New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-26

knew nothing of the deed, and that, if he did 1t, he
must have been asleep He was arrested, however,
and committed to Jail.
An interesting will case has recently occupied the
attention of the North Carolina Courts. 1t appears
that Mr.. Solomon Hall made will leaving one hum
dred negroes and other property to his only chld'
daughter who afterward married Mr.. Nicely against
his wish; whereupon he made another wii1 leaving
bis negroes free and leaving most Of his property TO
them. The suit was to set aside the last will. An
bour after the case had gone to the Jury, Mrs. Nicely
nroposed to receive sl3 900 and 81 900 which the will
cave her. the estate to pay the Court costs $780, she
to nav her own lawyer $1,000. The proposition was
acc, pied The negroes will be sent to Liberia. The
Jury stood nine agantt and three for the will but it
is said the Judge would have set aside the verdict if it
had been against the will.
The widow of Theodore Parker has waived her
right under the terms Of her husbands WILL TO retain
his valuable library 10 her possession and has sig
nifed to the Boston City Government that nearly all
the books viii be ready for removal to the Public Lib
rary on the LIST of December The number Of volumes
thus added to the Library viii be between 900 and
1900, valued at $4,000.
M Ellie de Beaumont, President of the French
Academy of Sciences has informed M. Jobard, director
of the Musee Beige, that a commission composed Of
NM ChevIeul Flourens and Velpeau has been charged
to examine his memoir catalepsy, paralysis and leth
arey NJ Jobard demonstrates in bis memoir the pos
sibity of suspendiDg life for unlimited period, Of
restoring the drowned to life after immersion of two
dsys and those frozen after ten years. He proposes
to replace the punishment of death by artificial cataep
tzation.
Lord de Ros, the High Constable of the Tower Of
London, has been making grea improvements there by
cutivatng the ditch and other available spots Col
Palmer of Nazing Park has sent his Lordship cutting
from the vine planted by the Great Napoleon at st. Hels-
na shortly before his DEATH and brought to England
soon after The original vine Col Palmer afew months
spce gave to the governor of the Hotel Imperial des
Invalides at Paris having previously had some cuttings
struck from it.
1t seems that our Arkansas bowie-knfe mslees are
not peculiarly American. A letter from Rome in the
Pdtrie, says:
Gan untoward event has Just occurred at Frosinone
During the drawing of lottery tomboa which had
been got up there two men began to quarrel and soon
after drew their knives, and desperate hight took
place: The crowd soon became alarmed, and fearing
that the combat might become more general took to
flight in all directions. The public square was almost
deserted when body of so gendarmes, who had been
assembled at FrosinOne in consequence OF the fete,
seeing the people running, tnOuRDt tndt udu
rnenced with the revolutionary party and dashing OH
in pun suit of the fugves, sabered all they came up
with. According to a report sent TO Rome OF the al
fair upward of 100 persons OF all ranks and ages were
wounded, some of them MORALLY.
AT the annual meeting of the Royal Society Of
Northern Antiquarians held at Copenhagen in May,
the King of Denmark presiding Messrs. Jared Sparks
and r. C. Winthrop of Boston, with several dstin.
guished men of Europe and South America, were
enrolled as Foundation Fellows Of the Society.
The meeting Of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, which has just been con-
cluded at Oxford to have been in some respects
unusually successful The Atheneum says that the
main interest of the week unquesonably conferred in
the Sections where the intellectual activities sometimes
breathed over the courtesies of life like sou wester
cresting the waves of conversation with white and
brilliant foam. The fash, and play, and collisions In
these Sections were as interesting and amusing to the
audiences as the battle at Marlborough to the general
British public. The Bishop of Oxford was famous in
these Intellectual contests, but Dr. Whewel Lord
Talbot de Mashide, Prof. Sedwick Mr.. Crawford,
and Prof Huxley each found foemen worthy of their
steel and made their charges and counter charges very
much to their own satisfaction and the delight of their
respecsye friends The chief cause of contention was
the new theory of the Development of Species by
Natural Selection-a theory open to good deal OF
personal quizzing without, however seriously GRIP
ping the usefulness of the physiological Investigations
on which it rests. The Bishop of Oxford came out
strongly against theory which holds possible that
nan may be descended from an ape, in which protest
he was sustained by Prof. Owen, Sir Benjamin Brode
Dr. Daubeny, and the most eminent naturasts assem-
bed at Oxford But others-conspicuous among these
xUillinQn6sg TO accept,
for themselves az well as for their friends and enemies
all actual truths even the last humiating truth OF
pedieree not registered in the Herads College. The
dispute at least made Oxford uncommonly lively during
he week.
Z "A short time since (says correspondent OF lhe
Philadelphia Press two young ladies from new
York were on visit at the residence OF the Superin-
tendent of the Great Forrest Improvement Companys
Mines in the Schuylkin coal region, and determined
mon exploring ole Of the mines. After making tho
descent and while some distance in it was discovered
that the earth had caved In blocking up the entrance
and cutting off their egress. Upon examination it was
found that it would take three days to effect an open
ing After brief consideration Of their position, one
of the three men (miners) who were with them, was
reminded of an air-shaft, through which, possibly
thew might make their escape He went TO make an
examination of it, and returned In two hours, report
ing that it was in very bad condition. and that it would
require much labor to make the ascent. They gladly
accepted the task and in two hours more succeeded
reaching the top safely. When at their residence and
after full consideration of their peril they very nasur
ally, ard at the proper time, sank into a swoon.
The death of MIR. Gales (says THE Albany Journal
revyes reminiscence Of the only time his paper (Ihe
National Inteigencer) ever suspended publication 1t
WAS warm and able advocate Of the Madison war
policy secondpg the efforts of Clay and his compeers