Show LOCAL AND OTHER MATTERS MATTER s FROM TUESDAYS DAILY JULY 9 WICHITA CATTLE manket joseph Q G mccoy wichita kansas sends circulars circular a concerning the cattle market at wichita situated on the atchison topeka and santa fe fer eer R I 1 at the mouth mouth of the little arkansas biver river upon the cattle trail one hundred miles milea south ot of the kansas pacific railway where buyers can get the first chance at the cattle cattie as they arrive fresh from texas LE july 8 1872 editor deseret hews news I 1 am inform informed td that my name appears in the DESERET NEWS in connection with others as having signed a petition or memorial to congress ing the characters of our people 7 X hereby certify that I 1 have not seen said petition neither did I 1 know till tili recently that such instrument had an existence will you oblige by clurs giving ing publicity to the above yours in the gospel J W COOK MEETINGS crops CHOPS kle klc fec bishop E F sheets returned yesterday from a visit to summit and morgan counties on june and elder joseph P F smith and himself attended two days meetings at coalville alville Co during daring the night of the and nad all day on the there was a tremendous rainstorm rain storm with an occasional fall of snow which made the attendance at the meetings 11 lighter ahter than it would have been under more more favorable circumstances there are some grasshoppers at Co alville which are dani damaging aging the crops to some extent grasshoppers have morgan coun ty the grain crops there do not have a very voy promising appearance but there will be a fine yield of potatoes bishop sheets accompanied by bishop W W cuff held heid meeting at wanship wai War iship last wednesday meeting was also held at kamas prairie w where hore the grasshoppers were also destructive last jast saturday and sunday they attended 1 I two days moe mee meetings tings at heber city where hatch had a fine bowery eroc erected ted and the attendance was very large many being there from neighboring settlements at all the meetings above alluded to bishop sheets says a good time was enjoyed and the people manifested great eagerness to give substantial assistance in emi emigrating emigration gratin the poor from the nations TODAY TO DAY the democratic convention meets as is per appointment at baltimore maryland to nominate candidates for president and vice president of the united states the proceedings will be watched with exceeding interest for tor upon the action of this thia convention depends to a very great extent the result of 0 the presidential contest it may suit party tactics to underrate the importance ot this convention and to affect ih th difference respecting its action but this deceives no intelligent person the action of a party which numbers three millions ot of voters which at the last election handicapped as it was with an unnecessary load made so good a race is far from being unimportant it must if it remain united have great influence in determining ter mining wh who oshall shall be president or of the united States for the four years after march ath 1873 the opera house where the convention will be heid held will hold 2500 people it will be decorated for about abbat about one half the cost of the decorations at the philadelphia convention it is designed to erect in ia fiant bioni of the building a grand portico of evergreens ever greens over the pavement bearing tha words every mountain has sent forth its rill every ralley valley its ita stream every river its flood and lol iol the avalanche of the people Is 13 here over the main entrance of the building will be the following the constitution la 13 still AM the object of our reverence the boad ot of our union our defence in danger the source of our prosperity in peace andrew amdrew jackson over another en trance tranee will bethe bathe be the tho following motto from thomas jemmer Jeffer jemmerson jefferson som sow the whole art of rove gove government ament cc consists ns ests in the arlo arto being bein honest 11 on tho the front of the building above the first story there will be four quotations from rewell farewell ia address addess within the house the coats of arms of all the State sand the portraits of distinguished americans ime ricans will be conspicuously displayed benei Benej beneath ith the portrait of washington will be the following girn in short that I 1 was no party man myself f T the he first wish of my heart was if parties did exist to reconcile them washington to jefferson maryland with her 10 16 delegates will be placed in the rear the territories will be assigned places in front of herand they will he flanked by utah with her two votes and nevada with her six 0 FRO II 11 wednesdays DAILY JULY 10 WILL CLOSE OUT the city council do de elded last night to close up tiie the city liquor store by the end of the present month mouth and cease the retail liquor business from irom that time IN TO WIT bishop liljenquist of hy rum CA cach 66 e county was in town td 16 day ho he says there are no grasshoppers in cache valley the first season it has been free from the I 1 pests for four years THE emigration the following dis patch has been courteously handed in for publication 41 NEW yore vore july 10 9 am brigham young pattersons Patter ratter sons company over leave here tonight to night all well W 0 STAINES comparisons tho tha indianapolis jour rout the the mormon women dress so simp simply ly and neatly that odious comparisons are made by the unprejudiced between their attire and the comparatively flashy costumes of their gentile sisters JUBILANT the gregley Greeley ites in town and they number not a few are quite jub jab lant today to day over the nomination of the old philosopher we noticed a large number of greeley hats owned by cincinnati en dorsers adorned with slips of paper on which the action of the baltimore convention was announced many of the possessors of smiling countenances have be been e n shouting on the street today to day im for greeley THEY DONT WANT IT A petition was presented to the city council lat night signed ald by citizens citi zeus residing in the fifteenth ward complaining that a drinking saloon had been established in that part of the city contrary to the wishes of a majority of the peaple people living in that locality and praying for its abatement the petition also set sat forth that preparations were mak ing for the establishment of another saloon in the same portion of town and asked that it should not be allowed to tj open the matter matier was waa referred to the city marshal and the chief of police that they might see that the law was enforced A HARD CASE sheriff kane of pioche sends information to marshal moa mca Ill lii piter ater 00 concerning DUrning a prisoner named mccausland now held in this xnia city on a charge of horse stealing it appears he has been before the courts qt at pioche three times on as many separate charges similar to the one with which he is now charged mr kane also states that mccausland also in conjunction with two others stole a number of cattle at shoal creek in this territory which cattle were sold by mccausland in pioche he giving a bill ot of saie baie s bile ile for the same in his bis own name and getting as his share of the of the plunder CANT FAIL TO ADMIRE wyoming writing from this city june 30 that very wet day to the Colo coio colorado radd people Is ia soo goo good enough to say you xou you yon cannot fall to admire the wonderful energy that has turned a wilderness w Ild lid erness into a garden full of delights A hundred thousand people fill up a region but yesterday a barren desert and a populous town with a wonderful growth and a still more wonderful people rest under the shadow of these mounta mountains ius all along this most wonderful valley nevertheless W thinks nor do we colorado possesses superior attractions and he urges the th e Color adans to advertise advert adver tizell ize for an immigration of producers right TheNis ws is ever open for that kind of business As for utah she looked after and secured the producers first and aud she has not forgotten to look after them now the non producers come soon enough of their own option without asking sam SAx samey Eyll our friend joseph 0 rich richs who w with etli his father gen 0 0 rich is now on a visit to their relatives in the states has written to his mother and we are permitted to make mailo extracts from the letter it may be interesting to sax eytan eya friends to know that he comes honestly by his habit of spelling the english E ng language lad iad guage and of getting oty off funny things in such style as he does for another member of a collateral branch of the great rich family jamily in the person of josh billings A is guilty ot of similar atrocities in orthography tho graphy and wit blood bloat will tell he writes from boston uit this leaves us well the meeting of the rich family is over and was attended by nearly fifteen hundred of the family it was a grander affair than I 1 anticipated the mormon delegation were the heroes of the occasion and we have done much to allay prejudice and acquaint them with our doc doe doctrines doctrin trineN ea truro is situated over miles from here hers at what is called the jumping off place on orn capp capr cod we were treated splendidly by all notwithstanding the fact that we believed in polygamy and told them all about wives and overy every everything thing else ahey nearly dearly talked us to death eliza ears mrs rich is becoming a pretty good preacher especially on polygamy we will go to the jubilee today to day and leave loave for foy albany NY this thia evening on our way to new now york and philadelphia from erom new york father will go into kentucky where I 1 may meet him it if not we shall be separated tili till we get home in this family gathering we have had a better opportunity to preach to the people than I 1 ever had before sister sarah janes letter was read to the assembly of over 2000 and warmly ap plau ded also one froli from josh billings who with ben ban butler are relatives of ours COMINO UP many individuals who have been for iome kome some bome time timo resisting the city ordinances by doing business without license are beginning to see seg that their course will not eventually prove to be a paying one and are now asking the city authorities for license this Is caused by the widely established opinion that these matters will undoubtedly come out in favor of the city ot of course they will be so decided it 16 could not possibly be otherwise and be in accordance with law justice and good order we are not aware that there la is a legal gentleman in the city who possesses an opinion other than this we have advised the non license payers all along to change their course and bo be good law abiding citizens and had the advice been followed at an earlier date they would probably have saved a good deal of extra expense besides having baving to eventually pay up all back claims of the city against them there are one or two cases case we under stand where parties still have some slight doubts about the matter resulting favorably to the city and who have asked license to be granted to them on special terms which are that instead of paying license at the intervals specified by lawther law they should give security for jhb the payment or of license in the event of the city being victora victor in the impending cases I 1 such applications are rather novel and ana anait it might be said ridiculous and it is need less to say have not been entertained by the city authorities there need be no special or half way course in this matter the city must be sustained good order maintained and the laws respected there is not a right thinking respectable person but will austain sustain the municipal authorities in performing strictly and impartially their t 1 official duties THE general appropriation act passed at the last session of congress sets beta aside for the establishment of an astronomical base and the continuance of military and geographical surveys and explorations west of the meridian of longitude in southern utah the surveys and explorations are under the charge of geo goo M wheeler corps U S engineers who headed the expedition that explored a line last year from elko to the mexican boundary he was to start from washington about a week ago to continue his work and will probably reach here by the dinst much la Is expected from his explorations and many inquiries have been made for printed copies of his last report but the government printing office has not nob yet turned them out col ord ia a now in ia this city making the pie preliminary preparations connected on with the expedition he is a brother of major gen ord arrangements have been made to secure the use of the observatory in the temple block for the expedition there will be a number of geologists mineral agista members of the corps and other scientific men connected with the expedition and the entire party including the eacott escort will probably number about oe seventy veaty the party will probably ba about a year in the field and their labor will be so BO arran ged that during the we winter season they can be where the climate will be mild A correspondent of the new york berald herald I 1 writing from rivas bivas is republic of nicaragua june 16 describes briefly the results of the explorations to tind find a cheap and practicable route for an ah inter oceanic canal through uli uil that region on the death of cm commander mander breaman cresman Gr eaman the command devolved devolve dupon upon captain chester hatfield hat Hal nield field who arrived at la virgin on lake nicaragua april 28 and immediately went to work nork two days after rhode s was dispatched with a party to survey the british route and verify or dla dis pro results of colonel childs guilds explorations pl 0 rations orations in 1850 this survey was highly favorable noel with a party lett la virgin may ato loo examine the route from capoa to balinas bay which was wag determined to be utterly impracticable ti the latter party under were sent bent to survey the ochomogo Ocho mogo mogu route or routes as there are three of them which was consi considered derod derid the best yet known it is asserted that there are five practicable routes through nicaragua three of which have been durve surveyed first from brit on the pacific to el bojin or pass san jose on lake nicaragua distance twenty milea miles highest elevation above the level of lake nicaragua forty feet second from ochomogo Ocho mogo on the lake escalanti to Es calanta ou on the pacific distance about twenty miles highest elevation from thirty four to thirty airty six sim s feet and the cutting t lilar izo ico t through h gh th this ta s summit is only about five h hundred ard or six hundred yards third from ochomogo Ocho mogo to distance twenty six miles with an elevation about the same as last the deep cutting along this route will bo be about two miles |