14 ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 



Tb Utter, to company with an accomplice, 

 was immediately arrested and placed in cus- 



several question* were still 

 awaiting the deliberation of Congrats at the 

 beginnlag of October, the President issued a 

 o*oree ptoloaflsBf the session. 



The eleedonTfor deputies to Congress ro- 

 ulted, In BIMBO* Ay res, in favor of the canJi- 

 datareof Dr. Al*in for President of the repute- 

 he. Although there were report* of abase*, 

 and of the Government having taken aides 

 aftJnst the majority, there was fortunately no 

 distarbanoe of a serious character either in the 



ur the province. Not so in Tucuman, 

 however; there the lection* were attended 

 with bloodshed, and grave disorders occurred 

 in Sea Joan on the occasion of the nomination 

 of electors for provincial Governor. Horrible 

 assassin ell fins were committed in Entre-ltios 



> week* earlier, among others that of the 

 military commissary, a lieutenant, nnd some 

 soldier*, l>y one Oelesdno Mendez, who imme- 

 diately alter the atrocities set out for Guale- 

 gnay at the head of a band of fifty desperadoes. 

 These crimes were supposed to hare been in- 

 stigated by the Jordanicta, who had again in- 

 vaded the province. In fact, assassinations 

 were for a long time the order of the day 

 throughout the whole of Entre-Rioa. which 

 was coured in every direction by the murder- 

 ers, thass (presiding fear and terror wherovor 

 thev 



The Hrazilian Government, apprehensive 

 that in certain secret sessions of the Congress 

 in the coarse of October an alliance hostile to 

 the empire might have been discussed, or- 

 dered the legation at Ruenos Ayres to inquire 

 into the subject of deliberation in those ses- 

 sions. A note from the Argentine Minister of 

 ForeifB Relation* protested that no war with 

 the empire was contemplated, nor any alliance 

 that might import a rapture of peace between 



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Tho rlond of civil war again, after a year's 

 latvnuiMion, reappeared on the horizon' early 

 to the year ; Jordan and liU band once more 

 troubled the ublic peace in Kntr.- liio*. pars- 



. 



r a timo ami permanently injuring the 

 legitimate commerce i\n>l industry of th.it ami 

 the adjacent province* of Corrientes mi. I 

 Fe. The rebel* at flrst threatened Guale- 

 ensycho. of which place It was apprehended 

 tb.j aright succeed in Uklng postejsion, not- 

 withstanding the opposition of tho national 

 troops, aad the reported imperfect armament 

 of the InranreoU. This seem* t bare been 

 aa elaborately prepared 

 ns*J sex* proportion* an led the Cent ral (;.. v 

 vrnmeat to declare the above-mentioned pn.v- 

 iaoes la a stele of siege. The incffic.-i 

 * s*Bre* taken to suppress the r. 

 aad eflattaally prevent the recurrence of fac- 

 "flj** osjihreak* in tho interior, wonld seem t 

 point to a weakness In the Art-mine provin- 

 cial system, aad a want of power to subdue 



ARKANSAS. 



disturbances of a nature to jeopardize the cen- 

 tral authority. 



In June it was decided to withdraw the 

 regular troops from the frontiers, and to re- 

 place them by national guard*. Tin/ result 

 of an engagement between the rebels and 1 1m 

 regulars in the same month was the taking 

 possession of the town by the latter, while Jor- 

 dan's forces remained masters of tho country 

 <!i-;n. !-. It was reported that agents of the 

 iiiii were endeavoring to effect a loan 

 in England, on the ostensible but unsubstan- 

 tial guarantee of the provinces of Corrientes 

 :iii-l Kntru-Kins. 



the rebellion was likely to last indefi- 

 nitely if an adequate resistance were not op- 

 posed to it, the Buenos Ayres Government 

 called tor the combined energy of the other 

 |>r\inces to put it down. 



About tho iK'ninning of August an encoun- 

 ter took place between the reKels and the 

 Government troops, reuniting in favor of the 

 litter. It is asserted that, after the engage- 

 ment, several of Jordan's officers with many 

 of his men had abandoned the rehel canse, and 

 placed their -rnices at the disposal of the 

 legitimate Authorities. 



AKKANSAS. The regular biennial session 

 of the Arkansas Legislature began at Little 

 Rock on the 6th of January. One of its first 

 iluties was the canvass of the votes cast at the 

 preceding election. From this it appeared 

 that Eliaha Baxter received 41.7*4 votes for 

 Governor and Joseph K. Itrooks :'.s.r,7:;. and 

 Mr. Baxter was accordingly declared elected. 

 It had been alleged that this result was reached 

 by frauds perpetrated at the election, and in 

 counting the vote. There hail been on the 

 4th of January, at Little l;..-k. a convention of 

 the supporters of Mr. Brooks, calling them- 



-i U es ' Uel'uniler-." the purpose of which WO8 



to consider tho expediency of an attempt to 

 secure the inauguration of their own candidate 

 and the organization of a Legislature cnuipoM -d 

 In part of members whom they declared to 

 have bon illegally defeated at the polls. 

 Those whose election was undisputed refused 

 to cooperate in this movement, nnd it was 

 thought to be useless to contest the election 

 of the executive officers before the Legislature 

 as constituted. A i-.irninitt.ee was appointed 

 to prepare an address to the people, setting 

 fortli tlie claims of Mr. Brooks'g supporters. 

 In this uddn-s. "in ..rder that Congress and 

 the whole country " might " see and know tho 

 outrageous frauds which have been committed 

 in the late canvass mid -in. r." they proceeded 

 "to dhow the sp.-ritie frauds in each county, 

 and show the true vote as actually cast!" 



-dill;.' to tills showing, Rrook- p-.-eived 



4.992 votes, and Baxter IJ.."'.M. "We are 

 prepared.'' say the committee, ''with proof 

 beyond anv cavil or doubt, to sustain the 

 utiovi- stat.-ment. and only ask that wo maybe 

 P'-nnitted to establish the same before a com- 

 mittee of the Congress of the United States ; 



