The weekly Arizona miner., 1870-05-21
A Talk about Various Matters Con-
 cerning The Territory.

Although the present Congress is regarded as a do.nothing concern, it has passed one Act for which the people of Arizona should feel grateful We mean the Act legoIizlng the laws passed by the Legislatures of 1866, 1867 and 1868.
 These laws, it will be remembered, were, about the close of 1868, in District Court at Tucson, pronounced illegal, void and Of no effect by Hen " T. Backus who was at that time, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory, in decision rendered by him, which decision was published in'full in the MINER. As the reading portion of our people are already sufficiently ac- quanted with the case, as presented to Judge Backus; also, with the general tenor of his de- cision, we will not now reiterate the facts, but merely state that those who brought the matter before His Honor, as well as many others, believed that the laws passed by the Legislatures above named were illegal and void And we will here state that Congress, too, must have been of the same opinion, else it would not have taken action in the matter, confrmed the apportlonments made by the Governor. and, as it were, given the Terri tory ne,c start This, however, is of but little consequence, except to show to our people that Governor Mccormick, in making said apportionmeuts, overstepped his duties and performed acts which, according to the Organic Act, devolvcd upon the representa- tves of the people Judge Baekus' decision sneered at by MT. Mccormick and his friends, who waited with reluctance until the expiration of that officers term of service, and until new man was appointed and settled in his place, before whom the case was speedily brought. His opin- ion 1t appears was the reverse of that entertained by Judge Backus, and he was not slow to attis his signature to lengthy document reversing the first decision. This gave comfort 10 the McCor- mick clan, but failed to satisfy them or the remain der of our people and Mir. Mccormick, very re- luctantly, we imagine, had the matter placed be- fore Congress, which body after brief discus sion of the points in the case, passed the Act heretofore alluded to.
 Now, we suspicion that Mir Mccormick will soon be back here to offer himself to the people as victim willing to go to Congress second time for them, and draw the pay with his usual "tact, energy and ability" Indeed, we do not for a moment doubt it. Nor do we doubt that he will play tune on his harp of athousand strings, the burthen of which will be the desperate efforts | he has made to serve the people, especially those of the Northern part of the Territory, and how he has served them, by getting a |. s. Depository established at Tucson, in Southern Arizona; by ! his endeavors to have the U S. Land Office, now at Prescott, located at Florence, in Southern Ar
 zona; by his having succeeded in having few new post routes established in Southern Arizona, and his success in having postal service curtalled in Northern Arizona. He will also harp upon his puny effort to get the Nation to construct for us q wagon-road to New Mexico, ria the 35th paral- | Tel route, when, if the truth were known, he was and is secretly opposed to the measure.
 We have said that our people should feel grate- ful 10 Congress for having set the Territorial Gov. ernment all right, after it had became serious question with many whether or not we had Ter ritoria Government at all, and whether tho acts of our courts and county officials were legal, and we now, on behalf of our people, thank that body 1 for having done its duty by us. The Act alluded to provides that "an election for members of the next Legislative Assembly, and for all township county and district officers and for Delegate To the 42d Congress of the United States, shall be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday of | Novcn ber in the year lsi0,I so that il is now in order for us to indulge in speculations regarding the coming election Heretofore, our elections | have, to a great extent, been conducted upon the principle of "you tickle me, and I'll tickle you" This mode has not given very good satisfaction, and 1t is well known that many citizens are In favor of drawing party lines, the holding of con yentions, and the nomination of candidates by each party, but we doubt whether parties can be l thoroughly organized for the coming political contest, and whether party organization is really desired, at present, by majority of our citizens. It Is iminaterlal to us as we do not to engage in political warfare until such time as the Terri tory shall be at peace with the Indians, and in a more prosperous condition. All know, however, that when political leaders put their heads to- gether to accomplish certain purpose, they very often succeed in dragging the people with them, and We know that il is now the desire of several leading politicians of both parties to have the people choose sides and rally around the stand ards of their respective parties.
 By doing so, 1t is argued, the Territory will be enabled to rid herself Of the parasite Mccormick, and send some one less sectional and objection. able, to represent our whole people in Congress
 Were we thoroughly satisfied upon this one point the MINERS voice would be raised for party or. ganlzatlon, but, until the necessity and utility of that course is made palmer, we shall not recon mend such proceeding We do however, rec ommend the honest people of the Territory to unite on some man, and run him against Little Mac. Some man who will work for the interests of the people of the whole Territory and not for the interests of the people of section of it. Mccormick has been tried and found wanting. Previous to his election, 1t was his wont to regale the people with accounts of his great popularity at Washington, and to explain to them the i'm mense amount of good he could accomplish for tpe Territory, were he the Delegate. We'll he WAS elected, went to Washington, and, for aught We know, is there yet but what we ask, has he