Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-06
WAR In ARKANSAS.
An EX-COnfederate Commands Brooks
Forces.
Two supreme Judges Arrested by the
Military.
Troops Coming in and Going Home
First Blood Shed in jefferson County
War Throughout the State Predicted
IlrTLE RocIi. ARK.. Man l. 1s;

LITTLE Rock, ARK, May !, 1874.
To L. S. Grant, President!
II. King White, who fired on the COM
mander of the United States troops at Lit
tie Rock, has been ordered to Pine Bluff
by Baxter and is pillaging and murder
ing. The State is perfectly peaceable, eX-
cept in Jefferson county, the scene of
Whites robberies and murders. / have
refrained from sending out forces in order
to avoid conflict. JOSEPH BROOKS,
Governor of Arkansas.
LITTLE ROCK, May IA regular battle
is reported 10 have taken place in Jefferson
county. The Brookites had 8 killed and
20 wounded the remainder were disarmcd
and sent home. Seven Bakeries were
wounded, and six horses killed. Federal
action is hoped for by all.
[NoTE.-Jeferson county is immediate
ly south of Pulaski county, in which
Little Rock is situated. Pine Bluff is the
county seat of Jefferson.-EDs. CHRoNI-
Gle.
LITTLE Rock, May 2.-The Federal
troops are still between the contestants.
General Pagan, formerly a Confederate
Major General, has assumed command of
the Brookites throughout the State. He
calls his old comrades to rally. Both par
ties are waiting for something from Wash
ington. A cartel for the exchange of
prisoners is agreed upon. All prisoners
have been released.
NEW YORK, May "A special dispatch
from Little Rock says three of Baxter's
troops were killed in the battle New Gas
| cony. Capt. Vandesaude, one of the lead
ers on the side of Brooks, was dangerously
| wounded. He had been a Colonel in the
| Confederate army.
The Gazette remarks editorially,
that war is opened, and will ex-
| tend throughout the State, unless the
| President takes speedy action in the matter.
Sheriff Vaughan was arrested yester-
| day by King White and imprisoned The
! city IS getting rather unsafe, the people
| being shot at every knight with either
| shot guns or pistols. King Whites pro-
clamation Of martial law i'm Jefferson
county is published.
ST. LOUIS, May A special to the
Democrat from Little Rock says that
Judges Searles and Bennett, of the Supreme
Court, were arrested last night on their ar
rival by the Memphis train at Argenta,
opposite Little Rock, Ivy Capt. Williams,
| acting under orders from Gov. Baxter.
The Judges refused to be arrested without
the proper authority, whereupon Captain
Williams made a signal and band OF
armed men entered the car with cooked
revolvers, and Searles and Bennett were
forcibly taken from the train, and up to
the time the dispatch was written had not
been heard of in Little Rock.
The Supreme Court was to convene in
Little Rock to day.
Judge Rose to-day received telegram
from Little Rock stating that Baxter bad
nothing to do with the arrest of the TIVE
Judges in Argenta on this side of the river
opposite TO Little Rock, and disavows al
responsibility for it.
LITTLE Rock, May 3.-The situation il
unchanged Both parties received reinforce
ments and sent about an equal numbe
home. The Confederate soldiers hold gen
orally aloof