The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-03-08

Major c H. Veil intends to leave for Iii home, East Phpnix about Wednesday. Watch L. Bashford & Co.'s column, some thing new in if to-day.
 Captain Hargrave has rented the ne, dwelling on Marina street belonging to Jus Bones. and will soon move into the sanlt The Captain is now .family man. and Ina commenced life in business way. FRox SIexAI--A letter tells us that Tor Ewing shipped through ". F. & Co, vi Wickenburg, on the first day of this mont 426 pounds of silver bullion. sG0 fine, tn result of ten days work of the Sginal mill Dr J. H. Pierson Secretary of the c. & A Stage company has done the MINI variou favors for which we are grateful and exten' to him through the columns of our pape many thanks.
 Every body Is asking where Jimmy Be bind the stove got that elegant new suit 0 clothes. To all such enquiries Jimmy prompt answeris Bought em at Bray's an, paid tho money for. en-
 Gen. Wilcox, the new Department Com mander, was at Cuttings station on Satnr day night and was to leave there yesterday consequently may be expected heie to-mor row.
 How To MAKE IRIDEscEST GLAss.-Th secret of production has leaked out: it con sists in the application of dilute acids unde high pressure. A recent patent (Clemandot's calls for . per cent. solution of hydro chlorIc acid, and a pressure of 75 ib. pc sqnare inch.
 COAL FoR THE AGUA FRIA SHELTER W H. Pemberton left this morning for the Agu; Fria smeiter with large lead of cbsrcoa to be used by Col. Wood in smelting or, from the Kit Carson mine. The smelte was to start up this morning. We expect t hear of good results.
 RETURNEp.-Robert Cornell, one of Pres cott's best business men and "City Dads. returned from an extended tript the States this morning and was accompanied by hi newly welded wife. Robert has doae wis. thing and we congratulate him on his slucky strike.- To Mrs. c. we extend heart, welcome to our mountain town, the Capita of Arizona.
 The original Bear Flag, painted in red alone, was paintedin Sonoma, by Wm Todd The other one, on fabric, was printed ir Napa City about three years afterwards b, Peter Storm; and the small blue flag wa. made on board an American ship of war, 1T the Bay of Monterey, and sent as a present to Freemont's battalion at San Juan, abou two days before we started on our second campaign. Napa tCal) Reporter.
 At the farewell reception of General and Mrs. Kautz, on Friday evening at the Gen eral Crook Club Rooms, there will be music dancing and an elegant supper. The friends and admirers of the General anc family (and they constitute this entire com munity), who attend on this occasion, may depend on cordial welcome and splendid time.
 The road between Prescott and Gilleti i; represented to be lined with teams, and people. The route IS more generally used by the travelling public than any in tho Territory. It is thought that enough silver will be produced inside the next sixth months to lay track of silver rails from Gillett to Prescott, when the people can all ride and walkers routes done away with
 finders & Rowe, formerly of this village are now driving paying mercantile busi- ness at Gillett. They keep posted on the value of ores from the different mines, and furnish miners supplies and take their ores in exchange. They arc wide awake, liberal dealers, and arc bound to rake in ''heaps' of plata.
 ssCould with ink the ocean fill,
 Were earth of parchment made,
 Were every single stick a quill,
 Each man a scribe bv trade,
 To write the tricks of half the sex
 Would drink the ocean dry.
 Gallants, beware,
 Look sharp, take care,
 The blind eat many fiy."
 GoLD RocK-Mr. woodson, who has a mine in the Ha-eua-ha Mountains, about eighty miles west of this place, is making to start rastras to work the rock. He showed us several large specimens yesterday throughout which fine specks of bright gold were visible. He informs us that the ledge is from four to ten feet wide, and quite uniform in richness.
 The only tests he had yet made were by horn spoon process. and those he found so very satisfactory that it was hardly deemed necetssary to apply any other. Still, as a mateer of personal satisfaction, he will have som assays made just to ascertain how much value there is in 1t. The rock has rich lively look, and it is certainly as fine pros pect for gold mine as any we know of.
 TIE PERu.-Pete Harvey, fthe Genl.) has gone to work OF the Peru mine, near Gus Swain's Spring, in which he and Charley Taylor are interested, and finds it develop ing far better than he expected. He has sent us several specimens by the hand of Joe Fourshec, and an assurance that if he can hold out until he reaches the water lev el, he proposes to purchase the MINER office with one days proceeds of his mine, and then address himself to the creation of Sinking Fund out of which to pay the Ma tional debt.
 The samples in our possession are filled with metallic silver, argentiferous galena and the chloride of silver.
 Joe, who has been out there, thinks Pete has struck it "shorc 'nuff.r
 TIE EXECUTION OF !. A. LEWIS Posr- roSED.-As VIC go to press We learn that Acting Governor Gosper has filed an order with Sheriff Bowers, directing him to post pone tho execution off. A. Lewis from the 18th of March thirty days.
 This he does in order to allow Governor Hoyt, who is now on his way here, time to srrive examine the papers in the case, and pass upon the petition of citizens asking hat the sentence of deatk be commused to hat of imprisonment for life in the peniten-