THE NORWALK EXPERIMENT, Ohio, May 25, 1858

• Abdication of Brigham Young
• Mormon - Mormonism - Utah War

Page 2 ha a brief yet notable report headed: "Brigham Young has Abdicated" noting: "...brings the intelligence of the arrival of Col. Kane & Gilbert...Gilbert states that Brigham Young has abdicated and Gov. Cumming was, at last dates, thirty miles from Salt Lake City, accompanied by a deputation of 50 Mormons sent to meet him."
Also of curious interest is a back page article: "The New State of Ontonagon", noting near the beginning: "...inclined to give the embryo state to be formed on the southern shore of Lake Superior, Michigan and Wisconsin..." with more on this.
The state of "Superior", or "Ontonagon", was a proposed state that would be created by the secession of the Upper Peninsula from the rest of Michigan, named for adjacent Lake Superior. Some proposals would also incorporate territory from the northern Lower Peninsula, northern Wisconsin, and even Minnesota.
Four pages, nice condition.

Background: In May 1858, The Norwalk Experiment captured two notable flashes of mid-nineteenth-century American political maneuvering and frontier state-building. The front-page report on Brigham Young's supposed "abdication" reflected the tense climax of the Utah War (1857–1858), where, following mediation by peace envoy Colonel Thomas L. Kane, Young agreed to step aside as Utah’s territorial governor in favor of presidential appointee Alfred Cumming—a diplomatic transition reported as an abdication while Young maintained his ecclesiastical authority. On the back page, the paper detailed the birth of the "State of Ontonagon" movement, outlining a formal 1858 proposal by miners and settlers along Lake Superior to break away from distant state capitals in Lansing and Madison to carve a new 51st state out of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin, driven by economic isolation and political neglect following the Toledo War settlement.