Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-05-30
Remedies for increase of crime.

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/ Remedies for increase of Crime.
f The Increase of crimein the country a
large has becomel matter of universal nc
toriety and the failure tospunish criminal
has rendered the laws on the subject al
most obsolete. Indeed, the only re, easul
which in many cases follows "a murder, is !:
Ieraye waste Of eight or ten days time 5,
court, lawyers, juries@ and witnesses, and !.
| bill of costs to the Commonwealth. 3asa s,
A religious paper now before us makes
an effort to explain the cause of the Increase
OF crime, and toasnggest remedies. The
cause, it alleges, is found in part in fac,
that more attention is giyento the mere
intellectual that to the moral culture O
youth that in times of great civil eonvul,
sion, when anarchy and violence prevails
as in the first French revolution, it is the
learned and not the ignorant, who lead the
way to destruction No severity of laws
says the writer,no strictness in the inforce-
ment of penalties, will secure public Justice
amongst corrupt community, or serve as
q substitute for an honest heart III the peo.
pie. You may multiply jails and rpeniten-
tiarles, yet, in spitesof all these, crimes will
multiply SO long as heart Of the people
is left in its corruption, to the work at the
great fountain of crime. The conclusion to
which the writer comes, is, that Christiani-
ty has a power exceeding all Others in
countenancing human wickedness; and is
adequate to all the present necessities Of
the nations, sinking under the weight Of
their owncorruptlons and crimes. el e
This all seems very we'll, but we may
suggest that the power to work out reform,
must not be that sublimated sort of Chris
tainity which claims a wisdom and re-
Ifinement beyond the precepts of its great
founaef, and which has too much tender
ness of conscience to hang a muir !erer when
his crime is made manifest. In short there
must be, in addition to the moral culture
admitted toiobe necessary in diminishing
crime, that stern idea of justice which rem
ders the certainty of punishment terror
to eyilsdoers.- National Intelligencer.
49,
1, TIE DEPARTING INFLUENCE OF Calico.
When we look into the thoroughfares;
alas, we see no calico Silk and all it's
half sister fabrics, glide along--somes dag
cling, some queer, some splendid, some
fantastic,-but none have the sweet clean,
fascinating, elegant appearance of the cali
co which used to skip b., with pretty skip
pers in it. There are those who mourn
over little things-the dropping violet, the
stricken bird, the broken rattle box, the ia
ding rose, the dying kitten, the rain spoil
ed bonnet;s but we mourn for exalted, an-
mated, small figured calicol 8 .uaaitW 5
!. Silks trailing through. the DUST, have
lost favor in our eyes; fancy dry goods are
as unattractive as battered awnings, and ev-
cry costly thing Of feminine app arel no
longer surpasses the Lindsey home spun.
gowns of old. gssf& Eass3s5ss 8ss5 * 3Es
Nations spring from the wilderness, then
moulder in, decay cities are built in bar
rem places, expand awhile and waste away |;
men from obscuritv rise to fame and pow
er,, then gather disgrace and neglect; the
rich grow poor and the poor grow rich !;
the high sink to ignoble graves, and i in
the multitudinous variety of things there
are mighty movements and mighty
changes. ~, 4-s,ss.A IS. gf,,p5i.
We are, therefore, Of the opinion that
the article Of calico has had its days Of
glory, also, and is not as much in use as it
used to be- Where is the, man who will
not promptly say, that the handsomest OBJ
iect he, ever beheld was a being clad in a
handsome piece of calico gsa He can'tasbe
found. Masculine eyes ARE the eyes for
feminine grace to please. Jewels and
toys, and the richness of silks captivate no
man of sense or taste, and add not a
charm to nature, bat calico heightens and
and softens and makessa fellow
feel good when he sees it.N And, besides,
it costs wonderful sight less ~ Sscra-
|mento Age. @s sa a helss Isl Z; y Il
A Scene IN BEEcHER's CHURCH - Too
oood to be lost The N. Y. Tribune says
that on Sunday last, after the termination
of the morning, service in HENRY WARD
BEEcHER's church, well-dresseel man a.
bout fifty years Of age and of very respecta-
bile appearance, arose from his Sc at in the