Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1855 — A Nice Rascal. [ARTICLE]

A Nice Rascal.

Some time last fall, a gentleman of j Livingston county, New York, wrote; to our Postmaster requesting infor-' mation concerning a fellow by the i i name of Charles S. Brown, who, he I paid, had been indicted in that county, and held to bail in $2,500 for 7;rr-Tlre-tvriter ofthc defter was | the security, and was of course anxI ious to get the runaway perjurer he hbd become bail for, back, and save his money. About the same time, Gov. Seymour of New Y r ork, issued a requisition on our State for the surrender of the scamp, authorizing his I arrest and conveyance to New York ! by John 11. Hurlburt. ! The letter of Brown’s security was handed to Marshal Pilbean, who kept a look out for the fellow, but without success until a few days ago. Last week Hurlburt came on here, and with the Marshal soon ferreted the gentleman out. He was found at Mrs. Kinder’s boarding-house, one of the most respectable houses in the city, passing under the name of Charles Sage, and as a Baptist preacher. He begged the officers not to let the facts about him get into the papers, but they wisely judged that such a rascal ought to be known, and the more widely the better. Brown appears to have got along swimmingly during his residence in these parts. We arc told he had been pastor of three or four parches, and bad figured extensively m educational movements. At Cumberland, ten miles east, he had raised a subscription of SI,BOO to build an academy, one half of which. was subscribed by himself. When the time came to pay he wasn’t ready, and + suspicions begining to grow pretty rank he left, and went to Northefield. We are not fully advised of his operations there; but learn that ho, got himself trusted varioussmall amount", which the creditors’’will have to make up oft’ better paying customers. More Recently he came to West Union, in this county, a few miles

notth-wewt,. where be married a very i*e«ecu\ble young lady by the natoe ? Wedd W P<Ace lust Sunday a week ag O) and his arro.t followed in four J!y4fter. He Jell lor Seottoburg Living. lori eoun . ty Now York, in charge of Mr. Hulburt, on Saturday morning*. Hi* Arrival there will gladden the eyes of his security, and no doubt add another to the effective working force at Auburn, or Sing Sing’. I He is said to have been unusually religious, and particular >ious in his deportment, making very long prayers,«nd exhortingwith great unction. ’ A week or so before his arrest he was figuring in some of our Sundayschools, and we believe opened Roberts Chapel school with a prayer of extravagent length. He is about the fifth scoundrel who has made his way here by preten-1 tioqs to uncommon piety. Our readers, no doubt remember the ingeni-1 ous young gentleman of walk and .godly conversation,” who used his situation in the Bank here i to the depleting of that institution of a large sum of money. He has nev- j er been caught we believe. Your religious scoundrels are sharp. StJ John, the pious painter, who swin-1 died everybody that would trust him, and afterwards was arrested in Ohio for a forgery committed at Rock Island, or somewhere thore, and for having married at least two more j “live” wives than the law allows, was) another. His, partner was worthy- of: him. Both ran away from here together. Another was the “fire-proof paint” chap who got some of our benevolent citizens to endorse for him in Bank,: and then “cut.” He was a pious [ man, too, and got himself into socie- j ty by his expertness at devotional I exercises. Frank May is another) case of tlje same description, except: that tfie magnitude of his rascalityraises him above the level of his pious co-mates in villany. He was a model Sabbath school superintendent, and when on the road with i nearly twenty thousand dollars of his ) uncle’s money, he dutifully sent back i the church, key which in the hurry of' his depai ture he had taker with him. • He ted in singing with fervor, and,' : we beliex e. was a zealous supporter lof prayer meetings. It miiy be that! : his rascf.lity was the rest It of too) ( great sensitiveness. for he said in his ) , letter to ais uncle that he took the• money b jeause he hadn’t the cour-! i age to fr,ce a run on the Bank” If) ! he had lacked the courage to make 'a “run” on the railroad, he would have done better. Altogether, rascality in Indianapolis has hept excellent company. JtfTTh e steamer Wm. Knox, front. Cinndlbound to St. Louis,was’destroyed by fire on the morning of 23d ult.J I near Flint Island, below Louisville. Thei ; boat was lull of passengers for Kansas, { ! but it is believed that no lives were lost,: j as a steamer came up at the time of the 1 . conflagration. ! ° JtST Thw District Court has granted a writ of error in the case of Arrison, the torpedo man, and suspended sentence.