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An independent Family Journal?DeToted to Politics, Literature and General Intelligence. VOL. 3. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1888. NO. 51. -'9ki gurson Wi$\% ga^N BY HOYT & WAITEI ? --~ TERMS: -?WO DQLLAES AKD A HALF PER < Iii UNITED STATES O UB BESOT - RATES OF ' ADVERTISING. Advertisements inserted at thc rates of < lar per square of twelve lines for the first i ?.nd Fifty Cents for oach subsequent ij Liberal deductions made to those who adv< the year. ? USS^'For, announcing a candidate, Five ?in: ad vance. v va* James Buchanan. The telegraph announces the der thia venerable statesman, which tool ion theist inst., at his home, "Whoat altera protracted illness. Jamos anan was born in Franklin county, . sylvania, April 13th, 1791, of Iris . -rontage, and was educated at Dicl Colloge, -whore he graduatod with 1 iri.1809. He immediately devoted h to. the study of the law, and was adc to the bar in 1812, but attained n ?t?eolar-distinction until four years ' "when he successfully defended^ one ( most'eminent Judges of the State had been arraigned upon articles o paachment. From this time forth - nmu?erat?ve was his practice that h . enabled to retire upon its proceeds t : .early age ot forty. In"the meantime, in 1814, ho had elected to the Pennsylvania Hom Representatives, but animated by fesror engendered amongst all pat; elasses by'the struggle with Great Br; he enlisted as a private soldier in a . pany of volunteers from his State. - marched to the relief of the city of ? raore; which was then threatened. ' absence, from the halls of legislation the forum thus produced, dolaycd hi .. litical career, and it -was not until ? -that he appeared in actual public life .representative in Congress, and.two j afterwards established a reputation " his celobrated maiden speech in def ' -o??Mrr- WbL1 H. Crawford, of Geo .Iwbq was. then Secretary oi tho Trees On the tariff question, which at that i V engrossed the attention of Congres: ? took great pains to warn members aga eeotion?l jealousies, and, to uso his < language, "Inflammatory speeches wi "'Walls which ought to be sacrod to Un ii As early as 1824 he cautioned Cong against the formation of any alliance' \ ? Mexico, which might embarrass its ac _? in the fd ture, and with tho whole ene of his nature opposed tho severance of jjflland of Cuba from the Spanish Cro ?In 1828 he was active in thc canvass the election of Gen: Jackson, to thc Pi '''dency, and in the samo year was eng:u ? ag one of the prosecuting attorneys in impeachment trial of Judge Peck, of 1 souri, a case which stood pre-etniu among the causes celebres of this coan .-until the late one wbich has termini! so happily for the bose interests of ?whole nation. In 1831, Mr. Buchanan ?filled the r sion to St. Petersburg, and on bis ret two years afterwards his pen and i quonce were earnestly enlisted in the "IfeneeOf Prosidcut Jackson, against Boj Clay, and tho party which had boen pr "agated by the disputes upon the Uni " States Bank Charter question. WI . the slavery question was agit:'.tod ir? 3 rope in 1835, he freely expressed him; averse to "the contagion, bred by Ab tionism creeping into the legislation Congress believing that it would not oi prove a fru i tfa I sp urce of political evil I -would actually defeat tho hernani tari purposes of its advocates by retarding I amelioration of the negro race. To the Administration of Presid< Yan Buren Mr. Buchanan was opno?v but supported that of President Tyl except in regard to the ratification of I colebrated Webster-Ash burton treaty, 1 objection in this case being based up the plausible ground that it left room i future complications. Ho strenuously f vocated tho annexation of Texas, a m< - sure which was perfected during Iu3 tt ute of office as Secretary of State und Prosidcmi Polk, and when his labors this character wero concluded, ho rotin to private lifo, from whence ho emorgt .to accept the Embassy to Groat Brita by the nomination of President Pierc Whilst hu occupied this responsiblo pos tion the/question of tho purchase of Cul by. the United States arose. Conferenc? on the subject between tho Unitod Stat?: Ambassadors at London, Paris and Mi - dr?Twero held at Ostond, and the merni 'raodum then drawn up for the mninti nance of the Monroe doctrine has becom one of tie most famous of the historic: documents of record in tho Departmer of Stato in this country. Mi.. Buchanan was elevated to th Presidency in 185C, and contrary to th feneral impression which prevailed ii ingland where he was believed to b Elecfged to a war of territorial aggression o devoted tho labors of his administra tion chiefly to the destruction of evorj ground of antagonism which existed bo - tween tho North and thc South. Bey.ont this nothing vory striking is to ' o chi on icled in bis terra of offico except, perhaps his arrest of General Walker and bit Nicaraguan expedition, and his course ir the foolish San Juan de Fuca quand, Of his conduct in the exciting time which ensued upon the Presidential canvass oi 1860, and the way in which ho filled thc Presidential chair in tho unhappy day* "which followed, it hardly becomes us tc speak. Time alone can enable tho Amer! can people of both sections to judge whether he was right or wrong, but wc Cannot believe that tho unimpassioned ?will deny him the credit of having acted sn a spirit of love for the common country. So has sunk to rest at tho ripe age of seventy-seven, and full of honors, one who ?had attained the highest distinction whioh could be conferred by a Republic. ?Charleston Courier. - ? _Condemn no man, says John Wes? ley, for not thinking as you think ! Let every one enjoy the free liberty of think? ing for himself. Let every man use his own judgment, since every man must five an account of himself to God. Ab? or every approach, in any kind of de? gree, to the spirit of persecution. If you cannot persuade a man kjfco&e truth, n?W attempt to force him frrto it. | ?le* A "White Man's Government. Judge Douglas.?I hold that this gov? ernment was made on the. wfiite basis by whits men, for tia) benefit of wniTE men and their posterity forever, Ond should be administered by wniTE men and none others. Ido not believe that the Almighty made the negro capable of self-government. Mr. Lincoln in Kept.v.?I am not, nor ever have been, in favor op making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor intermarrying them with white people, and I will say in addition to this, that there is apJiysical dif? ference between the white and black race which, I believe, will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality; and, insomuch as they cannot so live, xvhile they do remain together there must be a position of superior and infe? rior, and I% as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position as? signed to the white race. Tho above is the language of two men who, of all others, have been the expo? nents of Northern sentiment ; men who have figured prominently in the councils of tho nation ; and as Mr. Lincoln is con? sidered the great martyr in the cause of Radicalism?whoso death is deplored by the "latter da3r saints"?it is certainly re? markable, as well as very significant, that they should wish to remove from the Presidential chair, the present incumbent, who thoy are pleaded to 6tyle "His Acci dency, for carrying out the great princi? ples as abovo ennnciatcd by Mr. Lincoln. This is the question of all others, and it is one upon which we aro either "to sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish." lt is the platform of the Constitution, and swallows up ail of those minor detail?, affecting the prosperity cf the country, because our future depends upon main? taining thc supremacy ol tho white man. Tho last throe years ought to convince any candid inquirer after truth, of the utter absurdity and hopelessness of the negro's capacity for self-government, and that the vast expenditure to kee]) up these militar}* establishments, to trample upon tho rights of tho white man by disfran? chisement and negro government?, is but the beginning ol the end. It is but the preliminary stage of financial ruin, and tho horrors that must ensno from races thus brought in conflict. It is a slow process which convinces the Northern masses that our prosperity is thoirs, but if there is such a thing as a reaction going on, it is the result of this tampering with the liberties of tho people, by unscrupulous extremists : and tho problem of rccon-1 ; struction is already worked out when tho stubbo rh facts >>ro patent to all. that the year ISiJS linds the country at large in a worse condition than 1?'j5, when the sword was scarcely sheathed, and tho ! surges of "gr;::? visaged war" were y ot J red with the remains of the recent con? flict: The impotent rage against the President w not so much that ha has thwarted thc efforts of a revolutionary body of men, for he has really contributed very little in so doing, hut that their policy should be working ?ts own destruc? tion. 'The rattlesnake sometimos con? tributes to its own death bj* striking itself with the envenomed fangs, and ?0 is Radicalism working out its legitimate conclusion, in trying to maintain power through tho mero numerical force ot the negro. WcJi might the ?onate pause in tho admission of Arkansas. With the negro l?gislatures about to assemble under constitutions that must make the South a pandemonium, Bach Stato gov? ernments are incapablo ol maintaining' thomae'.Yos, without tho assistance of the j military. Did either George Washino- : ton or Abraham Lincoln (!) oxpect the timo to arriv?, when the Legislature ot a Stato would consist of ninety-eight negroes and fifty-seven itinerant whites? No?and their posterity will never submit to such degradation. Party animosities, and tho desiro for tho spoils of office, may retain thoir ascendancy for a poriod, but the noble race that boasts of a Shakspearo, a Milton, a Newton, and a Calhoun, will triumph in the ond. If the votes of the ; Northern people against negro suifrago J mean anything, a mongrel government will never be allowed by the American I people??never !?Georgetown Times. Death op Tut Causon.?A letter from Fort Lyou, Colorado, announces the death of Christopher Carson, better known throughout the United States as "Kit Carson." Ile died on the 23d of May, from the effect of the rupture of an artery in the neck. The deceased was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th ; of December, 1800, and was consequently in his fifty-ninth year. When quite a child his parents emigrated to Missouri, where he was reared. After attaining his fifteenth year, ho was apprenticed to a saddler, but disliking the trade, and being of wild, roving disposition, he left his mas? ter two y care after, and started on a hunt? ing expedition. For eight years he pursued the arduous and dangerous career of a trapper, when ho was appointed hunter to Bent's Fort, ?11 which capacity he eon ti ull? ed for eight years lunger. Returning Xv Missouri at the end of this time, for tho purpose of seeing his family, he met Cen. Fremont, and promptly accepted an offer to join his exploring expedition. Ilia rep? utation as a mountain trapper and guide had, by this tim--, become extended, Iiis name being connected with many darin" feats. Tn 1817; he was a lieutenant in tho United States army, and attached to tho rifle corps, and during the rebellion he was promoted from rank to rank until be reached that of brevet brigadier, general. As an Indian fighter, he was, perhaps, un? equaled. A splendid shot ? he is said never to have failed to kill a redskin that he fired at, and the numbor that fell be? neath his aim mist have Leon numerous; Grant and Colfaz. format. letters of acceptance bt 1 nominees of toe chicago conttentio The following formal letters have b< written by General Grant and Mr. Coll accepting the nominations of the Chief Convention as candidates for tho offic respectively, of President and Vice-Pn dent of the United States : general grant's letter of acceptan Washington, D. C., May 29, 1868 General Joseph R. Hawley, President 1 tiona! Union Republican Convention-. In formally accepting the nomination the National Union Kepablican Convi tion of the 21st May inst., it seems pro* that some statement cf views beyond t mere acceptance of this nomination shot be expressed. The proceedings of the Convention wc marked with wisdom, moderation and \ triotism, and I believe express tho feeli of the great mass of those who sustain the country through its recent trials, endorse their resolutions. If elected to the office of President the United .States, it will bc my endcav to administer all the laws in good fail with economy, and with a view to givii peace, quiet and protection everywhei At times like the present it is impossib or at least eminently improper, to li down a policy to be adhered to light wrong, through an administration of fo years. New political issue?, not foresee are constantly arising ; the views oft public on old ones are constantly chau ing and a purely administrative ollie should always be left free to execute tl will of the people. I have always respe ted that will and always shall. Peace a? universal prosperity its sequence, wi economy of a el minist ration, will light? the burden of taxation, while it constant! reduces the national debt. Let us lia^ peace. With great rospoct your obedient se vant. U. S. GRANT. mr. colfax's letter of acceptance. Washington, May 30. Hon. J. R. Hawley, Pr?sidait Natioual R publican Convention : Dear Sir: The platform adopted I tho patriotic Convention over which ye \ presided, and the resolutions which ? ! happily supplement it, so entirely agn with my views as toa just national polio; that my thanks are due to the delegate as much for this clear and auspicious d' claration of principles as for the nomin; tion with which I have been honored, an which I gratefully accept. When a great rebellion, which impc i'led the national existence, was at la; overthrown, thc duty, of all others, di volving on those entrusted with the r< sponsibilitios of legislation evidently wr to require thar, the revolted States ?hon! bc readmitted to participation in tho Go* ernmeut against which they had warre only on such a basis as to increase an fortify, not to weaken or endanger, th strength and power of the nation. Cci tandy one ought to have claimed that the should bo readmitted under euch rule tba theil* organization as States could eve again bc used, as at tho opening of th war, to defy the national authority, or t destroy tho national unity. This principl has been the pole-star of those who hav inrloxibly insisted on the Congressioua policy-your Convention so cordially cn dorsed. Baffled by Executive opposition, and b; persistent refusals to accept any plan o reconstruction proffered by Congress, jus tice and public safety at last combined t< teach us that only by an enlargement o suffrage in those States could the desiree end bo attained, and that it was own mon safe to give the ballot to those who pavee thc Union than to those who had sough ineffectually to destroy it. Tho assur?e success of this legislation is being writter on thc adamant of history, and will be om triumphant vindication. Moro clearly, too than over before docs the nation now rc cognizo that ihe greatest glory of a repub lie is that it throws the shield of its" pro' tcction over the humblest and weakest ol its people, and vindicates the rights of the poor and powerless as faithfully as those of the rich and the powerful. I rejoice,.too, in this connection, to find in your platform the frank and fearless avowal that naturalized citizens must bc protected abroad at every hazard as though they were native born. Our whole people are foreigners, or descendants o? foreigners. Our fathers established by arms their right to be called a nation. It remains for us to establish the right to welcome in our shores all who arc willing, by oath of allegiance, to become American citizens. Perpet?o) allegiance, as claimed abroad, is only another name lor perpetual bondage, and would make all slaves Lothe soil where first they saw the light. Our national cemeteries prove how faithfully these oaths of fidelity to their adopted land have been sealed in the life-blood of thousands upon thousands. Should we not, then, be faithless to the I dead if we did not protect their living brethren in the Hill enjoyment of that na? tionality for which, side by side with the native-born, our soldiers of foreign birth laid down their lives? It was lit ling, too, that the representa? tives of a party which had proved so true to national duty in time e?f war should speak so clearly in time of peace for the maintenance, untarnished, of national hon? or, national credit, and good faith as re? gards its debt, Ibo cost" of our national existence. 1 do noed to extend this reply by fur? ther comment on a platform which has elicited such hearty approval throughout tho laud. The debt, of gratitude it acknowledges to thc brave men who caved tho Union from destruction?the frank approval amnesty based on repentance and loyal ?the demands for the most thorough eeo oray and honesty in thc Government?tl sympathy of the party of liberty with i throughout the world who long for tl liberty wo here cnjoj', and the r?cognitif of the sublime principles of the Declar tion of Independence, aro worthy of tl organization on whose banners they a to be written in the ooming contest. I past record cannot be blotted out or fe gotten. If there had been no Republic! party, slavery would to-day cast its bal ful shadow over tho Republic. If the: had been no Republican party, a free prc and free speech would be as unknow from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, ! ten yearn ago. If the Republican pari could have been stricken from existent when the banner of rebellion wasuufurle and when the response of "no coercioi was heard at the North, we would ba\ bad no nation to-day. Ratfor thc Repu lican party daring to risk the odium < tax and draft laws, our flag could not ha\ been kept flying in the hold till the lon hoped for victory came. Without a Ri publican party, the civil rights bill, tl guaranty of equality nuder the law to tl humble and defenceless, as well as to tl strong, would not be to-day upon our n; tional statute book. With such inspirations from the pas and following thc example of the foundei of the Republic who called the vietorioi General of the Revolution to preside ovc the land bis triumphs had saved from il enemies, I cannot doubt that our laboi will be crowned with success; and it wi be a success that shall bring restore hopes, confidence, prosperity, and progr?s South as well as North, West as well ? East ; and, above all, the blessings undi Providence of national concord and j^eaci Very truly, yours, SCHUYLER COLFAX. o - From the Nexo York "Revolution," May 22. The RepubHcan Party Daguerrec typed by a "Loyal" Pen. Republicans elected Andrew Johnso for party success; they impeached him fe party success; and since the day thc scej I tre of power came into their hands, the have worked for party success rather tha thc nation's life. - While tiiey have deceived the peopl with the ciy of constitutional amendment loyalty, negro suffrage, impeachment, the; have shown themselves disloyal to th grand principles of our Government, b; their attempts to drag down the Federt Constitution to their low platform; to fore negro suffrage on thc South while repnd: ating it in thc Northern States; and afte proving the President guilty of high crime and misdemeanors, strangling impcacL ment with their own hands. And now the hand writing on the wal warns them that they arc "weighed in tin balance and found wanting." The Rcpub lican party stands to day with its rank broken, divided, dis tin ct ed, blasted, ant the sceptre of power has passed from i forever. Rut this is no cause of sorrow for tiie sooner this party is scattered to tin four winds of heaven, tho sooner will th< scales fall from the eyes of the people, anc they will see that their leaders have beet blind leaders of thc blind. Jeremy Bentham says "thc people can not bc too distrustful of their rulers."? When the American people learn that mer and partien are nothing unless based or principle, and that whether under Repub hean or Democratic dynasty, we have tin same results?they will awake to the re sponsibility of self-government. As we turn over thc pages of history we can see how other nations, groaning under taxation, ignorance and poverty have been deluged, blinded and destroyed without dreaming that we ourselves arc to-day the thoughtless victims of seliisl and crafty rulers who think only of their own aggrandizement. Jur.t as Rome, with fetes and feasts, with holidays and deadly combats between man and beast, and gladi? atorial exhibitions in crowded amphithea? tres turned the peoples thoughts from theil own wrongs?so do our rulers to day, with caueussos, conventions, campaigns, im? peachment trials and the course brutality of the press and politicians, amuso the people, degrade the public taste, and de? stroy thc virtue of thc nation. Unthink? ing leaders inflame the North against all rebeldom, and damn every man who dares put in a plea for justice and mercy t.t the South, with thc unmeaning nanioof "cop? perhead." To rouse tho people's wrath they point them to the bones of their brave sires and sons blenching on all those Southern plains, forgetting that with their own hands they built that sepulchre where j our brave dead now sleep. The chain that held tho black boy in tho everglades of Florida and the slave girl in a Nev/ Or? leans market was fastened around the neck of New England's sous and daughters.? Through our avarice and selfishness the land of orange groves and flowers lies bleeding and desolate to-day. Blame not the South, but our own constitutions, creeds and codes. But while we onded with thc sword a slavery of brute force, and overturned the Southern oligarchy, by cunning legislation we have Bubtituted another form of slavery in our new system of finance. In our na tional debt and taxation, we have placed the whole labor of the country at the mer? cy ol' a moneyed aristocracy of banks, bondholders and land monopolists. Hav? ing just escaped the yoke of 400,000 slave? holders, we are about to how our necks to thc yoke of 400,000 bondholders. Flushed with conquest,these "High Arl Swindlers'' have bought up lhe nation's virtue and choked our prophets who have dared to speak. -? ?? Only sevon debtors in Chester Dis? trict availed themselves of the bankrupt, act. Gen. Canby's Negro Alderm : We have boon in no hurry, in cc quenco of the excitement in our city speak out concerning Gen. Canby's on turning ou t of the office of Aldermen cf city thirteen white mon, and putting j their places, somo six negroes, and sc white mon whom bc supposes worth) thom. The Reconstruction acts, under wi Gen. Can by holds his command, state their taco, that bc is placod hero, to ] I serve order, aud to enforco the Bec struction acts. Now which of these jects, has required of him, this arbitr and tyrannical order? It should be remembered, that tho dermcn ejected from offico, held their < ces with tho consent of Gen. Can by, virtue of a law of South Carolina, thorning them to continue in office ni successors should assume their dut They have faithfully fulfilled those ties. The military Mayor put over Col. Cogswell, with whom they lu acted, bears the 'warmest testimony their efficiency and fidelity. With b they have done all they could to prese: the peace and promote tho prosperity our city. Thc)' fully co-operated w Gen. Can by in rarrying out the declai object of Ins despotic rule?the enfor munt of order and law in this city. I result of their labors all see, and no c can deny, in thc efficient protection persons and property. These white . dermcn, therefore, have not boen moved from offico because they were r faithful in preserving order in our city Were they removed because they wc any obstruction to th? carrying out or < forcement of thc Reconstruction Act This is not alleged, and is simply imp?t ble. These acts, under their service, ha been carried out in this city, iu thc neg Convention, and elections, and by eve other expedient or duty Gen. Cunby b required. They are now transferred Washington where the constitution fra ed in this city is beloro Congress i adoption. Nothing is taking placo inti Stato, with respect to them. Their po cr is at present exhausted, and nothi more can bo done with respect to the until tho further action of Congress sh require suppletory measures. Well,thc it is clear that those whito mon aro n ejected from office, because Gen. Canbj duty to enforce thc Reconstruction ac of Congress required it. If neither tho enforcement of tho I construction laws, nor Ibo prescrvatii of order, has dictated tho removal theso Aldermen from office?why aro tin removed ? Thc negro convontion appointed a coi mission, to seo after negro interests their new relations, under their constit tion. This constitution, when put in operation, will extend considerably tl number of 'white voters in this city. . was perhaps deemed a good thing, by tl negroes black and white, to have an ole tion for Aldermen before this constitute is pat into operation, in order that tl negroes might possess and rule tho cit before the constitution shall onlargo tl: vote. Although within a very few month most probably within a few weeks, til negro constitution will be ratified b Congress and will be put into operatic over tho State, Gen. Can by orders a election to be hold for Muy or and Aldo men in this city, for some reason c other, behind the black curtain, which w do not care to probe, he changes his di termination, revokes the order for a election, and turning out, by his arbitr?r will, thirteen whito Aldermen, and put in six colored people, and seven congeni: white associates. What is tho characte of this act, in the light of these facts We do not mean to complain; beca us complaint is folly, under despotism: Tho weak complain; and despotism ea nits over weakness. Rut wc beg leav to call tho attention of tho white peopl of the North, to this operation of tin Reconstruction laws. They must sec that when neither order, nor tho enforce ment of thc Reconstruction laws requin it, white men. without a singlo charge against their fidelity, in the discharge o their duties, or to the Government of tin United States, ore removed from office and negroes put in their places. Thc military power of the United States ii used to anticipate tho reconstruction it self which thc commander was appointed to enforce, in order that thc thirst of ne? groes for rule and pelf may bo gratified. Not protection, but persecution of the white race?not security to proporty, hut its spoliation?not justice, but oppres? sion?not reconstruction, but.subversion and ruin and anarchy and a war of races seems to bo tho rule of tho United States, under a policy which seeks to place thc Caucasian under tbe African. Let our people bo patient and wait, j Tiie great poet has said? "lt cairne?it e?iiicth, nh? will conr, '.he limo, To punish or forgive '." [Charleston Mercury. - - ? A Detroit paper has the following: "One of the Cincinnati newspaper men makes ono suit answer for the changes of the year. He gets a suit of thick clothing as cold weather comes on, and by tho time hot. weather arrives, it is worn sufficiently thin to serve for thin clot lies. When he wears them out, then he don't, wear them out any more?that is to sa}*, ho wears them ont until they are so much worn ont ? that bc had rather n >t go our than wear them out any more?thou he gets another suit." ? A Hartford four year-old saw ids par-1 cuts preparing for church and asked them ' to take him with them. He was told that ' bc was too little, and must, wait till he should grow bigger. "Well," returned ? he. "you'd better take me hom . to-r when I I get bigger I may nor, want to go." 1 The Intelligencer Job Office. Having recently made considerable Additions to this department, we arc prepared to execute ? lu the neatest style and on the most reasonable terms. Legal Clanks, Bill Heads, Posters, Carda, Handbills. Pamphlets, Labels, and in fact every style of work usually done in a country Printing fS?" In all cases, thc money will bo required upon delivery of thc work. Ordere, accompanied I with tho cash, will receive prompt attention. Significant. It may bc that, at this distance fror thc field, we are not competent to judg correctly of the policy of local govori mont pursued by some of the Souther District Commander?. Possibly theyhav good and sufficient reasons for ordei issued by them, which seem to us uncalle for, ill-advised, and decidedly unjust. \V are puzzled to understand, for instanc tho objoet of General Can hy's rocont r< moval (May 2G) of thirteen of the Charle ton aldermen, and the appointment of ne men, of whom seven aro negroes. Charle ; ton wo had come to look upon as ahoi the quietest of places in the quietest < Southern States. We do not knowanothe city of its size anywhere in the countr j whose newspapers are so lightly freighte with reports of crimes against the perso and property. Tho aldermen so far a they have a hand in the city governmonl must bo credited with a sbaro of the pref aient peace and good order. We have no observed in tho Charleston prints any o those fearless exposures of aldermanic es travagancc, which editors aro fond o seizing upon as the text for "able leaders.' Tho Charleston aldormen havo probaBfj had little to spend; but if they had no made that little go a great way, the riva nowspapers would hardly have missed thi opportunity of airing and discussing Uv interesting topic. Whoever and whatever tho aldermei were, General Canby was 60 woll satis Med with them up to tho 24th of May that he issued an ordor the effect of whicl was to postpone the city election anti November. This wo should construe ai an implied approval of the aldermen' course. But just two days later his polic) experiences a sudden and mysteriom change. By that convenient process o the one-man power?a few strokes of th? pen?he turns out a majority of the boan and reconstructs it after his own fashion putting in seven colored men. The re moved members had received no notici of this action, and were ns much astonish ed as other people at their summarj taking off. No charge is made or whia pered against them?not oven the oom mon one that they wero an "obstacle.1 Tho Pacha of an Eastern tale never bow strung a victim with less ceremony thai the co m m and or of thc Second Distrioi took off tho official heads of these unof fending aldermen. The local journals have at last a subject for amazement anc indignation which the peaceful annals o; tho city government had not afforded They are perplexed as much as we aro tc guess the real motivo of General Canby't strange abandonment of h is former policy, his cancolation of his own order deliber? ately issued and obviously representing his sincere convictions( and his giving ol so largo a number of the new appoint? ments as seven out of thirteon to thc negroes. But. though indignant at be? holding the lawfully elected servants of tho people turned adrift to tnako room for the favorites of a military commander, tho\- comment upon tho outrage with a marked reservo, which we interpret as a commendable desire to avoid provoking tho wrath of tho master of so many le? gions. A man who can do or undo Boards of Aldormen can play similar tricks with newspapors, if ho likos. Various reasons might bo alleged for tho extraordinary conduct of Gon. Cahby. lt might be said that orders have gone forth from tho political managers at Washington to turn out whites and put negroes into office. This would bo a first rate bid for the enthusiastic, unanimous support of colored voters at the Presiden? tial oloction. Tho freedmen have hereto? fore complained, nor, unreasonably, that while they were relied upon to support tho extreme Radical programme in the South they did not rccaivo iso large a share cf oificcs as they were entitled to, under pro-rata division, but had to take thc leavings of Northern adventurers, "carput-baggors." as they are generically termed. General Canby, by giving the negroes a majority of the new aldermen, has dono something towards silencing this cause of grumbling. Thc act of Gen. Cunby maj- also ho interpreted to mean that Southern Conservative whites must not flatter themselves that because im? peachment is dead thoy are going to be treated with any more lenity than before, but that they may look fora still sevoror handling from their Washington masters. Whatever tho true explanation may be, J wc deem it improbable that Gen. Canby j acted without orders. Ile would hardly I bo guilty, of his own accord, of changing his mind so completely in two days; or, had any circumstances, such ns could properly bc statvl. led him to alter his views, it seems probable that ont of re? gard fc) his own reputation for consis fone.v. ho would have explained himself in an order io the people of Charleston. Of itself this may be a small matter; but in ita relation to rhe South and to tho political future, it may turn out to bo an allan- of some significance.?JXew Torfe Journal of Ccmmerce. ? One of the sharpest political carica? tures is the "dying impeachment gladia? tor."' Ken Kurier lies prostrate in the arena, with his broken sword and a most demoralized countenance?whilst Presi? dent Johnson is seen reriring with a heavy spoon over his plionldor with which he has brained the hero of Big Bethel. ? A eiorptyuian, happening to get \ret, was standing over the fire to dry his clothes, and when his colleague came in, he asked him to preach for in'ni, as he was wei. "No, sir,I thank yon.1' was tho prompt reply, "preach yourself ; you will lie dry enougb in the pulpit." -~ A Chicago editor says that half the people who attend musical entertainments in thar.city "don t know th? ^ifTc-T?^rr '1 tween ? symphony snd a sardine."