Arizona citizen., 1877-03-24
Late News.

bia. There was a strong protest from
 the district bar assoclation. St. Pat
 rick's day was generally observed, and
 in Washington, President Hayes re-
 viewed the procession. Complete re-
 turns from New Hampshire election
 give the first Congressional district to
 the Democrats, Jones being elected by
 forty-fve plurality. The delegation
 stands, two Republicans and one Dem
 ocrat; last Congress it was vice versa.
 Serious trouble is anticipated with
 starving miners around Scranton, Pa.
 General Mcclellan has been nomina-
 ted by Governor Tiiden, as Superin-
 tendent of public works in New York P. II. Emerson has been confirmed as associate justice, supreme court Of
 Utah. There is a sensational report,
 that the Hayes party have secured
 enough southern votes to make them
 selves certain of the organisation of the next House, and that this has been
 effected by railroad power. Postmas-
 ter-General Key is said to be in con- stant receipt of letters from the South,
 advising to break away from all party
 lines and to join in new order of
 things. Four treasury clerks took
 $10,O0O,O00, in 415 per cent bonds, on
 March l9. There are dark hints that the Secretary of the Treasury Is in col
 fusion with the clerks and has sent the
 bonds to the Syndicate in Europe, In
 the language of the Los Angeles EX-
 press, thus we go; the taint of cor
 ruption, " &c., Gc. The Chicago Posts
 Washington special of the 2oth, says
 the Cabinet has decided to retain the
 troops in the South for the present
 In the Ohio Legislature, March goth,
 Stanley Matthews vas nominated by
 the Republicans for United States Sen
 atOr. Democrats made no nomination.
 Joint convention was Co meet on 2lst,
 to officially declare Matthews elec-
 ton. At New Orleans, on 18th, affairs
 looked stormy. About a thousand col
 ored men from the country were gath
 cred about the State House, in the
 morning, to join Governor Packard's
 militia He said he would soon att
 tempt to retake police stations His packers were hot for war, and there
 seemed no doubt he would break the peace in q few days. It was said he.
 was negotiating for the purchase of arms, and only desired non-interfcr-
 ence from the federal troops. The
 Nichols faction Lad filed a petition for cjecment of Packard from State
 House, and had arrested several of the. latter's recruiting officers.
 The Postmaster-General has ordered daily mail service over the Southern Pacific mail line, from San Diego to Me silla, commencing April l. Tri-week- ly mail will continue as now and mail on the extra days will be carried oni light wagons. 4 Washington special 10 the Chicago Journal, of March 21, says the Cabinet after several days con sileratiOn, have not vet come 10 anvI conclusion except that the statu quo| shall be maintained in South Carolina and Louisiana so far as the general condition of the governments m those. States Is concerned, until a commis-l sion can investigate, and report as toI the proper course to be pursued: and that the cabinet has also decided upon an extra session of Congress to be call. June 4 Speaker Rand Il does notI share in the apprehension that the will secure the organiza- ton of the next House. He also says, [ incidentally, that the election of Jones, ! Democrat, to Congress, in the first New IIimpshire district, cost S30,O00 Att s. C., March 20, Judge Reed, ! gave a declsion in the habeas corpus case, releasing the prisoner on thei ground that Chamberlain has no author | fly as Governor. 4. Oakley Hall, ex- Mayor of New York has disappeared, ! mi they are trying to find out whether. he has committed suicide or made away with himself Stanley Matthews was july declared elected [. s. Senator at O., March 2L J. Don Cam sron was elected '. $. Senator, at liar -isburg March 21, wee Simon Cam ,ron, resigned. Dispatches from New Orleans present variety al least March %, the city was very quiet; next day, violence was hourly expected" On he 2lst, Senator Demls, colored, who lad been acting with Nichols Legs |. ature, went over to Packard's com ,leting the latter's claimed quorum )n the 1st, at San Francisco, the. ,ears had got on top of the stock market and squeezed the stuling out ,t it; panic prices had been reached. ( told that day, in New York, !Ol7s;, ireenbacks in San Francisco, 96 @ .GIs Ic
 The trial of Major Reno, Seventh Cavalry. at Fort AOercrombie, is based .pon charges of infamous proposals ..lered by inc Major tp Mrs. Captain Bell; opinion seem, Co be that he will e .e found guilty Christiancy may get. IeNicdu mission; Foster, the Spanish {. r. ". Curtis. the English; F.reliuC- q --..--- IL :. --.-. = - :