, 1876-12-03


TO the Editor df TIE Tribune.
HnLsBoRo, Ill, Nov. 25.-The following
from the London Telegraph will serve as an in
PRODUCTION to brief narrative Of the conversion
Of still more hardened and apparently hope
less case:
ut is never too late to mend, - the moel power
fal Of living novelists told long ago; still, it
would be desirable to know the opinion which Mr.
Charles Reade might entertain as to the Feasibility
Of reclaiming the astoundlngly hardened offender
Officer Of the Dublin Military Prison in his recently
Published report to Col. Du Cane, the Inspector
General The real name Of the military 1peorrig;
Die 1T Dublin has been mcrclfully concealed nnder
The reginental number !. 1886; but VIC learn that
ere be entered the army he had been sailor: He
seems to have enlisted ut the sgc OF 20, and TO
have had about five years service. He deserted in
March, 1874, making away with his neccssaries,
1od being tried and convictsa was sentenced TO- IL
whence he was discharged with good character
In August Of the same year he vas convicted or
making away with articles of his kit and sentenced
10 iorty-iwo days Imprisonment and stoppase! ara
again he emerged from Jail with good charac-
lei" Prior to his :st conviction he had been ire
qnenty in trouble for creating disturbances in thc
STREETS, destroying property, and getting drunk IN
camp. Again, in November, 1874. he had forty
TWO days for breaking out OF barracks and other
wise misconducting himself In June, 1872, tn:
1ncorrglble was committed to the Military Prison ut
Dublin under sentence OF 1GS days hard labor nf
which ~ were to be passed in solitary conhne-
Gaent for breaking ont OF the camp at the CurFsSh;
The days of the mans good behavior while in Jail
were now gone. lie took to barTicadin. himself IN
his CELL tearing his clothes, and destroying the
maj and fittings in his dungeon nc was pun1sa?ta
by being put bread and water diet, and by bei19
1mmured IN Il dark cell: hut week OF semi star.
ration only reduced him four pounds in weight ana
,ls when he was in solitary confinement nc pas;ea
nost OF his time in sound slunbcr: On beng
Placed al the expiration Of this punishment i'll
another cell be committed exactly the same fcries
o1 odenses, snd on this occasion lie was hogren'
jt3Y .A+Hfys-
mat the unhappy man, previous to being tle4 np,
declared that the scourging would have no deter,
rent effect nor did it have any. Shortly a1tef"aFn
remained ..rathcr quiet after this second aprli-
cation Of the lash. and eventually be wat trans
ierred 10 civil jai1 prior to being discharged from
!ess character. He lad certainly earned hfe tttie
10 both appellations At the same time It must oe
femembeIed that this desperate rniiisn was mol
him to be congenitaIIy matt but VIC should Ike to
know what Mr.. Charles l;eade thinks OF him
1n our town, during the past ten days: an
evangelist from your city, named Edward r
hAyllss, has been conducting protEacte en- meet
would narrate the story Of his life, conversion,
It. A large audience assembled, filling tns
church to rcpletion,-eyery seat being occupied
and some having to remain standing. selcctfns
1or his text ''This man receiycth sinners NJ
delivered an earnest eloquent, decply-lnstru1!Gt- 1!
following is but = synoptical report: 1t is,
hhoweyer impossible for me to convey to yon1f yo1a
nost Of readers, through the medtum OF eoio
type, the pathos, the piritual magnetism OF the
man. man. or describe the Wonderful effect the ser
mon produced upon the asscmblage.
He was born in England in 1873. His father
r., Nas the youngest son of a gentleman farmer farmer
VINO, in opposition to the wishes OF his 1Eenos:
married Miss Hannah Seville, a descendant o.
the French Hugucnots. In carly life ie associ,
ated With evil companions; frequently piayedi y'i
t-uant from school, ran away FROM hume ana
accompanied clrcuses, theatres, etc Whcn
pnot9saph rst was introduced in Engandi nd
him to y travelling artist Prof. Jenkins;
the Wizard Of tie South, once visited
MS native town, and he ran ava. away .
With him, acting rs Jac|s.unier-t3ole'
L whipping would cure moral disorders,
he, goodness knows, has had enough Of them;
II shutting up in the bedroom on bread aaa
water, with portions OF Scripture to learn, anu
me dog-chain as connecting link between ms
leg and the bcd-post was calculated to civilizc
boz, he ought 10 have been toned down under tug
ss1ssassa applications OF the dose. When IL