Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-15

suppress this vice. Our readers abroad must not suppose that these are for "tabe games" Such as faro, roulette, etc., but for any simple game on which anything is bet no matter how small the value and for playing cards on Sun- day, even when there is no betting In Arkan- sas, if man calls another a liar, fight is the result. No matter how small the insulted man, he is bound to fight Hence the apparent large number of assaults and assaults and batteries The remainder of indictments are generally against overseers of roads for derelection of duty and for similar offences. These are not, prop ery speaking, crimes.
 Thefts, except of horses, or stock, which is
 he general term for cattle, hogs, etc, are gen. erally in towns and cities. There is very little inducement to commit theft. for any able bodied man or woman can always make support and something more. Labor is plentiful and the cost of living mere trihe. None are compell- ed to pilfer, and where 1t is done it is by those who are too lazy to work. In this connexion 1t may be proper to state that crime. on the de- crease in Arkansas can be still lessened if uries who try these cases, will do their whole duty. IL is too often the case that crimes go unpunished because of leniency of the jures. Eloquent and ingenious counsel somehow succeed very often, in the face of direct proof, in obtaining an acquittal of their clients.
 The population of Arkansas is about half of that of the city of New York, yet there are more crimes committed in that city in a month, than in our State in year. In fact, taking the ninety felonies committed in Arkansas in the year 1857, and deducting those committed by Indians on the border, by persons emgrating and passing through the country, and those who have committed crimes in other States, and are followed and punished here, and it will be found that crime is as rare here as in other States. Even in the land of steady habits, among the puritans of the North, their mur- ders, though fewer, are cool, deliberate assass- nations, or wholesale murders, for purposes of robbery, or poisnings.
 Except in cities, icentiousness is very rare The people in the country are free from those vices so common in more thickly populated States. We have. as yet, TO isms among Us. The farmers are simple, honest, hard work ing class, and in this respect will bear compari- son with any body of people in the world
 Of late years rogues have found that our cli- mate does not agree with their constitutions The bully, the desrerado and the adventurer, find that the people do not fear or countenauce them. There is growing respect for the laws and determination to put down vice. Upon the commiltal of any outrage there is too often disposition to take the law in their own hands, but of late Judge Lynch is becoming unpopular. The safest way to banish him, forever, is for courts and juries to deal rigidly with all ofend- CTS and suffer none who are guilty to escape, no matter how respectable their connexions may be, or how strong an array of legal talent they may be able to command An examination of the statistics of crime shows US that while Ar kansas has more street fights or atirayS, she has fewer assassinations and cowardly murders than other members of the confederacy.
 So far as morality is concerned, she is not be- hind her sisters. There are whole communi- ties where murder or theft has not been com mitted for years and in many counties, jails are tenantless sometimes for year at a time. For instance, inthe returns from Montgomery coun- ty, the clerk, MT. Woolard, writes that 10 felo- nies were committed in that county for year past, the only breaches ofthe peace being assaults and assaults and batteries; in all, eight cases
 As regards paupersm, there is less of it in Arkansas than among any equal number of peo- pie in Chrstendom. Very few counties have considered 1t necessary to establish house, the few poor persons in the county, rendered dependent by disease or bodily infrmity are supported directly from the county treasury. Those persons living in the old States," or in the crowded cities of the North, can form no just idea of the ease with which a living can be procured. To illustrate this we will relate an occurrence in one of our northern counties. family, tne father and mother having been sick for long time became dependent and ap. plcatlon was made to the county court for relief proposition was made to establish a poor house which was negotiated. At last fifty dol lars was appropratei to be disbursed by the sheriff He immediately had the man to apply for and enter forty acres of land for actual set clement, which cost five dollars. Ten dollars more hired a mar to cnt set of honselogs. ln a week or two the house was raised and a few dollars more put roof on it. The family was moved in and the remainder of the fifty dollars judiciously invested in the purchase of meat and meal, secured them food for the win ter. Thus from pauper the man was trans formed into house. holder, and free. holder and placed above want. In fact, where farm can be purchased for five dollars, where the means for years subsistence can be earned in one or two weeks, there is no reason why any should want. Destination Is rare, and then the result of continued sickness or incorrgble laziness. In the northern and western portions of our State, wheat and corn are abundant; pork is usually sold in the fall at from two to four ceEts pound, and it requires but a small sum to lay up enough of these to last year. Our lOfestS III Oui ilNcIo dic StoChou with fish and the means of subsistence are within reach of all.
 This article has grown tedously long, yet we have been compelled to omit much that we wished to say. We intended to contrast the amount of crime in this with that in other States, but have not the room. We are content to state the case fairly, extenuating nothing. If the number of indictments found appears large we are satisfied that if as an impartial exhibit was made of those found in other States, ours would not suffer by the comparison, and every year shows decided improvement in thls respect.
 We subioin portion of the interesting report of Mr. Woolardi l" Our county is increasing rapidly in population from mmi igration. We have several good schools, and the morals of the people are unexcep- tionable- good lead miue has been discovered eight miles south east of this place. Corn crops are good: the average yield place at Sha