The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-08-28
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eson, is said to be figuring for the annexation of San Domingo Senator Cole of Calfor- mia has recently left for the Island on mis- sion of some sort. The Indian commissioners on the plains report that the signs for peace are all right, but how, we would ask, do these tyros know that they are all right7 The same thing has been said time and again, but the signs have failed to agree with the interpretation given them by sleek commissioners just out from the East. Indians will live at peace with the whites whenever they are forced to do so by bayonets, bullets and sabres. Not before.
 St. Louis despatch, of August 6, says Gen. Wm. J. Palmer, of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, has completed arrangements for the building of the Denver branch of his road.
 The election in Tennessee passed off qui- etly. Carpet baggers were talking of leav- ing the State, but the Democratic press coun- seled them to stay, assuring them of pro tection. Senter's majority is about 65,000.
 Charles Allen, a prominent citizen of Mas sachusetts, died at Worcester, in that State August 6. Deceased was at one time a mem- Der of Congress.
 New York despatch of August :, says A partial eclipse of the sun was observed by hundreds and thousands of people in this vicinity. During portion of the time light clouds passed before the sun, but not to any degree affecting the sublimity of the specta- cle. When the eclipse was at its height, the rays of the sun presented to the naked eye wavy appearance, like the aurora borealis. The clouds in that portion of the heavens were of rich rose color. Astronomers say no protuberances of the sun were seen here.
 Snow fell on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, August T. Ice formed during the night
 | The New York Sua's correspondent had an interview with John Quincy Adams. The latter will accept the Democratic nomination for Governor of Massachusetts if nominated, though he does'not desire it. He approves Secretary Fish's foreign policy, but does not favor territorial expansion. He thinks the Democrats will soon control the entire South ern States that the Fifteenth Amendment is invalid; that the signs of dissolution are apparent in the Republican ranks; that the Democrats should accept negro suffrage and other inevitable results of the war, and nom mate John T. Hoffman for President.
 Seventeen carloads of butter were shipped from Omaha to California, one day recently.
 Election returns from eighty counties in Kentucky give the Democratic candidate for Treasurer a majority of 49,525. Out of s6 members elected to the Lower House the Re publicans return only 5.
 despatch from Montgomery, Alabama. of the llth ult, says
 Full returns of the Congressional elections establish that the Republicans have elected in the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Dis tricts: the Democrats in the Fifth and Sixth so the Democrats gain two delegates in the Forty-first Congress. All the Republican vote of the State is little if any more than half that cast at the Presidential election.
 It is said that our government is trying to purchase Cuba from Spain, but, so far propo- sitions have not been favorably received by the Dons.
 Five hundred persons belonging to the Ly- man family, met at Mount Tom, Massachu- setts, August To- They represented dozen States and Canada. The Lyman family is a huge concern. Members of it are to be found everywhere.
 It is said that President Grant positiveIv refused to aid Dent in the Mississippi cam paign.
 The Republicans of Mobile have petitioned to have martial law instituted ip Mobile their request has not been complied with
 The Chairman of the Walker Republican Committee in Virginia advises the members elect to the Legislature to pay no attention to Gen. Canby's order about the iron clad oath.
 The contest for the senatorship from Ten nessee will probably be between Etheridee and Johnson.
 President Grant told the Texas politicians that he would not give the people his infiu. ence nor aid them in procuring a full restora. tion of their rights, unless they elect men who can take the test oath and choose Leg. islature that will ratify the Fifteenth Amend. ment
 Another despatch says Grant has removed the Judge of the Supreme Court and the Sec retary of State of Mississippi, and others, for r their sympathy with the Dent movement A very bitter feeling against Grant exists among conservatives, on account of this acSAn