Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-10-10
FAMINE!


anime is to come upon the land ; for
'ne or two years the American nation
$ to be greatly distressed and decimated.
BY lack Of food. How does the crazy
prophet of our civil war say that this is
% come about? GA great cloud shall
come down upon the land, and the drops
shall eat up the substance of the
people," This is highly metaphorical
more than orientally so. The drops
up the substances. One might nat
urally interpret that these were oil of
drops. But the prophet goes on
to say "And the many people who
to eat of the cloud as of mama
from Heaven shall de-" Now we see
that the 'tdrops" are something edible,
or adapted to nourish and sustain life
an emergency. Now if the famine
come under the prophecy that
bid the war, it might be we'll to learn,
if possible, before handi in what "shape"
it will come.
In this connection we copy the sub.
Joined from the Salt Lake Telegraph of
October 18th
In a small portion of this Territory
the locusts have been revealing the whole
Of the past summer. Since July they
have been thick enough in this city and
in the valleys adjoining this, and we
understand that they have managed to
travel southwark Of this place about two
hundred miles. Northward they extend
into the cultivated valleys of Montana.
Colorado has been worse blessed with
them than we have in Utah, in fact
that seems 10 be the case every year.
Further eastward the insects have pene-
trated and ravaged more or less as far
as Iowa, where an exchange talks OF
them in the following strain:
"Just now the g~rasshoppers are very
bad with US. You have no idea how
abundant they are. The ground is per-
fsctly alive with them, they fill the air
for many hundreds Of feet upward; they
strike you as you walk to and from your
meals, the public and private buildings
are black with them they infest every
thing. In consequence of their presence
no fall wheat will be sown. The West
is full Of them, and they are journeying
eastward. . Like the d~eath-angel, moth
ing can stay them or their ravages."
Next year, ifthey continue their march
eastward, into and through the States,
they will be distributed pretty well all
through the country, and will be ready
for extensive work, if such a matter be
included within the limits Of manifest
destiny.
The summer past they have done
enough damage in this Territory to
cause them to be by no means despised,
but. not enough to rob the people Of
bread. If the countless myriads which
have been passing over this city for
weeks had all alighted on our crops,
there rcould hare been nothing left for The
haman 6ipeds. Providence, however,
mercifully appointed otherwise.
If it shall be the will Of Heaven to deal
as lightly with the people throughout
the country as with our citizens the past
summer in this matter Of insect vista
ton, there will be great cause for thank
fulnoss, as nobody will be very badly
hurt. But if it should be otherwise,
what then? The train is laid and every
thing is apparently prepared so that il
it should be the intention of the AL
mighty to visit the land with Judgment,
the uhoie country could be eaten up by
these grasshoppers in a rery short time and
LEFT as barren as though a IRE had passed
through the land.
Let US consider possibilities q little.
The winter ensuing will be one Of in
tense political excitement, many persons
fear it will be a time of physical force
conflict. Whatever the winter may be,
the summer and fall Of '6s will hardly
be less exciting and may be far more so,
which will take off the attention Of the
people in greater or less degree from
agricultural and other peaceful works,
having a corresponding effect on the
crops. II, added to this, the grasshop-
psrs should be numerous andwide-spread
and bent on doing their worst through
the Union, times will be very likely to
look as blue for the winter Of '6s-9 rs
they have since the settlement of the
continent by the whites.
No such general afliction may occur.
But it is O fact that the grasshoppers
have come out of their hiding places in
vast numbers and overspread o large
extent of our country. Why have they
appeared in such myriads and covered
such a vast region? 1t must have been
for some purpose. Who knows what
that purpose is? 1t is said that the
very hairs of.our head are numbered,
and that not q sparrow falls to the
ground without the notice Of Deity.
Consequently we "a presume no other
than that the operations of these locusts
are within the purview of Deity, and in
perfect harmony with some mysterious
purpose. Who can fathom the design
Of an over-ruling Providence in this
widespread visitation?
According to the u%ninspired prophecy,
the only relief from starvation, if the
famine time comes, will be by eating
grasshoppers. 1t is well known that the
Indians roast these creatures, and when
they are thoroughly Drowned, crisped,'
they pound them up and make a kind
of bread from them. Monsieur Blot
may have a recipe for their French
dressing, but we cannot find such direc-
tons in his Cookbook. The New York
Post recently said Monsieur Blot did
propose them as a side dish. The best
mode of netting grasshoppers will then
be u matter Of Importance.
: It will be observed that the Telegraph,
which is published under the sanction
and direction of o Mormon seer, is quite
serious about the prospect of a famine,
and exhihits a cause tallvinp with tho