Show BITTEN the trust reposed by some of our out citizens in transient persons who apparently had no legitimate bu business siness sineas but came here to follow gambling has in more than one instance during t the summer and fall been attended with a little inconvenience perhaps not in every instance but in many those who have loaned money to gone security for or in any way trusted such fellows have been the sufferers to the full amount of the sums in in question as those who were thus benefited by their credulity have left as such gentlemen generally do without deigning to give an any y notice of their intended departure orif or if they did announce their intentions of becoming residents of some other country they at the same time informed their special friends that they were unable to pay what they owed owed them t if such men would learn anything by experience as they pass through life it in might milt profit them to get bitten in that way occasionally though it would be far better if they could acquire a competent knowledge of the human race to enable them to pass safely through the world without paying for it so dearly VAGRANCY it is to be hoped that at the next session of the le legislative b assembly of this territory which will commence on monday the day of De december cember in the social hall in this city a suitable law in relation to vagrancy will be made and provided the law now in force not bein being 0 sufficiently salutary in its ita operation there are not a great many vagrants 0 in the territory but there are a few in this city and scattered about the country that should be made to earn their living or show by what means they subsist as they are never seen doing anything that would indicate that they were obtaining a an honest livelihood but are lounging about day after day some of them often drunk and seldom sober no man can obtain an honest living C in this country and be idle unless he has an ample fortune and in our opinion if every idler was supplied with suitable employ employment merit there would be but little stealing 0 done in comparison to what there is is now ac according cordin to reports which there are good reasons for believing are too often true idleness is a great index as well as incentive to crime and whenever persons are seen moving about with no visible means of subsistence si it is but reasonable to suppose that they sustain themselves by other than honorable pursuits A good wholesome vagrant clawy law judiciously ud administered ministered would have a beneficial effect upon such characters and their numbers would soon be diminished |