The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-03-01

PAST AND. PASSING EVENTS.
 Judge Boardman has denied the appca- tiOn for a new trial of Stokes.
 WASHINGTON NEWS.
 The formal counting of the Electoral votes showed a majority for Grant of 223. The l votes of Arkansas and Louisiana were thrown out. Votes for Greeley uncounted.
 A bill has been introduced in the Senate, prohibiting the Territories from giving or loaning their credit to railroad companies.
 The Naval appropriation bill was taken up. The first amendment by the Committee, in- creasing the amount for the Pacific Coast was agreed to- The amendment, appropriating s, 3,25O,0OO for the construction of eight steam vessels, was adopted.
 The Act of Congress repeating the frank ing privilege will go into effect on the first of July next There is now raised a question as to exchange papers. Heretofore newspa- per publishers have received free of postage papers through the mails. Hereafter the transmission of such papers will have to be paid for.
 It is extremely doubtful whether Tough. tons bill to create port of entry at San ! Diego can become law at this session Of 1 Congress. The amendment proposed in the Senate by Mir. Casserly, making Wilmington, ! tue failure of the bill in the House. Other wise the bill will pass.
 THE SPANISH REPUBLIC.
 Madrid, February l3.-Pcace and order prevails everywhere. The revolution is to be celebrated by grand illumination.
 Paris, February 13.-It is reported that Don Carlos is preparing to take advantage of the crisis in Spain to push his claims to the throne
 A hundred million francs have been sub scrbed to aid Duke de Montpensier in his operations against the Republic in Spain. The Spanish minister at Washington says he does not think that Spain will retrogade to despotisIn. The change in the Govern ment will not affect the status of Cuba. He considers Amadeus honest and liberal. At the State Department it is doubted if sue cess will follow in case Rivero is to be the first president, although his qualifications are conceded.
 The Government has sent a dispatch tO Minister Sickles, announcing its recognition of the Spanish Republic. FROM UTAH.
 Salt Lake, February l3.-It has been snow ing here all day it is the heaviest storm this season. 4 dispatch from Alta, Little Cotton wood, says it showed all last night, and still continues. The snow is twelve feet deep on a level, and the roads are all blocked. The Utah Northern Railroad is again blockaded.
 4 newspaper job office is threatened with a I suit for publishing obscene literature, in hay ing printed to order, in pamphlet form, some of the sermons of Brigham Young. The ot- 1, fensve matter is the verbatim language of I the prophet, and is incredibly vile e The Journal says Congress should appoint !, an Investigating committee on the Mormon { tthing fund, to ascertain what disposition was made of the large sums of money sent :, to Washing ton, and what members of Con gress and Senators were retained by the l church of polygamy. Brigham's Credit
 Mobilier is thought to have been worse than U Oakes Ames'.
 THE LOS ANGELES POSToFFICE.
 Captain CIarkes friends have surrendered '' and Bent will secure the Los Angeles post Il mastershp.
 Il MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. C Kalbfesch, ex-mayor of Brooklyn, diec c on the 18th of February. II A footing up of the figures show that th' 7, profits on Ames' contracts for building thu o Union Pacific Railroad, as divided, wer'
 S29, ,S5l, ,690, and on the Davis contract
 S7, ,s02, l35, or over S37, 100000 which wer y stolen. The Government subsidy was S27 nt 0O0, ,OO0, which, it will be seen, was who'll D. appropriated by the Credit Mobilier gang. tc The Pennsylvania Central has leased th H. entire Northern Central Railroad.
 President Grant has ordered the remov0 m of troops from Cherokee neutral lands. 'h New York, February l3.-Burnsidc say s the new Australia and San Francisco steam d ship line, to oppose Wcb6's, will be estab he lished, subsidy, or no subsidy.
 dispatch from Berlin says credit
 mobilier investigation, involving a hig m Prussian official, is going on there. le A dispatch from Harrisburg says tha ie Geary's funeral was very solemn and in 'd posing affair. Many residences were drape n, in mourning.
 Richmond, Va, February ls.--The ten
 porary trestle-work over James river, O ii- which fifteen men were laying iron, gay m, way. Five killed and two injured. k, New Orleans, February l5.-It has bee us agreed to organize an Assembly from men ra- bers of both legislative bodies, provided sue '' a course Is acceptable to the National A
 mnistratiOn.