Arkansas intelligencer., 1849-12-22
From the n. Y. Herald.
THE NEW STATES AND TERRIT0RlES-NEW MEMBERS
AND DELEGiTES TO CONGRESS,

will be the number of members and delegates
from the new States and Territories.
First of all, the Mormons in the Basin Of the
Great Salt Lake, have found time, in the intervals
between their prayer meetings ard their abors in
cultivalipg wheat and potatoes TO organize State
government the capital of which is the New
Jerusalem, laid out on large scale. and built of
un-burnt bricks. They have erected poIilica
platform. and appointed delegate to Congress
Mr.. A. w. Babbt-who has crossed the Rocky
Mountains and the great Palms. and is ready to
report himself TO the House on the first Monday
In December next. His report viii be curious nnd
interesting He is The organ of the Latter Day
Saints. who. by pre-cmpiion right--the organic
lay in the West-have assumed the sovereignty
Of the Great Basin, and defined the natural limits
of new State, covering an area ten times the
surface Of New York. r
The history of the Mormon emigration to, and
settlement at, The Salt Lake, is Of the Dovees
of the age. and shows what homogeneous COM
munity, by dint of hard labor, faith and prayer,
may accomplish. The gay Cavaliers of James
town, the stern Purituns Of Plymouth, the enthu-
siastic Huguepots Of Carolina, the devotional
Catholics of Maryland, established their respec-
tive colonies under great embarrassmeDts; but the
marvellous history and adventures of the Nor
mons, and their final settlement and success at the
Great Salt Lake, have parallel only in the wan
derings of iheIsraeites from Egypt TO the promised
Land. The romantic history Of Captain John
Smith is eclipsed by tina. Of Gen. Jo Smith, and
the sufferings of the coonists James river
were but pesmes compared with the trials and
bad luck Of the Mormons. That the simple and
deuded followers of an ignorant impostor, driven
from place TO place, despoed Of all they possessed,
and finally expelled. to tnke the chances among
| the :" outside be rbarions" Of the buffalo country
should, within the space Of three years, build up
a thriving city and found State thousand miles
beyond the frontiers Of the backwoodsmen, in the
hea RI of desert form a ma rrntye " lch has more
the air OF romance than of reality; but which
is, nevertheless, as true as gospel. Such is
chapter in the history of the Latter Day Saints
such the people and circumstances under which
the new city Of Zion has arisen in the wiley of
the Jordan, and on The. borders of the Dead Sea
of America. ir...#.
Mr.. Babbt. the representative Of this peculiar
people, and the delegate from the State Of
i Deseret, will. doubtless his report 10 Congress,
detail the trials and obstacles overcome by his
| consiIuents-the wonderful results Of hard work
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1lof cfickcts, ard similar calamity the saxosedsHe
} season would have reduced them to famine. But
I they had faith. They sowed their fields and held
their regu ar meetings for singing, ihanksg living
and prayer. Their grain appeared above the
ground, and the swarms of crickeis reiurned.-
Ruin stared the colony IN the face, when, one fine
morning. cloud Of guIs down from
the Salt Lake, and fell upon the insects with the
most astonishing success. Day by day the sea
gulls returned, working faithfully among the
crickeis, til sunset, when the birds returned TO
the lake. In few months the crickets were des-
troyed. What has followed A traveller, who
inspected, during the last summer. sngle field OF
wheat of ten thousand acres, estimates that 1t will
average fifty bushels per acre.. Thus much for
the Mormons and tho new State of Deseret.
But if the history of the New Jerusalem is the
eighth wonder Of the world, California is the ninth,
and ecpses all the rest. The discovery of gold
| has solved the problem of the western passage to
Asia, is changing the currents of commerce, and
! is destined to make San Francisco and New York
the depos Of the trade Of the globo. 1t has divert
cd thousand ships around Cape Horn---it is OPEN
ing the passages over the isthmusit has attracted
invading armies overland, whose trails are marked
by scattered wagons, provisions, and merchandise,
and the bodies of dead animals, for hundreds of
miles-it has given an impetus to the Pacific rails
road that must rapidly hasten its completion-has s
created sufficient causes of excitement, in the
stimulus to prodigious enterprises, for quarter of
a century.
| California is expected TO send 10 the coming
Congress, two Senators and two members of the
House, upon the heels of their Sta Constitution.
| Next, the people of the territory Of Oregon,
with lis fertile soil, its forests of immense timbor
and its salmon fisheries. have appointed Mr.. S. r.
Thurs,on their delegate to Congress, who will
have a fattering report to presen, of the steady
prosperity of that fine country, in the increase of
| lis population, in the development of its agricu-
tural capacities and in the stimulus given to the
lumber trade from the monstrous demands for the
article in California.
| But again Far up on tho Rio del Norte is
tho ancient Spanish town of Santa Fe in tho an
cient Spanish territory of New Mexico, now the
property Of Uncle Sam. The mass of the people
of TINT territory is mixture of the mixed yell
low breeds peculiar to Mcxico numbering, accor.
ding 10 MIR. Webster, about one hundred thousand,
'' such as they are." But the invasion of General
kearney naturalized them and from the top of
some adobe cabin he swore them in to support the
constitution. whole village at time, in the name
and upon the faith. of the Alcalde. The army
introduced, also, an infusion of real American
citizens and consigned 10 them the administration
| Of government. But, tired of military
| law, they have recently hold territorial conven-
lion. passed resolutions, and appointed Hugh Smith
their delegate to Congress, to make known thoir
grievances, and to ask redress. 5ucs et9
Two thorsa nd miles to the north, another terri
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