True Democrat. (Paulding, Miss.) 1845-18??, 1846-04-01

Our VIsIr TO NEwToN.-We met many
old and warm friends At Decatur, during our
recent visit, and the hearty greeting with when
we were welcomed amongst them, was the
best guarantee that the liberal support which
the patriotic yeomanry of Newton county
have hitherto extended to us, will be continued.
We added largely to our circulation, had fiat
tering testimony to the high esteem in which
our paper is held by the citizens of Newton,
and were altogether delighted with our visit
During the session of Court the Hon A. B.
DAWSON presided with unusual dignity.
The docket was disposed Of in two days
and half to the entire satisfaction of the peo-
pie We had occasion to note the efficiency OF
JAMES J. MONROE, Esq, Clerk of the Court,
and OF N b. JOHNSTON, Esq, the sheriff of
Newton. Both those gentlemen are popular
and worthy officers.
The State vs. Willis Merit larceny was
continued.
The State vs.. Henry Pulen assault and
attempt to murder,) was ably defended by MAJ
McDugald and Mr. Fairman. 1; resulted in
the acquittal ofthe defendant
Newton county is fourishing. The pro-
iected Rail Road has givenan impetus to emf
grafton into tha county, and the vacant lands
are being rapidly settled.
as A Mr. Templeton has been creating
sensation in Vicksburg as vocalist He IS
native of the city, and its goodhearted citl-
zens gave him bumper concert, previous to
his departure on a tour through the Atlantic
States
THE JArL.-Jaspcr is certainly looking up
1t can now boast the possession of those two
great auxilaries ofjustice, Court House and
Jail. Our Jail is now finished, and a massive
looking structure it Is,
"Where hope might enter to despair"
Who will hereafter talk of the impregnablity
of stone and mortar, when pine logs can be so
welded together as to defy the desperate encr-
gy of the condemned in his frantic efforts for
liberation? Look at the rude exterior of that
building, and it at once conveys the idea of
strength The poor devil who enters this
catacomb of logs must sit down in desponden-
cy, whether innocent or guilty, nor dream Of
escape until the fiat Of justice shall have spok-
en- his doom. How many wretch, cxpating
pine within those wooden walls and curse the
fraity that yielded to the Establishments of vice
How many villain, damned in inamy, will
lest and eer upon the rough floor Of this cata-
comb, glorying in his own shame and invok-
ing the punishment OF justice by his very steel
hearted indifference. Hundreds will have
entered here; many will go "unwhipt of JUS
tce," and others deserving a scorpion lash,
will get "scott free" through some bubble in
law, or the practccd skill Of the attorney This
is c,lled "iustice," and it is as much so as ever.
LEGISLATION can only progress as man morally
;mrrovcs and info. nnately, that improvement
docs not keen mace win tue advancement OF
the age in every other respect Man 1'''
round himself with the conveniences of his own
invention and discovery, but yet he seems in
capable of improving and perfccting the ma.
chiuery of his own heart. Instead Of training
it to gentleness and virtue, its passions are left
to their widest impulses, and the inevitable re-
suit is, criminality in its worst forms and most
dangerous excesses Then comes the law,
clothed in the grim majesty Of penal tcrrors,
-jails dungeons and gibbeis These things
are evIs-necessary evils-lor their disgusting
spectacles turn mans eye upon himself, and
teach.him the deep degradation of his nature
Ii we have schoos-schools where the moral
as well as the mental man will receive a sllu.
tary cuure-there will no longer be a neccs.
sy for jails; the monster of crime will rarely
infest US: and when it does it will realize the |
poets truism-
"Vice is a monster ofsuch frightlul mein,
That, to be hated, neceS but to be seen"
The Contractors, Messrs. Thompson and
Carson, we understand, have performed their
contract to the full satisfaction of the board Of
police.