The Daily Madisonian

The Locusts--On Staten Island, says the New York Express, the locusts swarm in great numbers, and the air is constantly sounding with their humming noise. Thus far they have not touched the foliage, but their ravages have commenced. They now seize hold of the small twigs of trees, generally the size of a pipe stem, in which they make an incision through the bark into the wood and there deposit their eggs. The incisions are made to the number of twenty at least, about one eighth of an inch apart; the twig then dies and is broken off by the wind and falls to the ground, from which the insect formed from the egg it is supposed finds its way into the earth.