The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-12-12
From Tharsdays Daliy.l Latest by Mail.

Inc malI brings us the following concern ing the opening of Congress:
 The roll being called 278 out of 800 rn rolled answered. The House then proceeded to the election of Speaker. J. G. Blaine, Fernando Wood, and $. s. Cox were put in nomination, and the former was elected by a large majority. Mir Blaine was conducted to the chair and sworn in by Davis, the sen. for member of the House, and thereafter ad- minstered the oath to the members present. About fifty Southern members, among them Alexander II. Stephens, of Georgia, who were unable to take the iron clad oath, took the modified oath.
 The Delegates from the Territories were then called, and all except Cannon, of Utah, sworn.
 The Republican caucus nominees for officers of the House were elected.
 The President has sent to the Senate for confirmation the nominations of Attorney General Williams, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and Col Bristow, as Attorney General.
 Referring to the various statements made in the newspaper press regarding the pro. posed application to Congress for Govern ment aid to the Texas Pacific Railroad, Col Thomas A. Scott, president of the company publishes tue following card:
 No application will be presented in be- half of the road with which 1 am officially connected unless upon s basis which shall absolutely secure the Government, and which will be certain to promote the material n- terests of the country by giving active em- ployment to thousands of deserving men who are now idle. If any arrangement can be devised by which these great works (the Texas and Pacific and Northern Pacific rail Hcl uytl ha faA any possibility of loss to the Government, but, on the contrary, through which its best interests will be greatly promoted, this is a consummation most devoutly to be wished.'
 President Grant favors the admission of Colorado as State. So do we. She has q large population; IS able to take care of her self. and. with voting power in both houses, would have her good say in favor of Arizona and other Territories. Let her enter and be received in due and ancient form. A correspondent writing from Camp Me Dowell, under date of Dec. 8th, says that the rain commenced there on the night of the lth and confined until the morning of the 7th; 3 10 inches of falling, according to the Hospital guage, and was the best rain they have had, at this season of the year, for four years past.
 The MINER is in favor of Luttrell's bill, to admit the stuff of which grain bags are make, free of duty.
 The same gentleman has asked for an ap- propriation to improve the navigation of the Sacramento river, in California Of this we arc also in favor; also, the granting of aid 10 improve the navigation of our own Colorado river. -.r... r WE see by the Tucson Citizen of December 9th that Dr. D. Marsh, once collector of customs on this border, died recently in Michigan, of insanity, brought on by his proving defauter to Government in the sum of S6,7S3.59.
 BILLs.--Congressman Houghton's bill, to provide for selling grazing lands in single sec tion tracts will, if 1t passes, benefit this Ter ritory, for the reason that men of means would then sink artesian wells on tracts of land which contain abundance of grass, but little or no "living" or surface water. As the law now IS, no man win go to the trouble and expense of boring for water. when he knows that one quarter section would be all he could hold, and that after finding water other men would settle on adjoining quarter-sections, and so cut short his supply of grass. We don't see any monopoly" in the bill, as all know that l60 acres is not large enough range for anything like a large herd of cattle or sheep.
 Page's bill aims, we presume, to make the prices of agricultural and mineral lands cor respond As it now stands mineral lands are worth S5 per acre, while agricultural land sells for SIPS. Nothing bad or mean about this bill.
 TIE CITIZEN tells the people of Tucson that it will not pay to publish daily there. It hopes for the success of the DAILY MINER, but Sits doubts to the contrary amount to absolute belief" It will be very tight pa pers" to make the DAILY MINER pecuniary success, but, having already made il news paporial success, are in strong hopes that the people of this Territory will see that it "pays its way" any way.
 CHIMEHUEvA SAL IN IRoSs.-Capt. James Burns, U. s. 5th Cavalry, has reported to Head Quarters that the notorious Indian Chief, known as "Chmehueva Sal, !" had been taken to Fort Yuma and securely ironed. The troops had been after Sal and his band until he saw capture was inevitable when he took refuge with the Apache Yumas, who delivered him up to the military.
 l, Is hardly probable that he will annoy settlers and travellers in Arizona any more Alcatraz should be his home hereafter. LIEUT.. F. l.. DopoE, has been ordered tc | ~L.