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Show HpBJPnnntiMt. is BBBBPTnxoT tie fore those ancient WflilholiKfiVrj of tho lfppcr Missis- sljipi "V iillrj tii, down to sic if ho can noiciiitimril.' a 1 of lbs many News-pjpirstlie News-pjpirstlie iiiv h"s bed since it begsn tihe built The "Lnmnnite," who occupied the ground during tho first two or three deraib'sof the rentury.niid who nro said to have had quite n city of iU; on tlio flat; but they aro not known tohnvo had any use for ncwspapcis. So the first one of whiih wo havo nny knowledge know-ledge was tho little ono known ns the "Tiiiics nnd fensons," the organ, nnd under the auspices of tho remnants of lartter-day Saints, just exiled from Missouri. Mis-souri. Tills wns first issued In November, Novem-ber, 18.;ii, hy I'hcnczcr ltohlnson mid Don Cailos Hiuith, tlio latter n vounger Intliei of the Mormon Prophet. During Dur-ing tho career, which lasted till tho ox-ptision ox-ptision in 1810-7, it had for itsditlcrcnt editors tho Prophet himself, and Frederick Freder-ick (i. William, and John Taj lor, Wilfred Wil-fred Woodruir, W. W. Phelps and several otheis. All of the beforo named have siuic been conspicuous In Utah, except I). C. Smith, who died early In Nauvoo, and Mr. KobiiiHon. who hns siiuo licen a leading mini in the camp of the Heconstrtictcil Brunch. About 1811! ' Pntrlnuli" William fimith issued for a time n small sheet which he called "Tlie Wasp." This was soon tnergul in tlio "Nauvoo Neighbor," Neigh-bor," a larger and more lespcctable sheet, which was managed by John Taylor During the Moimon wnrtho"Hnn-cock wnrtho"Hnn-cock Kuglo ' was issued tor n timohyl Win. IC. Mntlack, n writer ot some force, I ho was said to havo been onthestafTl 181 "The New Yorker," with Horace lOreelcyri Its capable editor dlediri b R10:nmlaiiBttanlOTTOirilift ruTfisot ttiMCifgTe issued n sheet called the "New C'itinn, ' with Dr. Isaac Gal-land Gal-land ns its editor It wns nfterwards coiuttuted by John S. Winter. In 1847 James McKee published tho "Nauvoo Patriot." Karly in tlio fifties tho Icannns camp to tho city, bought tlio temple, and incued the "Icarian Kevicw" and nfter-wnrds nfter-wnrds tlie "Popular Tribune." In 1808 tho "Democratic Tress" was started by Ciregg and Lambert not Gregg of the Wareaw Signal. It soon passed into other hands, and finally was condiuted by Mr. Grove. In 1873 was Ik'gun the "Nauvoo Independent" Inde-pendent" by Messrs. Kramer & Thomas and hns been successfully continued to the present under various managers nnd increasing v early in value and Influence. ""And last, though not least if less than the Independent conies the "Nauvoo "Nau-voo ltusii.Kii" which I only mention ; tot it is big enough and able to speak for itself. Po jou see, in tho whlrley-glg of time and tho mutations of Newspaper I.lfo, your handsome nnd spirited sheet counts ns the last of nn oven "baker's dozen" foi I find I havo omitted tlio "llxposl-tor," "llxposl-tor," that lcbelllous sheet, abated as n nuisance, the most noted ot them all making thirteen in tho first half century. Omitting of coursn nny mention of tho two papers nt present existing, it Ib just to say, thnt ot nil these not ono ioso to tho dignity of respectability, if wo except ex-cept Mntlack'rt tingle, which exhibited vigor mid talent, but wiih manned by excessive partizenshlp. All tho others weroquilo common place nnd not up to tho Htnudniil of country papers of the present day. Xauimi Knitter. |