The New York herald., 1872-09-30

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ana never invited confidence nor acquaintance
snip. He wore full brown beard and m0ustache |;
from MS waist up he had one OF the most perfect
Dodies, physlcaly, ever seen In that remote
country, as was remarked when he was stripped
after death. His head was shapely and large, and
ever present upon his cOuntenance. lie weighed
nearly two hundred pounds. He was without
social nclinatiOns, although well fitted to be pOpu
lar, and he was what is called in Arkansas war
Mason-that is, mercenary Mason, trading In
social treason on his grips.
rate report OF the State Adjutant General, Albert
W. Bishop, as follows:-" Wallace II. Hlckox Sec
appointed from quartermaster's; sergeant Of FIJI.
teenth Illinois cavalry; mustered out at Little
Rock, Ark, October 8, lse4.n The same report
shows that HickOxs new regiment was engaged In
lighting good deal with bushwhackers and rebel
regulars In Pope county and In the battle at Dar-
who seemed to heartily despise and dislike the
Confederate people frOm the date OF his coming
among them. AS clerk he was neat, orderly
and satisfactory, but In his private habits he was
irregular libibidinOus, and sometimes got drunk.
The Dover people contend that he left wife and
mother, who to look into his estate after his
murder, was astonlshed to find that he had mar
,ea ,Ms again; But this is not uncommon among
the advantages OF owning State Is to own d.
Hickox married woman OF pretty face and COM
mon family In the southern part Of Pope county,
between Rnssellville and Galley Rock. Although he
had two & children BY this wife he never took her to
Dover after ne was made Sheriff; but as Is uni
versally alleged In that village he took up with a
boarding house keeper and lived upon scandalously
afterward wept together at his grave, whittier he
was laid In his blanket without cotin-a touching
and impressive picture Of military adventure and
carpet-bag authority.
The military vices Of Hickox led to his death. He
Of Pope county that they had ostraclzed him
when he had socially ostraclzed himself,
and he took no part in religious, N Ma, a.
away nom the usual processes OF political success,
and showing by. his intrepid bearing that, as he
be his chief constituency. lie was always mad at
the opposition party, never said ANYTHING TO recon-
cile it, and sought to make his deputy, super
numerary Methodist preacher named fiickcrson,
cease all relations with the leading citizens He
WAS quick to apprehend WHO did not like him. but
indifferent as to who did. Indeed, he was brave,
disagreeable commanding and cruel type Of man,
with capacity for Office, but not under represent
tatve system: At 1rst his mental ana physical
force and authoritative bearing bore back all re-
sistance and made a certain Kind Of awe, which
protested protested ana strengthened him, Time ana
ing destiny brought him 10 his violent end
ne was yonng man, probably about thirty
sS the yeg woers re M saa to
little cotton and pulled the political wires In tht
leagues with nothing but his wearing apparel
| which was the sum OF his substantial possessions
He had been made one OF the three registers o.
the county by the Clayton party, and Buttcrheld
| the subsequent Brnde Fail editor, claims to have
introduced him to Clayton. In one OF his sprecs he
received a fogging at the hands OF Lieutenant Will
! son. OF the regular army, who commanded IN Pope
for a few months after the constitution went into
| operation. However, llickox had served out nearly
tine whole of his four years term when the events
precipitated his death. He will be remembered III
that county for years TO come 9s me creation OF
period OF force and the ablest OF all the local carpet
| baggers. He was probably the superior OF Powell
Clayton intellectually and his equal In intrepid
courage.
DEPUTY CLERK REv. HIcKERsON.
The Old supernumerary preacher, Iickerson
and the community. This wOrldlyeyed and plau
! sibe old man had roved around Tennessee been
70 ae "a ms ana about
! Lay Delegation Church. lie IL now President o.
the North Arkansas Conference of this denomina
! ton. Last January HickoX employed him at 500 q
month salary and discharged him August 80, 1872
for dupiicity and insubordinatiOn. The next da,
Hickox was shot dead or his horse, at a daylight
hour, within 200 yards OF the Court House. The
coincidence appears that preachers In politics are
insincere and dangerous nuisances and strike
far from hypocrisy. Hckerson Is a tai
old man, with SLENDER clerical body; subtle
wears at times furtive look; gray hair and beard
and he moves around with O walking stick. All the
Northern men dstrust him, and found him an in
telligent but not always reliable authority. There
are some points, however, where his word is tht
only evidence, and have applied to these tn,
usual rules Of inquiry and criticism.
SHERIFF DODSON
Elisha w. Dodson, or Captain DodsOn as lie Is
| generally Called IL q native OF Tennessee and il
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daughter. He is man OF the medium SIZE dark
evasive and dOwn-looking, and he always bore q
trading horses and sonietimes stealing them, and
by common gambling with the villagers, young
couny ra s he Ssas
iederate army al the beginning Of hostili-
took to horse stealing and bushwhacking, and
played fast and loose between the rebel pOpulace
and the federal lines OF occupation. The spurs OF
| in fhQr
frequently the advanced posts OF the Northern sol
diery, and good many Of the people there went
held surreptitiOus communication with the party
| OF invasion before he formed guerilla band
known by the name OF independent Federals" Al
been discovered on some captured rolls anu that
he might be shot as spy. Few men came out OF
the army with record so INDIFFERENT for good ser:
vice. He took little farm above N0rrstOwn, and
| the first step he made was TO cut down the slash
timber in and around It to prevent enemies ap.
washington county, in tie northwestern part Ol
the State, near the battle fields Of Pea Ridge and
Prairie Grove. His present abode Is at Russellville
| In Bishops report he is written down as fOilOws:-
"Elisha w. Dodson, Captain. Appointed from
private to fret lieutenant October 10, 1868; dis
He therefore left the army in as bad odor as III
entered 1t.
The Third Arkansas Cavalry, to which he wal
attached, was organized at Little Rock and dis
banded at LewlsburR, In the immediate region o
| Pope county, June 3O 1866. The Adjutant Gene
| rails historical memorandum says or tile Third
| regiment
1.-TWO battalions were sent up the Arkansas River
to hold large scope OF territory infested by nu
| merous guerilla bands, who were robbing and mur.
dering Union families in the most barbarous man
ner that human depravlty could invent. Territory
held by these marauders was soon wrested from
their hands. The regiment has been generally en-
gagged in Kidding the country OF the numerous
predatory bands which have cursed this district
with their infamous operations since the inception
of the rebellion. IL was long stationed at lewis
burg on the Arkansas River and detachments were
up the lesser haunts OF the enemy"
This description accounts both for the predatory
and assassnating youth Of Pope county ana Tor
DOdsOn. He is a fellow of inferior intellectual
capacity, bat OF sinister and manifest brutality
and ferocity. HIS head Is large and destructive
looking, with enormous ears, heavy jaws, large
straight upon his breast; he Ia wiry, strong and
uneasy, and he wears heavy arms and bespeaks the
desperado. This man Is the surviving ally and con-
federate OF Hck6x and the master and associate
OF Williams. He lives but In fear OF his life he