Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-06
The Arkansas Fighters,

The Arkansas Fighters.
The troubles in Arkansas instead of
growing small by degrees and beautifully
less,are rapidly doing directly the opposite
Brooks refuses to submit his case to the
arbitration of II legislature that he claims
has been g fixed by Baxter. The two
''armies are in Little Rock facing each
other. while Col. Rose and his few United
States regulars personate Wall " and
keep the estranged Pyramus and Thisbe
from incontinently scratching each others
lives out But outside of Little Rock and
the charmed influence that Uncle Sans
blue coats exert, the Iedoubtable \. KING
White, General Of Bakers militia goes
about with much noise and some destruc-
ton. Thursday he heard that Il party of
Brooks men We're assembled at New
Gascony, in Jefferson county. committing
deprcdations, and moved column of two
hundred men down to that point for the
purpose Of dispensing them. He sent for
ward fac of truce to order the men to
disperSe, but they fired upon the parry and
Il regular battle ensued, in which nine of
the Brooks party were killed and twenty
wounded. Gen. White reported seven of
his own command wounded and three
horses killed. The battle of New Gascony
marks the close of farce and the entrance
upon tragedy.
The Democratic-CO Conservative State
Central Committee publishes an address
calling upon the people to stand b. Gov.
Baxter About twenty-five Democrats
publish an address advising the people to
stand by Brooks. The Brooks party ha-
now three regiments in Little Rock and
Baxter has Il larger number of troops.
/ Each party has bodies of men in the sur
rounding counties.
The sensation of sunday night was the
arrest of two of the Supreme Court judges,
Searle AMI Bennett. This was done on
the arrival of the Memphis train at
Arkenta, opposite Little Rock, by Clpt
Williams, acting under orders Of Gov
Baxter. The judges refused to be arrest
ed without proper authority, whereupon
Captain Williams made Il signal ard Il
band of armed men entered the car with
cooked reyOlvers and Seare and Bennett
were forcibly taken from the train
I The Supreme Court was to meet in
Little Rock Monday. Judge Stephen,on
also of the Supreme Court, was on the
train, but it seems that his presence was
not known, else he would have been ar-
rested. This arrest would seem to indi-
cate that Baxter and not Brooks. Is the
rebel. The courts of the State constitute
the proper tribunal for the settlement of
this matter and by interfering with them
the only possible legal settlement is pre-
vented.
Baxter now claims that the arrest Of the
two judges was not by his order, bat they
have been carried off into the country and
now Baxter and his generals are keeping
ont of the way to prevent the service Of L
writ of habeas corpus upon them. The
object of the arrest is supposed to have
been to prevent decision on the Govern
orship question by the Supreme Court, be
fore whom Il question WAS to be brought,
relative to the legality of II warrant drawn
upon the State Treasurer by Brooks for
funds, the Treasurer denying Brook au-
thority.
The latest reports are that \. King
White and his troops have been fighting
another party of Brooks men out in the
country, and killed half dozen OF them.
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INVESTIGA-
TION.-The committee which has been
working for some weeks in this matter
found IL few days ago that Col. q. Moore,
II ptrtner of Gov. Shepherd had some
thing to do with the money that went into