A Philanthropist

Ata recent meeting in Boston tbr the benefit of prisoners, Mr. Augustus relate! bis experience in saving tlievicious. Our readers are aware ihat for sevt.-ral years, lie has dono but titile eUe tan attenc! the courts ofjustice, giving bail for prisoners, on condilion of eigning tlie temperance pledgp, procuring thein good situations and tliis töftoring thein to competence and respectability. llore is Cliristianity reduced to practice. Ilow much more nuble ie 1 h is enterpriso oí 'seeking an] inving those that are lost" tlian me butchering expedilion of üenprala Talor and Scott against a foreign people, deslroying their dwellings, and blmwng ipto fragmenls unofibiiding vomen and cbildren at tlieir own firesides ! Yet the work of dpstruction is justified by multitudes of well paid orthodox divines, while t Ij is heterodox savior of publicans and sinners receives no notice or approval, save frons a sm;ill clas3 in the community as hunible nnd unpopulnr os himself! We cut the foüowing from a report üf hts remirks in the IVisoner' s Frie r:d. "He had been engaged for the last six years ili saving men and wonnen. He had nol earned a cent for four years. He had mot vvith a great nmount of opposition; he had been called a fanntic, nnd a (bol, and been neensed of upholding crime. [Ie formerly belonged to the old Temperance Society, and worked wilh Deacoii G:-an'. But when tlie Wasbingtonian car eime along he sprung into tha'. It was at tliis time, (if 1 understand him correctly,) the idea first flashed, BCross bis niind of saving men. He worked a vvhole year saving men, before he dared to sf.enk !o a woman. He went to Jail one day to see a man that he was trying lo save, and he there saw a woman w'ho asked him why he couldn't save her. - Thic was rather a hard quesiion, and onc that puzzled him some. He cametothe conclusión tbnt he would save he nrxt ine that was. brought up, which he did. He was boUnd for her,and saved her,and she hns since bccome one of the most efiicipnt membersof the Mnrtha Washington Society. He has bren bail (of 582 since 1841. He bad a pnper containing lbo namei of those that he had been bou nel for, (which he exhibited at full lengtb) meisuring 16 fept. The amount for which he has been held,is upwards of $30,000. He has been bound for persons who have commilted every bnilüble crime, and but two have forfeiled their bonds: the one a m?.n whe becnine frightened and c.ime back again; Ibe other a woman who would have come back if she had not been nfraid to. She was told that if she carne back she would be put into l'rison. These are the only two that have ever given him nny troublp, outofthe582. Now, snid Mr. Augustus, if you should endorde the notes of582 of the best men in your mids!, would you not lose by more than two? We undpestood him to say thal lie had paid, for ihe last six years, for fines, Si, 300, which be obtained, by going from store to s'.ore, and from merchant to merchnnt. Amongthe number that he liad bailed. and saved from going to Prison, werelO or 12 linie boys. We understood Mr. Augustus to state that he had saved the city and county seven thonsnnd dollar which they otherwise would have boe obliged to pay for cost for courts pending the criminal to South Boston &c.