Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume IX, Number 47, 19 Nowemapa 1870 — English Column. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

Vice-President Colfax bas expresfed hia intention to retire from puhlie life at the close of his term of offiee and enter into active business. He has had 18 years of continuous service at Washington. A Cincinnati lady thoughtlessly left a eoal-oil ean on tbe stove when she built the fire. After a little time she endeavored to remove it, but gas had generated by the heated stove, and the contents exploded, so burn* mg her that she has since died. The Pullman Paīaee Car Company, organized in 1867 with a capit«l of $1,000,000, has now increased it to 88,000,000. It runs its cars over 15,000 miles of railroads, and emp!oys about 3,000 men. Archbishop Cullen, of Dublin, has issued a pastoral to the clergy and laity, sympathizing with the French ppople and protesting against the ltalian ootrages upon the Pope. Magnificent bbquest.—Mr. John Simmons, of Boston, who died a few weeks ago, left the large sum of #1,400,000 for the establishment of -'an institution to be called the Simmons Female College, for the purpose of teaching medicine, music. drawing, des»gning, telegraphy and other branches of art, science and industry best calculated to enable schol.irs to acquire an independent livelihood." A pieee of meteoric conglomerate rock fell on the 18th, near Santa Clarn, Cdliforma, into tbe barn-yard or Miehael Sanor, and was of such heat that it set fire to the straw and debris surrounding, requiring several buckets of water to extinguish the flames. There is no doubt, says the Santa Clara lndex, that the fire was occasioned by| the substance, whieh was exceedingly hot, and hissed under the water similar to redhot iron, I

Startling Intelligence.—C. F. Varley, one of the schoo! of £nglish specuiating savans, aod an admirer of Huxley, says : "As there is a process of retardation in space, all the planets must at a remote period fall into the sun, and the suns in their turn fall into eaeh other, eaeh time augmenting their heatgivmg poweras their mutual masses increase. The resuit will be that ultimately the heat from collision will be so tremendous as to redistii matter over space in a gaseous form, when creation will recommence."

Peace.—The best thing for the French to do is to make peaee. The French people ratified the ruie and policy of their Emperor by an immense popuiar majority in May last; they were as anxious for war as Napoleon was; they drove him on ; the Corps Legislatif voted supplies with the greatest unanimity ; and now that the army is destroyed and the goverment is unable to carry on the war, it is the merest waste of b!ood for them to pursue it farther. The responsibility of the war stili rests upon them, and they ean remove it only by peaee. A Boston papersays: 4, The planet Saturn is now a brilliant object in the evening sky, passing below the western horizon a little before midnight. lt is situated in the constellation Scorpio, and may be readily known from its soft glow and pale yellow hue. lt is the most interesting telescopic object in the heavens, with its tnple rings, eight m®ons and the changing coiors that adorn its surface. lt has special interest now foi observer3, from the fact that such is the position of the j rings with regard to the earth that they ap- i pear open to their widest extent in a manner I that will not occuragain forfifteen years." | Kesignation of Brigham Young as Trus- I tee in the Church.—Salt Lake City, Oct. 9th.—The great Mormon Conference has just ended. Brighain Young resigned yesterday his offices of Trustee in Trust of the Church and President of the Perpetual Fund. He gave as reasons that he was getting old and wanted to travel among the Samts f and did not wish to be harassed with the vexatious lawsuits now threatened by apostates. He was furious against the courts. He was determined to resist every encroachment, and would destroy and bum everything, if need be, rather than submit to persecution. Smith and Wells, his counsellors, resigned their offices to travel with him. The tbree are now only Presidents of the Cburch. These are great changes. Thc new Trustee has not yet been made. The Conference closed with Brigham mildiy preaching lo the living to be baptized for the dead. General Troohu.—This officer, who has so far conducted military operations in and about Paris so acceptably that no censure of him has eome from any quarter, is said to be every ineh a soidier; eool, ealm and systematic, despising politics and all the clap-trap that French generals most delight in and that attract the favor ol the eommon classes. He has not had mueh experience in the field, and consequently not many opportunities of being whipped, whieh is «11 the better forhisj reputatioo. He is reputed to possess heaps of eommon sense, and is opposed to ostentation, parade and flattery; good evidence of his being well qualified for the position he holds. He is esteemed a good engineer, and therefore m possession of qualifications that forbid his making false estimates of his position and resources and also those of the enejny. If the Prussians continue before Paris, he will have an excellent «pportunity to test his qualities and lay the foundation of a great! ruputation for soldiership.