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Show JXri-RFROM COCXCIL ltM ITS Cotncii, TiiXFFS, Iowa, October fjth, 1871. Not long since L wrofo a letter for ;our paper in which, at its conolusion, . mado a remark from which an infer-;nco infer-;nco mi'fht bo drawn that 1 charged 'our Utah courts with setting aside the itatutes of the Territory. Now, as I im disposed always lo be just, giving iredit where credit is due, it is due to uyseif as well as the grand jury for the bird dislriot, to admit that certain ndictmenls, which havo caused latterly o groat a "tompest in a toapot" seem o bo based upon enactments of the territorial legislature; and if my say- IUH "Wk UU IU1JJ1UJJU1 , A I would like to say, that if, on a fair and Iffal trial, by a fair and legal ; jury, fairly and legally cmpannolled, charged and sworn, any person so in- j dieted, on legal evidence vusitlorncd, j shall bo convicted and found guilty of offending against tho Ultcr and .jrif of such statutes, it is to be hoped that such person shall fairly, legally and without vindictiveness or passion, receive re-ceive such measure- of punishment aa, by the law is made and provided, for I behove the law to have been justly and wisely enacted. So much for duty, aud I trust that I may bo allowed to express a hope that, hereafter the courts may in all things regard the provisions of the statutes of Utah, as binding, and not, as f fear haB in some instances been the case heretofore, ignoro and set them aside; and in passing, also include in-clude a hope that the grand jury will be as diligent in kidicling delinquent Ocntiles as well as Mormons, fori am forced to believe that that statute was enacted as a means of punishing the guilty man without regaid to his re- i ligious belief; in s'jort, that an inlidel or a Methodist should be as severely punished as a Mormon for an offense against the law. I shall at present mako no further allusion lo this subject sub-ject as J deem it improper to agitato, during the pendency of judicial proceedings, pro-ceedings, the subject matter therein pending, and would volunteer a word -of advice to certain editors of your bailiwick, and elsewhere to "hold their j horses" and let the courts get along : Ihe weather in this country lias been very unpleasant for a number of days, being cloudy and clear by turns, but always windy, until yesterday a culmination culmi-nation was reached which resulted in rain and a snow storm. Last evening the sun set in the absence of clouds, and this morning is shining upuu rich and poor alike, and his genial rays are fait dissolving ibe icy covering which Muue ye.-.ierd;iy Iuh enveloped old mother earth. II civ, as elsewhere, the all absorbing tuple of conversation since its occurrence occur-rence is (he great Chicago conflagration, conflagra-tion, and it seems that U has Income as common Ibr everybody Up gat ! as it is lor J'residenL Craut lo ' nedce.' Ibe example has been set lo contribute contri-bute money and property tor the beu-eutol beu-eutol the sutieiers at Chicairo, aud it is to be hoped that ..j will become the recipients of the coutribuiious, although al-though it did look a day or two ago as d a struggle was goiDg ou as lu the custody of the funds, aud I am gbd that outside committees succeeded in keeping them out of the hands of the common council, although tho parties j now boldiog them may yet become a 1 tfndieau.1. Lord ! Lord ! in this day how prone poor human nature is, "With one hand to put A peuuy in the urn ot' poverty And w ith the other take a shilling out." j More anon. Truly yours, ! JlAWk V.vv 1 |