The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-11-06
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1871.
VIEWS OF THE Day.


The Liverpool Gotten market opend dull
and closed heavy; uplands 93d, Orleans 9ad
sales 5000 bales.
They are forming what processes TO be
national guard in Alabama, but the papers
aver that it Is nothing more nor less than
Radical Ku-Klux Klan.
1t Is asserted on the authority OF Senator
Poole, that President Grant has expressed his
determination to declare martial law through
out the entire South, In consequence OF tke
continued outrages.
The nude figure on the splendid new pub
lie fountain In Cincinnati has called forth the
following lines from local poet:
Der shmall poy star ds on der fountain,
Und he don't got on any close,
Una some young girls dey all plush aha @ say;
"Vat he means by such conduct as dose!
ON the 18th of December there will be
another total eclipse of the sun. Astronomers
will have to 90 further to seeit than they went
to see the eclipse of last year. The south Of
urope was the necessary point OF observation
for the latter, but the coming phenomenon
must be viewed from the southern extremity
OF Java, the coast of Arabia, or the northern
p8EtS OI SuHdtTh ouu huStloho'
"A remarkable religious reformation Is now
In progress In Syria, thousands OF Mohamme'
dams, according 10 reports from that country,
being converted to Christianity. The move
ment began iu 1868 In society of Mussulmen,
In the vicinity of Damascus, led by one Abdel-
Karin Matar. There are said to be no less
than five thousand neophytes in Damascus
alone. Whole villages are offering themselves
In body for conversion, and some OF the
richest Moslems are among the converts. A
collision between the Christians and Moham-
medans Is feared.
The Australian olonlal Parliament passed
five times the law permitting In that colony q
marriage with q deceased wlfe's sister, and
1t was only after repeated reiusals to sane
ton such legislation that the British colo
nIal office has finally confirmed the act.
The Queen, using her veto, always refused
her assent, on the ground that the pro-
position was dlametrlcally at variance with
q fundamental principle Of English law.
The statute of the Australian Parliament was
finally confirmed, on the express ground that
1t was passed with little opposition in both
houses, and that there was strong popular
feeling In Its favor.
New York Is in q whlrl OF excitement just
now. The Duke delays his coming, and real
apprehensons are beginning 10 be felt and ex-
pressed for bis safety. Ashbury has departed,
and says he will never return. He admits that
he lost the Queens cup, but contends that the
committee did not run the races in asports-
manllke manner. He will make no claim for
the coveted goblet, considering discretion the
better part of valor. The cornerstone Of the
East River bridge tower, on the New York
side, was laid last Tuesday. Governor HoG.
man has changed Thaks!iviDg Day to the 3Oth.
On election day many of the merchants in the
city have agreed TO suspend business.
The German Arctic expedition did not dis
cover the open sea after all, fact which is
rather mortifying 10 the knights OF the quill
who made such an outcry over the false re-
port. Some practical, scientific Individual,
who has no sor' for sentiment, informs the too
confdIng public that what they did discover
was Tan open channel between spitzbergen
and Nova Zembla, which, 1t was surmised
(mark the wordl might possibly Lead into an
open polar sea-" 1t remains to be proved that
this channel was anything more than tempo
rafy opening through the ice, and that Sec
-ond expedition may not find 1t locked as secure
IL as ~ any other part of the Arctic seas.
What with the conference OF crowned
heads and prime ministers, and the army re-
organizations In every direction, Europe
would seem to be on the eve Of great con-
vulsion. That the great powers are jealous OF
each other, and the second-rates afraid OF the
results OF the hob-nobbing of the men who
have the destiny of Europe in their hands, Is
evident. France is reorganizlng her shattered
army; Sweden and Norway are training; Eng
land is recruiting and accumuating war ma
terial; Russia is making soldiers OF all her
male population fit to bear arms, and Prussia
Is quietly repairing her losses BY last years
campaign. All this may be in the Interest OF
peace, but it don't look that way to outsider.
"A very smart young Cblnaman, named
YuDs Wing, graduated at Yale College in 1854.
He stood at the head OF his class, and was
especially distinguished for his talent as a
writer of the English language. He was edu-
Gated there with view to his becoming mis-
slopary of the Christian religion in his native
country; tut in the course of his studies his
theological opinions became unsettled, and he
abandoned his proposed calling in order to de-
vote himself to commerce. He has now been
employed by the Chinese Governmentto to bring
over thirty other young Cinnamon who are 10
be educated at Yale College at the public e1-
pense. 1t is said that thirty Chinese students
are to be entered at Yale College yearly during
the next ten years, and sum Of $3.50, 1000
year has been appropriated by the Chinese
Government to pay their expenses.
The Washington Patriot says: southern
Radical senators now in Washington boast OF
the continuance OF the martial law pro-
pramme OF the administration far beyond the
limits of the nine counties in South Carolina.
One of these officials, who has consulted with
the President, declares that the Ku-Klux law
will be enforced and the writ Of habedS corpus
suspended in every portion Of the South where
the evidence OF the Ku-Klux Committee alleges
that outrages have been committed. The
Wholesale arrests in South Carolina but pre-
cede those that will shortly be inaugurated in
Northern Alabama and Georgia, and Mississip-
ri. and probably Texas. The President is
urged daily to lake these violent steps by the
a1yice of Southern Republicans, who also
threaten him that the ground Is slipping