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Among the matters which must force tieni- selves upon the members of the first State Legislature, will be that of amending our criminal code, and providing some place as a State Prison or Penitentiary, where convicts may be confined. It seems to be generally allowed that whipping is only tolerated as punishment through necessity, and where the condition of the country does not admit of the erection of some proper place of contine- ment. In both the English and American army and navy, 1t is agreed that whipping is very seldom productive of good, and often of much evil. We have since we resided in Arkansas witnessed two public and legal in- Aictions of this punishment-and we need to sec no more to convince us that every such intilction is positive injury to the country. We are convinced that it hardens and rend- CTS reckless the offender. It takes from him what little character he might before have had, and stamps him with an indelibIe brand of disgrace, which forever prevents his re- form, and renders him only more desperate and more abandoned. Tho last man whip ped at this place--Hiram Abel-only nine days after the whipping, that is, on Tuesday morning last, murdered man by the name of Woollerton, about ten miles below this place. This murder was produced by the whipping. Had he been confined in prison, no further injury would have been done by him. There is another considerations State Prison, when every man is employed, soon becomes, instead of an expense, an in- come to the State.