Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-05-07

disputed title to the Governorship, and con-
tends that it is the only tribunal OF competent
Jurisdiction. Brooks, on the contrary, says
the legislature has no jurisdiction over the
present case, and, with 4 view to dispose OF
the dispute as quickly as possible, he entered
an appeal in order to bring the matter before
the courts in June, the earliest practicable
time.
The supreme court of Arkansas, in an opln'
I ion pronounced on this same case, year ago.
decided that under the constitution the deter
mination of the question as to whether per-
son exercising the office of Gov rnor has been
duly elected or not is vested exclusively i'll the
General Assembly Of the State, and neither
that or any other State court has Jurisdiction
to try suit in relation to such contest, be the
mode or form what it may be; whether at the
suit of the Attorney General or on the rela'
ton of claimant through him, or by an IN
dividual alone, claiming right to the office.
Such issue should be made before the General
Assembly. 1t is their duty to decide, and no
other tribunal can determine that question.
This opinion is clearly in favor of Baxter's
pretensions, and in direct contravention with
the ruling of the circuit judge, granting
Judgment of custer in favor of Brooks. Should
quorum of the legislature assemble in &C.
cordance to the call of Baxter, it is probable
solution of the vexed question will be arrived
| at.
Of the operations of the different forces,
telegraphic dispatches from Little Rock, dated
April 3Otb, report the following engagement
as having taken place on that day..
General King White, who has charge Of,
the Baxter forces at Pine Bluff, hearing that
a party of Brooks men were assembled at
New Gascony, in Jefferson county, committing
depredations, moved column of two hundred
men down to that point to-day for the pur.
pose of dispensing them A dispatch tonight
to General Newton from Pine Bluff says Gen.
White sent forward flag of truce to order
the men to disperse, but they fired upon the
party, and a regular battle ensued, in which
nine of the Brooks party were killed and
twenty wounded. The remainder were taken
prisoners, disarmed, and sent home. General
| w 0lLe reports SeVeu VI ITO OWu Soihu@
wounded, and three horses killed.
A second dispatch of the same date conveys
the following information:
Baxter was reinforced by one company from
Hampstead county this morning. Brooks
sent out squad last evening, and cut the tel
egraph wire between this city and Pine Bluff.
This squad was captured last night by the
Baxterites, and is now under guard. Major
General Churchill, of the Baxter side, with
ten men, was surrounded last night while
coming from the depot of the Cairo and Full
ton railroad by a party of fifty Brooksites,
who were lying in wait for him, and he was
captured. He was released short time at
terward, and is to-day in command of his for
ces. Beyond arrests on both sides there are
no active operations The United States
troops got out in line last night, prepared to
prevent trouble, but the alarm which caused
this proved to be unfounded.
A Little Rock dispatch, Of the 3rd instant,
says: "Three of Baxters troops we're killed
in the fight with Brooks men at New Gascony.
Captain Van Desande, one of the leaders on
the side of Brooks, was dangerously wounded.
He had been colonel in the Federal army"
The Little Rock Gazette remarks editorially
that the war is opened, and will extend
throughout the State unless the President
takes speedy action in the matter. Sheriff
Vaughn was arrested Thursday by King
White, one of Baxter's leaders, and impris-
oned. The city is getting to be rather unsafe,
people being shot at every night with either
shot guns or pistols. King Whites procla-
nation of martial law in Jefferson county is
published
The Democratic Conservative State COM
mttee publish an address calling upon the
people to stand by Baxter, while the three
Democratic contestants for seats in Congress
have united in an address to the people of
Arkansas, taking strong grounds in favor of
Brooks. The attorneys of the respective con-
testants having filed their arguments with
Attorney General Williams, the Attorney
General will report the case to the President
for his action as soon as practicable after all
the arguments and evidence are put into his
hands. The report will be in the nature Of a
brief, stating the pertinent facts, and citing
the law bearing on the case, in systematic
order, and in as succinct a form as practica-
Bile, for the Presidents consideration, as, under
the provisions of the Constitution, it must be
decided by the President, and not by the At
torney-G General.
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