The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-06-05
Summary of Late Eastern News

 Clellan, was in relation to the Stevens battery. The Indians have been committing depreda- tions in the vicinity of South Pass City, Wyoming.
 The members of the secret order known as the Grand Army of the Republic have been holding meetings at various points The "army" Is dyi- ded into thirty-s seven departments; there are 2,050 posts.
 A Washington dispatch of May l4th says;
 "The reports of the contemplated reduction of the mail service in the Pacific Territories and especially New Mexico and Arizona, are denied by the Postal Department"
 A reduction of the mail service In our Terri tory would leave us without any mail facilities A Washington special of May l4, says that ! Crcsyyol has reconstructed the whole special | service and divided into six divisions these sub divided districts. Each division has principal officer, styled Assistant Superintendent, Railroad Mail Service, who Is responsible for the postal affairs in his whole division, and will report di- | rect to the Postmaster General. Each district has a Postoifce Inspector, and each division special agent to investigate mail depredations; and there are three special agents at large. The Sixth Division includes Kansas, Texas, Califor- n;a, Oregon. Nevada and the Territories. In- spectors only are appointed Among the lnspec- tors are Milton B. Dutfied for New Mexico, Jas. B. Underwood for Oregon, and Alfred Barstow for California. For Special Agent at Large, James R. Speard; for Money Order Service, James W. Briggs The Dufheld mentioned above must be ex.Marshal Dufield, of this Territory, instead of New Mexico.
 A lot of drugs were shipped from St. Louis to San Francisco, May H. pia Pacific Railroad.
 The President. by proclamation, has ordered that an election be held in Virginia, July 9th. During the month of April. s37 900 worth of Kansas Pacific Railroad lands were sold to ac tual settlers.
 The printers Of Washington are in quandary. , son of Fred Douglass (colored) has demanded admission into the Typographical Union, and the white printers don't know what to do about it.. Turner's Opera House at Dayton, Ohio, was burned to the ground, May Is. Loss, s25O,OoO The first through passenger train from Sacra- mento, California, arrived al Omaha, Nebraska, V May Is.
 n The total value of taxable property in llli- n uos is said to be sI7l,555.966. I Radical papers continue to publish lists of Q Ku Klux outrages in the South. a White House, recently, sent up his card, and up- e on being informed that he would havs to wait
 Is minutes before the President could sec him
 left in high dudgeon, asserting that be would not wait that length of time to see Napoleon or Victoria. Pshaw, Chawles, isn't Grant greater
 than Napoleon or Victoria, in your estimation'
 John Russell Young has resigned his position n as managing editor of the New York Tribune 'e whitlow Reid takes his place.
 The Government printer says he will employ
 black printers regardless of the Printers Union " A dispatch from Richmond, Va, Of May 7tb i says: In suit against the city to compel her tC n- redeem her small notes to the amount of sl00. s' 900 issued during the war, Chief Justice Chas' d, decided that having been issued to aid rebellion
 they cannot be redeemed although the Legisls
 ture which authorized the issue was de facto tn, C. Legislature. Had the notes then issued beer 'd Tor legal purposes and not for the subversion It. the Government, they would be liable to redemp
 ton.
 :. Fifteen hundred Sabbath school children o '" Washington. called at the Presidential mansion
 May l6, and were received by the President |
 the East Room.
 
 May 18th. Gov. Charles c. Anderson, of Ken o lucky. former Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio, va ., elected permanent President, with q number a vicePresidents and Secretaries letter froI so Gen. Lee was read, amid great applause. Mort
 Carolina. Missouri, Iowa, Alabama, Ohio, Virgin
 ia, Indiana. Mississippi Georgia, Arkansas, We, h. Virginia Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee ty California and Kentucky, were represented. le- At Jefferson, Louisiana, on the night of Ma d. 18th, the citizens had fight with body of Nj ay tropolitan police, numbering 300. The poll, er were driven from the precinct, but next morr of ing were quietly placed in possession, by con
 pany of soldiers, to whom the citizens offered D
 resistance.
 or Several hundred recruits for the Cuban rebe
 were preparing to sail from New Orleans. Lats
 reports from New Orleans state that the poli' E. fired upon citizens without cause, woundiI
 many.
 Boston dispatch of May 18th says; Pro 'e Goldwin Smith wrote foolish letter to Lo don paper, indicating that Summers speech hs revived bitter feeling of hostility against En "- land, and that rupture was imminent; that En
 fish residents would be obliged to leave il country; discouragng English immigration. Tn " letter was the immediate cause of the sudd' 'e fall in bonds on the sth. It was seriously COT D. mented upon by the London Papers. "a The Secretary of the Treasury has directed u
 Assistant Secretary at New York, to hereaft
 sell gold to the extent of s2,000, 900 weekly. 40 The President will not order an election