The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-04-24
Late Eastern News.

Congress are competed when tnP oeua'c OVnn'"' a successor, during recess the President may | suspend by appointing temporary successor. When the Senate meets the President nominates him or some one else for confirmation. lf the Senate fails to confirm, the vacancy continues, which the President may hl temporarily; but suspended officer is never restored. unless the President rcnominaies him.
 Great frauds have been discovered in conncc- ton with Pacific Railroad matters frauds, it seems, intended to strip the company Of ovcry dollar possessed by 1t, and to leave the Govern ment in the lurch for loans extended.
 Gen StoDeman has been relieved from com mand in Virginia. and is under orders to proceed to this coast with his regiment, the 2lst infantry This comes of his being Democrat.
 Bonds to the amount of s56 s5 Sz0 have been issued to Pacific Railroad companies
 Yigilantcs are numerous in New York City.
 Ex-Confederate General Longstreet's appoint ment has been confirmed.
 Department clerks. workmen in the navy yards. etc, are being dismissed every day, in order, it Is said, to curtail the expenses of the Government A better way to cnrtail expenses would be to cut down the pay of the salaried
 
 Federal commissions in their pockets.
 Gen. Howard Is to remain in charge of the Freedmen's Bureau.
 A St. Louis dispatch of April 2d says; The Board of Directors Of the Pacific Railroad J lihe Southwesternl elected. to-day. II. Lucas, ' Prcsident C. K. Garrison, Vice President; J. Potter. Secretary and Treasurer; J. N. Cooper i AgaitSs.
 | t. Al. sl.t. | poses 10 build road on the old Fremont rontc | Gen Custar holds two Cheyenne chiefs as hos tagcs for the good behavior Of their tribe. He thinks the Indian war is at an end. Others have thought SO before him, but thinking SO has not made it SO.
 Gen A. s. Webb has assumed command of Virginia. His first act was to re-ins,a,e Wells in the Guberuaiorial chair.
 Gen. Mower commands at New Orleans
 The greater part of the town of Rodney, Mis- sissippi was burned recently.
 Gen. Cook has been assigned to the command of the Department of the Cumberland.
 In all probability, J. Lothrop Motley will be appointed Minister to England. in place of Rev erdy Johnson, recalled.
 Andy Johnson is "bloviaing" in Tennessee. In a speech at Knoxville. on the 4th inst. the telegraph reports him as having said many fool ish things among which thai he if was who freed
 the negroes of Tennessee that be intended so de-
 vote the remainder of his life to the yindieation
 of bis official life and native State from the obio. ! any cast upon them. lie thanked God that his
 honors had not been gained through blood. and
 that no wounded soldier could attribute his wound. 10 him He spoke of Grant as q bundle of preludices and called his cabinet gin enter
 prise
 Owners of vessels said to have been destroyed r by Confederate cruisers want s3,0000o0 out ol the people 10 recompense them for their losses ! Wonder when Governmen, will recompense peo
 pie in the Territories for loss of property by In eliaslss
 F dispatch of April 5th says: Charles Snow. s don Fairfax of California, died yesterday al 2 Barunm's Hotel Baltimore lie wilt be buried
 tomorrow by the Masonic fraterpaiy in RoeI
 Church Cemetery. few miles distant 7 Deceased was well and favorably known ir { California He was politician of the Demo l cratic school, and held many responsible posi- r tions in the Golden State.
 The stockholders of the Union Pacidc Raiwa, ] Co. Eastern Dyision). met at St Louis, April changed the name of their road to Kansas Pa . ciHc Railroad, and elected Board of Directors g John D. Perry was reelected President Gen r. wm. J. Palmer, is one of the Directors. The, l. resolved to commence work on the Denver brauel
 immediately. but said nothing about going t d work on the main trunk road. We hope al e their former promises, and resolves have no d been forgotten.
 ' "Chawlesn Samner will have to look to hi v laurels. else Orth white friend to the negro il n the House, will steal his thunder. The gnshnj l. Orth wants to embrace San Domingo and fo D. aught we know, the whole Of Africa |, ct.=sie= Wilder. teaioFel) has been sPf,is:s. e and confirmed Postmaster at Columbia, Soul 'e Carolina, "Whilher are we driftingP' The President has notified john F fiaic, Min ster to Spain, that his resignation will be accep 1 ted. Nr. Hale Is charged by the Spanish Gov 10 ernment with meddling in it's affairs r. Senator Grimes and family are sheat to n,al 10 the tour of Europe.
 le c. B. Denio, loud mouthed Radical of Cali <, fornia, who was removed from the position Q " Master Mason at Mare Island Navy Yard b s President Johnson, has been replaced in thai DC U, sition by President Grant-all for spite, we pr, ', sums.
 m In the debate on the Indian appropriation bil on Gen. Butler said that the l4th amendment mad be citizens of all Indians, and thai consequently ld no valid treaties could be made with them. lc The Republicans have carried St. Lonis Mi 's souri; Louisville. Kentucky, has gone DemOcra bs ic. Rhode Island has gone Republican, and . ns has Connecticut "Codhsh' has sriz' It The Chaplain of the Senate must be a tw, HtsV