Arizona citizen., 1876-01-22
PACIFIC COAST MATTERS.

PACIFIC COAST MATTERS.
 SAN DIEGO January 19.-The Wash
 ington Sunday Herald, of January 9th,
 has the following: The advance army
 register, published in November, sub 3. ject to correction, shows that there are
 thirty-one vacancies in the rank of sec
 Ond lieutenant in the line, as follows:
 cavalry, 9; artillery, 8; infantry, II.
 SAN DIEGO, January 2O.-Thc Wash
 ington Capital has long article on army reform, in the course of which
 1t says: We want promotion open
 ed from the ranks; it is the pride and
 strength of the French army, that the
 common soldier is said to carry the
 baton of Field Marshal in his knap- sack. Let the American soldier feel thlS and the knapsack will become a
 badge of honor instead of being, as it IS now, an evidence of degradation. To insure this elevation of the private, we want the graduate of West Point to serve from three to five years in the ranks, before becoming eligible to of flee Our friends need be troubled with no alarm, as to the consequence Of such radical reform. We have q l multitude of poor boys, throughout the land, ready and anxious 10 be ed ucaied at the expense or the govern ] ment, and wiling to pay for theIr tui- l ton, through such services as the ranks | afford. We need to have the army swung into accord with our republican form of government and if it is not. the army will disappear. It needs but a few years more of suck legislation as We have had in the past to wIpe out the entire organization.
 SAN BERNARDINo, January 1.-The California and Arizona stage was rob bed by two masked men, near this city about I o'clock this morning. They got the treasure box, but bvsthe bray cry of MT. Thomas, the division agent, It was recovered before it was broken open. Thomas was asleep when the robbery occurred, but being awakened, , jumped out and followed the robbers. who were in the brush near by. T
 SACRANENTo, 18.-As Mr. Summers. $ he Sacramento reporter of The San ( Francisco Chronicle, was seated writ ! ng at his desk in the Senate chamber, o-day, Wilcox, of Mariposa, came up behind and broke heavy cane over llS head. Summers struggled to his -~'. ''-o Hood ey,,-I.i.,.s from his broken - iead' and pistols were drawn by both a parties Bystanders interfered and sen. I ra'ed the belligerents, and Wilcox eft I
 SACRAMENTO, 19.-In the Senate to- :, ayr Martin, chairman of the commit ee on public morals, introduced T re oluiion characterizing the attack made Y J. W. Wilcox, Assemblymap from | larlposa, on Summers, the rcnor;er :, the San Francisco Chronicle in inc z enaie Chamber, as a cowardlv act and n nd an invasion of the Senate Chamber nd notifying the Assembly of the fact nat the members of that body may . Ike proper action. Edgerton moved Q nat consideration of the resolution he , nd over till tomorrow, as. in view of T he gravity of the offcnse, the wordino = the resolution WAS not strong enourb :. lany Senators objected 10 any action n the ground that the Senate was mt v !, session when the attack WAS made he resolution was finally laid over II tomorrow.
 SAN FRANCISCO. January 19-Itis is ~ nnIng here at Sacramento and AIarvs b IIle. The weather is cloudy ui.h L iaications of rain at all points north D nd east.
 Judge c, G. ". French, Chief Jus. oe oi Arizona, leaves on steamer An A 'n Tor San Diego, tomorrow. % %o,