1859-05-28—Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper—Mormon Enormities

Mormon Enormities

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, May 28, 1859, p. 2.

Domestic Miscellany

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Mormon Enormities—On Saturday evening about five hundred of the Mormon emigrants that arrived in the city on Friday from Europe, left for the West by the Albany steamer Isaac Newton. The Mormon agents stationed here, having received positive instructions from President Brigham YYOung to send all emigrants in future early in the season, in order to avoid the sad calamities of being caught in early winter on the Plains, as in 1856, used every dispatch, and in thirty hours from landing at Castle Garden had them again in motion up the Hudson. In emigration business the Mormon chief conceives his plans, makes all contracts, sets the whole machinery in motion, and superintends everything and everybody. Without employees to assist, he calls in action the willing hands of the emigrants themselves, a nd teaches them that they are the most interested in what has to be done, and holds forth the virtue of useful labor. Carrying out matters in this style, the five hundred did all their luggage business at Castle Garden, got to the depot of the Michigan Central Railroad with all their children and baggage, and were ready at the appointed hour to bid good bye to New York. The company had a very large amount of baggage. In addition to their usual free baggage with each ticket, they had nearly 6,000 pounds extra; altogether they had upwards of 50,000 pounds.