The New York herald., 1872-10-08
TALKS WITH STATE OFFICIALS.
Decentralization and Ruin Follow
|. .'s''sa ss the Carpet -Baggers.
roo MUCH SHOOTING AND TOO LITTLE WORK.

isadng men OF the state upon the wild and barbaro
social phenomenon would be premature. The fol-
towing y the n s rflre. sr4 ee4
8 l 0HRoNoleoIoAL ORDER OF THE EVENTS
already related:- ns be9'
Y Y !. August, 1871, County Clerk Hickox shot at
(. 20 have been shot at. = "a 7-
a July 8, 1872 Tucker and Hale, accused OF way
County clerk while under arrest
- The Governor visits the county middle Of July,
August Is7a e. " Ear Esrly S IN this 3 month month General A.
~. Bishop Governors envoy, reports against de-
elaring, martial law. after making tour Of Pope
q August. 1872. In the latter part of this month
the o1acals again occupy their ofnces In Dover
T. Iususs 81, 1879, the county Clerk, Hickox shot
dead In the streets of Dover .l',lA3 ha' Aal
citizens and militia. The General of the militia
occupies Dover to prevent civiiwar. In rencontre
9Gas psTss RsPas %
Dover outlaws. f5,bE sia2 sH e e1 "a
q, Such is the state Of Pope county at present.
Seven oicals have been shot there since the close
OF the war and about twenty assassinations ac-
f70II TIE GOVERNORS OPINION. -
Governor Hadley thinks that Pope county ts the
abode Of lawless young men, chiefly relics Of the
late rebel army and that they the sole disturb
ing element He says Hickox was good ofncer and
DOdson Ia q faithful Sheriff. lie has no doubt but
that D0dson's posse was fred on and the prisoners
killed In the confusion and darkness.
CHIEF JUSTICE M'cLURE
The Chief Justice OF Arkansas says that the re-
bellious county ought to be overrun with nre and
sword. He does not think Governor Hadley pro-
ceeded with SUFFICIENT decision, and thinks General
Bishop, when he reported against martial law in
Pope erred on the side Of good nature.
s SENATOR POWELL CLAYTON.
HY.o ana hA
that Deputy Sheriff Williams had been nred at,
and thought three bullet holes and no blood on
his garments was ''too thin.n He says he is no
advocate Of martial law and has not Influenced the
Governor in the premises.
SENATOR B. r. RICE.
- This Senator, the head OF the Clayton Brindle-
Tail party, says that Governor Hadley set up the
Job OF arresting and numbering people OF Pope
county In order to compel resistance. invade the
county and intimidate registration. He says the
people OF Pope as good as any in the State and
that Hickox was q rufilan and Dodson Q guerilla
he says, furthermore, that Hadley could not raise
. regiment in the State to make war on Pope
county.
Ny next conversation was with General Bishop.
who has made the tour OF the whole Of Pope county
- the government envoy.
" TALK WITH GENERAL ALBERT ". BISHOP.
Among the officials Of Arkansas there is none so
generally popular and respected as the federal
Register in Bankruptcy General Bishop. He s
patvs VI Erie county, New York, and is well known
In the city Of Buffalo. He was Lieutenant Colonel
OF the First Arkansas cavalry, raised in the north
western part OF the State, and succeeded to this
rank after service an officer In the artillery and
cavalry of the East. The Murphy State govern
ment, which was native and benignant, and headed
by q fine old mountain Unionist OF Madi-
SON county, pade Colonel Bishop Adjutant
General oi the State, and his report upon
the Arkansas military contribution TO the Union
service being refused admission to the printing
records by the rebel Legislature OF 1885, 1t was
printed by the United States and exists as one Of
the few useful introductons to the future htera-
fure Of Arkansas. In this work appears the follow
ing record:-
Elisha w. Dodson, Captain OF Company A, Third
Arkansas Cavalry Volunteers; appointed from prj-
vate to first lieutenant October IS, 1893; made
captain OF same Company, with rank from Novem-
Der 20, 1868; dismissed February l3 1854,
This is the notorious Sheriff Dodson, the alleged
assassin OF Tucker and Hale in Pope county.
General Bishop was sent TO Pope by Governor
Hadey directly after the deaths OF Hale and
Tucker, and as a Commissioner Of Peace he was OBJ
jected to by Clerk OF the County Hckox, whose
name had appeared in his report, thus:-
Wallace II. Hckox, second lieutenant OF Com
pany B, Fourth Arkansas cavalry volunteers. APP
pointed from quartermaster'S sergeant OF Fifeenth
Illinois cavalry vice Lieutenant Andrew promoted.
Mustered out at Little Rock, October s, 1864.
General Bishop, being man OF unusually good
address, warded or hostties in Pope county by his
pacincatory and diplomatic address, and had nearly
made the truce secure but for the murder OF Hickox
by the wild young villagers OF Dover He is man
Of forty years OF age and was the natural choice Of
the republicans for Governor.
OCenarai said wish n know tf HckcreOn'a
story Is true that Hickox desired to bar the Court
House at Dover to you when you were to address
the exasperated villagers theref'
81 suppose that Is ao Hick0x desired to have
martial law He had no faith In the security Of the
civil officers In Pope county"
''why do you report to the contrary'"
FL had no reason to do otherwise. The Governor
sent me to that district commissioner OF peace
and to discover the actual state Of feeling. was
bound to believe the testimony presented TO me-
and that was demonstratively for peace. i put the
question in Dover Court House as to whether
DOdson and the county oficials could come back
there and administer their offices, and there
seemed to be perfectly unanimous 'Yes.'n
"Did any person object Y'
"well, curiously enough, John +. Halle rose up
and asked respectfully that put the negative an
70 the negative nobody said word"
'This was the Halle who assassinated Squire
Brown 9n
The same. He had good address and apparent
education. The same was the case with Reese
Hogan.n
"what did you infer Of Dodson and Hickox from
their appearance ~
"Hickox was a man OF pronounced ability within
the limits Of his experience and occupation; q
good and faithful Clerk man OF retcencc and nat
ural control over others. and brave and discreet.
u ne lacked anywhere II was in the social element.
ne had been shot at, and held that the
civil law could not be made opera
tive In that county. 10 rs subject
OF some melancholy to me that he said, while was
- the county, "Those fellows Will kill mclu ]
thought dnerenty, and his premonitions came
true Dodson Is o man OF the border stamp: afable
enough for one OF that type and intelligent in
lesser degree. lie relied upon Hckox, and IL was
somewhat touching that the strong win and the