Governor Baxter sent to the Legislature,
on the 14th, a message reciting the difficulties
which he has encountered in retaining pos
session of the exective office, and recommend
ing the calling of a constitutional convention
for a satisfactory determination of the ques
tions at issue.
Tw'enty-seven ex-Union soldiers and North
ern men have joined in a dispatch to Senator
Morton and General John Coburn, contra
dieting a telegram sent to those gentlemen by
Mr. E. W. Kimball, a lawyer of Little Rock,
to the effect that if the Baxter Government
succeeds Northern men will be driven out of
the State. They denounce Mr. Kimball's
statement as false, and an unwarranted libel
on the people of the State.
The following proclamation by the Presi
dent was received by the presiding offioers of
the Arkansas Legislature on the 15th:
r PROCLAMATION Ba 'Er PRISIOVIT.
