Arizona miner., 1868-01-18
From Pima County.

' ' es into Congress for not impcaching the Pres ! ident It calls the members of that august ! body "a tmc-scr,ing vena set, and insin-
 uatcs that fear or 'mmt-drops' had something
 to do with thc great crawfshing of the Radi-
 calimpcachors upon that question. Be neu-
 tral Judge or hoist your black ilag'
 The iris,niaa charges the commanding of-
 Gccr at Fort Cummings, New Mexico, with refusing to allow detachment of his troops
 Co go out and bring in the dead body ot
 Charles Cummings, mail rider, who was
 killed by Indians near that post, some time
 since. and that after the body was brought
 in, he refused to give lumber enough to make
 a coffin to bury the man in, but suggested
 that an oll condemned tent-hy would answer
 the purpose very well. That officer must, r indeed, bc very iint-hearted.
 FAILED TO FIsp A RourE-.The Surveying
 party, that were sent from New Mexico to
 look out q route for a railroad through south ern Arizona failed to find practicable route and hare quit searching for one. Thcy start } ed out from Camp Grant, on the san Pedro : river, anI travelled toward the Giia, but iind-
 ing thc grade to be about lj0 feet to the mile, r they turned back to Grant
 "Tucs5n has thc only establishment in the
 two territories of New Mexico and Arizona, that manufactures Ale and Porter"
 Wha; whopper. Why we have two es-
 tablslmeuts in Prescott that do that same '. thing.
 At municipal election held in Tucson on I Nonday. the Dec. l6th, the following oil
 ccrs were elected Mayor, E>tcvaa oehoa fl Counci-Charlcs X. hardcnburr, Alexander . Levin. Granville Wheat and Wm. II Tong, , Marshal. Samuel B. Wise; Recorder Alouh ,, N Erwin; Treasurer, Hiram $. Stevens .. Assessor, Sidney k. DcLong, Pound master, I, Thomas II. Yenahle.
 y AproINrMG> ro oy TERRITORIAL l'REAsCgEn ,r Governor Mccormick has appointed Hon ,e John B. Allen, oi ru,son, Territorial Treas y uryr, in place of Dr. J. T. Alsap, of this place n whose term of office expired December lst ,s Dr. Alsap Is ready, as soon as be receives ar .e order from Mr. Allen. ta turn over tAe 'noaey ,e books and papers belonging to the rerriiofy le As Trrasurcr of this county we have had con ' siderable business to transact with Dr. Alsap Ie and we take great pleasure in attesting that 'f We always found him honest, upright anr io gentlemanly in our dealings with him. From the statements of the A.isostzn ! u- appears that large number of the inhahitant al of Tucson employ their time in lighting tA ii tiger" buckiug at monte and playing poker x. IIox c. W Lewis arrived iu Tucson iron nd Tubac recently The Colonel has regainc. v bis health.
 ef Thc editor manages always to have pee " of trouble ou his hands with his oompositoa p, Every euss he employs gets on a bender. aaf al stop, tho machine.
 " \ rARrT Of four men with one wagon wer L attacked by Indian, OR Thursday m9m.u Y" 10th inst, when about twenty miles iron - here on the road c. Camp Grant One mal t'I Clas. Warren Esq, was pretty badly wpuu ~. dcd through the upper portion of Che thi-l .i,. and the party returned to town. They q, ~, port they were attacked by about twenty h -. dians.
 en MoxrrARv.-The monetary affairs of Tn, no son have again become m very unhealih .bt condition, there being bat little in crculato are as currency except drafts on the dillereI md Qmrteunasters and CUmmissarios; and a el these are upon the U <. Assistant Trv0sur .he at San Francisco, Cal.
 a=: That proves OUT assertion. that, # ;i1o Ind oi ans were killed of and the troops withdraw 'iio you would not have a cent to jingle upon to tombstone.
 he WE remember the time very distinch len when Prescott had District Head Quarter his but was abandoned on account of the gre.
 expense incgTred for transporting stores, an
 the high price of forage for cavalry animal fl, and we heardly think the experiment will . tried again soon.
 ,or You don't 'ehl We'll, you are might rse poor excuse for a prophet. Thanks 10 q Law good sense of the military, it is now hea ike quarte rs again, for the district north of q uc- Gila, and is likely to remain so for some tim sb- You are one of the most bare faced stor eir tellers we have run against in a long tim ect The idea that it was abandoned for the re
 sons you say it was, is false as hell. It wou
 be something strange if supplies could not ew laid down in Prescott cheaper than they e inst he at Tucson Your town Is oyer 900 mil
 from any sea or river port, cut of by lon on desert sand plains, upon which there ]. vel
 little water and less grass, while Prescott
 but leo miles from Hardyville and only abo reu ITO miles from La Paz, on the Colorado riy, ave and is connected with those two towns iDI- 0o,l rn,d. ,,,or l.tI # ,t1.o