The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-11-19
The New States and TerritOrics-New MeM-
bers and Delegates 70 Congress.

The New States and TerritOrics-New MeM-
beers and Delegates to Congress.
feature of great interest in the next 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 and their labors In
cultivatng wheat and potatoes, to organise State
government. the capital of which is the New Jeru-
salem, laid out a large scale, and built of sun
burnt bricks. They have erected political plat
form, and appointed delegate to Congress-Mr.
A. w. Babbitt-who ha. crossed the Rocky Noun.
tans and the great Plains, and is ready to
report himself TO the House on the first Monday in
December next His report will be curious and
interesting. He Is the organ Of the Latter Day
Saints, who, by prc-empton rlght-the organic
law in the Wes,-have assumed the sovereignty of
the Great Basin, and defined the natural limits OF
new State, covering an ten times the surface
of New York.
The history of the Mormon emigration to, and
settlement at the Salt Lake, is of the novelties
of the age, and shows what a homogeneous COM
munity, by dint ef hard labor, faith and prayer,
may accomplish. The gay Cavaliers Of James
town, the stern Purlans of Plymouth, the enthusi-
astic Huguenots of Carolina, the devotional Catho
hes of Maryland, established their respective colo
mics under great embauassmen,s; but the marvel
lous history and adventures of the Mormons, and
their final settlement and success at the Great Salt
Lake, have a parallel only in the wandcrngs of
the Isrsehte, from Egypt to the Promised Land
The romantic history OF Captain John Smith 10
eclipsed by that of Cen 10 Smith, and the suffer-
inuo nf he bat
pastimes compared with the trials and bad luck of
the Mormons. That the simple and deluded
followers of an ignorant impostor, driven from
place to place, despoiled of all they pos
sessed, and finally expelled, to take the
chances among the ''ouside barbansns" Of the
buffalo country, should, within the space Of three
years, build up thriving city and found State a
thousand miles beyond the frontiers of the back
woodsmen, in the heart Of a desert, form a nara
tive witch has more the air of romance than of
reality but which is, nevertheless. as true as gos
pei 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
valley Of the Jordan and on the borders OF the Dead
Sea Of America.
Mr.. Rabbit, the representative Of this peculiar
people, and the delegate from the new State of De-
seret, will doubtless, in his report TO Congress, de
tail the trials and obstacles overcome by his con-
siituens-thc wonderful results Of hard work and
constant prayer-ihe miraculous preservation of the
salnts-and the astonishing prosperity OF the Holy
City. One incident IN THEN history does approach
the miraculous. The crops of the Mormons the
first year were devoured by swarms of crickets,
ard a similar calamity the succeeding season would
have reduced them to famine. But they had faith.
They eowed their fieds, and held their regular
meetings for singing, thanksgiving and prayer.
Their grain appeared above the ground, and the
swarms of crckeis returned. Rum stared the CO.
lony in the face, when, fine morning, cloud Of
sea gulls came down from the Salt Lake, and fell
upon the insects with the most astonishing success
Day by day the sea gulls returned, working faith
fully among the crckets, till sunset, when the birds
returned to the lake. In few meulhs the crickets
were destroyed. What has followed A traveller,
who inspected, during the last summer, a single
field OF wheat Of ten thousand acres estimates that
II will average fifty bushels per acre. Thus much
for The Monnons and the new State OF Deseret
But # the history OF the New jerusalem IS the
eighth wonder Of the world, California is the
ninth. and eclipSes all the rest The discovery of
gold has solved the problem Of the western passage
10 Asia, IL changing the curreuts of commerce,
and is destined to make San Francisco and New
York the depo,s Of the trade OF the globe. II has
diverted a thousand sh - around Cape Horn-il is
opening the passages over the isihmusit has at.
tractsd Invading armies overland whose trails are
marked boy scattered wagons, provisions, and mer-
chandise, ard the bodies Of dead animals, for hum
dreds Of m.les-it has gwen an impetus to the Pa.
ci6c railroad which must rapidly hasten lis com.
pleton-and has created sufficient causes of ex-
citement, in the stimulus to prodigous enterprises,
for quarter Of a cehtUry.
California il expected to send to the coming
Congress, two Senators and two members Of the
House, upon the heels Of their State Constitution
Next, the people Of the territory Of Oregon, with
its ierule soil, its forests of immense timber, aud
ats salmon fisheries, have appointed Mr. S. X.
ThuTston their delegate to Congress, who will
have iatterrg report to present of the steady
prosperity Of that fue country, in the increase of
its population, in the deyeopen-nt of ITS agricul-
tural capacities, and In the stimulus gwen to the
lumber trade from the nonstrous demand. for the
article in California.
Bat again, Fer ~ on the Rio del Norte is the
ancient Spanish town of Santa Fe, in the ancient
spenish territory Of New Mexico, now the proper.
~ Of Uncle Sam. The mass OF the people If that
territory is q mixture of the mixed yellow breeds
peculiar to Mexico, numbering, according to Mr..
web,ter about one hundred thousand, " such us
they are" Bot the INVASION Of General Keaney
naturslized them; and from the top Of some adDbs
cabin he swore them ia TO support the constitu-
ten, a whole village al a tune, in the name add
upon the faith of The Alcade. The army INTRO
dsccd, also, an infuslon Of real American ciii-
zsns, and consigned TO them the administration Of
anew government Bat, tired Of military law,
tbey have recently held territorial coasenton.