New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-17
PERSONAL.

A restored tablet has been erected OYER
Keats grave at Rome preparatory 70 medallion bsn
contemplated by Gen. EJse.
Vice-President wilson will probably again
vacaio tho char In the senate t)dly. Tic will Wait
Boston b. fore starting on his Southern trip.
President Potter Of Union College has been
promised by a friend Of the institution. yearly sio
50 eco 10 test the practcabty OF establishing shOcl
oi art, In connection with the college.
Mr.. II. X. Browne, q sculptor, has signed
contract to furnish colossal equestrian statue Of Gsa
Nathaniel Greene for the grounds Of tie STATE Clps
Providence, II. l., receiving tbors o stooe0
The President and Fellows OF Harvard Col
ege have voted TO accept the fund accumulated byte
Agassiz Memorial Committee for the use Of the Mu'eer
Of Comparative Zoology. Ia announcing the dc'epiases
President Eliot wrote: IL Will be grateful duty M
lie pre-deuC md FeOws 10 executing the trust ~hii
the Committee have Land upon thop, 10 c9.gn'noi5
The scientific attanmens. chi hhsia'n AMI desoaond
Museum OF Comparative ZjO.ogy a. tne ul propo',2A
which prophetic z,ai imS1ned Tor u. Iov t S,nlf
nona gro~!h G! T. mdsnm Il ssiIieu 1Hlouh" VA w
cess!ul labOrs OF the rOmmItee"
Mr.. George Smith, who hal charge OF ths
expedition seut 10 Assyra by Tie London IetegTap,
has been busy engaged since bis return Ia airL1kus
the inscriptions lie found buried IN Chalieln sll
Assyrian mounds. VITA several small pieces IN IL
British Museum collection no has succeeded ~ obt1
Ing a continuous OF legends giving tie bisor7d
the world from the creation down 10 some per.0l aei
tho fall Of man. Linked with these be also found otaf
Legends on primitive history. nclud uS tie story OF tas
building Of lie tower Of Babel and OF the confusion
tongues When his investigations are completed W.
Smith will publish full account and translation q
these Genesis legends. Ia Recent letter 10 INC zee
1raph he SAYS THE narrative on the Assyrau tlO,s
commences with descli Pti0n OF the pefod before u,
word was Created when there existed ch"9s o. e,-
fusion. The claos IL presided over by female pJs'f
named TisalaL anu 1iamat. Corresponding 10 te
Tnalaith OF BcrOsus bu ~ 10 proceeds TIE A,sfr4s
account agrees rather with the Bible than with ia
short account from BcrOsus We are told In the Dscr
tons OF the fail OF the celestial being who appears
CORES pond Satan. In his ambition he raises III. hhd
sanctu OF the God Of heaven ana tar d
scripiion of him l. really masuA eLt Iu., robe Ia
leads tn heaven aud tie conquest or the bOWtn
of evil, the gods IN due creaJg th3 uuyrr-f
stages, In the Mosaic narrative, surveying ca ,t2
OF the work and prOnOuDcing II good 1Le uylue won
eliminates ~ the c!ostiDn OF ~, wHO J. ~ de upUgt
and from evil, aud endowed bY the god, UitI Tie
noble faculty OF speech. Tue DIty tn-n dchVcis ltg
address TO the ne lycreated being, nstrucung lin
all his cuties and privileges, aud pointing ont tue E0G
of his But lHis condition 81 blessing does nO sI
long before man. Welding to temptation. i.is; ANA ne
Drlty then prOnOBDces upon MN terrible curse, 10
vOkiBg on his head all tue evils which haze sgcs
afflicted humanity"