New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-12-10
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Theodore Tion is to give the closing lecture
in the charity course at the Brooklyn Athenaum next
Friday evening on " Children"
Fernando Wood writes q correspondent OF The
Mobile Register from this city, has thus far generated
well. He dominates bmself for Mayor be hires and
DAVIS the rent for Mozart Hall he salaries and pays the
expenses of the Committee; he oots his bills for
printing, &c; be Keeps daily paper he has his Pr
waite Secretary of State, Alexander Ming be has his
treasurer. Brother Benjamin Wood be has his regular
political advertiser F., who writes ads. about
+. W. and pays for their insertion as If they were
Brandreth or Holloway pill notices
Tho wife of John Brown ON taking charge of the
remains of her husband stated that she designed con-
yeyiug them home with little publicity delay az
possble; and appears that she has performed this
voluntary promise with thorough good faith. Wemsy
add says The Washington Star, that she has won
the respect and regard OF the entire South by the
womanly delicacy and good sense she displayed while
performing the duties OF her trying mission.
John Brown did not leave any tiua statement or
addIess TO the public. Mrs. Brown, says The IHde-
Dendent SAYS that her husband made no allusioD to
such = document as having been written, or 10 any
purpose OF writing such document. She thinks his
final letter 10 his family jusEfyiDg his enterprise and
motives was all the record he cared TO leave To the
end he criticized his al Harpers Ferry as
blunder but insisted on the righteousness and pro.
prety of any wellconeeiyedand well executed scheme
10 rescue the slaves from bondage. Ii Is said that
when paItlng with Mrs. Brown, the old MAI" asked
the taller as though it was the most casual and ind-
fore question: AT what hour am to be executed"
And ON being told IL clock he turned To his vile and
said: Every well; If think Of anything else to say
will write il down and leave II for you"
While at Harper'S Ferry, the gentlemen with
Mrs. Brown made an investigation TO the disposition
Of the bodies Of the insurgents killed at the INVASION
in an effort 70 find the bodies OF the OF Brown.
They found that three of had been thrown In
grave and nine In another heller skelter and tho top
OF the pile only covered by foot OF loose earth.
The reeeptacles were opened, but it found iIapos-
sibe TO identify any OF the bodIe, and the effort to re-
cover them was given up. The bodies will all, how
ever. be taken up and given proper in!erment.
Wendell Phillips says that Massachusetts will
eventually claim John Browns remains for inlerment
within her SOIL but that at present Is necessary
10 follow toe directions OF Mr. Brown, and the wishes
of the family that no should be inferred at North Elba
Stephens, ia q letter to d friend thus defines his
religious creed: 80 firm believer in the teachings
OF Theodore Parker OF Boston, and also in the spiritual
theory Of a life hereafter. SpirItuAhsm is great
thing to sustain il this hour for how good it Ia to
think that il die snail with and dearf nds
who have gone before and there to 30 progTesslHg
torerer" have corrected bis photography, which Is
extremely bad, showing him 70 be most ILL crate
man.
1t il now positively asserted that Stevens, whose
case was to be taken up to the United States District
Court, al stauu,on, viii be tried in Charestown, on
account Of the refusal Of Mr.. Harding the prosecuting
attorney to enter nOiie ProseqHi This action Of the
attorney Is eensureo BY many but he Is de-
ternned in his action in this matter and VIII listen 10
DO argument 1t is probable special term Of the CIR
cult Court vii DO held IN January 10 Try Stevens and
Hazleu.
The Lt,eo OJserrer of December 9th ssys: Ger
III Smith continues to improve. We hear favorable
reports of him to-day"
"A blind lady Mis- LOCKER, Of Indiana, was stop
vuQ At tie Mcclure House, in Msrtinsburg, Va, one
osy last week The landlady insisted that because she
was from Indiana, she was an Aboronist, and such
rooksry was raised about the matter, that the blind
eul acting on the advice Of minister to whom shs
applied Tor assistance, len the house.
The health Of Judge Douglas IL still Of character
TO need great care and attention. In few days he
viii Depart FOR the South.
IF. B. Carpenter of this city has Just completed
portrait OF the late President Marsh Of the Vermont
University, ordered BY some Of bis late pupils
Roger Pryor has been prominently before the pub
lie for some yeals-so much 90 that meet persons think
him far older than be Ia. lie IL about thhHy-hve, bat
does 70, look over twenty five. be lie tall suu, and
bearaless with sinewy frame, and DECIDED features,
which In reDose are IA niacid "A mothers milk, and
when excited, scornfuly turbulent about the mouth,
and slaneIng iHg'etuously from the eye DE - eoar'
,eOus, gsnilsEsay, and mild sPOksRsnd By the turn