Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-12-03

at williamsburg on Sunday last. His lunacy was
supposed TO have originated from wound in the
head, produced by the explosion of a gun whilst
boy. Recently he had been subjected TO severe
| paroxysms, in one Of which he died.
We learn from the Boston journal that Hon.
Edward Everett has become connected editorially
with the North American Review.
The Dublin Tablet" reports that the sum Of
81 ia has already been raised towards tho in
Identification Of Cardinal Wiseman, for the enor-
nous expenses incurred in the late trial. 2,l67
8s 3d. Of Boyle vs.. Wiseman.
BY the demise of Lord Truro (Sir Thomas Wilde,)
chancelor's pension Of $4,000 year falls to the
Grown. There are still living three ex-chancellors,
viz Lords Brougham, Lyndhurst, and st. Leon
ards. There are two ofxreland, viz: Lord st.
Leonards and the Right Hon. Francis Blackburne
Lord Truro was one of the survivors of the learned
gentlemen who defended Queen Caroline It is
somewhat remarkable that all the leading counsel
of that unfortunate Princess rose to judicial seats
amongst them being Lord Brougham, Lord Truro,
Lord Denman, Mr.. Justice Williams DR.. Lushing
ton. &c. Lady Wilde is in the enjoyment Of q
pension from the Crown.
Mr.. John Mitchell Kemble, the great Saxon
scholar, the son Of " Charles and the nephew Of
g. John Philip" is about to give the result of his
long and recent residence in Hanover, in the shape
of series Of documents and other intelligence re-
lating to the history of Hanover and its connec-
ton with Great Britain.
The friends Of Senator Brooks gave him COM
plimentary supper in New Yorkon Friday evening.
Rev. Alexander Dyce has bequeathed all his
valuable library to the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
According to a teiegraphic despatch from Tri-
este on the 9th ultimo, the Duke of Newcastle had
arrived at Circasaa.
letter from Berlin states that the King Of
Prussia intends to present Baron de Manteuffel
with large demcsns, composed of three fine es-
tates, which will be erected into hereditary ma
orate in his favor. He viii be also raised to the
dignity of Count, and have an hereditary seat in
the First Chamber.
DR.. F. Moul Professor Of the University Of Hell
delberg, has discovered in the Monastery Of St.
Paul, in Corinth, manuscript Of the elder Pliny,
containing nearly the whole of the seventh part
Of the Natural History, lib. IL, to IA.
The clerks in the telegraph Office at Berlin are
to be locked up during the time Of business, and
for two or three hours afterwards, so that they
may not be able to betry the secrets of customers
This precaution has been found Indispensable
The Duke of Cambridge has formally signifed
to the Commanders his desire to be again
employed on active service.
Benjamin G. Brodie, B. A. of Balliol College,
and son of Sir Benjamin Brodie, has been unani-
mously elected Aidrichian Professor Of Chemistry,
in room Of Dr. Daubeny, resigned.
IMPORTANT Discovery. jean Blanc, of New
Orleans represented to be an agrculturist of con-
siderable scientific attainments has secured letters
patent from the United States for the discovery Of
process of converting thirty different varieties of
plants, which grow wild in enormous quantities in
various sections of the Union, into fax of great
strength and beautiful texture. Specimens of the
flax and of the plants from which IL is made are on
exhibition at the Office of Walter Z. Harding, in
New York. Among the most Interesting of the
specimens are the fax made from the stalks of the
cotton plant large quantities of which are burnt on
the Southern plantations TO get them out of the
way the century tree, or wild Manila, which
grows in abundance in Florida the wild holly
hook, with fibre ten or fifteen feet long the gold
nankeen of natural nankecu color; the yegeta-
BILE silk, and the vegetable wool. The process of
preparation, we understand, Is Simple and effect
ual, preserving all the strength of the staple, and
so economical that the fax can be sold at prices
far below those at which the article is now sold.
NEGROES IN MIssoURI.--The Missouri Legislature
has under consideration severe law against free
negroes. The principal features are as follows
First, no slave hereafter to be emancipsted in that
State. Second, no free negro hereafter to come
into or settle in that State for more than thirty
days. Third, felony for free negroes to come into
that State in violation Of this law Fourth, no ne
gro or mulatto to be hereafter capable Of holding
real estate in that State by purchase, gift grant,