Arizona citizen., 1876-12-30
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Special Dispatches to THE CITIZEN, by
 United States Telegraph Line.
PAcIFIC CoAsT MATTERs.

, PACIFIC COAST MATTERS.
 SAN DIEGO. December 27.-Senators
 Baird, Gordon. Thurman and Ransom, Speaker Randall and Representatives
 Hewitt, Lamar and Watterson left
 Washington on Saturday last for New
 York, by invitation, to hold a confer
 ence with Tilden. California aspirants
 of the Democratic side are beginning
 to send in their applications for ap- pointments at the hands of TIlden, as
 they expect clean sweep after the in auguration.
 \ London dispatch of the 21st, says official reports from the metropolitan hospitals show that the total number of smallpox patients, under treatment on the 18th, was 722 against IFS two
 months ago. These figures only repre- sent the range of epidemic among the pauper population. \ San Francisco disDatch of Saturday last, says the smallpox seems again on the increase there. {Twenty-eight new patients were found by the health officer during the
 week. Mortality from dlptheria con- tinues alamingly large, being Al deaths during the six weeks endingI December g, or one fourth of the en- tire death rate of this ci,y.
 The Los Angeles Herald says F car loads of Chinamen, making an aggre- gate of 600, arrived on the overland train from San Francisco. They wereI designed for work at the front, but be- fore they had got beyond Alameda street, with their faces turned to the desert, panic struck them and they deserted the train like a drove of stam- peded cattle. It is hardly possible tot assign a reason why the Celestials can not be prevailed upon to ssork on theI desert; some say they are dissatisfied with their wages, others that they are afraid of the small-po and other reas- Ons are given none of which are at all to the case. One thing isi certain, John has an all powerful and uncompromising aversion to visiting the desert and simply won't go.
 SAN DIEGO, December 2S-One mil lion and a half dollars more of gold specie arrived from England in New York day before yesterday.
 Wade Hampton has positively re- fused to certify to the Democratic elec- toral certificates in South Carolina; he says that he is satisfied that Hayes car ried the State fairly, and that he will lend no encouragement to the revolu- -ionary programme of hot headed Democrats in the North who proposeI 70 seat Tilden by force, but on the con rary he has quite as much confidence in Hayes as in Tilden.
 SAN DIEGO, December 29.-L. M. Jacobs, of Tucson, Arizona, sailed per steamer Orizaba from San Francisco. Q San Diego, today.
 SAN FRANCISCO, December 2G-The I tumble in mining stocks is unprece- tented The 22d was a black Friday { n the market and the slaughter was [ he most general and disastrous that las occurred in long time To-day , here is a host of ruined men. The a Iecline may be appreciated by the fol C owing quotations: Best & Belcher 1; Justice 20; Ophir 2l; Con. Va, a :; Gala. fl; Yellow Jacket 14; Mexi- an r; Alpha 19; Imperial 1.621I |t Savage g. t
 Governor Grover of Oregon passed Il trough San Francisco today, on his l. ray to Washington. The Democracy n ave him a huge reception. fl
 SAN FRANCIsco, December 2S- a tocks are tluctuating every hour, but d he tendency today seems to be up O yard. O