The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-07-13
RECRUITS FOR BRIGHAM
a Train Carrying Seven Hundred and Fifty
Passes through cheyenne-Who They
Archie Men Who Gathered
Them In.

A special T.. p. train. consisting OF
fourteen coaches and fuu cars of bag
gage raised wet this morning. 1t
conveyed upwards of five hundred So
called Latter Day saints. en- route for
Salt Lake City. These misguided peo-
pie were recruited in Norway, Sweden,
Denmark, switzerland, Bavaria and
| We,tumberg. They left Liverpool in the
| Williams s. Guion steamship Wiscon-
sin, Capt. Forsyth, and arrived in New
York July 7th, where they were met by
W. C. S~taines, a Mormon emigration
agent. They were accompanied by
about twenty of Brigham's Emission
aries"
The emigrants one and all described
the voyage from Liverpool to New
York as INTERNATIONALLY pleasant, and
the attentions of the officers and men
as all that could he desired. In fact,
before landing a formal expression of
grateful feeling for the cOurtesies re-
| ceived was made to Capt. FOrsythe and
| his crew. Religious sci vices were held
| every day on sliipboard, under the lead
erplip OF the several elders. A notice
able feature of the throng was the great
number of children it contained of all
ages, from the infant at its mothers
bosom to ruddy checked boys and girls
of fifteen and seventeen. Some OF the
latter were handsome, and albeit their
faces had caught, the livery of the suil-
| shine," would make many IA city belle
envious of their graceful figures and
free, untrammelled step. The proper
tim of the very young and old will be
better understood by the statement
that while seven hundred and fifty odd
souls were on the train, only 450 whole
tickets are required for their transpor-
tation.
The president of this company of
emigrants is, when at home i'll Utah,
Bishop John RcwbPrry, of Tooele coun-
ty, the first bishopric west of Salt Lake
City, on the other side of the Jordan
river. In personal appearance 1.-THE
Bishop" is c%orpulent, of the Gambrinus
order of nature, ruby in ~countenance,
and about the j~ulliest looking English
man in Utah, who can boast of houses,
farms, seven wives and a host of chill
dren. lie has been Il member of the
legislature ever since Utah wa "a ter
| ritory, and a probate judge Of his coun-
ty for twenty years. He is the best
specimen of a Mormon that yer wig
gled over the pavenients of New York.
Innocent as ''Ma,y's Lamb" and yet
charged by the ted in Utah rs
IA DANTE deep dyed i'll the wool, and
| Just such an obedient subject to Brig
hams rule as would cut the throat of
his grandmother or his mother-in-law
in the morning and thank God at noon
and evening that he had been blessed
with suc'l Il favorable opportunity of
showing his deviation to the modern
MolIammel. lie. however, believes
himself innocent of crime, and returns
to Utah in blooming health. 10 clasp i'll
mis- manly arnis the numerous Mrs.
Rnwberry. What Il time in store!
The mex and probably the only prom
trent parsonage in authority among the
emigrants, was Martin Lei ri, some
years ago a resident of Philadelphia,
now a full tiedged Mormon resident of
Utah, and returning missionary from
Switzerland. Martin is full of faith
aud returns to Zion" rejoicing in the
triumplis of the Mormon gospel. He
was born i'll Switz .rland siXty-One years
ago. and went 10 the country of Tell
To dispel the darkness of the ~bewildered
in the Alpine hills and craggy peaks of
the home OF that immortal patriot.
Martin" was happy in his triumphs,
and related how, six months ago, he
had been stoned and thrashed III the
Canton de Bernie, 10y some ungcdiy I'M
believers, and he could then point out
the leader of those vile prosecutors and
his whole family among the crowd now
jnurneyiny to Utah, pen t mt and sor-
rOwful for having ever said an unkind
word to the missionary. Maltin thinks
it is Il marvellous conversion and trav-
els westw,rd l., joicing in the faith of
Brigham Young.