1860-06-22-New York Herald-Departure of the Mormons

City Intelligence.

Departure of the Mormons

New York Herald, 22 June 1860, p. 8

Departure of the Mormons.—The steamboat Isaac carried last night to Albany about 500 Mormons, who arrived in the ship William Tapscott, from Liverpool, Saturday last. A large proportion of them are women, mostly of English birth, the remainder being Welsh, Germans and Scandinavians. They go via the New York and Great Western and Michigan Central Railroads to ???, thence to their town, Florence, some five miles from Council Bluffs, where they begin their long and toilsome journey over the Plains to their paradise, Salt Lake City. They are late in the season, and will undoubtedly ???? from hunger and cold before they reach Utah. Some eleven hundred are already on the Plains, and more are expected. The company leaving last night is under the charge of Elder Calkins, who rejoices in possession of five wives, with a prospective increase of ??? more.