The weekly Arizona miner., 1868-08-08
Eastern News.

llllam IlnckNCN " hNte as |. S. senator 70 fll the uneNpred term of Reyerdy Johnson. who was recently appointed Minister to Eng
 land Member, of Congress from the south
 em States are now admitted Co seats without
 swearing to support the past acts of the Rad
 cal party Their certificates, risst by ne-
 groes and transplantcd "Patriots' from the
 North is all that is necessary in the way of a
 passport to Thad Stevens Debating Club....
 The Legislature of Alabama contains thirty
 negroes; nearly all the officers are "pussons
 of color" Mississippi Badcpls % have protested against the validity of the late cleo
 ton. They want that high old tribunal, the Reconstruction Committee, 10 reverse the
 decree of the people and give them the oii-
 ces Wm. NJ. Eyarts, he who cut up old
 Ben Butler so terribly in the Impeachment
 trial, has been confirmed Attorney General of the United States. Congress has, at last,
 voted to ray for Alaska, and the Car will
 soon get ze grand cash. for his iceberus ...
 The bill allowing Henry St. Marie SlO,0UO, for procuring the arrest ot John H. Surratt has passed. Another va,te of public money.
 co. In the House, July r., 3Ir. Stevens took strong grounds in favor of paying the 5-20 bonds in greenbacks. In reply to member who oppo-ed the measure, old Thad said that interest should be paid up to a certain time | at six per cent. in coin, and after the bonds fell due they would be payable in money ! Just as the gentleman from Illinois under [ ,s |. Nt .A 4 ! it; just as all understood 1t wAoa the law was enacted just as it was explained on the | floor a dozen times by the Chairman of the ! Committee of Ways and Means. If he knew of any party in the coantry which would go for paying in coin that which was payable in money, thus enhancing the debt one-half; il he knew taer0 wa, such platform and such A determination on the part of his own party. inc would with Frank Blair aud all vote for the other party; he would vote for no such ! swindle on the tax payers of the country .. On the evening of July l5th, st M!licen, near Galveston Texas, some negroes, led by a white school teacher, undertook Co hang a white man. The whites iutcrfercd when a fight commenced. Result jO Or GO perou. killed The wife of General Hooker is dead The hot weather continues in the States and Canada. Many persons have died from sun-stroGe Salnave, has declared him self Emperor of all the black slaves in Hayti
 Foreigners were thrcatcned with death
 The Brazillians and paraguayans are still
 fighting The new tax bill reduces the rate
 on whiskey to 50 cts. per gallon. Wholesale
 dealers pay Sl00 on annual sales of not over
 $50,0O0: one dollar per Sl00 on sales above
 that limit and one per cent. on all sales. Re ! fssf raa afg.-a g4
 day while running. and S while work is sus- , pended. There is to be one or more reports
 for each distilery, to be paid for by Govern
 ment Tobacco pays 32 cents on chewing and l6 on smoking. Snuff pays g cents ! cigars S35 per thousand; cigarettes Sl 5l when not weighing over three pounds per
 thousand, and S5 when exceeding this weight
 Coal oil and it's manufactures are hereafter
 exempt from tax, but distillcrs and reiinar
 must pay the same tax as other mauuiactu rcFs, by the act of last March The mete , system is again introduced. There are to b,
 twenty-five Supervisors of Internal Reyenu,
 appointed by the Secretary, on the recon
 mendation Of the Commissioners, and ossieneC ? to districts. The Commissioners are to have a salary of thirty Ithree !! thousand dollars
 The Commissioner has power to appoin
 2j detectives and assign them to duty .
 lNrAAIAN oplll-0lf lil A 4llt2rt-tts
 that . President and U. S. Senators be clecte, D by a direct vote Of the people IA mas Democratic ratification meeting, probably thl
 largest ever held in Louisiana, was held il Lafayette Square. on the night of July 10th
 Several Catholic clergymen, two colored Rep
 resentatives and q coiored Democratic Clu ' were on the stand. A large number of ne c groes were in the procession. Resolution
 were adopted endorsing the nominations an
 platform of the New York Convention $ pledging the unanimous support of the Lou \ lsiana Democracy; declaring slavery dead be o yond the power of any mau to resuscitate
 cOndemning the present Constitution of th r State; expressing alarm at the course of tn t Legislature now in session; returning thank 1 to President Johnson; also expressing fec
 ings of kindness toward the negro people c
 the State and city, and referring to the re .. cent election in Mississippi as an instance c
 what can be done by proper course toWar, - tie negro population. Resolutions were als e adopted in commendaton of tho course pun l. sued by the United States officers and sol v diers toward the citizens during the late ad
 ministration by the military authorities.
 Later accounts from Millican represent tha r the riot is not ended. The negroes hay Q sent defiant reply to the orders to dispers, p There was but a small force of soldiers at th
 scene. Moses Y. Beach, the veteran edito v of the Sun, died at Wallngford Connecticut l. July 20th. Secretary Seward has issued t formal announcement that the resolutions ( the Legislatures of Ohio and New .IerSe a must remain in full force and effect, and tha
 the fourteenth amendment has been duly rat T flied and become a part of the Constitution
 .. Romero, Mexican Minister at Washing
 tou has bqqu recalled Az tha Ra1icaIs .a