Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-12

| Ark: / recommend that the members o.
the General Assembly now at Little Rock
| adjourn for a reasonable time, say for ten
days, to enable Brooks to call to the body
Of bis supposed adherents, so that there
may be a full Legislature. ANY hasty
action by the part of the Assembly will
not be satisfactory to the people. Brooks
friends here agree that if this course is pur-
sued no opposition will be made to
the meeting of the Assembly in the State
house as usual, and that he will at once
dismiss his forces If you will do the same.
| urgently request that all armed forces on
both sides be disbaDded, so that the Gene
raj Assembly may act free from any mill
tary pressure or influence. The United
States forces will give all necessary protec-
ton to the Legislature, and prevent, as far
practicable, all violence and disturbance Of
the public peace. Answer.
U. S. GRANT.
Bakers Response.
LITTLE Rock, May 11--To the above
dispatch Gov. Baxter promptly responded
as follows:
u. S. Grant, President-There is almost
a quorum Of both Houses of the Legisla-
ture present, and have power under the
Constitution to adjourn from day to day
until they have q quorum, and they can ad-
journ DO longer until they have quorum.
When they get quorum | am in favor of
their adjourning as long as they please, un-
til every supposed Brooks adherent is pre-
sent. With this understanding / will dis
band my troops in proportion as Brooks
,disbands his. But for the meeting Of the
Legislature at the usaBl place, Mr.. Brooks
must quit the Stale-hOuse, and get as far
from it west as | am east, and deposit the
State arms in the State 4 nOTy, and let the
State-hOuse and public buildings be made
over at once to Mr.. Johnson, Secretary of
State, to whom, under the law they be-
long. ELISHA BAXTER's
+ Governor OF Arkanas.
The above dispatch vas endorsed by SIS
or 10 members Cf the Legislature.
Military HancuVers-A LIVELY Skin
mIsh Across the River.
ST. LOUIS, MAY l1.-DispascheS from
Little Rock to the officers of the St. Louis
Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad say
Gen. Churchill ami Col. King White cross
ed the river this morning with i cDnsidera-
bic force Of the Baxter troops and started
for Barring Cross. Immediately afterwarl
Col. John II. Clayton, Of Brooks ARM
crossed the raiiroai bridge with so
men. At latest accounts, IL
O'Clock, diminishing began along Tia
lines, and a lively ne was kept up, but
with what result is not stated. Barring
Cross seemed to be the objective point, and
the possession of that station, one mile
from town, was evidently the purpose of
each party. Brooks forces hold the railroad
bridge and will not allow Baxter troops 10
cross il, but trains are net mClested.
Later.
The latest from Little Rock saws small
detachment OF Federal troops crossed the
river with flag Of truce, and the firing ON
the part Of the Baxter a1d Brooks forces
has now ceased. No casualties are re-
ported.
News Direct.
LITTLE ROCK, May lin the skirmish
across the river this morning quite a num-
Der are reported killed and wounded on the
Brooks side. Gen. White had one man
wounded. At the time Of the interference
of the Federal forces Gen. White bad the
Brooks party surrounded and would have