The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-12-07

ford Hall, in Portsmouth. The evening
was very inclement and consequently his
audience was thin, which was to be re-
GREETED. Could the public have known
what treat they missed, we are conf
dent they would not have permitted the
weather to have kept them away. Mr.
Hyde fully sustained his reputation as an
orator.
He exposed Mormonsn in mastery
manner; he dwelt with eloquence upon
Polygamy, which he ably discussed as
unchristian, unnatural, unreasonable and
| degrading. He stated that there were 1000
Polygamists in Salt Lake City, and thet
! the female sex were stronger adherents to
Mormonsm. He showed from the great
mortality in Utah, which he said was
equal to Louisiana, that Natures God
had set his protest against the damnlng
sin. He proved, from the history OF the
nations of the Earth, where woman had
been placed Or looked upon as beneath
man, and where Polygamy existed, that
! nation had been cursed and crushed
His views as to the mode Of getting
rid Of the Mormons We're clear and plaus-
able, if not the most udicious. He says
it is utterly impossible to drive them
| from their strong holds from the East,
without the greatest expense, exposure *
from the East, and that through a Noun
tain gorge. and from the favorable posi-
ton Of the Mormons, fifty men could
rake down and sweep oil a whole army
by throwing rocks aud timber upon
them He thought Government should
call Tor 20 900 volunteers with what for
ces they may have in Oregon and Calitor-
mia, and march from those Territories, at
tack them from the West and the South,
which was the only feasible points Of at
tack That large and sufficient army
might he at Salt Lake City by May, and
if Gen. jackson was alive he would have
them there by April. He said the Nor
mons had been preparing for this crisis
for years, and they would not be found
unpre pared; that they had materials
abundant to furnish arms and ammunition
in their own borders, and they had the
best workmen from Birmingham, Shelf
field and other manufacturing towns Of
Europe They manufactured guns and
pistols as destructive as our own, and in
quantities for any emergency. He did
not think it necessary to wage war
against them; to eXterminate the men,
would but be giving deeper roots to their
religion. They were not in a condition
to stand a seige-two years at the fur
thest. was as long as they could keep
supply of provisions; that their crops
had been short for several years, and
with the great destruction caused by the
grass hopper and other insects, it would
be impossible to keep supply for their
army.
There was no necessity Of numbering
them, they would so away themselves
leave the borders of the United States and
finally in short time seek the islands Of
the sea- Our space will not allow us to
follow the speaker through his lecture,
which was listened to with the profound
est interest. We hope our citizens may
have an occasion to listen to him again
STEAMSHIP PowHATAN RUN AGROUND.
We are panied to announce, just as we
were going to press, that the Steamship
Powhatan has run aground on Lambert's
Point Bar, on her passage to Hampton
Roads.
SAILING OF THE u. STEAMER Pow
HATAN-This splendid steamer left her
wharf to-day at noon, and moved in