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Show Tlie Murder Klemeiit Our social- dispatch from P.ovo-,-pubhshc-l ill another column, tells Ihy story of more lawlessness, in the shootmg, and doubtless inunler, of a iM.i:r, ny n unmKen scoundrel J3JJUnLIarron iCarkr. From' the "'icts given in the dispatch, should Mr. B men die, it wouM' be a clear ase of wilful murder on the part of Cirtor, for-which he should be made to suflar. the full penalty prescribed !y law, for such an act, which, in the L'nitod Suites, is death blood for tloo.1. That is tlie theory of the law, but' it ; is the exemption-to the practice.., prac-tice.., OuLaidc of Uit few executions ."or murder which occurred iu the ist -last summer,- in - tho-spnsniodi c lihrt made by a few of the judges iud executives of the law, to put a heck on tlie mania for homicides, "he death penalty has' become next to an obsolete provision. J . In many places in the West, th c . taking of human life among a certain ! class h;is been looked upon with little ; .ore awe than tlie killing of a dog;: j and the sudden death., of a j gold horse would cause, . more ! o( a sensation. So long as these ' 'lomicidos are confined-to that class 1 which alwa)-3 infests a' eoiintry where there are opportunities for making uioney outside of the slow and legiti-nate legiti-nate channels which are followed by the day laboror they are, probably, not so bad; for often the person killed leserves his fate, being in many coses i murderer himself. But when a good man, and an officer of the law h in the discharge of his sworn duty, to io al! in his power to maintain the iaws and preservo the peace, is foully aiurderod by a reckless villain, it is I time that the law should be vindi- i eated and the punishment prescribed by it be swiftly and surely enforced. Tne class of which Carter is a repre-6 repre-6 ntative specimen has ilia-eased so rapidly in tho Territory, within a very few years, that unless justice be administered ad-ministered with firmness and punish-nent punish-nent under the law be certain to fol- ! low such ' damning criminality, no man's life will be safe. That Carter will be captured th'eve'is little doubt; uul wbcu. captured, wo demand, in; the name of the people, of outraged aumanity, and justice defied, that the red-handed murderer be uiado to suf- j ferthe penalty which his great crime j lemands. |