Show A GENTLEMEN writes to urge the Legislature Legis-lature to enact a law that will protect merchants mer-chants and others from the fellows who prey upon the community and are known popularly as bilks He describes them as borrowing money buying clothes or other articles upon representation that they can pay at a certain time and after parting with his money or goods the man who placed confidence in the rascals word and promise discovers that he can neither recover re-cover nor bring the bilk to punishment Our correspondent asks a law that will at least put tho rascals in the chaingang as the losers would much prefer that their losses should be contributed to the beautifying beauti-fying of the streets than to the enrichment of scalps Itoccurs to us that if there is no law which covers the ground there should be one |