The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-01-25
Past and Passing Events.

General James II. Carleton, of the Regular Army, died in Texas short time ago. Dur ing the war, he commanded the Department of New Mexico and Arizona. He was ia yoritc with the people of Arizona
 General Hancock has just had splendid reception in New York City, given him by officers and officers of the Army and Navy. Generals Mcclellan, Burnside and Franklin were present.
 The San Diego Union pronounces late copy of the Sacramento RecOrd ''thc greatest single issue of newspaper ever printed in the United Statcs,n in which opinion the MINER concurs.
 A late Washington despatch says that the President mas directed the Secretary of War to prepare an Executive order, m effect pro hibitng persons holding United States com missions from occupying oiii"e under State authority, which order may have some bear ing "n the Prescott village council.
 The Democrats of New Hampshire have re.nomna,ed James A. Weston. for Governor.
 Roscoe Conkling is to hold his seat in the l |. s. Senate for another term, his party in the New York Legislature having re.nomi- mated him.
 | Slippery Simon Cameron is rc.nominated | Senator from Pennsylvania. ! The Legislature of Nevada is thinking some of abolishing capital punishment. Won der how our Solons feel on this point. | Governor elect R. J. Oglesby is to be Sen ator from Illinois
 Heavy .nows iu Iowa, Minnesota and Michigan.
 The California and China Mail Company is quite likely to get an annual subsidy of over Sl ,0OO,0O0. | Mr. I. N Dawley (the Denver Ners calls him ColoneIl, has received a commission l from Posrmastcr-G General Crcswel. to keep on acting as special mail agent The Nevs congratulates Mir Dawley and snys some handsome things of him, in all which we concur.
 | Stokes i> sentenced to he banged on Fri day, February g. He alleges that the tes- 1 timony against him was manufactured and | perured.
 l The RerIv of Albuquerque, New Mexico, | IS elated over the fact that one of its towns men. MT. Henry Springer, is making good blankets from New Mexico wool, GOO of which have been shipped to Camp Apache, in this Territory.
 By.andby, when the Apaches are at peace, Arizona will do something in this line. The compositors of the New York Tribune hare invited all printing offices in the United States to give one or more pounds of old type each for the purpose of making a statue of Greeley, to be erected over his grave, and ask every compostor tbroughout the coun- try to give the proceeds of thousand ems, to be set up on February 3d. the sixty second anniversary of the birth of Greeley.
 This Is right and proper. $50 say we all of us" MINER men.
 The Goat Island question is again bother ing San Francisco. One crowd of engineer doctors say it would not do for the Railroad Company to occupy the island, while another ,et gay it wonlin't hurt anybody or thing to let Stanford X Co. have q slice of i,.
 Los Angeles, California, is soon to have a woolcn factory.
 Recent advices from New Orleans assure ns that the people of that city will have to grin and bear the corrupt rule of usurping negroes and carpet-baggers, owing to the presence, in the streets, of |. $. soldiers and cannon. Durrell--a villainous carpet bag Judge-had suppressed the Times, one of the ablest and most conservative papers in the country.
 Secretary Fish gives out that Government isn't caring for the Sandwich Islands.
 Now, Mr. Fish, ain't you ashamed to flo so.
 At Piochc, Nevada, about December 3lst, in an underground fight between the Ray mOnd S Ely and Piocho-phGnix companies, Thomas Ryan was shot dead. Isn't it about time to stop this business, which has dis gfaccd the mine owners of Pioche !!