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Show CHAP. VI. MORMON EMIGRATION. 297 a score of Irish, making a total of 1900 Britons to 700 from the Continent. The classes preferred by the Fund are agriculturists and mechanics-the latter being at a premium-moral, industrious, and educated people, " qualified to increase and enhance the interest of the community they go among." From Liverpool, whence all the, emigration proceeds, to New Orleans, the passage-money varied from £3 12s. 6d. to £4, and from New Orleans to Great Salt Lake City £20 each. Of late years that line has been abandoned as unhealthy: the route now lies by rail through New York and Chicago to Florence, on the Missouri Eiver. The emigration season is January, February, and March, and the passage can be made at the quickest in twenty-two days. I now proceed to figures, which are given in full detail, and can easily be verified by a reference to Liverpool. The official reports are subjoined,- because they speak well for Mormon accuracy.* From 1840-54 they reckon 17,195 souls, and from * No. I.-List of Latter-Day Saints' Emigration, from January 6th, 1851, to May 15th, 1861. Date of Sailing. 1851, January 6 " 22.., February 2..., March 4 1852, January 10... February 10.. March 6 1853, January 17.. " 23... February 5... " 15.. " 28.. March 26 April 6 1854, January 22.. February 4... " 22.. March 5 " 12 April 4 " 8 " 24 , November 27. 1855, January 6 " 7 " 9 " 17.. February 3... " 27. March 31 April 17 " 22 " 26 June 29 November 30. Vessel. Ellen G.W. Bourne Ellen Maria Olympus Kennebec Ellen Maria Rockaway Ellen Maria Golconda Jersey Elvira Owen International Falcon Camillus (Miscellaneous)... Benjamin Adams., Golconda Windermere Old England John M.Wood Germanicus Marshfield Clara Wheeler.... (Miscellaneous)... Clara Wheeler Rockaway JamesNesmith.... Neva Charles Buck Isaac Jeans Siddons Jurenta , Chimborazo Samuel Curling.... William Stetson.... Cynosure Emerald Isle Captain. Phillips.... Williams.. Whitmore.. Wilson Smith Whitmore.. Whitmore.. Kerr Day Owen Brown Wade Day Drummond. Kerr Fairfield Barstow Hartley Fales Torrey Nelson Nelson.... Mills Goodwin. Brown.... Smalley... Chipman. Taylor.... Watts Vesper.... Curling... Jordan... Pray Cornish... No. of Souls. 466 281 378 245 333 369 30 332 321 314 345 425 324 228 23 6 464 477 45 393 220 366 29 34 422 440 24 13 403 16 430 573 431 581 293 159 350 |