Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-05-23

STATE DEPARTAKsT.--Am0unt Of Wool gyoaoa
on tho Cape Colony and Austraiia From reliable
data received at this Department, II appears that
the quantity of wool furnished BY the Cape Of Good
Hope Colony from 1910 to 1861, inclusive, was
Al, 859,748 pounds furnished by Australia during
the-same time, 266,00S,4l5 pounds; furnished by
the Cape Colony during the year 1882, 7,7T3, sos
pounds; furnished by Australia during the same
year, 32, 100000.
Number of sheep in the various districts Of the
Cape Colony, 4,496,0oo; number Of goats, u
093 900.
The wool is valued at iod per pound in the co
lonal market.
ArroRsEY GENERALS Characterization of
/" Line of Duty" to Pensions.-l. When the stat
ute provides pension for disability or death occa
stoned by wounds or injuries received, casually oc-
curing, or disease contracted in the line Of duty
1t intends that the performance of duty must have
relation, of causation or consolation, mediate or
imm edate, to the wound the casualty, the injury,
or the disease, which produces the disability or
death.
2. To determine the right Of pension, the ques-
ton is not whether, when the cause OF disability
or death occurred, the party was on duty or not,
in active service on furlough or leave, in arrest
or not, but whether In any Of the possible condi-
tions Of service, the cause OF disability death
was appurtenant to, dependent upon, or connected
with, acts within, or acts without, the line OF
duty.
s. Upon the question of eausality the opinions
of experts are evidence but they do not constitute
either exclusive or conclusive proof and the ques-
ton is to be judged by the real facts like any other
matter of evidence.
4. Where the proofs as to the question Of actor
and subject are balanced, and 1t is impossible to
determine by them whether the case be one of
contemporaneity or colocation only or Of cacse
and consequence, II Is a reasonable inference Of
public policy to presume in favor OF the service.
s. II is according to public policy to presume In
favor Of the service where the line OF duty enters
potentially into the causes OF disability or death,
although it be not certainly provable that 1t was
the exclusive or predominant cause.
NAVY DEPARrMENr.- Dobbin returned
to Washington yesterday morning, and has already
resumed his official duties with characteristic ener-
~ and promptitude. His visit to North Carolina
appears to have been Of great service to him. The
country will be glad learn of his perfect restora
ton to vigorous health.
United States Storeship Relief.-The United
States storeship Relief bound to Rio Janeiro, sailed
from New York on Monday last
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT--Secretary OF the Interior.
Secretary McClelaud left this city yesterday morn
ing on brief visit to his residence in Michigan.
The President has appointed George 9. Whiting,
Esq, chief clerk of the Interior Department., Act
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land.
Patents Granted.--The issues of patents for the
week ending Tuesday, May %, 1855, are as fol-
lows
Patents 40
Design
\ Additional Improvement
Reissues 2
Total %
Agricultural Division Of the Patent Office
Mountain Flar-A small quantity of fax seed
from the Carpathian mountains, in Poland, was
to the Patent Office by Mr.. Henry Ka-
lussowsk, for experiment In the high northern re-
gions of Maine, Michigan, and Minnesota. II sown
in June, the fax win mature in September.
Conamissioner Of the General Land CDfce.-Jo-
seph Wilson, Esq., will serve as Acting Commits
sioner of the General Land Office during the alb
sence Of the Commissioner.