The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-07-17
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The President has decided that the restrc- ton preventing army officers from holding civil office does not apply to the retired list. This decision enables Gen. Sickles to accept the Spanish mission by relinquishing his army pay during the occupancy of the office, and his name will be continued on the Army Register. He was to have left for Madrid on the 5th inst.
 A Washington despatch, of June 24, says "The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has re- ceived letter dated May 3lst, from George W. Dent, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Arizona, which gives sad statement Of the condition of affairs Although the San Francisco Bulletin says that despatches de- tailing the substance of Mr. Dents report have been published, we have not seen them and think the Balie,ia Is mistaken
 The Maino Republican State Convention met at Bangor, June 9, and nominated Joshua Chamberlain for Governor. The Con vention resolved to sustain Grants admins tration.
 Heavy rains had fallen in the Western States, injuring the corn.
 The strong minded portion of the fair sex are bent upon agitating the question of Female Suffrage until they conquer or die. At latest dates, they were holding distract cd meetings in the West.
 Col J. W. Morris, who was appointed to inspect the unaccepted portion of the Pacific Railroad, has made his report, in which, he says, that the road is dangerous in many places"
 X Washington despatch, of June g, says that MT. Roberson was, on that day, sworn in as Secretary of the Navy.
 A St. Louis despatch, of June 27, says "Several members of the Congressional Com mittee on the Pacific Railroad are in the city, where they will be joined by other members and proceed over the Kansas Pacific road"
 Hon. Thomas R. Ross, the law preceptor ! of Thomas Corwin, died near Lebanon, Ohio. June 2S.
 The Governor of Kansas has asked the President for more regular troops, or permis- sion to raise a regiment of Volunteers. The Governor has ascertained that more than 30 white persons were killed in the recent Indian attack Commissioner Hoag places the num- Der at twenty.
 Some wealthy Democrats of Washington City were endeavoring to revive the suspen- ded National IateRigeRcer.
 A New York dispatch, of June % reports Gen. Dix as having said that "Prcsident Grant has fallen at last into the hands of the politicians, and though he may mean well, he cannot resist the influence around him. His appointments have been dis-appoiatments. Unless he retrieves himself soon, his ruin is accomplished"
 At Richmond, Va, June %, two colored women fought duel with clubs One was so badly beaten that she died on the field Jealousy was the cause.
 Joe Wormald, the champion shoulder hit ter of England, has challenged any man in America to fight him in Canada, for Sj,000.
 The Maine Temperance people have nomi- mated ticket Of their own. L. c. Hitch brun is their candidate for Governor The Democrats have nominated Gen. Franklin Smith, for the same office. Ex-President Johnson was in Washington, June %.
 Richmond, Va, Dispatch, of June 30, is as follows: Hast night, in Petersburg, Mir. Van Wyck, of New York, addressed Repub- lican meeting. The Conservatives present called for division, but, time not being al- lowed, and the next being radical speaker, there was a decided call for Conservative speakers. The negroes formed in body, and charged on the whites driving them away with bricks and chasing them through the streets Nobody seriously injured" If the whites were any way equal in numbers to the negroes, "driving" was too good for them.