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Show .Mormon Converts. Wasmxi'ston, Aug. 3.- Dispatches from the U. S. Immigration Commission Commis-sion now in Europe to the Treasury department state that the chairman, Col. Weber, and Dr. Kerupsbedy has gone to Russia by way of Germany, where they are now prosecuting inquiries. in-quiries. Commissioners Cross, Powder-lv Powder-lv and Slmltz will carry on inq niri- s in Great Britain and the Southern poi tioii of the continent. The dispatches dis-patches indicate that a large amount i l v tl-tiriie information is being col-; col-; iectetl. N' i obstacles are being inter-; inter-; os d oiii iaiiy, or otherwise to mvest-gatiic, mvest-gatiic, xv.'iiea are being made. In an interview between the commissioners com-missioners and the Mormon elder ill ; charge of the Mormon emigrants at Liverpool, that official, who was ac'.ing in tlx-place of 'Brigham Young, Jr., stated that while he ami all Mormons relieved in polygamy, yet as the United Stat' s Supreme Court hail decided the i anti-polg:tiny law constitutional, the Mormon Church hail adopted a rule ii-rainst it a practice in the United i States, and that till Mormon Converts j abroad are so informed before embarking embark-ing for America. He further stated that whenever the question was asked, the converts were assured as-sured of the rightfulness of polygamy, but it is of legal impossibility of its being be-ing practiced at present in "the United Stales or Great Britain, also t hey must not Lro to America ii they don't "intend to obey I he laws and abstain from pol-ytrani'-i's marriages. New Yurk Market. Nkw York, Aug. 3. IIAlt KlLVKlt, l.OOI. ?,loi!ey, on call, easy; closed offered at 1 i ier cent. Copper, heavy: Lake., August, fl2.l'o. Lead, nominal. Tin, cosiac, straits, $2,200. Discovery of Ln(l Ore. MivxiiAt'OLis, Aug. 1. A special to the Jiiurmil from Fort Dodge, Iowa, says: A three-foot vein of lead oro has Irkui diweovwed near Browla. |