Year: 1874

! By permisslOn OF q friend OF ours, u
| whom it is addressed, we publish the
| following brochure, the result of the wal
| In Arkansas between Brooks and Bax-
/ ter:


NAPOLEON, April 20, 1s74-T have
sent your transcript of P. Us. NJ. up to


the supreme court by Colonel P, who,
together, brings the news that we have
| two governors. Fine times at the Rock.


We NapOleonites are in a frightful ex-
citement. Just think Of IT. two govern
Ors, when one has been always enough
to raise particular h-n. Commanding
Officer Granger is all excitement. | was
in the same fix, and had a company of
men enlisted, and was drilling them in
dugouts, in land and naval drill, and
had run big bill at Evans's for war ma
terial, done up in bottles, when the news
came that both sides were paving OFF the
soldiers in State scrip. You have no
idea how such a thing will affect the
widest patriotism. John Can attached
the cOmpany's dugout for debt, and
sold the boat, and thereby broke
up one of the most promising
military comt anies of the campaign.
But if my company cannot go, we all
and each Of Us intend to stand by him,
the governor n call no name for fear
might hurt some ones feelings), until
all his vacancies are filed by appoint
ment. But Granger Is up and doing.
He has got that portable steam saw-mill
engine that was on the Montgomery
place, and has put it up in the cook
house of the jail, and has had the cook
house turned into formidable-lOoking
gunboat. John Can is going to furnish
the ammunition. and he Is only waiting
until Mr.. Davidson can put stern
wheel on it, to make a start. Men are
working night and day in the navy
yard. But then there is a shToud of
mystery thrown around every move
ment in this gunbOat matter, that it is
hard to get at the real design. But you
can rest assured it is awful. have
been doing q right living busine
IN swearing in officers into the army and
navy in our little town Of one hundred
male inhabitants. I have sworn in
ninety-four officers in all. Al the pri-
Yates sleep in one bed at the barracks
back room of John Cans. But they all
look like they mean business. Won't it
be a terrible affair at the Rock when the
gunbOat Joe Barter EIisbd- Brooks ar
rives? 1 asked Granger what he named
IL SucD long name ICf. he Sitiu IL was
to meet any contingency, and then
looked mysterious. With the gunbOat
andt Joe Brooks and Z. Baxter there
will be blood, aud lots of it, at the Rock.
When we look back at the bloody mill
tary record of Baxter and Brooks in the
last war, and the wild Guerrilla warfare
of the one wi was the leader Of the
band, and the terrible bloody assault
made by the other on Fort "Don't-know-
wheren in the latter part Of the war,
Why, you may look for bloody
times. 1 am prepared, thank goodness.
am all on fire to go into this thing, and
have several times in the last two days
come very near enlisting and being
sworn in as paymaster on Changers
gunboat, but l didn't. When q man
has such lofty, patriotic sentiments at
such times as these, it is disgusting to
reflect and think of the abOmlnably low
price of State scrip, when you are to be
paid off in. Goodbye, and maybe
forever; you may never gaze on my face
again, for If the worst comes to the
worst, I am going TO Texas before Will
take State scrip as my fees for fighting,
at present prices. II it goes up, tele-
graph me at once, and may change
my mind.