Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-06

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much as it brings home to th,
immediate notice OF the tax pay
ers, the expense of such prosecu
tions, and the irregularities anC
inpositions practiced in. making
up these bills of cost. The con
veyanee OF prisoners after convic
ton to the penitentiary is also at
tended with more cost than nee
essary, and might, perhaps, be tc
some extent avoided by adapting
the pay of officers and guards and
the rates of mileage TO the cheap.
ened modes Of travel.
REWARDS FOR FUGITIVEs.
It is. too much the cas,., that
efficers of the State neglect to use
the proper efforts to arrest parties
charged with crime, and un fortun.
ately it too often appears, that it
is only after reward has been of.
fered that an arrest can be effected.
In order to prevent the escape OF
criminals, have been forced to
draw largely upon the Treasury
in the shape of rewards, but |
have attempted to limit them to
such cases only as could not be
reached by ordinary process,
When other means have failed to
arrest fugitiyes from justice, I
have had recourse to the plan of
Offering rewards without publica.
ton, and giving information of
the fact to such persons only as
were reliable and ready to under.
take the duty of arresting the fu-
gitiye. The advertisement OF a
reward often defeats its object, in
notifying the criminal that this
additional inducement was offered
for his capture, and he is thus
put on his guard. Complaints are
frequently made to this elfice of
the want Of dispatch and elficien-
cy in the execution of capiases
and other process for criminals.
It is my duty to state the fact and
leave it to7your judgment TO de-
wise a remedy. ansa
COUNTY WORK HOUSES.
The last General Assembly
very favorably considered. the re.
concentrations of this system, as
a means of preventing crime. and
economising the cost OF admin
istering the criminal law,
But the measure was not adopt
ed, More deeply impressed now
than ever of the salutary effect of
carefully prepared and well ex-
ecuted law, providing fer The es-
tablishment by the counties of
work houses, for the punishment
Of misdemeanors and petty larce
ny, | renew the recommendation
on that subject made to the 37th
General Assembly.
By the establishment of a prop
system of work. k.houses in each
county the State might be re-
lieved of the greater part of this
burden. HOS y 41IIIj5 j
More than one. third eff the 740
inmates now in the State Prison
are undergoing punishment for
the punishment of this offence as
well as others of the same grade, as
we'll as all cases of misdemeanor,
byncon6nement and labor in the
several counties where the law
may have been violated. BY la
bor upon the public roads, bridges
and buildings, the prisoners may.
be made to REIN bnrse the county
for the expense of their confne-
ment, and the cost of conviction,
which ought, in the first instance,
to be paid out of the county rev.
enue. II
PUBLIC ROADS.
1t would scarcely be possible to
devise a worse system than We
now have TOR the laying out and
Improvement of our country roads.
Bad as the law is, it is not execu-
ted;VNextgtoTs preservation otEthe
peace of society, thete lie no qussi
ton in which the people of the
State~are more vitally interested.
Many localities are dependent
alone upon the common "dirt road
for their channels of trade and
commerce. They can reach
their schools and school houses,
and their churches and markets
alone, over this class of thorough
fares. In winter they 'areyofteH
impossible, and the farmer is de-
MED market for his produce
when most in demand and COM
mandipg the best, prices, I; Labor
fails in this way t5smeet its Just
reward, and, in the midst of dis
coufagenent,d is paralyaed. The
result is produce rets on the spot
where it grew, and lands are not
improved and cultivated to- the
measure Of their capacity