The New York herald., 1872-09-30


Deputy Williams to burn down and paralyze vio-
lence by violence, lead the mind up by logical and
ere might have been an ofhcial crime, Intended
either to strike terror to dangerous and influential
the @r civil y aW Roth ceS Williams
been shot at. and D0dson was probably u murderer
already. His avocation before the war had been
that OF horse trader and gambler and he mad de-
serted the Confederate service and been dismissed
Nevertheless, the waylaying and vindictive habits
scarcely less sangulne relief The murder OF JUS
tice Of the Peace Brown, in Dover village, was O
c0wardiy act and the deed OF young man OF re-
spectacle family and superior education. The kill
ing Of HicKox might be described as assassination
| by a whole community. And II Arkansas escapes
war on considerable scale, perhaps involving
the Governor VI Hadley leans to mild and pacc
measures and Is obeyed to the letter by his yigor-
and not o very plastic D.
THE SCENE OF THE TROUBLES ETCHED.
Pope county runs back from the Arkansas River
perhaps forty miles into the rough mountain cOun-
try of the Ozark range; from the Ozark spurs which
go here by the name OF the Boston Mountain,
southward into the Arkansas River, called
| by the name OF Illinois Bayou. This stream has
site chaDarral, ''bOttom' and underground, and in
places It is deep and dark. The main road from
Indian Territory crosses the Illinois Bayou, ne ar
the new and pretty village OF Russellvic, which Is
the most nourlshing and important town In the
county, built mp in anticipation OF the extension OF
the Fort Smith Railway, which is already graded to
the village At Russellville, the chief artery Of the
the east side OF the bayou and stops Norristown
On tas Arkaasps River, whence there is S a. paddle d
ss Is Se On @ anS s mss
from -Russeville. Dover, the present county seat,
eleven miles north Of RSsseyle on the nssn same
Mountain spurs stand up clear, blue and gray,
gs9st s ky and sighth thg miles 9 9oIR = Of s
an influential old citizen and rebel, aged about
seventy years. Between this family and the family
miles further on toward the mountains, evil feel
ngs had long existed, and here the first arrests
We're we're made which LED to tae general outbreak.
out interest. The land back from the Arkansas on
sides of the river runs up into activities and
which is In plain view in the distance 500 feet high:
terminates IN headland at the rivers brink called
Dardanelle Rock, mass OF Oxydized sandstone.
II Ia 2S0 feet high and forms profile Of the human
face as distinctly and vydly marked as the profile
in the FrancOnian Mountains From this rock there
isa view of which any State might be proud-of
the blue and brown mountain bars Of the Petite
Jean and the Fourche la Fave ranges.
The lower part Of the county around Russell
vile and the Galley Rock Is comparatively level the
son OF the year looking like blackberry field in
BLOSSOM and much underground, piney woods,
syst otersnerse on with "ccaso farms and sms,
log or frame houses high ridgy blum tanks
the road on the side nearest Illinois Bayou and the
soil, steadily rising grows pebbly and conglOme-
rate, and at Dover the Carton Crow Mountain, as
it is called, is exposed in the prospect while, by
the visitor can behold the round top peak Of the
judah Mountain, conica as sugar loaf ana more
than a thousand feet above the general drainage
RUIN ON THE COUNTY.
Thus in Pope county, the cOttOnueld and noun
tain poverty meet the wild sceneres of the Ozark
and the gloomy bottoms OF the sluggish Arkansas.
IN az a ,e S @ snefe y Da 0ns offx 6oys
cost s25, ,oo0 and for which the county Is sued by
the scrip holders LEI Nv while the people claim tnat m twice
Its construction was one OF the sources OF c0nten
ton. The county is next to bankrupt,
this to the radical administration. Their
county scrip , is worth @ ,,, no more than than
is generally sold by the glass In groceries or dog
geries and the revenue laws have stopped the dis
tilation OF liquor from the native peach and apple
time the mean spirits current demOralize young and
Old :, There are few men Of means IN the the county,
who is now fugitive at Little Rock, with his large
stock OF goods partly at the mercy of the militia.
to nue.. cdr. Russell started our place about TWEEN
ty-nve years ago, but put most of the life into 1t
fortune to make some money, the whole of which /
planted right on the spot. We were thriving more
paper published by my brother-in-law, Battenheld,
had larger circulation than any paper pub
up in our part Of the state except the DardaneIle
transcript, democratic. Now the newspaper Office
w S% GOODS and have pat a charae 70
ofmy little son. Yet, Mr. Correspondent, have
spent 5000 % Of my my money to build school house
body fund. We mad the prettest little place in the
state, neat and white, and now the militia Ii eat
ing US up. The whole Of these expenses must come
out OF the county; they take our stores and pay
| in our own scrip turn their horses and mules into
our fields, and it's all because the Governor will
not take the rssL.onsibility . Of removing that man
THE FIRST MURDERS AFTER THE WAR;
"And now,'' said l. to citizen of Dover "be
pleased to tell me who was the first man killed in
| This cOuntv after the War.v
''well, there were several. We lost nearly all
our town in the war; Our own boys burned 1t to
driven out the women and children. Let me see;
believe John Tinker was killed about that tlme.'
''The Kansas troops killed him. He was an in
dustrlous Dutchman, born OF old Dutch stock In
were his subsistence, for he hauled cotton for a
| living He followed the troops up to beg them to
dead Ts ola Sod
manys been killed there. During the war there
eavary scout meeting there and three or
..rhls hardly answers my question" said. II
w to ask who were w, first killed tS after the war
charge that after the peace, when your confede-
rates had lost their arms, nobody was killed in
Pope county. but that after your boys recovered
repurchased arms, killings began and that four of
the county officials (republicans) were shot during
their terms OF office: Now, please tell me the
names of those men,"
"Their assassination mad nothing to do with the
present troubles. There is no connection between
.Tsee," SAID I, IN despair, "thatI must go else
| where to get my infOrmation.n
"Well, the first Official killed was
SHERIFF NAPIER,
! who had been elected to the office under the MUIR
| ply administration. He was killed. think In 1865.
| He was native Of the county and had been q Cap
tain in the federal army. 1t was In the Fall OF the
year. He was riding along with Block, his deputy,
east of Dover, when they were both shot from the
| bush. Napier was about forty years old. He was
! bad man and had been O jayhawker.
"HQw came he to be elected then II he was so
! fInnonn,arpi; g'"--riS siS.,ps
| II can't tell sir.'
| WAS anybody arrested for the actS"
ut was not known who did IL, slr."
THE MURDER OF COUNTY CLERK WILLIAM STOUT.
..yho Yas t4s RsHt man kll!ed IL Pope county,"
twenty murders there since the war. The next