DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Aug. 31, 1858

• Slave ship captured
• USS Dolphin
• Mormons

Page 3 has: "From Utah" which reports on the elections there. Also: "...Repudiation of the Mormon currency--the notes of the 'Deseret Currency Association--was the last movement of the Mormon leaders...the Gentile storekeepers refusing to receive the notes..." and more.
Also on page 3: "Capture Of A Slaver" which reports on the: "...captured...brig Putnam with 348 negroes from the coast of Africa...The officers and crew of the slaver consist of 18 men, several of whom are Americans..." with more.
Keep in mind that although slavery continued to exist into the Civil War, the importing of slaves was outlawed in 1808.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, a few small archival mends, good condition. Folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.

Background: The August 31, 1858 issue of Washington, D.C.’s Daily National Intelligencer offers a vivid snapshot of the federal and economic friction defining late-1850s America, featuring significant reports on the aftermath of the Utah War and federal enforcement against the illegal transatlantic slave trade. In Utah Territory, local elections unfolded alongside the collapse of the Deseret Currency Association—a church-backed paper currency backed primarily by livestock rather than specie, instituted by Brigham Young to cope with liquidity shortages during the military standoff with the U.S. government; as federal troops, military sutlers, and non-Mormon ("Gentile") merchants entered the territory, they refused to accept the unbacked scrip, forcing Mormon leadership to repudiate the notes and signaling the economic integration of Utah into the United States. Simultaneously, the paper details the capture of the brig Putnam, an illicit slaver intercepted with 348 enslaved Africans aboard and a 18-man crew that included several Americans. Despite the U.S. prohibition on importing enslaved persons effective January 1, 1808, and the 1820 federal law defining foreign slave trading as piracy punishable by death, American-rigged ships and crews continued to operate a lucrative underground slave trade in the decade preceding the Civil War, making federal captures like that of the Putnam high-profile instances of Navy enforcement on the high seas.