The New York herald., 1872-10-08


soon expires as Sheriff, and he win probably feel
the hopelessness OF making arrests or seeking to
gion Young Williams is different sort OF boy. He
Is not much to LOOK at, but he has that native
mountain grit, and do not understand that there
"After a while,n said Mr.. Johnson, cheerfully,
"fhe Fort Smith Railroad Will have extended
through that country, and we look to the railroad
system Of Arkansas to make us more homogeneous
and destroy some OF the provincial habits which
have grown up in country which has hitherto
been almost solitary in the Union as without COM
municatons. 1t looks discouraging.tO stranger,
here See some changes for the better At Fayette
vile, in the next county to my own, we have es
tablshed an Industrial University, with normal
parts parts Of tho state~anong others, from Pope
county 1t Is endowed with a land grant by Con-
gress OF 900 acres and the Legislature has given
Il $4,000. washington county, besides, has pro-
posed to give 1t $4,000. Such institutions will, In
time have have tmelr mel s enect upon general % morals
held very interesting interview with the dis
tinguisned commander OF the militia Of Arkansas,
lie is a ck-bcarded, gray-eyed, discreet and
frm-looking man, OF the nature and address to in
spirc both respect and apprehension He Is about
forty years of age. and under the conditions OF gov
ernment In Arkansas, is probably one OF the most
necessary men that could have been found to In
spire awe and execute stringent orders.
In 1868 there was an outbreak in Northeastern
Arkansas, about the time that Cullen Baker and
other desperadoes required the attention OF Gen.
era Robert +. Catterson, on the Red River border.
Upham brought hts part OF the country to terms
only about three hundred men. During that year
there we're four columns OF militia put to vigorous
use In various parts OF Arkansas, Cpham and Cat
ters0n commanding In the northeast and south,
General - U. Mallory In the southeast. and others
| in Phillips county. Among these disorders were
some in Conway county, between Little Rock and
Pope, and at that time the Governor reported that
nobody dared testify In the premises for fear OF
| being shot. Upham uniformly seized the ammuni-
tion at the country stores, and In the villages took
! quartermaster's stores AMI clothing according to
the needs OF his troops and his bold and confident
bearing and quick shriIt with Ku Klux accom-.
pished all the purposes OF pacincation, although
the opposition papers charge that some or his men
committed atroclous murders. The General took
hostages when he got in tight places and made the
most influential citizens feel that they and their
estates would be as prompt TO suffer as the poorest
negro In the county. During 1868 the Clayton gov
ernment put quite an army into the neld and since
that time there has been little mOlestatiOn on auy
comprehensive scale After Catterson and Upham
made their campaigns vote of thanks was sub
mitted In the House OF Representatives and the
debate upon this measure makes pamphlet, in the
course or which Catterson described some OF
the atrocities he had to redress and called
upon the representatives Of the counties
wheSe he had been in service to
deny any fact which he gave. IL Is remarkable
that no one heard what was the Issue raised by him.
IL strangely enough happens that at the present
time these TWO distinautshed mlltia captains have