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Show oit nn Mil Mjurii. In all ruiects Interesting, aud In many riapecta uotable, Is the couven tlonof Houtheru goernoM wIiIlIi mat ut Illchniondday lieforu yesterd i) nut la still In UBil.iti. lho meiubue of this umpo gathering ara ttiu chief executive olllcersof tho various mm mouwralths eoulli of Mum and Dixon's line, nu I their purpose Is t dlnouis inosiures furencurlig recogtil lion of the great unjuvulope I resource i ol tho Houtb ant to Indues thither Kortherncapltalnnda hi ilthy Northern North-ern nnd foreign Immigration I lid. di u tally It Is unJeriu o I that anurancre as to the safety of life an i property will bo klven, and that t io hair ralilug, bloidcurdllug ttorles of Houthem atrocities In which some utherii Jiurnillsls and leoluren allll love to revel, will be appropriately sllgmilite J and emphatically denied. rim movemoiit Is In all loipects commendable and II ought to be sue ceisful The H)uth Is a vast cmtlre, mighty In resources of Held, forest and mine, and abuiilantly favored with all the requisites ncctsstry for the sustenance In health, ho-plutss nnd rosjxTily of teeming millions of nun kind. Tho unfortunate soctlon cught ly this time to Inva explatol tho sin whose ellecls for neatly a generation havo been ns a blight upon the land Tho war Is over, psaos with unrullloil wings broods over the entire oomaiiii wealth, and tho sons of thou whi foughtou the opposing allot should havonoulher atrlfo with cio'i other now than the worthy oiviUtlin Io utlllio to the iitterm lit the biuutlot nf tisluro wherever these nil ho foui I riioproiperltyi f any ono pr hnciii trlbulea to t in proipctlty of t io whole, mid as no irt of lis nation Is under lho ban any in re, tho deliberations nud actions of theio gjvernirs ouht tu result 1 1 n stlmului an I i ocoutngo mint Id Houthern Industry that will llf that richly enbwol section into the t rjuilni ice It deservei. i sjitii, nn, in; i i n iiitiiu.L. It would perhaps cot do to compel tho man who eats tho banana to tat also lho skin, but Item do no harm to suggest that since tbo Htter Is his proerl), rrgulsrly bought and paid for, ha ought to bu force 1 to provide eomnother dlsposiliiii of it than the publlo sidewalk where It on langers human legs anl spine, and Is a constant con-stant Invitation to sinfulness A city orJInanco on tho subject, with sulll dent entitles for lltlcrln; the none too cleanly sidewalks could be onlly framed, anJ with fslrdlllgenco It could be enforced with tolerable vigor. Who overliai onoountered a ripe banana sklu In Its uuotlimi state, an 1 thereby sal down with more violence than grace, will Join In tbo (riling Hut ilie unemy that hath done this thing ehoulJLeco3),nllol to ro'Mln In the futurr, If Ills appetllo for the fruit does uotitlond to the point of cviilng him Io cat the fruit'a envelope, he might at least carry tho lifer to his owncvlll birrel In li pocket. Oleinllneis Is betler and cheaper than n biter of pnhj leg mil six months' uiu ol crutches, every time |