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Show THE RUMORS. The City Council have brought their investigation into the rumors which were afloat the past few days to a close. Some of the reports which gained currency and credence were of a most wild and improbable im-probable nature, although we have good reason for believing that some of them, and these the most absurd, too, were believed at first by some of the Council who were most prominent in the investigation. investi-gation. The resolution which was adopted docs not carry the weight it should : and ' while it does not contain anything actually actu-ally false, it ignores mjyiy facts and does not state the actual situation. Whether the Federal officials circulated the rumors falsely and for a pernicious purpose, as intimated in the resolution, and as Councillor Coun-cillor Junius F. Wells desired to specifically specifi-cally 6ay in the resolution, we do not know. An undue credent mnv hi been given to these various rumors by some of the Federal officials, but certain it is that they erred no more as to the true condition of affairs than the City Council have in the resolutions adopted by them. It is possible that the Citv Council do not think there is any excitement excite-ment at all in Utah, but of the pure and peaceful 6tate of mind which can induce such thonghts, we know nothing. One good will come out of all these rumors i and their investigation: it will help to bring the people here to a realization of the condition of affairs in Utah and perhaps make them pause and think about where their cousre of lawlessness is leading them . The holding in readiness of some thousands thou-sands of troops to send to Utah in case of any emergency, together with the sending of a battery, will serve as an object lesson to the people of Utah to remind them that Utah is in the United States and not the United States in Utah. This fact has been largely overlooked. , |