Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-08-29

| The MoRAoNs AND THEIR DEMONSTRATING is
wrong with the saints Of the Salt Lake city. This
highly favored people, this devoutly religious as
semby of polygamsts, are in great tribulaton and
distress and anguish. A blight and curse rests upon
their fields and farms, in the shape of army of
locustS and crickets, which promises to be
rible " than army with banners" The plague of
Egypt vas nothing in comparison with the plague
that has come upon the followers of Joe Smith and
Brigham Young. In countless myriads swarm the
foes of the modern saints, and gaunt famine, with
stern visaged starvation, follows in their train.
In palmer phrase, the crops planted by the Nor
mons threatened with utter destl uction by the
visitation Of locusts, crickets and grasshoppers.-
These insects, with the appetite ofcormorants have
made such desolation in the Mormon settlements
that another year of like misfortunes will cause a
great famine among the people. Already there are
murmurngs among the ninety wives of Brigham
Young, and the lesser luminares of the constella-
ton of saints are in trbulation because of the
destruction of every green thing.
The tables are etfectually turned. BRIGHAM,
during the year. delivered speech to his followers
in which he pointed exultngly to the signs of IA
mine among the people of the United States and as
sured the Saints that the hand of God heavy
upon our people. But the signs of scarcity in the
States have passed away The early and the latter
rains, with the quckening sunshine and the refresh
ing dews, have crowned our fields with fairness and
filled our barns with the products of the soil. Plen
ty smiles in all our borders. On the other hand
the Mormon settlements are filled with doubt and
apprehension for the future. The plague is upon
the people, ana tnougn they call upon their GOd, ne
hears them not if their voice pierces his dull ear
it wins response from his obdurate heart.
If the insects continue their ravages, the Mormon
settlement will be- for the time at least broken up.
Starvation, return to the States will be the only
. alternatives. The former will hardly be accepted,
and in the event of the latter being adopted, Nor
monism will suffer a shock from which it cannot ca
silly recover. Polygamy, and its kindred vices, may
exist unmolested in the wilderness about the Salt
Lake, but it must disappear when those who practise
it come within the pale of civilization.
One might be pardoned for cevoutly desiring this
consummation. At very distant day this matter
will have to be met and disposed of by the highest
authorities in the country and it promises to give
trouble No citizen could find it in his heart to OBJ
ject if the grasshoppers crickets and locusts cut the
Gordian knot Their sharp teeth are fully equal to
the undertaking and they are guided by wisdom
that views the end from the beginning and that
adapts all its nstrumentates to the work proposed
to be done. Looking at them from this stand point
of observation, cannot forbear shouting long
live the locuss, long live the grasshoppers long live
the crckets of the Salt Lake valley! Rich: Eng.
The LOUISVILLE TELEGRAPHIc REpoRTER-We
learn from the Louisville Times that the teegraphic
reporter for the Associated Press at that place. who
sent the false Geographic dispatch about the Louis
vile rioters all over the United States excusing the
rioters and murderers, and laying the blame onithe
innocent victims, is pet of D. S. Craig Of New York
Brethren of the Democratic press, give this scamp
an Infamous notorietythrough your columns in
dvidual who has prosttuted public institution like
the telegraph, to vile partisan uses change in the
reportoria department at Louisville is imperativey
demanded, for get nothing but lies the lines
We want to see that reporter removed. Speaking OF
this matter the New York Daily News says:
"Thcy give us the perverted, one-sided, lying
ports of terrible street fight between thousands of
mad bigots on side and few unfortunate crea-
lures who had foolishly imagined themselves enti-
tied the privileges of American citizens under the
laws of Kentucky, defending their wives and chill
dren and their blazing homes, on the other SIDE
They gloss over the burning alive of innocent wo-
without judge orr jury without proof or defense;
the destruction of dozens of humble homes tenanted
by poor laborers, whose all has persisted in the
flames the acknowledged attack of the strong up
on the weak, of the victorious upon the helpless.
And if there be any other account it has been, we
presume in pursuance of the discretion voted in
the New York agent for the Associated Press sup
pressed
&c A majority of the newspapers belonging to the
New York Associated Press profess to be ant-know
Nothing in character. Here is opportunity to
test their professions. Will they say that the per-
version of truth shall stop? VIII they demand
with that this Louisville fasicr shall not be per-
mtted to repeat his outrages? Let us Sec"
The report telegraphed from Louisville was evil
IDENTITY made up from The Louisville Journal, and
was as UNANIMOUSLY false as if it had been written
pressly by the editor of that false, lying and
pulous sheet. We shall not be content while
reliable reporter is retained. The tax is too heavy
to pay for unwarranted fabrcations and falsehoods
Cincinnati Enquirer.