The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-02

TELEGRAPH1C.
The Civil War in Arkansas.
Several Men Killed on Both
Sides.
The Southern Flood Subsi-
ding.
Railroad Magnates Contri-
wing how to Avoid Com
petition with each
other.
How Schurz Wrote his Ora
tion--Honors Paid the
Orator.
Encomiums from the Press
A Dentist Causes the Deatl
of a Woman.
A Dentist Causes the Death
of a Woman.
Murderers Hung.

LITTLE Rock, May 1.-The situation is
practically unchanged. Baxter's head
quarters are still at the Anthony House,
with about 3Uo men, Brooks occupies the
State House with about 500 men, and the
United States troops occupy position
between the two. j. +. Fayn, Major |
| General in the Confederate army, assumes
command of Brooks forces in the state |
and calls on his old comrades to support |
him. Gen. White sends the following &C
count of the fight of New Gascony yester
day Some two hundred men gathered for
Brooks near New Gascony. being unable to
secure transportation to Little Rock, be-
gan plundering the citizens. White asked
and obtained leave to disperse them. Tie
sent three officers to order them to dis
perse. They were fir, d on without being
heard A fight ensued III which nine OF
Brooks men were killed, twenty wounded
and the rest captured. His loss was seven
wounded. He disarmed and discharged
the men. Another similar organization
being reported in Lincoln, White has been
: directed to disperse them. An exchange
- of prisoners between the two parties took
place to-day. Both expect re-lntorcements
tonight.
A Gazette special from Pine Bluff to-
night is essentially the same asCol. W hite
except that it gives the casualties as SIX
of Whites force wounded and killed and
twelve of Baxter's wounded.
S. MEMPHIS, Tenn, May l.-Some reports
sent from here concerning the overflow
nave been exaggerated. Steamers iron
Cairo can make landings on the west banE
O ,niy at the wharf boats, yet. Except at Us
ceola no serious damage to the planting IN
- terests has resulted from the overflow
Much of the overhowed country FROM tn
Louisiana line up is unsettled and wlthou
- Levees. St. Francis alley is foot abov
water and the planters are only waiting 10
dry weather. The Arkansas valley Is dan
aged probably 100000 and White hive
,er SiO. 600 Destitution undoubtedly exist
among the inundated at the mouth
the Arkansas on Tallahatchie an
Tallahoosha bottoms, and in the vfciI
itv of Vicksburg, but the water is subsi'
ing and large amounts of provisions hay
peen forwarded for the relief OF the su
Ierers.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-The public de
statement shows decrease. during Apr
Of $2,900,OO0.
New YORK, May Colonel Thorn
l1 I'M 4. Scott, of the Pennsylvania Central Ra
road; Vanderbilt, OF the New York Ce
tral: Mccullough, of the Baltimore
Ohio Railroad. and President Watson,
ner the Erie Road, have had conference he
ion; on the subject of passenger and treig
Ilita rates between the West and the East, a
e OF now to do away with the present coupe
lnlf ton for business. -,
HUM John Roach, who is conspicuousiy i'd
0hes ufed with American shipbuilding, a
men, with the efforts making for revival OF Il
e Ell industry, was given u banquet last even
WY py merchants Of New York and presen
;. 90" - with costly service of silver. There W
a a =, present representatives OF the shlpbu
o.ioo ing interest from nearly every promln
ZINE pINE point, and nearly every department OF
Government was represented, lncluo
enser the army and navy. :,
sland james Mchenry' Tue Ensnoh laIl
WHY man. remained very secluded yestero
and was only visible to those who had
portant business relations with hinl.
KY. the evening he received the principal
GERS of the Erie Railway Company, at
Fits residence of S. l.. NJ. Barlow.
BosroN. Mass, April 3O.-The un
o,,, nous expression of the Boston press
rm" day is hattering to Senator SchurZs
tormance Yesterday. The more the
II mi SKI tors work is contemplated, the more
a, excellence appears.
The wonder increases as 1t becc
Head known that the work of writing was /
= hahn AIM tour de force. When the Senator a
narm." ed In Boston, Monday night, not more
one-third of the Grafton had been com
rprise ed to manuscript, and from the hour
arm aLo1 h;s rooms at the Revere ii
harm ne IedchSu nio i''tS " - Lu he
90 until he left them to go to the nan ne
w. almost continually at work. taking b
I'm, few hours sleep.
marin The manuscript was sent to the pr
ttsfeld, -. - ..,.:t,an .rd tho only oppor
Sold in ty he had to consult what had been vi
mart while composing the remainder was
- the proofs were brought to him for c.
DO. tion' 1t was not completed when Il
Io'clock train, on Wednesday morning
for New York, and the conclusion WI
epraphed to that city The last
. were corrected within an hour OF thu
- he began the delivery. Under thes
I'll cumstances. his animation and freed
- delivery seem marvellous.
- To-day the Senator has been yer,
- in social way. he called upon
-. Coub this morning, and subsequent
- conveyed to several points Oh in'e'
the city At ! the Senator called
the Hon. Charles Francis Adams
efN clock he lunched with party Inv
N meet him by Mr.. Edward Atkinson,
. Union Club. Among the guests
John NJ. Forbes; William Gray;
P. Kidder: William w. Clapp,
Journal; d. A. Goddard, Of the,
s:'i s:;;; H;::. 4: rs: W. 4
Chicago i iribune; and Henry Wat
ck Of the L ,uisville C,urierJ urnal
fair had ,rnIy suciai Significance.
C During the afternoon, the oenat
.0' tied the State FL use, where h"th N
R. AND m X a recess t. receive him. lie