Arizona citizen., 1876-12-09
PACIFIC COAST MATTERS.

Congress Tn Fourth District. RepuO- licans are fully alive and have al ready obtained enough evidence of H. legal Democratic voting to confidently assert that Wiggingtnn will be worst ed in the fight. The weather here yes terday was charming and Thanksgiving day was duly observed. Business was generally suspended and all the church es were filled in forenoon.
 Gold advancing in New York.
 SAN DIEGO, December 4.-The Duke Gwin is in San Francesca; he arrived from the east yesterday. The Boston shipping list of November IS reports sales of California wool for the week to date were quite large, comprising 640,000 pounds at prices varying from 24 to 29 cents for fall and 9 to 30 cents for spring. Supplies continue to ar rive freely and fall wool fast passing into the hands of manufacturers. A dispatch from London, November 20, shows a steady rise Tn the price of silver in that market and announces that the German government will sell no more silver below D pence per ounce. There is an almost certain prospect of silver going still higher. In North Carolina United States Sen ator Ransom, whose term expires in March next, has been reelected. A proclamation of Governor Brogden gives TIlden majority of l6.l7S in that State, with three small counties moi heard from officially. In the Con gresSional contest between Metcalf and Frost in third district of Missouri, the court has ordered peremptOry man. damus, compelling the county clerk to correct the returns; this elects Met calf, the Republican contestant. The reports of heads of departments in Washington have been completed and abstracts furnished the President for reference in his message. The Presi- dent will discuss the Southern question | in detail and will accompany the mes sage with a mass of documentary evid- ence.
 The official result in Florida is thus announced:
 TALLAHASSEE, November 2S.- Il hereby certify that the returns from all the counties in the State, except Dade county, were this day opened by the Board of State Canvassers. The vote for electors as officially announced from the face of returns in detail, aggregate as follows: Humphreys received 24,- 32S, Pierce received 24,324, Long re- ceived 24.323, Holden received 24,32S, Young received 24,2S4, Call received 242S5. Hilton received 24,2S3, Bullock received 24.2S2. The first four names are Republicans and the last four Dem ocralic candidates.
 (Signed), W. LEE BISHOP,
 "Clerk of the Board"
 SAN DIEGO, CAL, December 5.-The Unlon's special correspondent in San Francisco says: "I send you the news from Washington of a reported com promise between Scott and Stanford, for what it is worth, it gives rise to various comments here. Some think it is the first move on the part of San ford to forestall public judgment against aid asked for the Texas and Pacific road, the prodIgiOuS sum named for the guarantee being likely to pre- I iudice the people against the idea oI aid in any shape. Scots own propo 7. silinn only asks a guarantee Of sky million dollars of bonds, giving th' government the whole road and all | it's belongings as security. What SC, curity is to be given under the rumor ed combination is not mentioned; or the other hand, there are those wht think there is ground for the rumor believing that the recent activity of th' Texas and Pacific road and it's opera | lions to secure a direct line to Yum; from the Bay of San Diego, indicate certainty that the road will be buil' and a harmony of action between tn two hitherto antago1istic parties. II 1, this case It IS thought that the South : ern Pacific will stop its line at lndla
 Wells and hold San Gorgonio ready | , shut out any competing line that ma T be extended by the Union Pacific iron ' the country north of the 32d parallel while the line from Anaheim will b lpushed ahead to San Diego at an earl Q dale. to connect with the short dlrec l. line to Yuma of the Texas Pacific road , Again, it is said by men who clam
 to hold key to the inside, that tn
 3jth parallel road has passed unde the control of the Central Pacific folk 2 and that they mean to extend thel
 southern line from Indian Wells to tn