Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-08-08
rrom the Chicago Democrats, !, !.
j Prospect 81 Famine a. Sal. Ials.,
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Dlspsrsioa Of the Xsrasu,
The several accounis which wa h..
listed Of the ravages oF the gts,,b,
ard crickeis iri Salt Lake Valley. rii
the strong probability Of fannie ane,.
Saints during The coming sintcr. Su,s.
those accounts to he correct, a ysrs
proportion Of ali kinds OF crops wilii,'s ~
of, and not near enough OF nay,hinv h,
feed tho inhabitants. IL has been !.
that San Baruardino, Mormon ,e,,,.N
eight hundred miles frem Sal, I.at. : Il
was the nearest poin; a, which sunni, ).
be obtained. But hope Of assistance =, :.
that quarter cannot now be entertained N
see By q letter in the Mormon from Sa,s
nardino, under date OF t!e2S,h Of NJ,
the wheat crop there had been ms,er,,I.
iurcd by rust and smut, ana tina, tbs,, !. I
no. probably be more than sufficient !.
ply the wants Of the settlement.
This is not the first instance in Mil
Mormons have had their crops des,ra,.s 4
these all.deyouring insects. The ersn.
into the ground in the Salt Lake Vail, i
advanced parties at the time OF their n.
exodus from this State, and upon vh;cs \
main body in the rear relied for sub,;,,.
during the following winter, were s,,,sI
by the orickots--great goggle-eyed, cras
legged, bottle bodied monstcrs--eaiio. 4
green fields to tho ground, and lesr;,.
track behind them rs blank as If wa,,s,
fire. But just when the Saints were il a.
pair these crickets were discovered BY !
little white guils which breed amons i
islands of the lake, and they made sucS !.
fectuai war upon them that the crop, ~
saved. This natural interposi,ion the NJ.
mons afterwards spoke Of as a special ,,,.
dence, by which, like the Jews Of old, 4,
were saved from starvation. From 4.
time until now they have not been ,rouSi'
seriously by grasshoppcrs or crickess, y
they were congratulating themselves 10,
unexampled abundance, when the insec, q,
came and swept their crops aud hopes az,
together.
The observations of Col. Fremont in 4
Salt Lake Valley in 1874 indicates tina. M,
crickets and grasshoppers are likely to p-o,
chronic plague to the Mormons. Hss,as
that from time immemorial the native i
uldus hhNC btch uCCuStOHicu W regard The
rs part Of their subsistence. They ma,
cakes of grasshoprers and crickets. IA
drive them into trenches with hot FRA
the bottom, where their wings and leg,
burned of, and they are roasted after /
fashion of the locusts of Africa. Tn,
American insects thus bear the same raj
ton, and serve the same purposes to /,
wild native tribes, as the locusts of tho i
sert of Asia and Africa in their respecti
localities. They are bar to the cnl,iiva,
of the soil they exist where their is no 81
for cultivation, and where animal life
limited to insects and reptiles, and they A
all eaten from necessity. The Utah era,
hopper is the African locust Of a small
size, and the Digger Indian is bu. low
type of the desert Arab.
In view Of the above facts, it is not imoo
sible that these insects may prove pro,
Dental agency for the dispersion Of the No
NOES, and possibly the breaking up Of d
corrupt hierarchy which now sets Heaven
defiance and on.rrges the highest moral Al
religious sentiments of Christendom.
their crops are as badly cut off as the pu
lishcd accounts would indicate, they mi
either disperse before winter, or starye VIII
winter comes.