Death of Gilbert Huns.
--Gilbert Hunt, the well known colored blacksmith, died yesterday at the rips age of 88 years. During 60 years of his long and eventful life, G. Bart, though an humble was a useful and respected resident of Richmond. He had home a creditable part in several issues where only men of iron nerve could stand and act. He was instrumental in saving the lives of a great many during the conflagration of the Richmond Theatre in 1861 in our junction with the late Dr. McCaw; and his services were hardly less complete our at the burning of the Va. Penitentiary in 1832. Shortly after the burning of the Richmond Theatre, Gilbert was set free by his master, and in need by urgent solicitation to migrate to Liberia, but neither the or the people suited him, and he returned to Richmond, thoroughly seek of Africa.
