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Show The Louisville Courier-Journal, a I most excellent paper, except that it ia wildly insane wheu Bpeakiog of Utah and some oi her institutions, has a good (leal to Bay about the hiwa not being uuforced in this territory, "(Hunting orime," "blot npon tha nation, ami a:i tuai aori oi imng. Nnw, wuuUu't it bo juit aa well to look about homo lor things tj rave and rant over? If there- io a state which is thoroughly lawk'su, it is Kentucky, where wholo counties arc "run" by human butchers and Bend ieb outlaws. Murder is reported from tht) elate almost daily, but we uever bear of any hangings, except those where the ceremony is presided over by Judge Lynch, which are ihonnelvM the i worst kini of rtiutder. Weucderlake 1 to say that more crime is commit'eJ in Kentucky in a week than in a year in Utib. The law seems power less there, and the officers dire not assert tbemaelvea. Another "brutal murder" iu the blue graeB Btate is mcntiouod in this morning' dispatches, dis-patches, and tlio ufuiI anuonncc-meut anuonncc-meut follows that ' the lynchers are on the trail" ol the niuidsrer. When the Courier-Journal abohsbee crime at home, it may with greater consistency turn ita attention to Utah. |