The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-08-01

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mur Nrw ANTLMoRMON PARTY.
:. !. not long since one Of the Mormon
..;nts. in 4 tone OF ferocious levify. congiA
,ul.ted his Mormon congregation that "a
mine would soon prevail throughout the UNI
,sd states, and drive the Gentiles to the Guy
Of the Salt Lake, for the means OF presefs.
Ing life. The speaker, and we have no oouo
81. hearers. especially those venerable ana
white bearded leaders Of the dock. the apps
ties and elders. were greatly enrsptureo WIN
thu nroepect of such an addition to the MOI
NON fold The harems of the faithful were
to be reinforced by vast myriad OF uen1''e
hours. Brigham Young. instead OF having
Is at present, the small and ins'gnihcAn'
number of ninety wives. was to Dc tne "Ap
py possessor of at least ten thousano' anu
the other holy men of Utah, in IKE proper
ton. Bot this glorious prospect, this rlcn
reward for the privations of female society
which the sanity Mormon elders are now
enduring, has suddenly vanished. like beau
tiful vapor from the sky. The prospect OF
famine among the Gentiles has completely
disappeared, and the dark shadow now restS
upon the Mormons. BY late advices from
the Holy City, we are receiving the grosns
and wsilings of the inhabitants thereon. &c
the prospect of a lust penalty OF their ADO
minable crimes. -.
A new and unexpected kind Of allies nave
come to the relief of the ninety Wives 2,
Brigham Young, and the other oppressed anu
miserable occupants of the Mormon haremS
The grasshoppsrs, the crickets, and iocus's'
have risen il, vast swarms, and eating up
every green thing within their reach tnrea
ten to extirpste the foundations OF the MOT:
mon Commonwealth. Such enormous CON
sumption have these voracious insects maze
of the crops, that it is said, in the event Oh
their temperance another year, the MOT
mons will be compelled to emigrate in search
of bread, and pitch their tents among ine
Gentiles, or in the islands of the PACING II
i. an all important question to them, ana 10
this civilized age and country, whether the
grasshoppers, crickets and locusts aforesaid
bid fair to become, like polygamy, liked
institution of Utah. In that event. the beast
~ abomination of MormOnism will be swept
from the face of the land it has defiled.
b Judging from sketch which we find in
the New York Herald, there is every prOba
bility that the grasshoppers, crickets and 10
Gusts will convert Brigham Young and bis
community from the errors of their ways. 1t
appears that these destructive insects were
the original settlers of Utah, having flourish
ed there from time immemorial. "The ma
tive Indians" says the Herald, "have been
always accustomed to regard them as part
of their subsistence. They make cakes of
grasshoppers and crickets. They drive them
into trenches, with hot fire at the bottom,
where their wings and legs are burned off,
and they are roasted after the fashion of the
lOcusts of Africa. These American insects
same purposes to the wild native tribes as
the locusts of the deserts of Asia and Africa,
in their respective localities. They are bar
to the cultivation of the soil; they exist
where there is no soil for cultivation, and
where animal life is limited to insects and
reptiles, and they are all eaten from necessi
ty. The Utah grasshopper is the African 10
Gust, of smaller size, and the Digger Indian
is but lower type of the desert Arab
When the Mormons first emigrsted to
Utah. the crickets, "great google eyed, crook
legged, bottle-bodied Monsters" attacked
their crops with immense vigor, but were in
their turn attacked by little white gulls, which
came out from the islands in the lake, and
commenced war of determination upon the
crickets. The Saints looked upon the gulIs
rs miraculous interposition for their de.
liverance. 1t is a wonder they have not
constructed an image Of the gull and paid it
divine honors. In fact, bat for gulls of va
rious kinds, Mormonism would not now be in
existence. Since the year Of their emigra
ton, now nine years ago, they have had
no trouble with their old enemy of their
crops. and have had a ann----.--0 VI nne mar
,,.... 49,, year, however, the crick cts and
grasshoprers are appearing in great army,
and there is no security against their return
next year in still larger swarms. Should that
be the case, the Mormons will either have
to adopt the custom of the Indians and .make
cakes of the grasshoppers and crickets," or
the grasshoppers and crickets will make
cakes of the Mormons.
The Mormon settlement is in the midst of
a desert, and is thousand miles from the
frontier white settlements of the East, and
about eight hundred miles from those of the
West. Their community numbers about fifty
thousand bodies, i've cannot say souls and
il their supplies are cut off, they must emf.
crate in search Of food. They, their wives
and their children, must 60 among the Gen
lies, and the moment they do that their DO.
ysamy is used up institution. Polygamy
nay be q very pleasant affair to the Nor
non elders but starvation will soon deprive
{ of its charms. If such shall be the result
# the contest going on in the West between
he allied insect powers and the Sebastopol
II Mormonism, We 60 in for the allies. We
rust they may speedily succeed in cutting
If all the supplies and compelling the many |