The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-06-16
Mormon Immigration.

The New York World contains very
amusing and graphic account of the recent
arrival of six hundred and thirty converts to
the Gospel of Mormon, who disembarked at
Castle Garden. One half OF these were wo-
men, and every age was represented in the
motley gathering, from muling, pulling infan-
cy to the centennarian in spectacles. These
left Liverpool April 10Th, under the guidance
Of Elder Sherman, and were received by FL
der Taylor, the Mormon agent on this side of
the Atlantic.
Another cargo of five or six hundred Nor
mons from Hamburg, chiefly north Germans,
are on the way to New York, and another
ship from Port Elizabeth, South Africa, con-
tains sixty white Africans, who almost cir
cunnavigate this globe for the purpose of liv-
ing and fading graves 10 Deseret.
In the old countries there are at the present
time upwards Of hundred and afty mission
aries at work constantly and vigorously ia
making proselytes to this peculiar religious
faith, and the success they meet with shows
the warmth of their zeal and the tact and tai
ent with which they prosecute their labors.-
Elder Taylor says hundred thousand imml-
grants from Europe have been brought out
during the twenty three years in which the
Saints have preached aup and down the old
countries; and what is a remarkable fact, ac-
cording to this Elder. no ship with women on
board had ever been cast away or lost. The
SAints have no fears in crossing the ocean in
vessels in which the tender sex take passage.
Elder Taylor is short, stout, unctuous-
looking man, and has been abroad some three
years, preaching and baptizing. He is about
thirty years old, and can have Just as many
wtvvs hs= naayss-rsro, can tairo orsre-ef.
He has been in Utah about twelve years, and
kept suffers shop there unit he was struck
with the doctrines of Brigham Young, when
he became disciple. Forthwith he was or
dered to grid up his loins and 60 to Europe
on mission. He is now an Elder, and has
sent out many wives to garnish the households
of the faithful. But the great revivalist, now
10 Europe E der Wells, an American, who
directs the star of empire.
Since Mahomet published the Koran, there
has not been on earth such religious demon
stration as these Mormons have made. 1t Is
truly marvellous that in this enlightened nine
teenth century SO many men and women
could be found who would follow the lead of
Joe Smith. Unlike Mahomet, and living in q
different age, it seems unaccountable that
Smith could have made SO many converts to
his doctrines. But SO it is, and no monarch
on any throne In Europe lives more Iuxuri-
GUS life, or has more control over his subjects
than Brigham Young has over the men and
women Of Deseret. The Koran is remarka-
bic book, and embodies . great deal of wis
dom and many sound moral precepts, but the
Mormon Bible falls far below it in every re-
sweet. There Is not enough of it to run a
parallel between it and the Koran. Compar.
ed with the Koran it sinks into utter insignia
cance, and yet the strange doctrines taught in
the Mormon Bible have called tens of thou
sands Of men and women from various Sec
tions Of the globe and settled them down in
what was once an unbroken wilderness, far
removed from civilized lie.