The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-03-15
wEpxrspAY.

CISCO.
 P. C. ds Co.'S Stages leave the Plaza Stable
 for .5iIiett and Tiptop, every Monday ans
 Thursday morning at o'clock.
 Artist Rothrock brought his instrumen
 to bear on the beautiful residence of W:
 Tompkins, Esq, early this morning, and th,
 result was that beautiful picture. per
 feet fac smile of the premises was procured
 Tie last trip of the Express took to Do
 Pasinas $3 090 in bullion from the IiptoE
 and 5000 from the Peck, aggregating tLI
 saag little sum of $l2,000 from two comps
 Bies, alone, to say nothing of what may
 have been On board of which we have no ac- coaai.
 Col. Mizner, very competent and excel
 lent officer. who has been stationed at Fort
 Whipple for the past few months, will soon take leave of his numerous friends in this section anu take station at Camp Lowell. where he will be in command.
 Jno. Mc Dermiit, formerly engineer at Curtis sag-miil has been on trip of in- spe.tion through the various mining districts going as far south us Tiptop. He says the outlook is bright every where that he has been ana speaks particularly filtteFing Q. tl.e iipt3 i, Dom9anys mines and mill.
 eteneral Geo. Jackson, and his very esti- m4ble lady. from Walnut Grove, are in town. visiting their daughter, Mrs. Orlando Alien. Mr. J., informs Us that he has seriously cauyassed tAe idea of selling his property at the Grove, and removing to Altar, in Sonora and has concluded, 50 to do SD soon as he can sell and fix up all of his Arizona affairs in satisfactory manner.
 Charles Yates says Canon FaTrar may dis cover that the bible is silent on the subject of hell, as much as he pleases: and Beecher may preach untll he is blind that there is no hell. but he will make the Board ot Supervi sors think there is a hell before he gets through with them, a regular old orthodox pressylerisn furEace, filled with fire and birthstone.
 FROM WILLIAMSON VALLEY.-John Kite, of gllliamson Valley is doing Prescott.-- Steve Breon was driving about town in a two horse wagon this morning and appeared to be fixing for commencing the seasons farming operations on his Williamson Val ley ranch.--George Wood, of Williamson Valley, brought in load of hay this morn ing.-We hear it rumored that there was wedding party ia town from Williamson Valley last night, but if it is true, they were very sly about it.
 The Democracy of Yavapai county have quite a number of good, competent men from whom to select Delegate. We will, without any attempt to advertising any par ticular gentleman, name Hugo Richards, Gideon Brooke, E. J. Cook and c. P. Head, any Che of whom would, if elected, do full justice to the 'rerTitory, in the halls Of Con gTess.-Enterprise
 All very true, but why don't you toot your horn about such men as Sam Miller, .Ino G. Campbell and one or two others whom yon used to adore! We have it. No money from that side of the house.
 The Chief Quartermaster Col. Reynolds, has advertised for proposals to furnish the Department with forage, fuel, etc, the com ing year, commencing July 1st, 1878, and ending June 30th. 1879. Proposals for transportation have not yet appeared, and may only be published in the San Francisco papers, as it seems to be the aim of those in power to let the contract in San Francisco. It should be left entirely with Col. Reynolds the Chies QuarieFmaster of Arizona, as he can certainly do much better in the way of making contracts, which he has to do with, than outsiders.
 By reference to our telegraph reports to- day it will be seen that the House ]ud. Com. in Congress, las set its foot square down on the enactment ofthe last Arizona Legisla- ture granting speci, privileges to the $. P. R. R. Some of Yavlpai's representatives voted against the bill but do not blow "A ,,,a,rtia.a1 donna rogue. who cries ont on all occasions against tlle R. R. it is said, voted for it. How is that for consistency: Who's money bought him ASK Banning.
 General Wilcox left this morning for an extended tour of observation throughout the Territory, intending to visit all the Military posts south of us and acquaint himself with the geography and topography of the Department which he has been called to 
 This is evidently the right thing to do, as it is quite clear tha: a commander who has never visited particular district of country cannot possibly understand the lay of the land SD well as one who has inspected Ii personally.
 By moving thus early the General mani fests determination to understand lis duty which carries with it the presupposition that he mems to uo his duty as well.
 You just ought to see the new and fancy brands of cigars that Bob Cornell has got at his wholesale liquor store; some of them resemble a billiard cue, and are partly as long. while others are rolled in tin foil. We played that we were Government h. specior. this morning, and went through his invoices, sampling here and there. all same Tom Cordis or Gen. Packard, but could find nothing to found complaint on. They arc all good, but some of them are better. Parties wanting cigars fer retail have no occasion for sending away to buy them while Bob has such stock right here under their noses.
 The carrying of the United States mail over the Great Consolidated Transcontinen- tai route from Fort Worth, Texas. to Yuma, Arizona, has been awarded by the Depart ment 10 John J. Chichester, of Arkansas, at Sl34. 900 per Annum. Other bids were as follows: D. T. Parker, Si73.420; John T. Gilmore. sl78,933; A. H. Brown, sl93,- 500: John k. casE, of California, $2l9,- OOO: George H. Giddings aad Joseph Me Kibbir. ss39. GOO; James C. Kinzie, Ss4s,- 500. k. (. Kern, President of the Texas and California Stage Company, $309, ,O00: There was also one other bid of s5f4 900 received after time, The present cost of the seFvlcs Ia Ssai 900 Dor annum. Each Of the bid- ,1.,rs f,,ra ;sl,sa a bo,,d for k3a0 O00 and dc-