The New York herald., 1872-09-30


ibid the government under which he was elected
disffanchlse anybody 7"
~ believe not"
''Is II known who killed Morris Williams ~
"fes, Missourian named Glover John Williams
has always had grudge against our people, and
o9 s9e .n hae nis mmy partieniary saspectlng them
ago, Glover, the MlssOurian. was executed for doing
the deed. He did It in revenge for the robbery Of
woman near Morris's house during the war;"
..How did they execute him :"
..The e. sheritr's officers shot him ia the road"
ns ans Way We ysa esssSss sssSsss SR here "
"liow long had Morris Williams held his office f'
''SiX mOnths.o
''Was Glover ever arrested.~
'.Yes. He burned our jail down and got out"
1T is certainly an unhealthy place for county
officers" said
THE COURT HOUSE AT DOVER.
The little town OF Dover-partly ruins, chiefly
plain frame houses, some whitewashed. some
about five hundred people, and II became the
county seat In ls4s In the middle Of the village,
perfectly unencosed by any railing, as II it stood
In sandy lot. 1t Is fifty feet square,
two two stories high, and the roof rises from
is door, and frOm each OF these doors the spec
tator can see four streets OF the village, coming
into the square at the corners. Several groceries,
mechanics shops, &C., surround the square, and
upon ledge or hill near by is what Is called the
college. Roads go out from the court house south
ward to Russelvllle, east to Scottsville and Mar
snail, and north to the Barks small stream,
tributary to the bayou, flows up to the edge Of the
town, ana the Illinois Bayou IL one mile to the
The court house is said to be one Of the best, II
not the best, In the State. The lower floor Is d.
halls, runDing through the middles of the building
transversely. The county clerk, HicKoX, occupied
% Sne Of hs the Te on ns
was used by the Sheriff, and the fourth was
rented out to lawyers for ofice purposes.
into the court room, which occupied the whole Of
the second floor, just facing the Judges seat. I'm
der the Judges. eye was the desk OF the County
Clerk, and to his left, removed some way the
Deputy Clerk The jury sat to the Judges right
the attorneys in semicircle around the Clerk, and
S eSs S aRgy gsnk ss
box was between the jury and the bench Such
was the celebrated Court House at Dover, Pope
county, Ark.-very plain, sufficient and unin-
spring. Twelve windows put on each Of the equal
sides gave an excess of light The Clerks room
and furniture showed good taste and the sensbiity
OF comfort In this edice, according to the usages
OF JUSTICE General Court was held twice year, and
County and Probate Court four times year. The
mails came and went only thrice week by horse
back carrier; there was no newspaper, and what
is very singular there are very few negroes In that
part OF the county, SO that Sambo has had very
little to do with this war. The two houses OF en-.
tertanmcnt, neither OF which strictly Is hotel,
are kept by Henry Kirchon, German, and Captain
Scott The state Of society Is crude and CONNER
cal lie dull since the days OF soldering Some Of
the Young men are fairly educated but the majority
petually and are good horsemen and self-reliant
hunters The names OF some OF the principal resi-
dents may indicate the prevailing extraction: =
Judge Davis, DR.. MacFadden, w. James, BENJAMIN
Young John Halle Johnson and McMurray
Such was Dover after the war; a retired little
place, pretty enough, but in wild country, and
the boys loiterers and village sentiment around its
listless streets make one side OF the hostile ele.
ments now held In suspense after the first violence
and blOodshed.
THE CARPET-BAGGERs INSTALLED
After the assassination of Sheriff Morris Williams
his term. At the adoption OF the constitution in
1868, the son OF the murdered County Clerk, Stout
was elected sheriff. He was to serve four years,
but proved to be q deiaulter to the county very
soon, and one J. T. Clear undertook TO fill out his
unexpred term. Stout, meantime, was pardoned
by Governor Hadey before they could get him to
the penitentiary, and this is another subject Of
complaint at Dover, as his delacatiOn amounted to
$l5 oo0 Clear was speedily stricken with disease
performed the duties Of the Office. The Minstrel
party did not trust Hollinger, and by HickOx, the
Senator Clayton, had HOllinger ousted and Elisha
w. D0dson made deputy Ia his place. Clear, ap
preaching ms end, speedily resigned the sherin's
ence had DOdsOn made Sheriff OF Pope county. bod.
son has now been Sheriff a year and some months.
Meantime the new constitution had gone into
operation; dsfranchisement on large scale was
enacted and the new board OF county officials were
strictly native and imported radicals, who cared
very little for their popularity In the county, but
leaned upon the paternal State government at Lit
tie Rock, as that in turn leaned upon the paterna
government at washington. Thus the proper order
OF republican government was reversed; govern
ment proceeded to the people instead of from them,
the interests of State ring, which really governed
through the secret leagues winch were plentlfuly
distributed In the Arkansas country At the head
Of these leagues stood Powell Clayton, and he had
added to the regular oath OF Union League o
clause pedging all to support "the present admin
Here were two bad influences and organizations
Inevitably f0reOrdained to meet each other and
shed blood: and insldiOus spolitcs operating un.
equally against an arms-bearing pOpulace not
above the propensity to assassination.
THE STATE GOVERNMENT
meantime behaved with the spirit and menace OF
brute force. The debates upon the constitution
were conducted with bluster and defiance, as IN
the pamy days Of the Arkansas Legislature, when
Smith and Anthony drew bowie knives in the State
Capitol. The manner OF putting the constitution
itself to the ballot an Insult to selfgovernng
people. They we're to vote at opposite sides or
against It, and those who voted tor it only had the
right to vote for state and county officers. The
precious document itself ordained IS lOlOws:-
No person disqualified from voting or registering under
this constitution shall vote for candidates Office
% TSe Governor and ali other % officers elected UNDER tins
when they shall have been declared duly elected said
ISs duties s% SSps; SSn % a;ssn ssr ,ssy
1t came to pass therefore, that the Union
Leagues-secretly and ubiqnitOusly organized, and
a a s yoteS Wse
voting against the constitution had no right to
choice OF officers; and also that democrats who
the field lacking instrumentaties and obliged to
encounter military ana militia opposition. In the
name OF freedom tyranny and fraud were done In
every county Of Arkansas, and Minstrel and Brin-
die Tail are equally responsible for 1t.
1--WE were in q tight place." said Governor Clay
toms most intimate friend TO me. "By God Ii
was rule or go under. The reconstruction laws Of
Congress are mess any way and history ought
to treat the authors of them with the contempt
due the feeble-mnded. conquered people must
be held down by the laws OF conquest In five years
from this time the rebel society will govern every
Commonwealth in the country
Such were the words of the President OF the Con.
stitutional Convention, Thomas NJ. Bowen, OF
Kansas, said twenty hours from the date OF this
letter.
The attitude Of the new State government was
that OF defiance and force. The Governor, Powell
Clayton, has audacity and 'gamcnessu for his chief
intellectual and moral quality
1--WE don't rum" said the President OF the Con-
vention.
1--WE will never leave the State TIL we are carried
out,n cried the warning clerical orator, Joseph
Crooks. q sT;''|'