Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-19
"NObOdy Hurt"
Grant Favorable to Baxter.
A Statement from Brooks Side, by
Way OF DuyaIl's Bluff

a Ordut EdtOTdDlc 10 DstAtCAs
= A Statements from Brooks Side, by
Way OF DuvaIrs Bluff
: ST. LOUIS, April 1S.-The Democrat
e has a special from Little Rock via Duvalls s
: Bluff, their transmission having been re-
r fused at the Little Rock telegraph Office.
5 They give the following information re-
: garding affairs between the contesting par
| ties. The embargo on the telegraph was
removed this morning and the accumulated
) dispatches were delivered. Congratulating
J dispatches have been pouring in during the
day from all parts of the State offering aid,
in. men and material, to Gov. Brooks, cOun-
selling firmness in maintaining his position
at any cost. All parties and classes write
in commendation of his course of usurpa-
, ton. Ii is universally admitted by all par
ties that Gov. Brooks was electe: by ma
jOrity at the GubernatOrial election, a fact
which Baxter himself has repeatedly ad-
mitted but claiming the Office by virtue of
nOn-action of the last General Assembly.
Baxter seized the telegraph Office tonight
and will allow no dispatches To be sent or
delivered, excepting those of the Associa-
ted Press and his own. He is surrounded
and advised by ex-COnfederate generals
and pseudo chivalry; has proclaimed
martial law through his so-called
Brigadier-General, Tom p. Dockery,
Military Governor Of the city, and issues
general order No. |. The call falls still
born, is ridiculed, and treated as a stupen-
dous farce, somewhat augmented by the
war record of the doughty Brigadier Gener-
| al and Military Governor. MIR. Baxter has |
appointed his State officers and military |
organization from the Bourbon Democracy !
| and chivalry of Arkansas, and his paTtiZan |
appeals to the conntry for men and aid fail |
in the expected enthusiastic response he |
hoped. JaeksOnport, upon which he conf |
| IDENTIFY relied for 4 reinforcement of 200 |
men, responded AZ the public meeting |
| called, by two volunteers. Gov. Brooks |
holds the State House with a force of sew
| eral hundred men, which will be reinforced |
by 800 more tonight. Arms, ammunition |
] and supplies are plentiful, and barricades
| have to-day been thrown up in the State
| House, and every means to prevent surprise
| by the opposing forces. Two field pieces
command the approaches from the
street and river, and the windows
are bristling with bayOnets. The aspect is
| any thing but promising for successful
/ assault, since an enflading fire upon the at
| tacling force must result most disastrously.
| Gov Brooks has possession of the Executive
| Office, the Records, the Great Seal of State,
and has the countenance and support of
| Chief-justice Mcclure, the Secretary of
| State, Auditor, Treasurer, and al the State
| officers, besides the leading men of the con-
| sevative Democracy, and the Republican
party as a unit, among whom may be
named the State Judiciary, Gems. Upham,
CattersOn, and Fasan, well known COnfed-
crates of influence and position; Col. Lee
Thompson, of like record and repute; ex-
Senator b. F. Rice, c. W. TankeIsly, 5. X.
Harrington, NJ. l.. Rice, J. l.. Hodges, NJ.
II. Benjamin, and many others. The as
pect is threatening, with no collision as
yet, though deep mutterings are heard of
the pOrtentious storm.
Direct from Little ROck-As Vised by
Baxter's Telegraph CensOrs.
LITTLE Rock, ARK, April 1S.-Three
hundred men from Pine Bluff, one hundred
and fifty from Washington, one hundred
from Batesville and fifty from Saline
county reinforced the Governors troops
this morning. The three hundred from
Pine Bluff are nearly all colored men.
They came in with colors flying and band
playing. The Governor is now holding a
consultation with his Generals. His inten-
tions are to surround the StatehOuse and
cut off its supplies. The StatehOuse party
have been pressing the cOlOred people into |
service. The Governor says he will pre-
vent bloodshed if possible, but by the Eter-
nal the insurgents must and will be put |
down. One thousand more men are ex-
peeted on the trains this evening.
Brooks Men Bagsed-
Brooks has sent out numerous recruiting
officers but they are not TO be permitted 60
return. Brooks has now possession of the !
street in front of the State House, and his
sentinels can be seen pacing their posts from
a point standing near the City Hall. Gen.
Ira Mel. Barton, an old West Pointer and ;
a Federal officer during the late war, has
command of the colored troops from Pine /,
Bluff.
Caught n Tartar.
The State House party captured Can't.
Sam Houston this morning rs he was pass
inc near their lines. He knocked down
the lieutenant of the guard but they drag
ged him in by force. He was afterwards
released.
Nobody Governor of Arkansas
The Postmaster has received a telegram
from Washington that all mail matter adj :
dressed to Gov. Z. Baxter, or Elisha Bax- 7
ter, Governor, should be delivered to Bax- J
ter. Letters addressed to Gov. Brooks. or I
Brooks, Governor, should be delivered to I
said Brooks. All letters addressed to the !
Governor of Arkansas will be withheld till
further orders. |
A Mayor ON the Anxious Seat.
WASHINGTON, April 1S.-Mayor Kramor :
of Little Rock, has telegraphed to Attorney
General Williams for aid in preserving the
peace of that city in view of the present ex- F
traOrdinary condition of affairs and has {;
been answered that the officer commanding a
tha Initial Stafac OF I D. a. Aoc 1 n
been instructed to prevent blOOdShed. The "
Attorney General in his reply asks if the d
people of Arkansas have not patriotism
enough to allow the question as to who
shall hold the State offices to be settled
peaeeably and lawfully, and not bring upon Fl
their State the disgrace and ruin of civil ! \
war. NJ
How brooks Captured the Supreme
Court.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, April 1S.-Goy.
Baxter this morning applied in writing to -,
n. w. Cox, Clerk of the Supreme Court, =
whose office is in the State house TO supply ~
him with with transcript of the records of -
court in the case of Brooks vs. Mcclure, ~
wherein the court decides in favor of Bax- I.
ter. The clerk replied by stating that "a "a
Chief Justice Mcclure, the only dissenting n
Judge on that occasion, who had sworn W
brOokS IN, had the originals, and a trans \
cript could not be furnished the Governor. ~ ~
Federal Commandant Declines 10 l..
Cleer the Streets. a.
Last night Mayor Kramer telegraphed sa
the President 10 direct the United States of
troops al this point to assist him in preserv- be
ing the peace and clearing the streets of fol
armed men. This dispatch was answered IN
by Attorney General Williams to-day, sta HI
Ting that the general government would not i'm
interfere. The United States flag floats 10,
from the balcony of the Anthony House,
and a brass band enlivened matters this CT
evening by discOuTSing music at this point. DO
Several companies have arrived from the acI
country this evening to reinforce Gov. NJ,
Baxter. Mr.. Brooks has laid formal COM ler
plants before sic
Baxter Can Hold His Own. an
Col. Rose, the post commandant, states sit
hat parties have been deprived oftheir lib-
,rty by Gov. Baxter.s forces and have asked INT
hat United States troops interfere 10 pro- asl
ect them. Col. Rose declined 10 Interfere sal
IS he has in cases where Mr.. Brooks troops ! {