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Show GENERAL, Rejort of the Special Committee Commit-tee ou ArUuusuit, Washington, G. The report of the select committee on Arkansas affairs presented by Poland to-day, says: The constitution wc regard as republican repub-lican in form and in many respects an improvement on that of lSetS; that the committee are satisfidd that the convention to frame the constitution constitu-tion and the constitution were voted for and are satisfactory to a majority of the people. They state that the state otliceia were certainly elected by a majority of the votes cast, and the the committee think by a majority of votes in the state. The state has been i peiveeiui since uiu new jjuverameui i was inaugurated as it has ever been, i and the ma;s of the people on both sides are inclined to peace aud good government, and to allow to all the enjoyment of their legal rights; but there is a class of young men, the out growth of former society, who de-lignt de-lignt in disturbing and depriving colored people and uoithern people of their rights, and this class U difficult diffi-cult to restrain. Tne changes caused by the war, giving freedom free-dom and political equality . to the colored people are not relished by the southern people, but most of them would do nothing to . disturb them; but the class to which we have alluded feel that they may invade the rights of the colored men, especially in any politicul quarrel, and that their otienscs will be winked at. We are satisfied the true prosperity pros-perity of the southern states depends more upon just and stern dealing bv them with this lawless class of men than upon any other course. Arkansas probably presents no dhk-rent condition condi-tion from that of the other cotton states, where the political control has passed into the hands of the class who ruled before the war. The committee com-mittee do not recommend any action by congress or by any department of tiie general government in their report to the slate government ot Arkansas. Tiie report is signed by Poland, Sehudder, Taylor and Gloss. Tiie other member of the committee, Ward, dissents from tlio majority report, and presents a resolution, setting lorth that the election ofj Brooks as governor was under the constitution of lV'S. which constitution constitu-tion was never legally overturned nr abrogated, and that hu is the lawful governor of Arkansas. Little Rock, o. Tiie majority report re-port of the Arkansas congress in'vssti- gat ion committee has reached here j to-day, and caused general rejoicing. ! Cannons were fired, etc. I |
