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Sketch of John B. Gough'sLifo. John B. Qongn, who flled recently, was bom August 22, 1817, at Sangate, Kent county, England, a romantic littlc watering place freqnented lv man; of the aristocracy and genIry. Bis father was an Infantry soldier and Bervedfrom 1798, when hcenllsted, nntfl discharged in iv2!. witH a ponsten of LS0a year. He was in the península war, and obtainetl a nicdal wilh eixclasps, for Corunua, Talavera, Salamanca. Badajos. Blombal and Bosaco. llavinir npthine but nis pension he could not afford 'to give bis ton a very liberal educution and at the age of ten years John llnally left school. In .Jimo, 1836, John's father paid a tamil;, who were about to emlgrate to America, ten guineas in consideraron of whlch thej agr I to takc bimwltb them, teaeh h:m a trade and próvida for hlra untU he sbould beeoine 21 vears old. Altrr :i voyage of liftv-foir days the ship on whleh young Qougb w8 a passenger arnved a' New' Vork. win the party remalned about two months, prerloua to settling on a farm ín Oneida sounty, where .John re nmin.d, Iearn!nz the dutie"; of a farm land until December, 1881, when he left bis protectors and made his way to New York city, wtere he secured a situation aserrand boy and bo.ikbinder'a apprentice in the Methodist book concern at a f alary of $2 'a a week. ■ In is:!& havlnj cecured employmcot with NJ. White al ! klier wages tban bc was rccelv Ing at the ba-ik concern, Gough senl to Englandforbie father, motber aud sister,, bat only the last two named carne. In July, 1824, his'mother died, and as lic bad no means to prevent, was burled in the potter's Hel I. Withfn a yeur or two after bis mother's dc.ith Qongh became Intímate wltb a set of voung men, through whosc inlluenee he entered u]on these tonvivia! whlch ended In making bim a drunkard. His habitsiaused hiin to lose his Bltuatlon. though he was a good workman, and hc then torned Mis imititive faculties to account anl went upon tbc sla'e as a low comodian and s!nj(er. He did not succeed at tliis; obtalned work at hls trade, but !(-t. t ; shlppe 1 as a liair.l on a lisliiní; siiiac'Á. but 6teadlly crew mure and more a vlctlm "f llquor, though be bad In tin: meantirae married. It is ue dless in thi eonncctlon to follow his career of partía rerormatioD and eoustaui reïapse, which is the history of every drunkard; )t-t itsullieo to say that he did not reach the very bottom of the gulf of drunkenness uutil deuth bad ntrcifuliy taken liis w.fe froin her Ufo of heart-breaking trials. In 1S42, frindless, poverty-strieken and despalrlng, cold, lmugry and in razs, Gough stoodu])in the lower town hal', Worceetér at the lnvitation of Joel fc'tratton, told his story and slfcned the pledge. He attended temperance meetings rcguliriy, and from speuking a few worde occaslonally when ealled upgii, gradauU; carne lo be looked upon as an 'orator, and oa the 31s( day of Deeeuiber was for the lirst time advcvti.se d ai a temperance advocate, In about flye months al ter l'.e had signed the plcdjre he broké it in Boston, but (d and again assumed its obllgatlon, and fro:n that time until t:ic' present he has been eontinuallybefore the publicas a lecturer and autbor. November 21, 1S4S, Mr. Gough was married, at Worcester, Mass., to Miss Man Whitcomb, of Boyslton, anl weut to Koxburv ti live. October JT, 1S4S. Mr. Gough's father, accompanied by a live years old boy, Ihe son of a second marrlage, eame to thfa country to reside witb the now nuttd orator. In 1858 Mr. Qoagb made bis lirst vislt, as a lecturer, to Great Brltaln, ariving at Liveriiool Juiy :Ü. ai.d Bpeaklog tbroughout England and Scotland until Augnsl ■(. 1854, when he left for thls country, andreraalned hen: SSfiráffegfena aBdítwaTílurlng Ihtavtolt that he won liis iclebrated libel suit against l'rcdcrick R. l.cece, who accused It im of unlitncss. insincer.ty, etc. lic embaiked for borne August 11,1860, and Rummarlzed his nork in l?ngland as follows : "The lirst two year in Great Brltaln 1 delivere I 488 lectores and traveled 23,234 iu les; the ïast three year's ;3O5 lectuieá and 4ü,:ilT miles.