New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-16

The old Arkansas trouble has broken out
again in most unexpected form. MIR. Jos.
Brooks's case had been decided against him
by the Courts and the Legislature. The former
held that they had no right to intervene In
contest for the Governorship. The latter
gave the GOvernOrship to Baxter on
count of the votes. Yesterday Brooks's coun-
sci, by snap judgment in the
Courts secured q writ of "ouster," and, armed
Herewith, marched into the Governors office
and took instant and forcible possession. The
whole affair seems very like sharp political
trick. The ousted Governor appeals to Wash
ington for help, and we are likely to see long
and wasteful conflict in unhappy Arkansas.
AS placed before the Judiciary Committee
of the House of Representatives by
tho Taxpayers delegates the condition
of South Carolina Is just this: The
total value of property has steadily
and enormously decreased since the end OF
the Rebellion the expenses of the Govern
ment are excessive, the presumption being
that most of the revenue is stolen by men IN
power; these men are kept in office by the
votes of people who do not pay taxes; the
taxpayers have no representation In the
Government taxation amounts to coniiscatlon.
1t is asked of Congress that Committee OF
Investigation be sent to inquire into this state
of facts, which, if established, would prove
that there is no Republican Government in
South Carolina. The case is very strongly put.
The shuttlecock of Sanborn responsibility
ia Axin in fbn HraaS rV
Solicitor BaDfeld caught it from Assistant
Secretary Richardson. There is no knowing
who will have it next. The gist of Mr..
Sawyer's testimony is to contradict Mr.. Ban
field, who had said that he (Banfeld) prepared
papers, correspondence, and contracts under
instructions from Secretary Richardson or
Mr.. Sawyer, and that he had nothing
to do with the determination of tho in
terror management of the Sanborn bust
ness. To this Mr. Sawyer rejoins that he
(Sawyer) practically knew nothing about the
papers except that he signed them after Mr..
Banfield had written them. The Assistant
Secretary got in a neat hit on the Solicitor by
observing that that gentlemans hand was trace
able through some of the correspondence by
his defective grammar This is merely an
aside. The mysterious man who starts things
in the Treasury Department has not been
dragged out to the daylight
The demand for the first pamphlet edition of
a TRIBUNE extra having much exceeded our
anticipatOns, we have felt warranted in prepar-
ing similar edition of extra No. Is, just issued,
and greatly improving its appearance. This extra
contains the exceedingly interesting letter of
Bayard Taylor, in which the discoveries of Dr.
SchIemann made upon the site of the ancient
City of Troy are detailed with illustrations;
the course of six lectures by Dr. Brown
S6quard upon the Nerves, containing series
of curious experiments and observations on
men and the lower animals; the course of four
lectures on Astronomy by Mr.. Richard A.
Proctor, delivered by that distinguished in
vestigator just before his departure from this
country; and a lecture by Prof c. +. Chandler
of Columbia College on the Germ Theory of
Disease. 1t should be mentioned that the lee
lures of Messrs. Proctor and rOwn-Sequaid
were considerably abridged, for want of space,
in the daily edition of The TRIBUNE, and are
for the first time presented complete in the
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