My Dear Mother, for such you seem to me, I will never while I am on this earth cease to think of you. I have remembered your voice since I first heard you sing and pray while in the cells of poor W----and S----, the condemned men. I wished then that I could have seen you, and I told the boys that you were certainly born of God; and from that day I have desired to have your influence and prayers. I am still trusting in the love, mercy and power of the Savior to save my soul in the eternal world and to keep me from sin while I am in this. I have no other hope, no other desire than to serve my Master. I would want to attain to a state of perfection here, if such were possible, but you know that the cares of this life come in to rob us of the pleasure that we would enjoy in the anticipation of heaven. But some day the dark clouds that overshadow us and prevent us for a while from seeing the Savior's smiling face will be rolled away. I am glad to tell you that the sentence of R----, whose cell was next to mine, has been commuted to life imprisonment. He and the man P---- send their regards to you. P----'s sentence is respited until the 17th of November, and in the meantime he hopes for a new trial. I will close, wishing you the choicest blessings of heaven, and I am yours very sincerely, trusting in the hope of eternal life, Your brother in Christ, ---- ----. The following from the _Star_ of ----, ----, explains itself. The men are referred to in the above letter: BOTH TWICE CONVICTED OF THE CRIME OF MURDER. Everything is in readiness at the District jail for the double execution which is to take place tomorrow, when S---- and W---- will pay the penalty of their crimes. So far as outward appearances are concerned, the condemned men are in a better frame of mind than are most of the other prisoners in the big brown-stone prison. Their spiritual advisers are with them most of the time, and when they are absent the men pass the hours reading religious books and praying.