Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-04-24

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contending governors for Arkansas, Bax-
ter and Brooks have started fight. Both
are Radicals, and the negroes are enlisted
Oh both sides. Baxter called out several
regiments who were around the Mansion
House, where he has his headquarters, and
there were crowds of Brooks supporters
around the State House, which he seized
Colonel Rose was commanding the U. S.
troops to keep the peace, under orders Of
President Grant. and not to take sides
with either. A dispatch of Tuesday from
Little Rock says:
given for Colonel White, and he made
a short speech Addressing the Governor,
he stated that the colored men had come
here to see that Baxter was reinstated in
the State House, and let it take one day or
one year they would stand by him. All
they prayed for were orders to take the
State House.
At this time there was again the widest
cheering, and the band commenced play
ing. just then Colonel Rose rode up to
Colonel White, and said something to him
about making hostile demonstration,
when some one in one Of the upper WIN
doWs of a building fired shot into the
Baxter crowd, which was rapidly followed
by others from the direction OF the crowd
standing in the street near the Metropoli-
tan Hotel. This action caused the Baxter
men to return the fire. The cOlored troops
rapidly retreated from the streets.
Firing was very lively for a few minutes,
| the Baxter men running up the street.
Amidst this Colonel Rose rode rapidly up
to the city hall, called out his company
barricaded the street temporarily with u
| hook and ladder truck, and his men behind
had to form across the street in solid col
umn to prevent an advance by the Baxter
men.
About two hundred shots were fred
| The street was cleared of men in a short
| time. Several Baxter men were wounded.
| Major ID. F. Thrall, who was at the An
| thony House, received a wound i'll the
| head from which he is not expected to re-
| cover.
! Gen. W. A. Crawford received a painful
| wound in the head, though it is not fatal.
| One OF two others were slightly hurt. In
| the midst OF the excitement the United
| States troops at the federal courtroom
and two pieces of artillery were removed
| to the corner of Twenty-second and Lou
isiana streets, and prepared for action.
General Newton mounted his horse and
| got all his men out on various streets
ready to repel any attack. Since dark the
men have marched back to their quarters
and the excitement is about over. During
| the excitement cOlored woman jumped
out of a second story window of the Me-
tropolitan Hotel and broke her leg.
This ''bloodshed'' was enough and the
parties have agreed to submit the matter
to the Courts and President Grant has APP
proved the agreement.
| -a- Ep.<>-
EXTRAORDINARY RELIGIOUS RE L
vAL.-The Danville Va. Chimes" has an
account Of an extraordinary religious re-
vival which has been in progress there for
four weeks. 1t says:
The colored as we'll as the white people
are greatly concerned about their future
state. At all hours Of the day and night
they are heard shouting, either in their
private houses OF ON the streets. Every
good citizen reioices in these spiritual
manifestations. Many Of the colored peo-
( pie, who are excited on the subject of re-
ligion, are carrying ON in a very curious
STYLE A man named Kiah Price stripped
himself of all but one article Of clothing
and walked to the house top and sat upon
the chimney. One negro woman in giving
| Ill lloI 6AptIltuCt oUdUcI oHC iittC UCCII w
hell and saw Spy Ross there. Another
said she had seen the Lord Jesus and he
was smoking a golden pipe. Still another
| had seen the Lord and was commanded by
Him to reap where she had sowed Many
persons are disposed to laugh at these ig-
| norant creatures, but they ought to have
more charity for them. They are sincere,
no doubt, and are doing the best they can
with the imperfect lights before them.
The Petersburg "Index," speaking of a
similar revival there, says:
| At the present time what is termed re-
vival is going on among the colored people
in Petersburg. 1t originated, we believe,
| in one of the Baptist churches and mani
tests itself in variety Of remarkable
ways. We know nothing of the doings i'll
side the meeting houses; but outside, on
the streets, on the market square, all day,
and-worse still-all night, these people
huddle together and tell their experience
| always the same, curiously- and congrat-
ulate one another Oh having ''come
through Those who live in neighbor-
hoods where they congregate cannot sleep
at all on account Of the constant shouting
that is kept up. They say this kind of re-
.igion-a religion Of excitement and feel
iug-is the only religion worth anything
the only kind ''that will stand when the
world is burning;" that they don't wan
any religion that comes out of the Bible,
| and other things too ridiculous to repeat.