Arkansas intelligencer., 1849-10-27
ANOTHER NEW STATE

The St. Louis Republican contains an ,ccopn,
of The action of the Mormons for the purpose of
e'eeung a State IN the country Of the Great Salt
Lake. The new State is STYLED the STATE OF
DEsERET, which implies, according to the Mormon
nistory and Interpretation, the "Honey Bee" and
Is significant of Industry and the kindred virtues
Convention was held upon the 5tE of March
ana constitution agred upon aud adopted on the
ioih. The elections under the constitution were
held ON the 9Th of last Nav. The first General
Assembly met on the 2d july Brigham Young
Is nov Governor of this Territory under the recent
organization.
"A RESOLUTION was passed providing for joint
committee 70 memoriaiize Congress for a State, or
Territorial Government
In this memorial thew set forth the reasons
which have induced them to drganize State Gov
ernment. They cite the failure of Congress to
provide government for tie territory ACQUIRED
from Mexico. the abrogation of tie Mexican law,
the anarchy which mas followed; "the revolver
and the bowie knife, ttheS say) have been the
highest law OF the land-the strong have prevail
cd against the weak-while persons, property
Character and religion have been unaided, and
virtue unprotected" Finally, they represent thai
'here Is now sufficient number Of inhabitants
residing within the State of Deseret to support a
State Government, and to relieve the General
government from the expense Of Territorial
Government and they therefore ask that the
Constitution accompanying this memorial be rati-
fled. and that the State of Deseret be admitted into
the Union on equal footing with the other
States, or that such form of government may be
deemed expedient and their Delegate may be
received and their interests properly represented
in the Congress of the United States.
Not word is said in the Constitution about
slavery or the Wimot Proyiso, such things not
having entered into the imaginations Of the law
givers as important for their welfare. The Con-
stiiution will be pressed upon Congress, and if
lfodf
will soon appear in that body from the State of
Deseref-a State which without seIIed in
hab'tant four years ago, and which is some twen-
iy-five hundred miles from the seat of the Federal
Government.
Tne following clause of their Constitution gives
the boundaries of this new Sta,e
"We, the people. grateful to the Supreme Being
Tor the blessings hitherto enjoyed and feeling
dependence Him for O continuation of those
blessings, do ordain and establish free and in
dependent Government, by the name of the State
OF Deseret, including al! the following boundaries
10 Wit: Commencing at the 33 deg.sno lati-
iude where 1t crosses the los deg. longitude.
west Of Greenwich thence running south and
west to the northern boundary Of Mexico; thence
west TO. and down The main channel Of the Ga
river. On the northern line of Mexico. and on the
northern boundary of Lower California TO the
Pacific ocean thence along The Coast north
westerly TO the liz deg. 80 min. Of weet longi-
tude; thence north TO where said line intersecis
the dividing ridge of the Sierra Nevada noun
iains: 10 the dividing range of mountains that
separate the waters flowing into The Columbia river
from the waters running into the Great Basin !;
thence easterly along the dividing range Of noun
tains that separate said waters flowing into The
Great Basin the south, TO the summit of the
Wind river chain of mountains; thence soIth-
east and south by the dividing range of mountains
that separate the waters flowing in the Gulf of
Mexico. from the waters flowing into the Gulf OF
California. TO the PLACE of beginning, as forth
in a map drawn by Charles Preuss. and published
by order of the Senate of the United States, in
IS4S.''
A California Trick.-The following story is
told by Chapparal," the California correspon-