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Show FROM THE CANADIAN COLONY. . , v A Reuistkr reporter in conversation with Sister Ziua Y. Card, la of her Majesty's Dominion of Canada, learned that the Mormon' sealed there ate reasonably prusperous.aud are very well tieated. "One thing, !'said Ihe lady, "we Americans get tired of the snob aristocracy. Eveiy pe'tv officer of whatever what-ever position seems to think violence' has been done his dignity, if we do uot bow just so tow, and toss our hats just so high. We seem fetteted by these senseless ronventiotialil, and would be glad to throw them to the winds and walk free. But such tilings are confined con-fined to the middle classes; and ihe nobility ate more approachable. We have had members of the nobility, members of parliament, and various I other real aristocrats at our house and fouud them unaffected sociable and natural people." "How do you acquire title to vour land:,?" "Like you do in this country by preemption, pre-emption, and homestead,".. "Is not that (j'liie dilreient fa 111 olhei pans nf iter Majestys Domaii f ' "1 vn not fully informed, but be'e.ve thai ink- to land is only seemed by pur-' ch is-j in must parts of Liii-at Hilton." "slow 4 you like liifyJUn ad ans as fnends uiid iieiglihois outside c( whit you have spoksii about?" "I like them well, but noted some of their oeculiarities. They aie great immitaiors and the one side of thenl is the slow, ponderous aristocracy, centuries cen-turies old, on the other the active Inigin go-ahead Americans, and in trying to combine the two, the outcome is often ridiculous." "How is the political situation there as compared with that f th people here?" "Well its a litile peculiar 1 must coi fess wiht us, but ik quite so bad as it is here. If you dont nmid a long story I will be- I gin at the lust. When e hist went there we were receive J with such w rm coidiality that when Bros. I.ytnan and Taylor vi.siied us they conceived the idea of making it an asylum for the oppressed oppress-ed here in Utah. They viiited the proper prop-er authorities and laid the mailer b-.fote them, representing the c :e f tirly, thai they sought a safe relugn wheie those men who had eiilcre J in lo that state be fore there was any law ngai'ist it, might be pieinitted lo take care Tf the fainilits they already had. InciteiMy the press of the United States, and more particularly particular-ly the press ol Utah they become thoroughly thor-oughly imbued with Ihe idea that we wt:ie tiying to establ.sh pojigamy among them, lo make new mairages and all tiia: soit of lhing. The piess of Canada sa.d some veiy hard lliiugs, but were never cruel till a new member, Ihe Ml. Slenhoiise who resigned his position as a Member of Pailiment to become a Mormon wrote some rather indiscreei articles to t lie papers He in a brainy whole-souleil Ulan but a pprWt infant in the Uospcn, imt txcJeives tn Uiuceiify. He i4 a nensvpanef article in which lie stated: 'that ii"he could find two ladks who mould do him the honoi ue could take them before a ju-itice cl 1 lie peace a,.cl the same ceremony ihal mtde one his wifu, would mnke the oihet his wife, and there was not a U in the dominion lhat Would inieifrit with liini. " This set the authoiities wild, and tlieysenl an fhocer to watch us, bin he did uot discover auylhii g susp cious and spoke well of us at another place u heiethe people tendeteii him a banquet, ban-quet, lint all the newspapeis do not speak ill of us," said the lady handing the repjiler a slip of newspaper 011 which was the foi'owing: - Whan tho Minister of CirUum wn in the North west he puiid a visit to the Momma Jeiilement ncai the Rocky, Mountnlns, and c;iitcd by the ettJerr tUcm-clves CatcUtoa. Tl 4 forty or fifty fa milieu of M urinous forip a tluiving ami iit'dusiriouu community, raisiny plenty vi produce :nd- mijiply-ini; the neinfi-Ixjriuu neinfi-Ixjriuu tnw'-eu. The Mormons declare that the) will observe the law ol Canada, ami those who have been watching them clmcly h.ive failed to ditcovet anything suspicious. From ths near which some people have sought to create over the immigration of thtjue penple, tvlio are admitted to be excellent settlers, a different idea ot the Mormon colcnythan the one presented by tbe Minuter has pot abroad. 1 he Mormons uniJor.tand lhat ihey mum obey the law. 'I hey have come here with that undemanding, and are not able to elude the law, und as lung as they continue industrious, law-abiding citizens the author ines cannot, an J uonot want iw, ii:tenerc with them. The theory that they should be remotnelessiy perse cuted for their opinions finds favor with very few people "We are not so fai from you as San. Francisco, only 17 -mile acrusji tiie line beyond Montana; but go wljere you will, the best people on earth are to be found right heie in Utah.".. r The ladv who was on her way to visit the Manti Temple stated tht her m-uhei Ztna L'. Yomijr would accompany her to her far ofi, Canadian home, far a three months visit. . j ine party intend leaving Salt Lake h: aixiut ten d:tys. |