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Show Hox3T Correspond e.xis. -Among the many Ttsitors to this city lately, were G. C. Band, Esq., the well-known Boston publisher, and Col. Peter Saxo, brother to the inimitable poet John G. Saxe, and associated with the Troy, N. Y., Press. Both gentlemen remained re-mained sufficiently long to form a judgment judg-ment for themselves on Utah matters, and both have given the results of their observations to the public. They did not come here at night, rush around the next morning for three hours and fly away ix the afternoon, having a host of . prejudices seething, bubbling and boiling over when they arrived, looking at everything with a distorted vision in consequence, and leaving with the same feelings, carrying carry-ing the notion that they had "done" Salt Lake and knew the "elephant" in all its proportions from the point of the trunk to the extremity of its caudle appendage. But like sensible men they domiciled themselves in town, visited the different parts of the city and points of interest around it, and gained a fair average knowledge of our bu siness condition aud prospects, moral status and social relations. Mr. Rand writes in the Newton, Massachusetts, Journal, under dato October 22nd; Colonel Saxe, of course, writes in the Troy Press, under dates October I'Tth aud Xovember 8th. Both gentlemen speak fairly and honestly of what they have seen. They did not find their ideal of perfection in Utah, nor do we think anybody else would in any place on this terraqueous terra-queous globe of ours ; but they found much to commend aud to bpeak kindly of. They found, and they say so, a lovely valley surrounded by a bulwark of mountains ; a soil generous in its returns to the laborious husbandman hus-bandman ; a salubrious climate ; mineral mine-ral resources being developed ; an industrious, in-dustrious, moral, sober and orderly community; and the broad and slable foundation of a prosperous commonwealth. common-wealth. As Mr. Band says, they "nothing extenuate nor set down ought in malice." but speak of what fhey saw and understand like bonext, fair-minded, fair-minded, intelligent gentlemen. For their prai-e we thank them ; for their criticisms we accept them in the same spirit which dictated them ; and their expression! of pood-feciing arc cordially cordi-ally reciprocated. Tho country would do well to give heed (0 tho communications commu-nications of such men, who have no pecuniary cud to accomplish in distorting dis-torting the truth, and who write lion-rutly lion-rutly and fairly of Itnh. |