Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume IX, Number 32, 6 August 1870 — English Column. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

Foreign Misceilany.

r?encral K'.i I'drk».T. tli** U«-.id o! th« i liKlīan J»»irvan. is !n'ri*di{:irT grand suchf.*u of tht* Nati«»ns, anii bol»ls by succession tl;.' meelal give» bv WashtQgton to bis anc<*stor. Ki*d Th»* Ik'etbovt'n f«'?tivul opened in New York n-i'h a choru< ol' 2,.*>00 v«>ices. uml an orchostra uf tīUO insirumt*nts und Mailnuie I'art*pa-Kosa. The rink. whieh holds over 20.0UU people. was ti!led to ort*rfl'»ning.

vSkamk.V m* \V.u;ls.—The I»nston AdL'*rtiser says thc ]M*'St-nt pay of «eninen l'or >hort vovages is SliO p»-r nn>uth. one niomh'a wages being paid in advance. For lomr vovnges $25 per month is paid, with two nionths ? wag»*s in advance. Men are sai<l to be very ?carce ut Boston. Owners pay S2."> pei* man to the ninūej*s # whieh isareuiarkablv high price.

What Thky Glt.—Tho census takers get two cents for every name taken, ten cents for every fartn. fifteen cents for every productive establishiuent of industry. two ei'iiu for every deceast>(l atid two per cent. of the whole amount for name.« enuinerHted for special stiitistics, aud ten cenis per mile for truvel.

A ?outhwestern pnper thus epitomizes lynch law : •• Four Kentuckians. iu juil for murdering a neighbor. ha«l u ?urprise purty from a hundred or two citizens the otber Dīght. They hadn ? i any last >vord« ready. and wouldn't hare had time to say ihem if they had. All leave families."

A horse was bought in Maine a few weeks since for S4OO. aud, for a 6vu-year old colt. showed good time. He was sold to a Uoston mercbaut for $350. After three days' trwining at Beacon Park he made his mile without urging in 2:27. and the owuer was otfered $15,000 for him on the spot.

A Dairy to Boast ok—The Si. Alaban (VI.) 31essen<jer says: - .>fr. Nahum Brid?ham. of BakerBfield, from 15 cows. uiade. during the dai<'y seasou just closed. 60 tubs. or 3.000 poiuuU of bnfter. He sold it for 45 cents a potind, realizirig $1,350. Ile aho raised 10 calves, now worth $100, and 1.000 pounds of pork, wliieh he sold for §130 making. aa the proper iueome of the dairy, $1,280, besides supplying his family. He is now making butter at the rate of one tub a week.

Tbe Chicago Post. io tbe coursc of a niodt'Bt articl«* on that citf. says : "By no po«j>ibility ean Now York exU*nd h(»vo!i«l twn Hiiinhv<f a:nl Twenty-Qtth stre«t. There ttic» Spuytou l)uyvil eonie?» in. and ba« all progress. Ohieapo eau go t« StfvontH»o Thouj:an«i Nino Hun<ln'<i and EiafhtyK»vouth stroet wiihoiii an obstruetioii. As 17.9j<7 19 great<'r than 225, so will Chicugo begn?ater than New York in the g«od time comin<r. Such is tbe um\nsworable argutaont of geography nnd tbe eurtii'3 surface, as esUtblisbed from the louodution6 t»f the world." Aekennan, nominated for Attornoy General. is at preseut United States Attoiuey for the I>istrict ! ot* C*eorgia, is u native of Newr fiarapsbire, about , r >7 years of age. emigrated to Goorgia 25 years ago. studied law with the late Judge Berrien. waa originally a Whig. and always a stroog national man. oppoi?ed to Becession, and was among the earlier raeiubers of the Republican party. To I'\y thk Nahonal Dkbt—Some jokist, on the strength of the 3fercantile Library Lottery Bcbeme and in view of its success. has, tbe telegraph says, sent the President froui Califoruia a plan for *payißg off the national debt by a graud ii)strumental gift exhibition, to be held at somo centrally located city dnring the last year of Gnmt's adniinistration. Thk Choi.kra.—Tbe cholera has again broken out iu Madras and Bombay, and at last accounts its ravages in those bot climates were terrible. Tbe activity of tbis pestilence in any part of tbe \rorld naturally eicites eome apprehensions of dauirer. In the great cholera years of 1832 and 1849, tbe cholera reached Europe by sailiog vesB*'ls. and was brougbt to tbis cotintry in the sjime way. Now, the means of communication are more direct and speedy. The cbolera rages in some pan of Asia all tbe time. But it has appeared witb more thau the usual fatality tbis year, and the presence of this scoun\ge at ports with whieh there i» so trequent commuoication. is a sufficient waruiug against all sanit«ry negligence. A subterraneous outlet to the Great Salt I.ake has been found opposite Corinne atid between Fremout aud Kimhall Islaoda. Tbe scbooner Pionew. Captaiu Hanoah, while sailing in that vicinity last was drawn into an openin* whieh is an immense malestrom or stupendous whirlpool, and tbe descent and circular motion of the water were 80 rapid and violent that the vessol was made to spin around in it with frigbful velocity, and it was only by a higb wind prevailing at the time that sbe vr*s unabled to sail beyond the influence ot Ihe whirlpool. Captaiu Flannah reports tbat he ha? no doubt whatover that tbia opening (oever before diacoTered) is tbe gr»nd outlet of tbe lake. Tbe London .Yft« »ays that tbe Queen bad. but a short ume before his deatb, teudered to Dickens tbe ooer of a seat in Her Majesty 7 s Privy Cooncil. Tbe Queen al#o informed him that she bad bis i works placed in her private library, so thatt she | might al#ajB see them* j lier Majeety opened tbe newbuildiog of tbel*niveriity of London in Burlinfton Gardens in per?on.; oa the llih. Xanr prom!oent persons wereprcsen;. inciading Met»rs. Gladstoae, Disraeli. Earl Granville maoy olhen. An addrees was presented to tbe Queen. and tben all becaae quiet to listen to tbe " reply," whieh bad beeo baoded twr to rrad. With ā graee »nd good sense tbau it is to be boped, will be wid«ly followed. ahe handed back tbe rvplv. and said in a load, cle*r. ftrm voice : " I declare tbis buildiog to bc opened." Loud elieen gre«ted this alkism, whieh were girea not only for tbe Queen. but for tbe royal faiuily, the Premier and Mr. Disraeli. Tbe Earl oi Clarendon. whose death is anooanced, was tbe son of George Villiers. and a de»cendant of a brotber of the Sm Yillier*, Dake d Backiogham. He >ueceeded h» nnele, tbe secoad VlHiers, Karl of ClarendoQ, 1838, being at that time ambaasador to Spain. whitber he was $*»nt in IS33> He weat into tbe cabioet ander Lord Melbourne in and was again a mlat»ter in 1846. He wiui in tbe Aberdec» «uaia4ry of whieh broagbt on tbe Kuwian war, but coalinaed to be S*cretary ot Foreigtt Affairs under Palmervtoa o»tā !S5B, re--sumed that oAee in 1854. went oat ia 181$. and eame in «gain in 1 SsB, ju#t in s«mo& to help Kererdy Johnson ouke bis abortire Alabama tre«tj. He bad mueh reputation a» a diploa»atirt, bnt w«s in ao srone a great mao. H« age was T0 r<mn, He was a d«sev<idat)t in tbe festale Une of £dward Hyde. tbe Lord CUrendou of Chari« Seeood% lime» wtn» w«s tbe (*meus )tistortan.