New-York tribune., 1871-12-26
TIE ARKANSAS TROUBLES.

LAKE VILLAGE STILL HELD By THE NEGROES
ST.. LOUIS, Dec. 2J-A dispatch from Mem.
phis says reports from ChcOt County. Arkansas state
that the negroes still hold the town Of Lake Village, and
pressing horses and supplies and had made prison
Of many white men. fearing the whites will arm and
drive them the county. They being reinforced
almost daily.
REBEL VIEW OF TIE RECENT OUTBREAKS.
The Memphis papers contain accounts OF
great depredaons committed by negroes in Arkansas
What they say must be taken with many grains OF al
owance they persisently misrcprcscnt the coored
people throughout the South:
The negro James Mason. who II is charged, has IN;
bloodshed. individual who last year had 9
controversy with W. p RaSand ID for I'll the position o.,
posse cOmatus composed Of several hundred blacks to
prevent Ragand FROM opening court and through tlc
kasland' Who resigned Mason n1,o, is the ,s9 sGn
and reared o il ,o that and sH ia @
cause Of the present trouble arises from the fact that
Mason has been County Judge certain railroad men
bavc sought cause the County Court to order an election
for the purpose Of voting county bonds In the sum OF
s4OnOo couple Of projected ra'lways-<Eoooo each
tha these parties propose to build across the northern
iionabc imp II nce to the majority of the people and
Will never bcuct hut few Of them at best, while even
their completion is donhifuI, the voters, mainly composed
of blacks aud n!na1pdyeI- have already once uea,en
to- TO ret up another election. and Wynn. the muir
dorrd negro adv ocatcd the rrOat project. while shni
dcrs and others opposed. All alteration on the SUBJECT
nj saloon III Lake Village led to the tragic dtptl OF
WYNN hv the hand Of saunders TO the raising or Dack
mob q few days later who murdered saunders thfri,
aud Ducgan and driving of numerous other PROM
ineut Citizens Several other persons have arrived mere
from Cncot during the past two days. and each brings
news that the rioters stu III possession ~ LAKE VII.
npe and vicinity with prospect Of III carry sritcirnt
Of tho troubles. Mason raised pear nndysde Land
,nc below (;rccnyiic, Mis- ChicOt County and II -
nom the plantations In this nciRhhprh"od that MS
forces To lc niinrr of 800 or 49, were raised An
| additional gang of lUD more have Johcd
them from back BHynu Bartholomew,
and II s this force that now nv possess!on OF
Lake Village They ~ hc Organized uutr leaders
of their own soOr and the organic ti" rztcnds through
out the greater portion Of The hic0t country III" ur-
| mleut pOssec new under MasOns lcaCcrrlip are the
sam. who undcr prctelsc OF attending haIbn uc as
SuIiug collected the vacc and prevented Raglahu
from acting County Judge. lp the meantime reign
of terror prevails. fields whits with tho
ncecy staple ready gather, and few or 10 hauds ~
work. and, willie anarchy exists, nothing can ne qnnr
but Ark that something nc dorc to mold the turbulent
blacks In suhectiOn Chco County Ia leG0 coBtanrd
p,iu,Ion Of nearly 1900 blacks and coo Whcs The
value real aud pcronal pr"pcrt chiefly owner ny
voting strength les than i've hundred No census
mas been taken ucc then. but the population Is rc
lively as was ten large majority ~ the
legal voters are black who are easily man pulatd
and controlled hy few bad designing men, and the
political condition OF things III the vicinity = anything
but cheerful contemplate. The county has negro
representative in the L. glsutnrt. nrrr" County rt
Judu Other Official, Of different colo Dul ak Oi tHe
political complexion.