The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-06-04
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MOVEMENT ON MORMONDcM.
La,,er-Day sain,s and s.ls,csses from over Sea.
At the Michigan Central Depot grounds
Yesterday morning, arrived special tram
from Detroit, bearing small party OF lat
ter-day Saints and Saintesses, only seven
hundred and fifty strong. fresh arrival 10
this country by the Liverpool line packet
ship William Tappscott, at New York, on
Friday last.
They were an assorted cargo Of humanity
made up from the several proselyting agen-
cies of the Elders of Joseph Smith, but
chiefly represent the British Isles and the
North Of Europe. Thus we learn there we're
from Great Britain, 3Ol Danish, ga;
Swedish, l0S; Norwegian, la total Of 653
representing eight different nationalities.
As they debarked from the long train and
fled into the depot and waiting rooms, the
spectacle drew numerous curious spectators.
Of the whole number less than one hundred
and fifty are children, the balance of abo ut
six hundred being adults, none over sixty
years Of age, the Indies being in excess Of
the brethren in point of numbers, nearly
two to one.
Altogether they were an orderly, quiet,
and well appearing party, quite above the
usual average of emigrants from the old
country in point Of intelligence. They were
we learn, divided into two bands, those from
the British Isles, and from the North of Eu-
rope. Each chief department has five SUBJ
departments, over which ten Elders were
appointed, and their Offices seem to have
been no sinecures, and to have secured re-
| suits to the effect of winning warm praise
ffrom all the Gentle world, with whom these
emigrants had to do, from Liverpool to this
place.
Elder r. T. Nelson is the President of the
entire company, which representing so many
uatonalities, and being such mixed as
semblage, nevertheless contains within it
self elements that will, under ordinary Cir
cumstances, and perhaps even to the extent
of overriding the drawbacks Of great delu-
sion, may in this case secure community
comprising the most needed trades and call
Ing.
| The company comprises, we learn, near
" one hundred widows and damseis un-
mated, number lessenci by the voyage
out, since about twenty nuptial ceremonies
have been performed after the Mormon
mode Of "sealing." The lovers had to APP
pear ut the public meetings and make their
declaration of willingness to take each other
''for better or worse;" after which the pres
ident joined their hands and pronounced
them husband and wife. The ceremony
closed with singing and prayer, invoking the
blessings Of Abraham upon the heads Of the
faithful children, the officiating priest
dispensing the usual "holy kiss" to the
bride.
The spectators AT the Michigan Central
Railroad depot rather pressed upon the en-
frances to the crowded ladies' rooms, some
Of the sinners perhaps more or less faVorably
inclined to the Mormon faith by this or that
glimpse at its sisterhood. One stout matron
| in fact seemingly became scandaized at her
share Of the inspection, and dashed the
Gentle crew by Il proposition to "pass
, 'round the hat, il the sho,o is to be kept up"
! We learn that among the number one
disciple has in his family five sisters, to
each Of whom he is at once brother in law
and husband. Another has a mother and
her daughter in the same relation to his
bearded and sanctimonious looking self.
They travel in the ordinary manner of
cmigrants, coming hisher in emigrant and
second class cars. They look to surround
! Ing GentIledom for bread and various
cooked vianIs, and eat in their own messcs
+ or squads, save as we noticed yesterday a
few Of the better class were not slow OF
behind any of the GLOWING crowd in a game
of knifcandfoyk at the adjaccn. eating
houses.
Although sharing ivuson whose worst
effects await them In the home of their faith
whittier their glad footsteps are Fastening,
they seemed very cheerful, we'll c5htented
company. The Scandinavian delegation.
looked particularly plump and had a we'll
! kept, -whoesome look, which the experience
of the Plains may vary.
! The entire company, as contracted by their
agent, representing the whole, left in a spe-
/ cla train at p. NJ, yesterday, over the
. G. B. x Q. r. 2, for the Mississippi, thence
across Missouri by railto St. Joseph. There
steamer awaits them to take them TO
Florence n. L.. their proposed point of de-
parture across the plains.
| They have with them large amount OF
r,--Tagc, nearly twenty-five tons in all, or
an acyrep.te Of three or four tons over and
above the bacta-, allowed and free to each
passenger. From their ps.,n ut of departure,
their overland journey they propose to make
/ up the usual tTaiu VI pa-tSaihS3 W Ao"S"
Salt Lake as early as possible.
/ This is the second company of Mormons
that has passed through tbs city within
month. The former consisted OF about two
hundred and fifty.
| We learn that about one hundred Of ths
emigrants by the Tappscott deserted at New
York, showing that they had availel them
selves of this tidal wave Of prosclytism for
an easier lifting TO this country. Tho same
may prevail with others Of the company,
but the majority are evidently intense and
Jealous religonists, and bound up in the
destiny of their co partncrs in the Mormon
faith and doctrines.
What that future may be as concerns our
country is a page Of history not very re-
mote to be written from the present appear
ances. Amalg amatc they cannet with our
people and our laws. The youngest Of the
party Of yes;cId.y may still be in tender
years when their Dcscrct shall have become
second Nauvoo, and shaking the dust
from their feet upon tho domain and people
of Uncle Sam, the last Mormuns shall have
found a new Saints rest among the Islands
of the Pacific. 1t is already talked Of So
mo tc it be.
Balloon Ascension at Erie.
by q special dispatch from Lake Erie We
learn that on the 18th inst, Prof. Lynn, the
.Eronaut, who resides in Erie, and is one