Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-06-23
Gen.. John a. Wagner.

This gentleman has been announced by
his friends, rs candidate for Mayor Of tile
city OF Charleston, at the approaching cleo.
ton. We regard the present as good on.
portunty for tho discreet, practical men Of
Charleston, to wrest the city government from
the hands of the present incompetent officials;
and We know Of no one who would make
better standard bearer than Gen WAGENER.
He is decidedly practical, and knows the
wants of tho old metropolis Of the State We
believe, too, that he can concentrate as mnch
or more strength than any man in the city.
Gen WAGENEn has long been resident
OF the State, and has hccn entrusted with
high pos tions. As a member Of the Lesis.
"ture, and as Commissioners Of the Bureau of
Immigration, he aLorcd necessarily 70, tie
good of his adopted State and would doubt.
less have accomplished much had not recon.
s'ruction put an end to his work
Wo do not desire to be understood rs tax
ing an injudicouS par; in the local affairs Of
others. but merely to do justice to one has
been of incalculabc service to our Immediate
section, and who has .hc capacity and will,
not only to serve with usefulness and honor
the good old ''city by the sea- but incidcn.
tally the State at large.
G:n.~ Affairs arc once more becoming cxcit
ing in Mexico. Tired of carrying on paper
warfare, both the supporters of Juarrz and
the chronic issucrs of pronunciamcntos have
taken to ,tual war with all the cprncstncSs
of which the mexican character is capable
Of rattng forth 'Hampco is being vigorous
'y hombardcd by the Insurgents, and it is hy
this time probably in their poss s,ion, as their
guns had sicnccd the government batteries
on the date of our latest despatch. At Gucr.
rHro, there has bccn desperate fighting, ter.
minaing in victory for the Jn,rists. In
Sina|oa matters arc inu utter confusion. Taken
altogether, the situation indicates but too
plainly that the sister Republic is stcadiy ap
proaching condition of anarchy so complete
in its rnin to both life and property that some
STRONG foreign power viii be compelled to in
tcrvcnc for humanity's sake. This task, how
ever difficult and disagrccnhc, it must fall to
our loo in tho end to perform We cannot
permit a foreign power TO establish n protce.
torate over Mexico. In fact, no Europcau
nation would care to undertake the carrying
out Of any scheme looking to the tranquiliza
tlon OF OR uneasy sister, aftcr tic sld expo
ricnccs of Maximillan and Louis Napoleon.
= The Legislature of Pennsylvania has
passed an Act extending the system Of cumu
lativc voting to all the town council or mun
cipal elections throughout the State. Penn.
sylyania has thus moved on In 1872, accor.
ding to the new Constitution of Illinois, the
same system Of voting is to be applied 10 the
election of members Of the lower house. But
in Pennsylvania the new system applies forth.
with to all the "borouphs" in that State. AS
our readers arc aware, the cumulative system
Of voting was first tried March 4, 1870, un-
der spccijl Act at Bloomsbury, cx Senator
Buckalcw's home 1t worked so well there
that it has been extended throughout the
State.
! - Shadrach Webster, colorcd, indicted
for the murder Of Adclinc Agncw, coored
was tried on Tuesday afternoon. The defcn.
dant was ably represented by Mcssrs. Joseph
N. Brown and j. G G. Fca:hertson who were
assigned by the Court. Tho prisoner had n
full and patient hearing through hi, counsel,
but it was clear case Of premeditaAcd mur.
der and the iury of both rncna rnturnod