The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-10-30
Letter From La Paz.


 At this afternoons session of the U $. Dis | trct Court of the Second Judicial District, now holding at La Paz Yuma County, the Hon. C. W. C. Rowell U <. District Attor- ney. announced to Court and Bar the demise of three distinguished citizens; Gen. Raw lings. late Secretary of War, the Hon. W. T. Fessenden. late L. s. Senator, and Jos. P. Allyn, formerly Associate Justice of the Su p-eme Court of Arizona, and Judge of this District, and made motion that resolutions expressing the sentiments of the Bar of this Court be received, and entered on the min utes of the Court.
 | The Hon. Isham Reayis, Presiding Judge, entertained the motion, and appointed Judge l Cartier, of Yuma, Capt. J. P. IIargravc, of l Yayapai, and Hon. F. X. Davis, of Mohave county, a Committee to draft such resou- tions
 The resolutions presented by the commit tee were unanimously adopted, and are as follows:
 WHEREAS, Death has recently caused a wide vacancy in the Council of our country,
 
 tary of War, and William Pitt Fessenden, of the L. :. Senate, both eminent members of the bar;
 Il AND WHEREAS, It has also claimed the Hon. Jos. P. Allyn, late Associate Justice of the U. <. Supreme Court of this Territory, and Judge of the Second Judicial District, as one of it's victims; therefore ResRred, That, in the first, we feel that the ] United States has lost two of its ables, coun- . sellors, and most useful citizens and their loss IS therefore a common cause of mourning to all their cOuntrymen.
 ResOirei, That, from their valuable and i'm portant services to their country, conspicuous , since the close of tho late civil war. no less than during that terrible struggle during which, for their unswerying and devoted loyalty, the one in the field, the other in council, they were conspicuous among the 0 first men of our country, they are entitled Co \ the grateful remembrance of their country
 men.
 R1slred, That in the death of the Hon Jos. F. Allyn, we mourn the loss of a broth ( CT. whose upright, impartial, courteous and n digniied bearing on the bench, challenged , the respect and won the esteem of this bar It is, therefore, further
 Rssolred, That out Of respect for the hon !. ored and lamented dead, this Court do now , adjourn, and that the members of this bar dc wear the usual badge of mourning for th,
 space of thirty days, and that these rcsolu
 tions be spread upon the minutes of thi, - Court.
 The gentlemen of the Bar then made ap proprate remarks. Capt. Hargrave, aftei 's alluding to the many public virtues of tn, u deceased General and Statesman, as publi, men, regretted his inability to speak nor, l. thoroughly about their private character, or '' account of his not being personally acquain
 ted with them; dwelt more particularly or a the public and private character of the lat, n Judge Allyn In feeling terms he relate, his personal relations with the lamented de d ceased, paying high tribute to both his pri le yate and public character.
 k, Judge Cartier followed Capt Hargrave. H. le eulogized the distinguished Statesman, tn It Hon. Vim. F. Fessenden, with whom he ha, V been personally acquainted for twenty year le or more. Although opposed to the polite s of the deceased Statesman, the Judge testife, ie to tine honesty, integrity, and prominence O it the deceased in glowing words, expressing hi 'e doubt that in his native State, nay, in tn d. United States, man could be fotna to fl le the place left vacant, with as much glory an. r. efficiency as the late Senator. "a The Hon. c. W. C. Rowell, [. S. District A, s. torney, made some very appropriate remarks iy He was followed by the Hon. E. A. Dayi. to who eulogized the departed patriots in glow IS, ing and eloquent terms.
 " The Court ordered the resolutions to b
 spread on the minutes of the Court 's Judge Reavis, in an impressive manner or reviewed the resolutions and remarks of tn ld gentlemen of the Bar. He dwelt upon th
 propriety of letting the past be the past. an CT look towards the future;-to live and ac, i s' such way that when the time comes whe O. those who now are living will be joined { CT the illustrious dead, tear, not only of sol 'n row but of gratitude, for honest deeds De,
 formed in lifetime, may fall upon their grave Ii REPORTER.