Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume IV, Number 39, 30 September 1865 — English Column. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

Movkmbnts of Popcutio».—\ 0 ob pi«sent attracts so gene«lly the the French Caoadmo prtaa aa rhe eoen» emigration of their people to tfe«» States. Since the of the loss of strength anel nationality h«u cessant, and ihe unirersal report ts *' they go. This e*odus is uonrvcrdenre<j generality and its large numbers. p ollr T dred giris eame on the Grand Trunk single day, and passed to the var lo u s & * ries of New £ngland, and «he f \;.^ Fifteen to twenty thousand Polish peasants desire to settle m t Ls • try, und the French gOTernment ofl m their passage to New York. The V »r? r in Switzerland. Efforta will be tnade lo them go (o Virginia. S««nl you og from Norwich, Conn., and ricinit V bav* to purchase small fartns near *R lc h m V * Senators Doolittle and VVade hav* farms near Charleston. •

Thb Si'Kz Shif Caxal.— Althocgh t> work upon this eanal has not been «o concluded as to admit of the pnss»g< v f »h1 from sea to sea between its ba«Ws, vet u' aJready in use as a nieans cf • i smaller vessels, having been o{ient*a oa 7of April last, and foltowin£ <lays. us presence of a large pnrty of of the chambers of cott»meree ui ditier».. nations, indluding Mr. Cyrus W. Pieia, a t gate of the New York. a*nd Mr. \Vnshit s: M. Ryer, of the San FramM>< o ChaniU:r Commeree. The pussage frotn Pon S d o the Mediterra nean, to Suez on the Rrd s . a distaoce of one handred miles, veas neei plished in twenty-stven hours. It is expected that when the eaoal &Li become navigable to oeean ve?seis. th»* wu > course of Eastern trade will be changvii.;; : that the route east from Americaa»we ' from Europe, will lie through the Mt.ii;. ranean and the Ked Sea instead t>l anu; the CapeofGood Hope. This ex> t vcni ' is based upon the fact that by tbe btac,..i route the distance will b« so t: an imtnense saving will be made in tn: interest or capital, and expenses. Bv v ordinary route the distance lrom N«w'V«: to Bombay, the principal Indian port. is !«- 600 miles; by the Isthmus it is bur iU*\V —a saving of 7,317 miles. Mortifying, but too TRt'E.—Rer. Fuller, of Baltimore.- has been dent that the story ofJefl". Davuf was made up. A Chicago oort*>potiUf::t the Examiner writes : Col. Pritchard told all oi' »s wbo ; his speech to the Chtcago Bo**i ot Tn that Mr. Davis had o» wheu he eaa- . his wife's water-proof eloak, belted rouuo : \vaist, and hts wife s shawl hoodtd ov r .» head, and a bucket 'on his anu : that Mr> Davis asked that her old motUer be to go to the spring for some water, an<i Mr. Davis was betrayed by his boo«s. Ts»a is the fact. Jt will be historical. I we will have to put up wtth it, It & v«r\ inortil'ying. Englisu Girls and th£ Coloreo Ch:l> ren.—The Duchess of Argyle s ljttle k* r» haye sent a box of clothtng to the c<uor- v chi!dren in America, worthabout wh..\i they tnade themselves. VEEY Proveb.—lt is proposed »o er*ct .i magnificent bridge over the Pototnae r. Washington, as a uiOQument to th*» President. lt is to be calle<t - Lui-; u Bridge," nnd a collossal statue of.Vlr. L i>. eoln is tn be placed in the center, or at uo end of the*tructure. Such mooame»ts i-» far more appropriate than piles of marb« o: granite, designed for shovv oalv.