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CAPITAL PuNIsHMENT-IsAAc DALE.-The
execution Of Isaac Dale, for the murder of Nc
Cafferty, in Giles county, which was to have
taken place near this city yesterday, was sus-
pended, and the prisoner respited under the fol-
lowing extraordinary circumstances:


An act was finally passed and signed by the
Speakers of the two Houses of the General AS
sembly yesterday morning in relation to capital
punishments, whereby it is made the duty of the
Governor to commute punishment in capital ca
ses finally determined by the Supreme Court, to
Imprisonment for life in the State Pententiary
whenever the Judges of said Court shall certify
to him that there were, in their opinion, extenu-
ating circumstances attending the case, and that,
in their opinion, the punishment Of death ought
to be commuted. The act applies to all persons
now under sentence of death for murder in the
first degree, and the judgment Of the Circuit
Court has been, or may hereafter be, affirmed in
the Supreme Court and it also provides that, in
cases hereafter to be tried, when any person is
convicted of murder in the first degree, if the jury
who try him should be of opinion that there
were mitigating circumstances in the case, and
shall so state in their verdict then it shall be the
duty Of the Court to sentence the defendant to
confinement in the Penitentiery for life.


Although the Supreme Court is not now in
session, there is saving proviso at the close of