New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-03

grand National Museum Of Natural History, which
shal be to America y bat the brir'h Museum - 70
ENGLAND ana the Jatdi1 des Plantes Is In France
The late Francis &. Gray gave SJp,OVc Tor tue
preservation and setting IN order OF Professor Agas
siz's specimens but large fire proof building Is
needed forthwith. for they are IA dagger 81 oeIns
DESTROYED nv FIRE az any moment AgassH -
Great fsyorite here, though few Ct the people
know him. And ought not man n
Je.erye popular.v who has declined loriships and
riches IN France that be- may be- the servant ot
science in his adopted land Sometimes, however,
they chop of the heads OF scientific men IN rance
The prospect of being made an anatomy, and wired
together for exhibition IA bis OWN museum ma!
po.sibly have had some effect upon the Professor,
though ! think not. At recent meeting OF the
friends of science. called 10 consider this grand
enterprise, Gov. Banks Was present, and sald BE-
tbouGbt the State would do something toward II.
II the LEGISLATURE continues Ia conduct affairs pru-
IDENTIFY. there will soon be- considerable sum IN the
Treasury from the Back Bay lands and this may
be appropriated to scientific and educational pur-
poses.
The Webster statue has arrived and the people
are beginning to ask what shall We do with il.
They are as much perplexed as Mr.. kenwigs was
10 find name for the baby. Between Alexander
and Pompey and Caesar, and DOgenes, the wOr-
thy Kenwigs was in wandering mazes lost. So are
the propretOrs of the statute between State street.
the State House. the Common. the Public Garden
and the u. s. Court puse-nOt the shanty IN
B0wdOin square, but the Masonic Temple, which
has been lately purchased by the Government.
writer in The Courier comes 10 the rescue OF the
perpexed citizens with proposition to place the
statue in PembertOn square. The open air VIII
not do says the writer, because, in the first place
the open air is not the proper location for any
statue and in the second place, being exposed to
range of 10 degrees of Farenhet, the statue would,
in a few years, be warped and wrenched from MS
true position, as Mr.. Webster was, by the October
sun of Virginia, and the windy gush of nationality
which overlook him in March, ESQ. The State
House, says the writer, is place where Web
ster rarely appeared, and where the statue
would rarely be seen. This reluctance To
have the statue placed in the StateHouse Is
probably due Ia other causes than those here men,
toned. Mr.. Webster's late admirers have no love
for the men who inhabt the State House and con-
troll the affairs of the commonwealth. The sug-
gestion Of Pemberton square seems TO solve the
difficulty. In the course of few years the houses
in the square might be all occupied by those who
have taken charge of Mr.. Webster's memory, and
the square might then be kept for private use and
alteration Let the 300 old Wings all move up
there. and then. if Mr.. Websters presence does
not render the square sufficiently national, law
might be passed cedng the jurisdiction To the
United States The world forgetting, by the
tirement being only called therefrOm by the occa-
siOna oyerpOwerng necessity of volunteering to
carry off fugitive negro.
A rare opportunity To perform TINS last service
has just been lost Mr.. John y. Washingtons
" Joe" has been here, but has left for Canada,
place for some reason or other, much affected by
fugitive slaves.
The Shaw Railroad case has been tried for the
fourth time and the result is a verdict of 81,
against the Worcester Railroad On the first trial,
Mr.. Shaw got Sl5, 900; on the second. Sis, 900;
on the II ird there disagreement OF the jury.
A motion is filed for a trial, on the ground that
the verdict is against the weight OF evidence and
that the damages are excessive.
Mr. L. NJ. Sargent sometimes called PugndciOaS
Sargent, to distinguish him from Mr.. Lgndtius
SARGENT has received S2,,72 of the City of
Boston, for damages caused by taxing his land to
extend Shawmut avenue
A divorce case is soon to come off IN Norfolk
County, which will excite some interest. Mr..
Crane, a travelling phrenologist and psychologist,
accuses his wife of adultery, and relies upon her
confessions for proof The other side will recrimi-
nate, and try TO show that Crane is a ireeover as
We'll as hysiOlogist, and also that Mrs. Crane, II
she has confessed, has done so under deluson.
| understand il will be shown that her confessions
include several men who can be shown to be wholly
innocent. similar case occurred in England
within the hast year. of which i think THE
TRIBUNE gave an account
AMr. Ammldwon has been appointed Navy Agent
at this port. Orator Riddle is thus again diSap-
pointed The most curious fact about this event 10
this. viz: That AmmidwOn is All adherent of Doug
las while Riddle is what Hosea Bglow would call
1.-THE unIizzest kind of doughtace,' having intro
duced resolutions at meeting in Charlestown last
Fall, indorsng Buchanan in everything, and de.
nouncing Douglas in good set terms. If devotion
10 Slavery like this is to 60 unrewarded, then our
country and It's peculiar institutions may fairly be
considered Oh their last legs.