The New York herald., 1872-09-19
THE PROMISED LAND.

s,.t.re.tInr scene at the Departure or
tho six Hundred Mormon Saints Yes
terxiay-The Wondrous Costumes Dis
played-A Description of the Dcbarka-
sion at Jersey City-Only Four Irish
MOrmons.
Yesterday afternoon number of spectators sta
toned themselves at the Jersey City Railroad
depot to watch the departure OF the GOO Mormon
saints by the train which was to take them to the
promised land Of Utah. The saints were on foot
early In Castle Garden, where they had passed the
night getting their packages together. At last al
the children had been found and the whole party
we're gathered together on the deck of the steamer
Trenton which was to take them on the first stage
OF their journey to their new home. They were
not sorry to be rid of the company Of the Gentiles
whom they met in the gardens" for they had to
endure a great deal OF impertinent curiosity as to
what their marriage relations would be when they
landed In Salt Lake City, and one OF the prettest
girls OF the party was assured "that Brigham would
seal her to hinself' At quarter past two the
steamer Just alluded to came TO her m0Orngs NJ
Jersey City, and the debarkaton OF the party COM
menced. The majority of the women had attlred
themselves in their go.to- meeting" dress, appar-
emily for the purpose OF letting New Workers know
that they felt themselves independent Oh rules laid
down by fashionable dressmakerS.
1. EXTRAORDINARY COSTUMES
One OF them, an old lady from Copenhagen, verg-
ing upon the traditional three score and ten OF the
SONS, surmOunted by a white gauze hat. She was
followed by Mr. Richard Jones, an old, gray-haired
English soldier, dressed In an infantry great coat,
and wearing an old naval cap donated him by the
0rst officer OF the steamer Minnesota, on the voyage
from Liverpool, Jones having had his own blown of
during gale Next in order came number OF
women, with babes in their arms and carpet bags
and tin pots slung over their backs They stag
gered up the gangway to the dock In breathess
condition, followed by all the children who could
walk One Of these woman mentioned had
and babies lean, looking like long livers and
Others as if their emacated little frames would
hardly reach Chicago before death would put stop
TO their suferings. Some OF the scandinavian
youths wore red hats. The Swedes were quantity
attred in gray CLOTH thick as ordinary carpet while
their linen was nearly as coarse as the duck OF
which Summer pants are made. There were a few
London clerks in the long procession, with thread
bare clothes and out at elbows, who smiled ut the
change of sccne and with their cOuntenances lit
up with tnat kind Of hope which Is
Neekin, from Belfast, with his wife, pretty daugh-
ter and strapping son, were the only representa-
tves from "the Emerald Isle !" but he explained in
an apoogetic manner to the HERALD reporter,
"3ut we're all Scotch bodies.n The age OF the old
est saint eightysiX years, and the youngest in
FAINT saint was six weeks
i't THE HEAVENLY REST.
AT length the end OF the procession was reached
and the last passenger-a poor Old blind man. led
by his son-left the !rentons deck. The missiona
res who had recruited the company In Europe
: packed them into the emgrant cars and al
fve O'Clock the six hundred started for "tbe heav
enly rest" as they call it, which in their simple i'm
aginatiOns is land overnOwng with milk and
honey, where all earthly troubles are at an end.