Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-05-14

country adjacent to the lower Mississippi Us
that at the present time nearly $50, 900 people
are without food and shelter.
The captured Judges of the Arkansas SUI
preme Court reached Little Rock on the 9th,
having been surrendered to the United States
forces by the officer having them in charge.
| The court Immediately assembled, and the
case of Brooks rs. Baxter was submitted and
taken under adyisement. One hundred and
sixty stand of arms loaned by Baxter to the
Industrial University at Fayetteville had been
seized by Brooks adherents
News from the South on the 18th was to the
effect that the floods were subsiding Mem
phis dispatch says planter just arrived from
Chicot County, Ark, brought distressing
accounts Of the suffering among the laborers
and their families in that vicinity. Many of
them, he says, had subsisted for several days
upon the carcasses of cattle that had died from
starvation or been drowned in the overflow.
From mass Of correspondence received by
the Governor of Louisiana and the Re-
lief Committee of that State the follow
ing is selected as showing substantially the
purport Of the whole: Mr.. Reddock, writing
from Cuba, Ouachita Parish, says: "All the
country for miles around is submerged.
| Twelve farms are almost entirely under water
within three miles of this place, witha popula-
| ton of 700 persons from the breaking of the
! Cuba levee. The levee broke April S, and the
| current of water was so strong that it washed
| away everything on my lot except my
! dwelling -house--a stone house. My corn,
horses and oxen are all gone The
water in my dwelling is four feet deep,
and rushes through in such current as to
make it tremble like leaf. But do not look
| to me alone. There are 600 or 700 others
similarly situated within three miles. ". j.
Ellis has lost everything. The water on the
floor of his dwelling is five feet deep, and he
has not one pound of provisions on hand for
himself and fifteen freedmen, and no chance
of getting any in the neghborhood."
Four of the five Judges of the Supreme
Court of Arkansas met inside the brooks
line on the evening Of the 18th and delivered
| an opinion on the application of Brooks for a
mandamus against Henry Page, State Treas
urer, who refused to pay Brooks warrant.
| The court decided that the Circuit Court of
Pulaski County had jurisdiction to render the
| Judgment in the case of Brooks as. Baxter,
and that its judgment appeared TO be regular
and valid. 1t therefore decided to award the
writ of mandamus as prayed for. On the 9TH
| of October last the same court decided that
the determination of the question whether the
person exercising the office of Governor had
been duly elected vested solely in the General
Assembly, ana that neither the Supreme Court
nor any other State Court had jurisdiction to
try suit in behalf of claimant. The
Bakeries claim that the decision rendered on
| the It'll amounts to nothing, first, because a
legal court is composed of the full bench;
second, that the question of Governor is one
for the Legislature alone to determine, As
the time for the Legislature to meet was
drawing near men were coming in from all
| sections of the State, mostly as reinforcements
for Baxter, though Brooks received few
men on the 9th.