The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-27

ANOTHER GREAT SoAnE.-Last fall
New Orleans and sundry other places
were scared out OF their municipal boots
by the prediction Of great tidal wave
either forty feet or 400 feet high, it is
immnterini which. After few weeks OF
trepidation. Prof. Forshey quieted their
nerves and gave their perturbcd spirits
rest by the assurances OF sciences and e1-
pOsnre Of the hoax. And now comes u
Prof. Plantamour, said to be u German
philosopher, with tho wonderful predic-
tion thut we shall ull be knocked into the
middle Of next yeur by wonderful
comet. bigger, uglicr, more Formidable
and more belligerumt than oil other
comets that we ever heard Of He suys
that this great comet will strike this old
earth Of ours somewhere between wind
aud water. at 4 p. NJ. sharp time, An.
gust II, aud it is gung to strike III Eug-
land. The first effect of the concussion
will be to knock ''ulL Britannia rules the
wave" to the bottom Of tho oceap. All
the rest of us will go down. down, and
all our questions will be settled. Grants
e.clectlon will need no turtuer discus
SION, and all about reconstruction will be
forever closed up. The Panhandle that
Clarke wants to sell will be nowhere,
aud the French Republic will be ditto.
But, seriously, 1t IL strange that in
!his day there are crowds 50 foolish as
to plncc their happiness at tie disposal
of every fool that sees proper to hoax
them; for If there were any such comet
we should ull haye seen it long since,
blazing like fiery torch through the
midnight heavens; and in the second
place, If there we're snch "a comet, and il
1t WAS to strike. the earth would feel it
less than We do u first class Norther.
Enckes comet, the most brilliant and
best known of all these celestial wander
ers. is nothing but oxygen gas, and not
very thick at that These dreadful mes
senGcrs are very harmless. When our
earth did run nfoul of comet. the best
of our astronomers knew nothing of it
for several months, and then they found
it OUT by the power of hindsight. A
few years since one OF these comets ut
tempted game Of bumps with Jupiter.
But before it got into that ponderous
planet. two of its moons collided with
the comet, split it into two comets, und
sent it's divided parts off about their
business. Now. if our good, old, solid
earth cannot take rs good caro- Of itself
as Jupiter's triiling moons. We say let her
BO"Lt ull CftulS Wo uIO WllilIlH W LdkC
the risk without insurance.
THE MURDER OF LORD MAYO. -Cupt
Burton. tho great African traveller, in a
long letter to q leading London journal
on this snbject. says: II am unwilling
to see al event no less portentous than
tho murder of the British Viceroy Of
Indin SO little understood, SO little ap-
precated by the people Of England.
In my humble opinion the luss of half a
dozen pitched battles would have less
shaken our prestige. which in the East
means influence, not 'hnmbng.' be.
Ieve it to be, politically speaking. the
hardest blow yet struck at us; while its
consequences nle likely to be still more
inj &tious. From Chinese Yun-nan to
Moroccan Cape Non the report will fly
! that the 'Kafir' Governor of Hindoostan
has been struck down by the Moslem
knife. tho Faith will glory in the deed,
and l.! Islam will number another
sainted memory" Capt. burton goes
on to explain, according to the faith of
Islam the assassin is believed to pass to
the highest paradise. Perhaps it was n
knowledge of this tenet, coupled with
his observation OF the temper of the
East Iudia NOLAN o, adaus, that caused
Mr.. Seward, during his late visit. to
utter the remark, justified by later
events. that tho next political problem
which the English would havo to deal
with in those possessions, would be that
of fanatical assassination.
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