| Show FORTY FOUR YEARS today the DEs ERicT NEWS enters upon its forty fifth year of publication forty four years ago saturday june 15 1850 ebe first number ol 01 this journal was wae leaned issued that was before the territory of utah had bad so ao existence when many of the mor mons who bad been driven from nauvoo were scattered through missouri tennessee and other places seeking to earn means to emigrate to the city of the saints when colorado idaho wyoming arizona new mexico and nevada were classed in the uninhabitable region known as the great american deseri desen when salt sall lake city bud bad the prefix great I to its title yet had attained the dignity of a frontier town in appearance when farming was carried on where now are some of its chief business blocks block and not a cornerstone of aty of the cites stately edifices or even or oi the mag m ag 11 ial cent t temple bad been laid when the salt lake thoele tooele and san pets pete valleys were the only parts of this region which claimed and when by far the greater part of these valleys where now are rich farms smiling gardens garu and happy homes were sagebrush deserts it was less than ahree years after the pioneers wended bended i their heir way through the wasatch range dr willard richards richard was editor and publisher of the NEWS A canvass had been made for three hundred sat previous to any ady publication and this number having been secured the first issue of the paper came out with the date lice G 8 L city deseret Dee eret june jude 16 15 1850 11 1 tue tn geographical location of the city Is in given as lat 40 45 44 lon 1110 W 26 W 84 the paper bad eight pages three columns to each the size of the page being inches with good clear type well printed in the first column appeared the prospectus which reads as foll follows DESERET NEWS MOTTO TRUTH AND we propose to publish a small weekly best as large as our local circumstances will permit to be called NEWS 11 designed originally to record the passing events of our state and in connection refer to the arts and sciences embracing general education medicine law divinity domestic and politics political economy and everything that may fall under our observation which may tend to promote the he best beat interest welfare pleasure and amusement ol of our fellow citizens we hold ourselves responsible to the highest court of truth for our intentions and the highest court of equity for our execution when we speak we shall speak peak freely without regard regard to men or party arty and when like other men we err I 1 jet sa him who has hla his eyes open correct U us 0 in u meekness and he shall receive a d disciples pa 1211 sa reward we shall ever take pleasure in communicating muni cating foreign news as we have opportunity in receiving communications from our friends at home and abroad and solicit ornaments for the NEWS from our poets and poetesses poet esses then comes the price of gf subscription for six months advertising rates etc the con concluding eluding paragraph of the prospectus reads A paper that is worth printing is worth preserving if worth preserving it t is worth binding fot for this purpose we issue in in pamphlet a form and if every subscriber shall preserve erve each copy of the NEWS and bind it at the close of the volume their childrens children alter after them may read the doings of their fathers which otherwise might have been forgotten ages to come the people of these valleys then were under the provisional govern meia of the state of deseret Dea eret and were making application to congress Jon gress for admission to the union regarding garding ri Rt the con constitution under which they were seeking the privileges ot of membership in the guiou the airia number of the NEWS has the following from the new york herald we pub limb iu in another part or of today herald the constitution ution of the new state stale oi 01 deseret which nas has been founded by the mor in the great basin of upper california it is ie a very liberal document and will wid coal compare are favorably with the constitution of any of the states bastes the first editorial lathe in the NEWS is IH a declai aaion for preserving the integrity of the union reference Be rence la Is made to the presentation in congress by senator halo hale of petitions petit ionn for the abolition ol of slavery and asking congress to vide for the adlaf of the american union ax upon this the says aye if the people the whole people want the union peacefully dissolved why not dissolve it why ask congress to do a thing they have no power to do congress did not make the union the union made congress and the people made the union consequently on the principles of federal republicanism the power that makes must unmake bif if unmade at all and if the union is 8 ever peacefully dissolved it will be by the sovereign people who made it for they alone possess the rightful power of dissolution within themselves and not in their senators or representatives and we hope we shall never again hear of any portion of the american people petitioning congress to do what it has no power to do even if it had the disposition lot let our union remain forever peacefully I 1 the fact of there being nn an railway or telegraph facilities in the west went in those day and that it took ook three months to convey the mall mail over the distance that bat Is now traversed in leu than throe three days day there was wa considerable sid erable news in the first issue of the pioneer paper there la is an account of the great fire in san ban franciaco Pran Fran cinco the message to congress of president zachary taylor regarding the organ izat on of the territory ceded by mexico to the united states the debate in the senate on the bill organizing territorial governments in utah and now new mexico in which senator foote denominated senator benton a blackguard because of the lattery latter lit unreasoning sod and violent antagonism to the territories named the dream of john jobo 0 C Cal calbout bouD as a related by himself to representative toombs of georgia when calhoun stated that george washington appeared to him and upon calhoun stating chet under certain condit condition tano he would sign a paper declaring the union dissolved a black blotch appeared on his right hand which washington said was the mark by which benedict arnold was known in the spirit world and the skeleton of isaac haynes a south carolinian who gave his life for the union appeared and washington suggested that when calhoun signed the deolar atlon aaion of dissolution he should have those bones before him the first analysis of the warm springs waters the announcement of the death of joun C calhoun and oliver cowdery and localness local news there are only two advertisements vertlee verti ments those of wm mcbride blacksmith and A Nel baur surgeon dentist during its career the NEWS has pur med steadfastly the course marked out for it by its founders and has sought earnestly the welfare of the people the maintenance of constitutional liberty aud the triumph of the right that its ita labors labom are appreciated by the peu peo also realize and we are grateful the motto TRUTH AND liberty la in still its ila watch wora in fulfilling its re position as the pioneer aud foremost journal in the rocky mou mauu ti tain vales |
