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Show In Town. Associate Justico Emcrdon of tbe First District, came up from Provoor tbe afternoon train, yesterday. The Directory. Referring to the presence in tha t city of Mr. Sloan, editor of the Her-alo, Her-alo, the Chicago Times says: Ono of the editors of the Herald, of Salt Lake City, is in Chicago, baying bay-ing published a work on Utah Territory. Terri-tory. It will show, among other things, thaf, Salt Lake City has a present population of 2(i,OG0, and the Territory a total population of 135,-000. 135,-000. This is an astonishing growth, showing an increase in two years of some 2-3,000 inhabitants in the whole Tc rritory. The enormous mining developments of Utah have done more than almost anything else to aid this astonishing growth. These have rcsultep) in railways rail-ways already con-tructcd, or in progress pro-gress between the most important points; in an enormous access to the agricultural classes; and in stimulating stimu-lating the erection of a vast number of manufacturing enterprises. De-spiti De-spiti all the quarreling over Utah, despite the misrule of Federal and other lanatifS and adventurers who have held carnival in this Territory, itsooiiis to bo on the highwny pf prosperity. u ere it but loft alone; were demagogues denied authority; and were all its dillicullics committed for solution to the effects of time, Utah would speedily become a marvel of yealih, papulation, and progress;. In fact, it is that already; but there k reason to believe, if left to it-elf, it would outstrip even its present wonderful won-derful advance. One cannot but believe that it is to time, and the erosive nature of public opinion, that should, be left tliis matter of polygamy. ft will succumb aoouer to commercial interests inter-ests than to any other inlluenccs. Persecution will only invigorate it; let it once become apparent that it won't pay aud then will be witnessed the beginning of tbe end. Commercial Com-mercial necessities.in these days, have a power possessed by no other influences. influ-ences. They will accomplish what cannot be dono by the stake, the rack, by Federal courts or Federal armies. If, in this commercial age, anything will pay in a community that is in immediate rapport with all the rest of tho world, it may bo ael down as something not greatly wrong if it docs not pay, in the long run ii will go under. We can Bafely trust polygamy to this teat, certain that ii will go down if at all counter to th( spirit ot this ruouoy-making ago, |