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| is tried, convicted and sentenced according
to law; and al the gates of the penitentiary
he is rescued from the officers who had him
in custody, by band composed of about
twenty-five individuals, who deliberately
place him in a cart, and conduct him TO a
solitary spot, at the distance Of one or two
miles, and there they inhict upon him pun
ishment better adopted, in their opinion, to
the nature of his crime; after which they
condescend to restore him to the officers of
the penitentiary! Who, then, is to be taken
and deemed to be the supreme dispenser of
criminal justice in the State, the judges ap-
pointed for that purpose under the Consti-
tuition, or the mob of the village in which the
penitentiary happens to be locatedf Sup
pose the same mob had taken it into their
heads that the convict, instead ofa too slight,
had been adludged 10 severe punishment,
they could have liberated him from his
shackes, and turned him loose in less time
and in fact with less difficulty than
were required to conduct him to the woods
and mutilate his body In truth the whole
system of criminal justice is struck at and
endangered, if convicts may with impunlty
be rescued from the officers on their way to
the peniteEtiary; and ifthey may be rescued
ON their way, it requires the exertion of per-
haps the same amount Of force to drag them
from the penitentiary after they have been
lodged there.


We know nothing of the misguided men
who were the actors in this drama; we are
unacquainted with their persons, their pelit-
ical opinions and every thing belonging TO
them. Whoever and whatever they may
be, they have committed an offence against
the laws, which the tranquility, the very ex-
isience of society requires should meet with
prompt and adequate punishment.


NeW Orleans Bee.