The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-05
Anarchy in Arkansas.
A Band of Baxter's Out
laws Capture the State
Supreme Court Judges.
and Break Up the Ap-
pointed Session of
the Court.
Overflow of Southern
Rivers.
More Crevasses---ValuabIe
Plantations Inundated
in Arkansas-Cries
for Aid.
Prof. Swing and the Pres
byterians.
A. 500 Judgment against
a Clinton Saloon Keeper.
Glass Works to be built in
Peoria.
Suicide, Murders, Fire, Etc
Prof. Swing and the Pres
byterians.
A$1, 500 Judgment against
a Clinton Saloon Keeper.
Glass Works to be built in
Peoria.
Suicide, Murders, Fire, Etc.

ST. LOUIS, May 4.-The Democrats
special from Little Rock says Judges
Searle and Bennett, on the State Supreme
Court. were arrested last night, on their
arrival by the Memphis train at Argenta,
opposite Little Rock, by Captain Williams
acting under the orders of Governor Bax-
ter The Judges refused to be arrested
without proper authority, whereupon Gap
tain Williams made signal and band OF
armed men entered the cars with cooked
revolyers, and Searle 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 Su-
preme Court was to convene at Little Rock
| TODAY. Judge Stephenson, also OF the
Supreme Court, was on the train. but II
seems his presence was not known, else he
too would have been arrested. The affair
created great excitement in Brooks camp
and serious trouble is apprehended, unless
lCclonel Rose, of the United States arsena
linterferes for the release of the Judges
LITTLE Rock, May 4.-The arrest o
, Supreme Court Judges Searle and Ben
nett is charged by the Baxter men o.
Brooks, and by the Brooks party on tn
Baxter men. The Whereabouts OF tn
Judges is still unknown. There are un
confirmed reports of another battle be
, tween Whites force and the Brooksltes
The city is full of warhke rumors tina
Brooks is about to attack Baxter and rat
UerSd.
II WASHINGTON, May 4-The Presider
7 received a telegram from Brooks reques
ling him to ask the commanding officer {
:. Little Rock to demand the surrender
the Judges of the Supreme Court, ,arreste
- at Argenta- The Sheriff Of Little Hoe
Itelegraphs the Secretary of War asklr
that the United States commander the
aid him in serving a writ OF habeas corp1
for the arrested Judges.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, May .-Adyices fro
Prentiss. Miss, state that the levee brol
ON Saturday night one and half mil
below there also at Glencoe, sixty mil
below, while another crevasse is hourly e
nected at Prides. The water is pourl
through a crevasse at Catfish Point, whl
is now $50 yards wide. A private levee
| Walnut Bend, Ark has also broken, lnu
dating Fallss, Furguson and other II
plantations, the two named having over
| 100 acres of cotton planted.
| Appeals are made from below Napole
] for more supplies for the sufferers. /
Relief Committee is busily engaged in
ing orders.
Cant. Cheek, of the steamer g.
Cheek, confirms the reports that negr
above Napoleon, driven from their hoI
bv the overflow, refuse offers of VIZ
saying the government will provide tt
supplies.
New ORLEANS, May 4.-The relief G.
mittee report 10000 rations dlstrlbr
mn daily. They Judge that $4,000 rat
daily for sixty days are requisite to rel
.rc the pressing wants. Government cloti
arrived to-day.
. Letters to the Governor from the o
flowed districts speak of utter distltu
of the population. In Assumption ia
about loo people are without the nee
. ties of life, and are living on the b
tons and RATS. Their stock is droV
and the water still rising.
A writer from Mattison Parish says
its people there are submerged, without II
and the merchants refuse credit.
acres of cane and corn are under "
% On the Bayon Teche $4,000 acres are
merged with the planted crop destr
AGO. Below the Teche $4,000 planted acres
under water.
CHICAGO, May 4.-The trial of
David Swing, for heresy. on charges
Its. ferred by Prof, Francis L. Patton, wa
gun to-day before the Chicago PresbA
, MO. Prof. Swing entered plea OF not G
pts and read long and elaborate ansW
ssocia- the charges. He admitted the ex
Louis; from his sermons, but asked the who
hen,er, seIxsn mons to be considered. de denied q
was at variance with any OF the Eva
cal doctrines of the church. He adj
:, friendship and brotherly love for
Christians and utterly repudlated tn
that the Unitarial as were doomed X
nfc because of an error OF creed. He
A'Ss any harmony with the doctrinal bel
IJmtarians, but admitted harmo
MO. love with them. He did not belle
nreaeh the doctrine of infant daml
ittsiy nor the fatalism which characterlz
- earlier Presbyterian belief, and dt
his belief that none of his judges ha
preached Jonathan Edwards's doct
5esnair. notwithstanding it was dC
the creed. He believed in til,
lnCS school Presbyterian church, ano
haI;et in the inspiration Of the Scrl
the Old and New Testaments. tn
Oats. ;tv ine the the divinity of Christ, the Of
Christ in conversion by Gods 81
the separation of the righteous ir
wicked. de concluded with the
MO. ment that if the Presbytery
exclude him, he should still go on
- ing the evangelical doctrines he ha
W tofore held to. Prof, Patton then ami
a. a personal desire to withdraw the
but said a sense of duty prevents
!: :: !: ! i; :: : e: g:
to the former aud Patton refused
AIcAGo NC ter. Patton then asked for cont