New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-16
Personal.

The effect of the decision of the Massachusetts
Supreme Court on Saturday, in the Burnbam case, is
to restrict somewhat the liberties which Mr. Bunham
before had at the jail. He goes into that institution
now, and is held there the same as any sentenced
prisoner, and will have to take prison fare.
The Rev. Prof. Huntington of Harvard College,
who for several years. has occupied interesting but
somewhat anomalous position between Unitarianism
and Orthodoxy, has now, it is understood, fully re-
nounced his Unaransm and accepted the doctrine of
the Trinity.
-Thurlow Weed speaking through The Journal of
the lamentable insanity of Gerrit Smith, says:
"Wi,h those who have Ge, Smith longest and most
Intimately his present melancholy condition matter Of
regret than Of surprise His mind has lowered the borders
Of insanity for than quarter Of century His physical
health destroyed many by his peculiar habits and
views Ia regard TO temperance and diet
"Gerr Smith by nature muni6cently endowed We knew
him Srst in 1914 then wooing winning Wealthy Bokus his
FIRST wife and before since have nobier speci
men Of manhood To highly intellectual gs he added form
and face Of surprising beauty eSSt ,..,,-A,,.
Natures own sweet and cunning hand laid on
Then ardent generous and mpuve be lived for sew
er years quiet enjoyment Of refined social and domestic
bappues Though early beresved Of accomplished WIFE, he
was subsequently all the endosmots of home by
marriage with daughter Of the late Col FiEhugh an equally
estimable lady.
Some ,lv wears ago then young man of great promise,
buoysut in spirits and looking the bright side Of all the
of life he was unsuccessful candidate for the State Senate
That disappointment disturbed the heretofore even tenor OF his
way and tnged the future Of his whole life He looked less
bopefy upon men and things He became as he believed
phAnhrop the philanthropy less Of charity than oil
force From an ardent Coonaonit he became an ultra ADO
and persuasive zeal for Temperance changed TO CO.
eve In favor of Prohibition OF his ample fouGe he
dsoensed aid of Aboonm aud Temperance with more o-
crafty than wisdom. Both his perverted talents and his mp
pied money injured the objects he sought to promote
Mr. Smith lived for nearly thirty years in state OF po'
cal Authorization The deusion eliminated last year when
greatly excited devoted time and money to canvass which
he believed was to result in his election Governor while every
other person in knep that be wasting his strength
and his means That disappointment e him too well prepared
In body mind for the shock which has overo~n his TOO
long unbalanced intellect.
e aror Ferry nsuection was an attempt carry the
tahinrs proneu Abolosts into practice! effect Il was
in letter Mr. Smith to tho jerry Rescuer
That he ever really intended aves should rise rob- aud murder
we do not beeve but in speeches and letter. he ndnsed IN
language which bears other construction uniorunstey'
.wstoe Brown driven to madness by Slavery oppression
and outrage was too ready carry into practice the principles
which others only reckless enough to teach
the mean time with knowledge of the noble and generous
nature Ger smith, cannot but deeply dePore the dPn'
saon which depriyes His giant mind ever too
active wildly possessed by has finally, by various
sdecensions falleu
Into the madness wherein now he raves
O. what noble mind is here oerthrown!
The courtier's, soldiers scholars eye tongue, sword
The apecaucy and core Of the fair state,
The glass of fashion and the mold Of form,
The PiasfeH Mass sam states that A. w.
Richardson s. Co of North Adams, took l62 pounds of
eand from bale cotton that they purchased last week
for fifteen cents per pound. This is selling dirt five
ceuts higher than il sold to the Manchester SPIN
ners The home market for Sand Cotton is EVIDENT
ly better than the foreign.
-Thurlow Weed, yielding to the solicitations OF
friends may soon appear in the character of plaintiff in
libel suit for the first time in his lfe The Journal
Of November Is, says
aPrepOerous the charge Of TIE Ne York Herald that
the senior editor Journal concerned in the saveirade
We have been assured that intelligent the South believe H.
Frnds hnSe insisted therefore, that the habit Of rcckeSy false
charge Ia Immediately and fully retrseted TAe Herd shall have
the 'oppOrsunity Of making il good '"
. The CiRcianati Times, noticing the dangerous
illness Of Senator Douglas, says:
through which he has passed IN the last ak
ysars would be enough break down any Mr..
Douglas however has constitution Of iron He has often lived
many successive days without sleep. In Washington be gene
rally permitted serps little in the early part Of the morning
t1 h acquaintance |. extensive and his bu.uess 50 various
he PROSE- iess than any other ever knew by
Tired nasuTe's sweet yessoreI, balny sleep
Theosa DO hasa strong constitution. however he Just the man
10 o~ CARED 81 BY sudden attack offsver."
-Ihs EreHing Journal says that a well-informed
gentleman whose business takes him frequently to
Cuba, assures il that Senior oviedo, Of "a Diamond
Marriage" memory, is worth only from $4,000 TO
100000; but expects from maiden sisters, "a much
more.
An "exaBlple has been made Of 7. A. Salvo in
the hosptabe iowa of Bsmberg in the civilized State
of South Carolina, which The Charleston Mercury
hopes Will prove warning to all AbOltionisss who