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Show Tug leaders of the clique raved and fretted and foamed at the mouth, 1 Thursday and yesterday, over the sup- j per given to the State prisoners byj their friends on Wednesday night. I Now, as a matter of fact, it is custom- 1 ary all over the United States to per- j mit prisoners only chargod with crime to make themselves comfortable at their own expense, and to receive 1 kindnesses at the hands of their friends. Stokes, the murderer of Fisk, is allowed allow-ed to lit up a cell in the Tomb3 prison in almost regal style, to receive his friends, and enjoy himself as best ho j may; and Laura J). Fair, iu San Fran-j Fran-j cisco, is permitted similar privileges, j and nobody grumbles. These two are ! acknowledged murderers, the tirst hav-i hav-i ing shot his man in open day in the presence of witnesses; the second having hav-ing killed her victim ou "board a crowded crowd-ed steamer, been tried for the crime-found crime-found guilty aud soutenced. But the gcutlemcn held under iudicLineut here are not criminals no person is a criminal crim-inal before the law till found guilty; and all that the ollicers of the law aro responsible fur is their safo-kcepiug that they may appear for trial when wanted. L:t this be distinctly remembered. remem-bered. No one thinks of growling at a kindr.css shown (0 the man who killed Jim Fi.ik, nor to any other untried prisoner in other parts of those United States, outside of Utah. A manifestation manifes-tation of the inGuitesimal mcauncss of grumbling at such a kindness is reserved reserv-ed for the little souls that compose t lie Utah ring and their satellites. The only exhibition of humau misery mis-ery that we over CDjoycd is that of the abnormally mean individuals who fret and worry at a gleam of happiness manifested by persons nndcr adverse circumstances. This sort of sufferers exist to the credit of humanity, in small numbers in aliuast ovcry community, com-munity, and they suffer a righteous retribution ret-ribution for their littlcne.sj of soul, in being made miserable by the sight of a smile on the face of poverty, and tantalized into a rage at witnessing, or even hearing of, a spasm of pleasure felt by an unfortunate. |