Mennonite and Icelandic Immigrants Arrive at New York
Our cosmopolitan population is increasing by arrivals of emigrants from the extremes of Europe. A few days since a party of 350 Mennonites from Southeastern Russia landed here, having a combined capital of $400,000. And last week 79 Icelanders, vigorous, healthy-looking, and intelligent, arrived, bound for Minnesota, where they are to form a colony. They are the first colony from that bleak and arctic region to come to our more hospitable shores. The missionaries at Castle Garden presented them with Bibles and Testaments in their own tongue. Would that all our prospective fellow-citizens believed and loved the Bible as firmly as do these latest importations!