The weekly Arizonian., 1859-09-29

Mesilla is the residence of the Probate or
 County Judge, and also of the Sheriff of Dgna
 Ana County-whch comprises the whole terri tory of Arizona-both sides of the Rio GraHdc to the Sonora line and Fort Yuma, distance of GOO mles-tolerably large county that. A
 Justice of the Peace, or Alcade, also resides l here and this year she sends Senator and
 member ofthe lower House. to the Legislature,
 which convenes the coming winter at Santa Fe. 1 The Sheriff, Mr. Bean and the Clerk of the
 Court, Mir Lucas, arc both Americans, who
 have been a long time in the country, and have
 Mexican families The other officers of the
 county are Mexicans, who do not speak or un-
 derstand one word of the English language. The iuries are also Mexican, and the proceed ing or the Contemplating and all, are l., the
 Spanish language Even the Poll Books for
 the Elections are made out in the Spanish All
 the other portions of the territory of Arizona
 are the reverse of this-the Americans have
 something to say, about who shall be their off
 cers Mcslla boasts of jail, built in the mid
 de of a street near, the plaza--of upright logs,
 fastened together with heavy iron chains but
 notwithstanding this apparent security, and f the prisoners arc always heavily ironed, they
 manage to have general jail delivery when ever they get tired of their quarters, and have , little outside aid. One of these deliveries 10 took place during my sojourn in the place it was not TERM day. neither were there any ? discharges issued by the Courts, and yet with
 one solitary cxception-a Mexican that would
 not " mizzle, daylight found the jail tenant r less. Every one appeared Co b. delighted witl - the escape, and that the city had gotrid of feed e ing lot of cut-throat scoundres. One meai i fellow left without paying his lawyer fee e Shabby fellow that-deseryes a haltcr mex s time instead of a horse. Speaking of lawyers MesilIa is blest or as some people might think l. curst with disciple of Blackstouei and e right good fellow he is too his name is SAM e CozzENs-good name that for a lawyer-wh l. has the entire run of the kitchen and is dc h ing as he deserves to do, we'll Sam is l. great stcker for that writ of right, the h0bea h, corpus-always has one on hnnd-carries re in his hat-and will bring out of limbo any poo a devil who may have the mistortue to get into tn
 hands of that bane of frontier society, thos Id hard hearted and uncompromising officers ( i- the law. Many despondng domJre has bee H. sent on his way rejoicing, by {" Sam, by th ," application of the habeas act to the case--Sar a is not q selfish man, by any manner of mean )d I had full evidence of that fact, during my $, H. iourn in his exclusive "diggings," brotht 10 "lmb sad Sam, placing his hand upon h ,n heart-it was his right hand-wado throug h. Coke and Littleton with me-my library is n, a extensive, but large enough for all legal pu lis poses-let us, said Sam, divide all the fees W " can cozEN out of all the clients, in our range IT, he said o,u--that may be unfortunate euoug n to fall into the meshes Of the law-which Il a. learned Dr. Ollipod, was made to say twill { ,r- for a man. l had to decline this generor ot offer of my friend Sam,-my destination lay he another quarter-and he is still the solus adv lt- cate of the Mesilla valley. Our parting W -- affectionate-ve could stammer or at was " God bless you, Sam, and crossed | Ter Rio Grande in dugout
 ley Politics ran high at Mesilla A portion as the people being determined to take part in t by election for Delegate to Congress from Nc CT Mexico Some advocating the claims of Otor he others for Gallegos; all however, Twas pleas he to find, were in favor of the election of LIEC he NowRY, and determind to give that gentlem
 their undivided support