Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume IX, Number 18, 30 ʻApelila 1870 — English Column. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

Foreign Miscelte.ny.

Three voung Chinamcn, it is said, are soon to enter Hamrd University. Ohicago Hm been visited by five hundred and elghty fires since April lst, 1869. Comaißnder £dwards, who surveyed a Toate across the isthmus of Darien for a difp eanal in 1854, writes to the London Seandard, exulting in the Tesumption of the project, and cxpresses his beJ ief in its perfect feasibility. The Largest Organ in the World.— The largest organ in the world will be the organ now building by Willis for the Hall of Aits and Sciences, South Kensington. It will have 111 sounding stops, independent of 14 couplers. The lonw agony about the distribution of the $100,000 appropriated for the capture of Jefi*erson Davis is at last over. The third auditor of the treasury has made out a report, whieh has been approved, and the inoney will be divided among 240 claimants. By the latest count, the House of Lords consists of 474 members—of whom four are princes of the blood, three archbishops, 27 dukes, 32 marquises, 167 earls, 36 viscounts, 27 bishops, and 177 barons. The new representative peer for Ireland remains to be classcd- The total number is ten more than at the opening of the session of 1869. Sir Henry Rawli»son, the distinguished archaPologist, maintains that Babylon is the site ol the Garden of £den, and that the Babylonian documents now extant give an exact geographical description of the scene of "man's first disol)edience." Long Row.—The Pennsylvania Central Raiiroad Company owns four hundred loeomotives and seven thousnnd cars, whieh, if placcd in a line, wou!d extend a distance of seventy-two miles. This Company owns or controls seventeen hundred and sixty-nine miles of railroad.

Tlie whaling ship True Xove, now hailing from Hull, Eng., is said to be the oldest ressel afloat, having been built in Philadelphia, in lhe year 1764. Owing to a peculiarity in hcr model, she has several times, when squeezed by the iee, on occasions when other vessels were destroyed, risen up on the surface and rested there till danger was over. She has roade eighty voyages to Arctic seas and is still sound.

Fair Play.— A divorce case is reported from Detroit, Mieh., in whieh Judge Patchin recently decided thatafarm should be divided equally bet\veen tbe severed eouple, on tbe ground that the wife, by her hard work, had done as mueh as the husband to acquire the | property. Small Houses Wanted.—There is an nnusual demand for small houses in New York. Many find they cannot stand the rents they have boen paying, and are looking for smaller and cheaper houses. Those renting for $1000, Sl2OO, and $1500 are Tery scarce, and the demand is far in excess of tbe supply. Fob the Soldiebs.—By action of Congress the Comrautation Fund of $450,000 is to be turned over to the Asylum for Disabled Soldiers. This fund, now in the Treasury, is the money paid as commutation nioney during the war, and its appropriation lo this object i? just and right. A Colored Boy Afpointed a Cadf.t at West Podjt.—General Butler has appointed a colored boy, named Charles Sumner Wilson, of Salem, Massachusetts, a cadetat the Military Academy at West Point. This is the first case on record of a colored boy beiog appointed to West Point. The Chicago Post ha.s a table of cities frora whieh it appears that Chica£o, whieh in IS6O was the eighth city in the Union, is now the third, or will be by the census of this year. It adds : •' Another decade and we shall be second ; still another, and we shall be first. The pros:perity and happiness of this great rF.public, with a hundred million population, and Chicago the greatest of all great cities, it is almost beyond the capacity of the finite mind to comprehend." The Washington correspondent of the London Xe\rs was pleased with the treatment accorded to Prince Arthur in Washington. Referring to the reception at Gen. Sherman's, the writer says : " I was particnlaTly strock with the weH-bred air displayed by those present in regard to the distinguished visitor. While the curiosity to see him was not disguised, there was a total absence of

any of that pushing and scrambling whieh, j I am sonry to say, may often be seen in £urope among persons who ought to know ; a great deal betfer. Nothing could be nicer j than the Prince's carriage and bearing. His manner was courteous, dignified, and graceful.'' i Mr. Gladstone Threatened with Assas- ' sciAHON. —We read in the <Stad Gend:—l " Within ihe last few days there hns been a pressing correspondence betweēn the Belgian and English Governments respecting a some\ehat serious matter. Mr. Gladstone recently received a letter in whieh a person, whose &ignaiure was illegible, used violent threats towards him. Amongst other things the writer stated that if Mr. Gladstone persisted in the measures taken with regard to the Rustchuk-Varna Railway Companv he raight expect to be stabbed or shot. This letter had been written at Ghent and posted in that city. The English Government handed the letter to our ambassador in London, who sent it to our Government for inquiry to be made. That inquirv has taken plaee in our city, b<it no.twithstanding all the investigations made the writer of the letter hns not been secured." Statistics of the Freedmen's Savings Bank, of Washington, just published, give addilional evidence that the negro is not only eapahle of making a living, but of saving something for the" future. Four years ago the bank was taking in less than $1,000 a day in deposits; the past year it has averaged ,over 814,000 a day. . In March, 1866, it iwd 5199,283 in its vaults; in March, 1870, <1,^557 } 006. Of the 26 cashiers at its various branchcs, 13 are colored men. Its largest braoch fs New Orleans. and the next Jaqje*4 at Vicksfcurg. If there was ever anybody who rea#y thought that the negro <-outd Qot takc <<are of himself, he must rhange *Aind wh'ipn reading these statistics. The truth is if is with negroes as with white men, some acci-mnlat6 j)roperty, some mal:e a comfortable living, othe\rs are lazy and live from hand to mouth. t