit and are pfeassdr
that the present incumbenl was the choice
Of the district. They have no doubt seen
and felt the difficulties attendant upon a
successful organization Of the court-and
have no doubt also observed the propriety
which our legislature mightcnact its abolish.
ment.--Grand Gulf Whig.
MoNrKvIDEo.-The latest information
from the River Platte, is contained in let
ter, dated 10Th Sept, from Montevideo, and
published in the New York Courier and
Enquirer. The blockade Of Buenos Ayres,
was more strictly enforced Than formerly.
The French having recently captured and :
made prizes of vessels caught endeavoring
TO break the blockade. The province Of
Buenos Ayres, remained unsettled, and the
aspect Of political affairs was even worse
than previous advices. The letter states
that at a meeting Of the AsGmbled General
held the 18th inst, the members placed the
management entirely in the hands of the
President and Ministry, recommending the
contiruance Of war, at the same time that
no opportunity Of making peace should be
lost, If it could Be done without compromis-
ing the National honor.
Some government decrees regarding the
examination of the Estancia marks on hides
brought into market, presses heavily onthes
imp0rler of hides from the county, il being
difficult to present the proper documents iot
such, owing tothe disturbed state &c Camps.
ma for the last two years. severe penal
~ is exacted for the omission Of presenting
these documents, and no doubt viii have
effect Of preventing hides from coming for
ward. Money is becoming scarce, and 6
rise in Excange expected.
A married couple: in Quebec have heen
divorced because the lady could speak no !.
French, and the gentleman did not UNDER
stand word Of English. We have ofted.
heard Of separations because the parties
shad few words together" but this is the
FIRST where no dissent had ever been express
sed. -
| Eoidence Of Tender Heart.--A GER
tain man in Vermont once remarked that his
children were the most tender hearted be-
ings that he ever knew, aud on being asked
! what made him think 50, said-"Beca'iso
they always cry when I ash item 20 fsf q
pail Of srascy."