The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-18
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The Governor Aiming for War.

Arkansas I'm the Wake OF Louisiana
The Governor Aiming for War.
! Arkansas like Louisiana and other carpet
bagged Southern States, has evidently been
badly reconstructed Arkansas, in the wake
of Louisiana, from the violent squabbles Of
the rapacious politicians appears to be drift
ing to the verge Of civil war. But, while the
trouble in Louisiana has been and is a bitter
| conflict between the republicans and the oppo-
sition elements for the State government and
the spoils, the new difficulty in Arkansas is a
hitch between two contending factions in the
republican camp, verging to an appeal to gun
powder. Our special correspondent at Little
Rock informs us substantially that the worst
elements of the radical party in the State,
headed apparently by Senator Clayton Chief
Justice Mcclure, Judge Bowen and others,
finding out that Governor Baxter (republican
too) is not the convenient tool they desire,
want to GUST him and put Smith, the Lieu
tenant Governor in his place; that to accom-
plish this end they have devised scheme for
testing the legality Of the Governors election
before the Supreme Court-a proceeding
which, if carried to the point of bringing the
Governor to trial, will at once suspend him
and put Smith in his Office.
But it next appears that Baxter is not only
fully aware Of his danger in the premises,
but that, taking time by the forelock, he is
fully prepared to fight the hostile combina-
ton on the threshold. He has reorganized
the State forces; he has established guards
over the State House, the Governors rooms
and the public grounds; he has secured the
stores of State arms in the city; he has
appointed new officers to the State militia, in
Guiding fighting man or two from the Ku
Klux Khan; he has the State Arsenal covered
by battery Of artillery he eats and sleeps
in the Governor Office, and when he takes an
airing it is under an armed escort of his
friends. Baxter, in word, means business,
and if, through writ of quo aoarrdnto, the
opposing clique attempt to reach him to-mor-
row, as they threaten, he may dispense the
whole party. He has, it is said, the demo-
crafts the conservative republicans and
majority Of the blacks on his side, and
so, if pushed to the wall, he is strong enough
to adopt the decisive tactics Of Oliver Crom-
we'll.
Over this condition of affairs much ex-
element exists in Little Rock and in the
State. We should think So Our readers
Of New York, city and State, have only
to imagine this violent factious feud at
Little Rock transferred to Albany to compre-
bend the matter for excitement that there is
in this Arkansas imbroglio. If Governor Dix
were in the position of Governor Baxter, in
trenched in the State House and with his
guards of horse, foot and artillery in the Capt.
toll grounds, there would be much excitement
not only at Albany, but in every city, village
and hamlet Of the State and of the whole coun-
try. And it is only by bringing such matters
home as these Louisiana and Arkansas politi-
cal squabbles that we can realize the very ex.
citing sort of law and order that exist in those
States.
1t is expected that this exceedingly interest
ing political snarl at Little Rock will be un-
ravelled tomorrow, with or without resort to
villanous saltpetre In any event let us hope
that Arkansas will be spared any compica-
tions or disturbances Of the public peace re-
curing the intervention Of the United States
troops or government of martial law.
THE WAR IN SPAIN.-Don Carlos cause has
been vastly freshened in Spain and the neigh
boring countries by the result Of the late VIC
tory of his troops under Dorregaray at Puente
de Eraul. The royal Bourbonist leader is.
it is said, in Navarro, at the head Of fifteen
thousand men, fully resolved to conquer for
his cause or die. His chances for either
result appear to have improved; he has more
men, has obtained, we are told, a very large
loan of money, and, being completely in the
field, he will have fine chance for the NOR
tuary qualification at the hands Of the Spanish
soldiery. His Highness appears to possess
at least one good quality, which has been
rare with the monarchs of his dynasty-grati-
tude for eminent services He has promised
to create General Dorregaray Lieutenant
General, and to make Ollo field marshal.
General Tristany has been earning gazette
fame and promotion also, by whipping the
| Spanish forces, signally, in Aragon.
| SIR SAMUEL BAKER SAFE-A HERALD
| special telegram from Khartoom, at the juno
ton of the Blue and White Niles, reports that
letter was received at that town on the 18th
of May from Sir Samuel Baker The explorer
dated his communication on the White Nile
and announced the joyful intelligence of oil
well. He had encountered great difficulty in