Show rev norman mcleod A tow days since w T shown a private I 1 lotter letter from a former resident of utah written tit at cle cleveland cland ohio in m which lich the writer said he had bad attended the pl previous clevious evious sabbath evening a lecture by rev bev norman mcleod in one of the churches of that city from arom other including our exchanges we learn that tho the Rev reverend elend is davin dm drawing vin crowded and deeply interested audiences throughout tile the northern and eastern states his friends and the friends of the cause it hu represents anvill be glad to learn that mr mei mci lood is doing much towards raising a fund to ft a suitable sui tible chuich building in this ibis city wid aid that lie he is de demoting himself to in tho the task with that energy and eminent ability charac t ts of the man there ato are few ministers of the gospel who ho would have undertaken tho the work t ius far so well performed by mr malc malcol CJ and r still less number who are arc so v well ell adapted for it iu in the winter of 1861 3 5 ho he left a i comfortable end well provided provid Ld homo home and a large a and ild growing congregation in the city of denver to take upon himself the arduous post I 1 ot of missionary in utah ile he organized A chinch in this city the first gentilo gentile church in tho the territory established a flourishing sabbath school and collected from among our own citizens citizen and saud those of california funds fund sufficient to purchase a laigo laige lot iud and erect independence hall in which every sunday morning he preached and in tho the evening lectured aured I 1 As the tha pioneer minister of christianity tile the name dame of norman mcleod will ever fill a conspicuous space in utah history about him and ilis his work oric there is nothing of odthe abla can cant t ol oi mere sectarianism his sermons lemions abound in t ut cill enlarged arged charity and good will which are lf w e essence lid and S spirit if not tho the very dounda fo unda tion of christianity appreciating fully the situation B tuition tua tion incao due revl points or fordis ol 01 0 cauich vor worship ship and creed had no part in his discourses discourse which were eagerly listened to by crowds of all denominations the methodist t io presbyterian the catholic alile united in his support anti and in lecci ving his ministrations but the ibe gibat fea feature tIlrO during hi hii gatay here cashis series of sabbath night lectures on en polygamy they were nvere no mere balgar tirades of abuse of cormons mormons Mor mons such a min as s norman mcleod could never descend to tat cven though his theme liht seem to but he be handled his ec t with wa t the L 0 force and dignity and ad se sern ching analysis of the si holar rhetorician and christian gentleman I 1 that he is th that t those these lectures produced a I 1 profound impression WAS fr from the hundreds NN who he were nightly unable to obtain I 1 admittance to the iho hall and the unrestricted abuse which still as assails ails him with a private character unsullied by even the breath of suspicion in a community where the darkest suspicions 1 are cherished ud and magni magnified flea os ex and alternately whispered and bellowed he passed unscathed exec except pt alono alone of that vulgar pointless st s bah 1 shaft aft less les and TC re may mav i add harmless attra ellou and and vituperation which like the Aust australian boo boomerang meran lerums only to injure him who uses it thero a arc e leir few nica inen of his ag age go pors possessed essed of the echol schol dily attainments burisin burning eloquence c deli ery coolness of judgment and personal courage cour ae of norman mcleod for fie cac lalor labor ia which he has been and soon we trust will bo ag again ain engaged he is peculiarly and preeminently pro eminently fitted N for twenty years has utah been peopled with a rapidly inci casing population and s nce 1819 with tt Ix goodly number of gentiles yet until mr mcleod essayed the t W ill ethcie cie hid h id not been e becj ca an ail attempt at establishing auy any fort sort of a chuich except that of ilic ho mori mons while the i and alid those who a e not expend millions annually ia sending missionary warming pans to tl the I 1 idies andrino and fino tooth combi comb to the coasts of 1 A abrica trica while the sorrows of gob gah tuch ille the f tender sym of tho the great eug eng and Ameri american edu mission societies no one seems lo 10 thin that out oat in utah is a wider and 1 i important ra p oreali aela field lor missionary labor than in all abe thew world orid beside if mormonism Monnon ism is intrinsically and divinely r right it need not fear any intellectual or for that matter any other assault on its stronghold r if ifft it is is a lugo huge wrong wrong 1 it il can never be be worsted by blowing blowis paper bullets at long range against it or by more mere abuse nuncia deni de nicia tion and invective two tuo or three such men ia utah bah as rev normin nonna u mcleod mcgeo aro are worth moreth mor ethan all the congressional I 1 speeches contain oi in forty volumes of tho botial gabe including tho Appen appendix dim one blast upon ills his bugle horn NVere worth ten thousand men LATEST A san francisco d to too S abrame amento 40 bee of the alt says horace homce porter the well known 11 has tiled a petition for a decree oc of discharge di from his creditors his debts nine amount to sa j GOO total assets all of which is mortgaged or under attachment tho VA M opposes tile the altas scheme for he be increase of tuo the police f force orce and declares that it ib is useless to talk of increase until the present force is manag chith cl w iab some degree of skill shill and judgment tho the board of directors of the tha industrial I 1 school have decided to remove all tho the larger females from that institution to magdelan ila d elan asylum tho the policy of this movement admits of df argument catherine brady who imagines that she BUO is the mother of god AT au gudit to the insano insane asylum on friday one house here sold valentines this thi a season aud and had twelve men employed deliver edg john joans H rate kane a native amative of boston ma maesa gsa was drowned at maro mare island while abilo ut rt if work ark it at tho the dry lock on I 1 1 I I 1 |