The New York herald., 1872-10-08

supporter OF the Hadley government
General Upham,n said the HERALD correspon-
Dent, what are the prospects for peace IN Pope
sit win require the presence Of troops of some
s sort until Christmas certainly. and probably
ms0 Through r,.t the Winter have 2 about forty forty
contendins bands OF Dodson and the Dover
any day II they met each other. won't let any OF
Dodson's crowd come 10 Dover, and meantime the
Sa as
law In the county, as you might have apprehended
e % ny
the civil and criminal law. Dodson is attempting
70 arrest nobody, and the warrants which he held
+. "Do you ind the Pope county shooting people to
be any worse or better than In other portions OF
"There is very little difference. Up in that coun-
try series OF
1s % ca a... sHoorNGs AT sIGHr
e s o BEEN 50 yssT om smys apcsrs 10
Scott, at Dover, admitted that there had
Ssa twenty sSe ms d n Ppes SesS
hung sr paid 1ne nor been sent to the Peniten-
tiary Occasionally s two or three fellows will way;
q him. anS Se & som some ss
nature % "a and they ~ come to town own ana quietly 'intf
mate that they have two or three men to Kill, and
Then there are one or two more men to Kill and SO
-"Do you look upon DodsonS as q desperate fellow,
as some OF those you mention 2"
mo, IL you speak to DOdsOn as you will have
opportunity. you win nd that he is not without
cation, but he is resoute officer ana so far nom
threatening to burn Dover or prove himself 0
y aS s nat rs e e wod IL psaSsn ss
sv sway nom the militia camp perhaps half mile,
800 SHOT IN HIS TRAcxsn
How does he 60 about, then 3n
'1Oh, Dodson is not without enterprise, but he
IN dos anS cow IN at
his house scmstimes. Much that is said against the
OF the hour. I saw 1t related that he had threat
ened to kill newspaper reporter at Perry's Sta
cation The reporter % Invented twothrds % Of DH the
story s % ana as far as can learn Dodson was very
rF'-- -'-' THE MAIN QUESTION.
We General, the opinion Is universal, is It not
sinatsd and not killed BY accident, near Shiloh
Among the people of Pope who are up to the
the 4 not s doped a
and whoever shot knows it himself only. do not
see how investigation Is to develop much one way
that night towards Hickox and Dodson would in,
two officers were as much exposed the rest, Tor
they were directly ahead Of the prisoners.
through ali that country ana E tSey say they viii
not obey the law because they must give them
selves up to Dodson, who kills his prisoners. Now,
time When we can the she1 The
here and myself have made selections, but we
CANNOT GET ANYBODY TO SERVE.
The fact is that in Pope county the law ia what
is hated and not DodsOn more than the representa-
Mse Mv OF Il You can % see that these fellows poynter
such Others hold all the old people and those who
have property at their peril Several OF such des-
neighbOrho0d sentiment. 1t is very hard thing in
that country to find the truth about anybody con-
that my landlord, Kirchor with whom i board At
Dover, has been sleeping out In the woods and hid
ing his s sa % the rest Of the neigh
he had stayed in the house all the tie because all
he had was there, and II he was to be killed he
night, however, he told me one day he guessed he
would get in his feather beds, and found that he
the woods and had gone or every night
and slept In that way. Until came to town with
my few men i may be said that nobody slept there
from the fact that since have occupied the town
ted and we expect to hold there in abont
two week; and presume that, under the protec-
served, but have no idea that these fellows viii
come come In ID ana & stapd trial. and II they do do not
THE COURAGE TO APPEAR AGAINST THEM,
~ was psoynter, undoubtedly who shot Hickox,
the shop, and it Is toeraby certain that other
man was Reese Hogan. He Is said TO be an nteni
gent, mt tall Y fellow % Of good address
who killed BrownY'
"Yes; that appears to have been done Dy signal,
the whole community joining inn
''Did Williams and Hickox Iire upon Poynter In
the shop before he returned the firer
Nobody can tell that They all say they saw vii
but say nothing aoout hearing reports until they
heard loud reports OF guns from the carpenter
o,nr lint has ofnr hact nha
times. examined the entire gable OF the shop
and there Is no bullet mark shotgun mark in It.
not only fired at from this shop but aI points along
the road, and they aver that they saw
sae
also says that as he passed Johnson and McMur
rays store, where all the young fellows were SIT
the side OF IT to where door opened leading to
stairway which goes up over the store, and he saw
standing there Sanders and Andrew Morgan with
80 wnicfI SIDE BEGAN 1T.
General Upham, have these killings in Pope
county since the war been mainly confined to the
well. sf, ifasked the citizens that without max.
ing myself too ofilcious, and repeated the in
war, when the Federal soldiery came home with
their arms retained, and the Confederates came
back poor and dsarmed for some time there was
not man killed In Pope county The first inquiry
Of the COnfederates when they recovered their
was 10 say s DO 10 Win s 1
that they deserved some punishment. However,
after little while, when the rebels made a crop,
they began to get now o-pist0l and now fowlng
piece, and the next inquiry to be heard was What
arc we going to do with them fcowsY' and the killing
began about that time. Before HickoX was killed
they concentrated their nate on him, as he was
superior to his associates in olilce and was the
ruling intellect. D0ds0n being an inferior man
mentally fell back on Stewart alter Hickox was
killed, and now, as II sharing the same apprehen-
sion that Stewart Is the ablest man remaining,
the people up there have transferred to him all the
antipathy which they had against Hickox.n
"CoULD SEE WILLIAMS,
where he lies at his farm above Dover ?"
mo. II you were to go and see Williams and had
talk with him Williams life would not be worth a
dollar. He sends us word to keep away from him. for
he is In the hands OF his enemies, and they are oil
around there Cox, Sib West, Perry West and Rich
ardson are In the immediate neighborhood. Williams