Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-09-21

tickets in lottery; you may draw
"a prize, but it is a hundred to ono
that your number is --.
The greenest Pike County Nilsson.
ran, or Josoy County Indianian that
ever navigalcd "icho ham craft
across the plains, may come here -
| get a good claim, and in n very shori
time, make an independent fortune,
while another who can bring all the
light Of science to his assistance, may
toll Tor years, with nought but rags
upon his back, and beef, bread, and
coilce-(the common fare of miuers)
for his subsistence, and be worse of,
pecuniarlly-and in every other re-
spect--than when he commenced.
Mining is such a precarious bust
ness, that few engage in it. who can
turn their hand to anything else and
Therefore every branch of business,
crccpt mining, is ogerdone in Cali
lornia. There are more Lawyers,
/ Doctors, Merchants, Whiskey shop
keepers, Loafers, and Gamblers, in
this State, than in any other county
on the Globe, containing the same
amount Of inhabitants, and consc-
( quently, there is more quarreling--
more dying-morc smashing, more
drinking and more stealing, swind
ling and numbering here, than almost
anywhere else, in the civilized world.
The Crops in California win be
very light this year, owing partly to
tie droughih, but more TO the count
less millions of Grasshoppers, which
have made their appearance every
where on the Pacific slope.
Wheat has been comparatively IN
injured, as it was nearly ripe before
they made their appearance, but ev-
cry thing else has been almost entire
/ y destroyed.
They have eaten mp every spear Of
green grass, so that stock of all kinds
can hardly obtain subsistence. They
make their Appearance in perfect
swarms, and fields which yesterday
bid lair 10 richly repay the toll Of the
husbaudman, to-day are Invested Of
every green thing.
The Indians are capturing tons aud
tons Of Grasshoppers, curing them,
and stacking them away for their
winters consumption.
They first roast them, and then
make a large excavation in the earth
and empty them into it, covering
them with brush and dirt, to the
depth Of six or eight inches, with the
exception Of a small hole AT the top
lefi open, TO allow the eiiluya which
they cugender, during the curing pro
cess, to pass oil. After two or three
months, they arc ready for use, when
they boil them, making kind Of
soup, which they eat with great gus
to, calling it scoya nucka mucL,
GOOD food)
A large train has just arrived from
Salt Lake, with about one hundrce
and fifty men, 5000 head Of cattle
and horses, and 1000 sheep.
They leh there the first Of May
aud bring the intelligence that near
ly all the crops had been deslroye,
by the grasshoppers Great fear.
were entertained by the inhabitants
that there would BE- a famine there
the coming winter Should such b,
The case. what will the immortal Brig
ham Young do with his forty wives
1t VIII require large income TO sup
port them, if provisions are as higI
there, as they were during the starya
ton of 1852, when flour sold readily
for two and three dollars per lb.-
Many of the Mormons, and especial
ly the women, have come to tho con
cluslon that it is ga hald road
raUei oga Jordan," and they ar
leaving by hundreds, and moving t
Oregon and California, where the,
can appropriate the affection of on
of the chords of creation" exclusiycl
10 themselves.
am credibly informed, that neaI
ly all the women III Utah would leaV
there, if they had an opportunity
but the most of them are, as il were
tied hand and foot, and obliged t
remain. THEY are entitled 10 on
sympathy, rather than reproach bu
the men cannot be too thorough
, dotesied.
Mormonism is sopPing the yer
, foundation of our social system W
, feel lis influence, even in Calilornii
, and think it high time that sto
) was put to such oulrages upon all d'
5 cency as are practiced there, year a