The New York Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1872, Page 5

ARKANSAS’ ILIAD. The Reign of Blood and Anarchy in Pope County. Legacies of Internecine Hate Left by the War. !CARPET-BAGGERS VS. EX-REBELS ‘The Mountain Feds and the Brindle Tails. STATE OF CIVIL WAR. Sheriff Dodson and the Militia Camped Out. The Natives Prowling Round Them in Armed Bands, ‘nat WHO ARE THE OUTLAWS? What Dover Village Has Seen of Murder. ~ Two Sheriffs, One Deputy and Two County Clerks Murdered. Hickox and His Iron Rule and Leaden Ending. A Specimen of Executions in Arkansas. The Lew of the Trigger and the Ethics of the Bowie Knife. Terrible Recital of Border Ruffianism, Private Fends and Every Day Assassination, LitTrLeE Rock, Sept. 22, 1872. At this wide distance from New York city I find Woyeelf saturated with the theme of the hour—the war in Pope county, It is the theme of everybody, nd is at the same time a new theme andan old one, for some new occurrence happens daily to well the bloody account of that most demoralized neighborhood, where now the commander of the State militia holds the county seat, witha part of the Governor’s guard. The region of Illinois Bayou, the chief stream of the county, is commanded by the shifting encampments of the outlawed Sheriff, Dodson, and his 240 militia; the young men of Dover haunt the mountain spurs and the dens and bot- toms of the north and west of the county, armed to the teeth, and sworn to kill Dodson, the Sherif, and Stuart, the Superintendent of Public Instruction; and, finally, all the old and stable people of the community are hungry and apprehen- sive; little business of any sort is done; the mails still go and come, but people goand do not return; it ie martial law without the name and outlawry in fact. Such is the condition of an old and well known county of Arkansas, whose county seat is Jess than eighty miles from Little Rock, the State capital. AsIshall recite at considerabfe detail the late startling incidents in that county the present letter will aim to dono more than to recapitulate the successive crimes which make this dire condition of things. HOW TO REACH POPE COUNTY, Passing from the relatively imposing county of Pulaski, which Little Rock’s 18,000 people swell up ‘to 40,000 inhabitants of the county, the traveller by rail must crose one interesting county, Conway, to reach Pope county, Conway county is even of less consequence than Pope, though larger, possessing only about eight thousand one hundred people. Lewisburg, the only settlement of any note, has ceased to be the county s and that woful honor belongs to a spot called Springfield; on the southern side of the Arkansas River. Opposite Lewisburg is Perry county, with enly 2,700 people, and next above and west of Perry is Yell county, which faces across stream the county of Pope on the northern bank, Yell county has, perhaps, 8,000 residents, and its chief river town of Dardanelle is right opposite Norris- town, which is the river base of supplies, news, groceries and canards for the present warfare against the misbegotten pagans of Pope, If one should go still further up stream, on one of the Flow and oft-grounding steamers, he would gee little to interest him except blots and distant mountains for all the remaining 100 miles toward the Indian Territory, It is said that very many settlers are encamped and waiting along the line of the Indian Territory to cross into that red man's reserve when the law or war breaks the barriers @own; but this may merely show a commendable spirit to get out of Arkansas. THOUGHTS BY THE WAY. On every side, as the traveller goes toward Pope, is the unexpungable nomenclature of the old French occupation, which leads the traveller's mind back only seventy years to the century and more of Frenith occupation of these waste premises, and a Feaenanss and g nthess. of the French names, streaina and } ponds are the only péeflcaf features this wild, hard region, Itis the Illinois Bayou which is the main entry to Pope county; but Fourche la Fave and Petite Jean are neighboring streams. Fifty years ago, when we had occupied this province of France as our purchase, all Arkan- Bas possessed only 14,000 souls; in twenty years more Arkansas had 100,000 of the offscourings of | the Gulf States, the Carolinas, Georgia and Ten. | Renee, and between 1840 and 1860 it more than doubled these figures, No State had a pioneer period more ruffianiy than this, and none have fallen s0 supinely into the hands of the most indif- ferent type of carpet-baggers. Its literature as the Arkansas Traveller's lazy banjo pick and its Iliad, a hundred cowardly affrays nd duels. Nearly the size of England, settled | since 1670, and made a State of the Union long ago as 1836, the United States stiil owns more than thirty millions of acres here—a testimony to the indifference of the immigrant upon thd subject of the “Arkansas toothpick.” When Colonel Bowie invented his knife he gave Arkansas sovuething effectual to defend itself against occupgtion. Boasting that she possesses 12,000 square miles Of coal, the State is without manufactures or even” worthy of the name, and cotton and politics are the staples of thought and subsistence here, In these days few passengers go by river to Pope county, but the majority take the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad, which passes half a dozen ‘Stations in the woods and stops af Perry's, a store ‘and water tank right out in the wilderness sixty miles from Little Rock, Here there is a mail and Passenger hack waiting to start for Russellville, sixteen miles westward, the chief village of Pope county, and perhaps a few teams and saddie mules are hitched around the station to bear individuals of to more distant points. It Jo a ride of the best of the aiternoon to Rasseliville, Over a rutty clay road Which passes the site of sev- ON NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, eral features in the pending war, and if the driver or your fellow passengers feel inclined they will amuse you with a hundred recitations of BLOODY COMMEMORATIONS. You will kear of John A, Murrell’s band, of Cullen Baker's midnight assassinations, of Dodson’s guer- Dla robberies and the bloody massacre of prisoners at Shiloh Church ; of Hickox shot from his saddle and of General Upham’s dire inflictions upon the people of Woodruff, Crittenden and Mississippi counties. One old chap by the name of Tobey, who is postmas- ter, miller and merchant at Norristown, brought the hair up on my head by relating the first and also the latest crime committed at his hamlet. He said that he remembered seeing, when a boy, the bloody clawmarks of a murdered gambler named John Hill, alias Nixon Kerr, who, having killed his score of men, finally felt the agony of the murdered himself im the vear 1840, “He tried to climb up that counter and draw his knife,” said Mr. Tobey, “but he couldn’t do it, and the prints of his hands were there for years. The man that stabbed him went off to Texas and be- came a Baptist preacher.” The last crime happened but a few weeks or Months ago, near Norristown, when two negroes named Riall and Archie Embury killed, reapect- ively, man by the name of Champion and an- Other white fellow named Tucker. Archie Embury killed Champion in @ quarrel! about cotton picking, ‘and soon afterward Archic’s brother was mur- dered ; Tucker, the ferryman at Valley Rock, sought to raise up the dead body, when the bereaved negro father rushed out with a stick of wood and beat out Tucker's brains. “A bappy ggetets have there, Mr. Tobey, said T; “do Fe et Rate anybody?" “Not in these days, They wouldn't let old Colo- nel Embury, who used to own these niggers, tes- tify because he was disfanchised, and Archie Em- bury rode Hickox’s horse all over the county after Hickox’s death. He’s in the militia,” Indeed, the history of Arkansas is a history of murder, family vendetta, lynchings and duels. “I well remember,” said an old man of Galley Rock, “seeing the loaded steamboats go by to Fort Smith, where the big politicians and planters re- paired to fight, across the line in the Indian Terri- tory. The last, it seems to me, was Albert Pike and John E. Roane—the latter General Yell’s lieu- tenant colonel. Pike had a company in the regi- ment in the Mexican war; they quarrelled, and, after they came home, fought. About three thou- sand people saw the fight. Bob Johnson, now Pike’s partner at Washington, seconded Roane, an% Na- than Chase seconded Pike. After the second fire, when Pike had lost a lock of his hair by a ball, old Dr. Burton, a fire-eater, pitche in and said—If there’s any more firing I'll do a little shooting my- self.” He stopped it, amid general disappoint- ment.” In this way you are entertained until you find that the business of life in Arkansas 1s to Kill. There was General F.C. Hindman—the ablest man of the old slavery school in the State, as Bob John- son was the most successful politician—shot dead at his fireside, and, they say, by his relative. Even in the State House at Little Rock the spot is pointed out where the Speaker, “Horse Ears” Smith, cut the bowels out of Representative An- thony as he stood at his desk, leaving the presiding chair for that purpose, “And, strange as it may seem to you,” said an editor at Little Rock to me, “the man that dia that was a very respectable and good man. It was all spected and bore a good reputation.” This was the usual character given to anybody fond of killing people. Parson Hickerson, of Dover, Pope county, Who was a Methodist presiding elder, and twenty-five years an itinerant, published a card in the Little Rock papers last week saying that he was proud to call ‘friends of lis’ Mr. Poynter, who had killed half a aozen people; Mr. Haile, who shot an old sexagenarian at his gate, and Mr. Perry or “Kinch” West, who is sworn to be one of Quillen Baker’s band of murderers. Religion and bloodshed are near neighbors and nent commutable terms in some parts of Arkansas. The Calvinistic GRE, of PSE pee derived from the Scotch Calvin- ists of North Carolina, who emigrated on this par- allel to Tennessee and Arkansas, and gave the prevailing complexion and tone to all the society, 80 that even a Methodist here looks like a son of John Knox, while the Baptisis are Calvinists by professfon—this style of men and charac- ter is remarked throughout Arkansas. The light and humorous side of life is not to be found here,fand the Gaelic and fateful qualities and tem- perament prevail. Obstinacy, revenge, no horror of blood, persevering malignity, vanity and treachery ey be said to have examples in every community, and as none can afford the reputation of cowardice the timorous villain murders the quickest and on every hip the six-shooter lies ready to the hand, And this is the matter in Pope county Somer eee old social phenomenon of arms-bearing and killing, aggravated by a government foreign to the people. POPE COUNTY has 8,409 population. Its county seat is Dover, and the other settlements are Norr' wn, Galley Rock and Georgetown. It is said to possess coal and it produces, @ measurable quantity of corn and cotton in the broad river bottoms. There is much hilly land and a variety of timber; some wheat is produced, and in places the land raises fifty bushels of corn to the acre and above one bale of cotton. The census of 1870 shows that it gave that year 3,070 bales of cotton, 1,015 pounds of tobacco, and 718 pounds of wool; that it gave 42,000 pounds of butter and only nine tons of hay, and that it gave a little wax and honcy and some peas and potatoes, and no more. Here are figures of poverty, indeed, in all but cotton. As early in the annals of the State as 1830 it had 1,483 people, and in_ 1860, before the breaking out of the war, 7,883. It is, however, above the average of the counties of Arkansas in population. It had 978 slaves in it in or one to every eight white souls, and was relatively a large slaveholding county. More then one-half the people are born in the State, and as many as 1,167 of the people of Pope county emigrated from Tennessee and 647 from North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Missis- sippi furnishing together above 600. ‘There were in all only 56 foreigners in Pope county, all but nine natives of the British Islands. There are, indeed, in all Arkansas ay, about 6,000 people of foreign birth to above 479,000 native Americans. Pope county has about 3,700 acres of improved land, equal, say, to 37 good-sizable Northern farms, the whole va'ued officially at $125,000, and its live stock is set down as worth only $32,000, HOW THE WAR BEGAN. Pope county was settled, before the United States Yaa it, by a few French and after- wards by some civilized Cherokees, who finally moved on to the Indian Territory, During the war it was neutral ground, and successively over- run by federals from Dardanelle and Lewisburg, and by rangers and jayhawkers of both armies, and of neither. Horses and stock were stolen, houses burned and wayside murders committed. The people, observing old political lines, fell into both armies, according to their traditions; but | they seem not to have divided by any geographical line, Between rival families recriminations en- sued after the peace, and in tjme old grudges be- an to be ayenged, and bushwhacking was not lncommon. The period of military government is. was followed by Cae mG bt ineficient ean i i in this period wy | county officlals wei¢ Kied, although the citizens disavow the acts, and say that théy were private assassinations arising from personal causes, After the new and disfranchisin, constitution went into operation a lull enstied, an? fox some time everything was quiet; but the county officials of Pope, who were all republicans and secret leaguers, grew more and more obnoxtons to the people and both sides were surly, muttering and threatening. The native republicans, who go by the name of “Mountain Feds," took sides with their Sheriff and County Cierk, and as the time of another election drew near the county authorities claimed that the insecurity of the times demanded martial law in Pope county. This made the people spiteful, and the young men and boys, who are the people of violence in all border communities, swore that the declaration | of martial law should never avaii to let Hickes and Dodson usurp their offices anew. Last June and July the radical arty, the common oppressor, split in half and the rindie Tali faction declared for Grecley and took away from the regular radicals the only newspaper in Pope cou.ty, the Russeliville National Tribune, The county officials now used every energy and provocation to compel martial law, but the State | Governor, 0, A. Hadley, of Minnesota, being no | candidate for re-election, was joath to proceed to this extremity. Meantime, the Deputy Sheriff pro- fessed to have been the object of an attempted assassination, and ‘forthwith the County Clerk, the Sheriff and the School Superintendent raised a posse of their political supporters, arrested several leading citizens, took them away from Dover, the county seat, and two of these men were Killed in the darkness of that night at « woody aud lonesome | njace in the road, Here began the Pope county wotand none but the Almighty and the actors in the ‘tagedy know whether those prisoners were murde xed by the county oMeciais or whether they were svetin an attempt to rescue them by their friends. THE BLOODY RIDDLE, The coniyy'RMd State officials for the most part express A Yatter opinion; the people of the ,Ne State almost universally believe Frey and tsa an official murder, not discon. nected with politic. motives and private revenge, ‘The rural politicians, “4 )¥ 40m blood is of no more account of the road to” jae a fg ie lying, rush in to make th 4) 1 - a Hie ls, T am’ forced to admit that hy ot oe co are on the popular side, and “Hal 1 ost lous eharacter of Sheriff Dodson, as an 4 A Sgt guerilla, and the persevering attempte of U.9Fk Hickox to have martial law replace civil provess,“@p4 the fre- Gone in a fit of passion. He lived many years re-. ment threats, otherwise of no consequence, of Duty Williams to burn down and Ze vio- lence by violence, lead the mind up cal and easy seqnence to realize that this roadside massa- cre might have been an official crime, intended either to strike terror to dangerous and influential rebels or to compel the State government to sus- nd the civillaw. Both Hickox and Williams had en shot at, and Dodson was bly @ murderer already. His avocation before the war had been that of a horse trader and gambler, and he had de- serted the Confederate service and been dismissed mye rats the aylayi \d vindictive habits ever! ame wi an of many of the ople ot Pope county show in scarcely leas ine relief, The murder of Jus- tice of ‘the Peace Brown, in Dover village, was a cowardly act and the deed of a you man of spectable family and superior education. The kill- ing of Hickox might be described as assassination by a whole community, And if Arkansas escapes a war on a considerable scale, perhaps involving a whole county or several count it will be because the Governor, Hadley, leans to mild and pacific measures, and is obeyed to the letter by his vigor ol nd not very plastic Captain General, D. P, U} ham, late of Boston, Massachusettes. THE SCENE OF THE TROUBLES ETCHED. Pope county runs back from the Arkansas River {asap 4 forty miles into the rough mountain coun- ry of the Ozark range ; trom the Ozark spurs, which go here by the name of the Boston Mountain, a running creek of considerabie importance flows southward into the Arkansas River, called by the name of Illinois Bayou. This stream has bluff and ridge banks, almost invariably set oppo- site chaparral, “bottom” and undergrowth, and in pices it is deep and dark. The matn road from Perry’s Station to Clarksville, Van Buren and the Indian Territory crosses the Ilinols Bayou, near the new and pretty village of Russellville, which is the most flourishing and important town In the county, built upin anticipation of the extension of the Fort Smith Railway, which is alreaay graded to the village. At Russelivil'e, the chief artery of the county, the main non comés down on the east side of the bayou, and stops at Norristown, on tag Arkaneps iver, whence there is a paddie ferry to the old an Jmporapt town of Dardanelle, Norristown is on this road, three anda half miles from-Russellville, Dover, the present county seat, 4g eleven miles north of Russellville, on the same road, few iniles north of Dover the Boston pelt oe heen aN SEAT bine igeesk nm ie sky, and ol miles north of Dover, SATE ae eRe e tuna. of We J, Haile, an influential old citizen and rebel, aged about seventy years. Between this family and the family of John Williams, Deputy Sheriff, whg lived a few miles further on toward the mountains, evil feel- ings had Jong existed, and here the first arrests were made which led to the general outbreak, ‘The natural features of the country are not with- out interest. The land back from the Arkansas on both sides of the river runs up into acclivities, and opposite Norristown the Great Magazine Mountain, which is in plain view in the distance, 500 feet high, terminates in a headiand at the river's brink, called Dardanelle Rock, a mass of oxydized sandstone, It is 280 feet high, and forms a profile of the human face as distinctly and vividly marked as the profile in the Franconian Mountains. From this rock there isa view of which any State might be prow the blue and brown mountain bars of the Petite Jean and the Fourche la Fave ranges. The lower part of the county around Russell- ville and the Galley Rock is comparatively level, the soil red and shale like, the cotton fields at this sea- son of the year looking like a blackberry field in blossom, and much undergrowth, piney woods, young oak forest and what are called “slashes” exist, interspersed with occasional farms and small log or frame houses, A high nidgy bluff flanks the road on the side nearest Illinois Bayou, and the soil, steadily rising, grows pebbly and conglome- rate, and at Dover the Carrian Crow Mountain, as it is called, is exposed in the prospect, while, by ascending some of the bold spurs north of Dover, the visitor can behold the round top peak of the Judah Mountain, conical as a sugar loaf, and more than a thousand feet above the generai drainage of the country. RUIN ON THE COUNTY. Thus, in Pope county, the cottonteld and moun- tain poverty meet the wild sceneries of the Ozark and the gloomy bottoms of the sluggish Arkansas, in all the county there is but one brick structure, and that is the County Court House at Dover, which cost $25,000, and for which the county is sued by the scrip holders, while the people cliim that twice the true cost of the edifice has been sunk in it, and its construction was one of the sources of conten- tion. The county is next to bankrupt, and the sullen and embittered people charge this to the radical administration. — Their county scrip is worth no more than six cents on the dollar, The liquor consumed here is generally sold by the glass in groceries or dog- geries, and the revenue laws have stopped the dis- tillation of liquor from the native peach and apple orchards, another subject of complaint, while mean- time the mean spirits current demoralize young and old. There are few men of means in tle county, the richest beiug Sninn, a merchant of Russellville, who is now a fugitive at Little Rock, with his large stock of goods partly at the mercy of the militia. “It’s a discouraging thing, I declare,” said Shinn tome. * Russell started our place about twen- ty-five years ago, but I put most of the life into it within the past three years, having had the good fortune to make some money, the whole of which 1 planted right on the spot. We were thriving more than any country town in Arkansas, and the news- paper published by my brother-in-law, Battentield, ad a larger circulation than any paper pub- lished outside of Little Rock. It is the only paper up in our part of the State except the Dardanelle Transcript, democratic. Now the newspaper office, type, press and all is burned, andlam afraid to stay with my goods, and have put them in charge of my little son. Yet, Mr. Correspgndent, I have spent $2,600 of my money to build & school house there, and paid the teachers’ salaries, cane a few hundred dollars we got this year from the iy fund. We had the prettiest little place in the State, neat and white, and now tne militia is eat- ing us up. The whole of these expenses must come out of the county; they take our stores and pay us in our own scrip, turn their horses and mules into our fields, and it’s all because the Governor will not take the responsibility of removing that man Dodson, the Sherif.” THE FIRST MURDERS AFTER THE WAR. “and now,” said I, to a citizen of Dover, “be pleased to tell me who was the first man killed in Unis county after the war.” “Well, there were several. We lost nearly all our town inthe war. Our own boys burned it to keep the federais trom occupying it, after they had driven out the women and children. Let me see; I believe John Tinker was killed about that time,” “WHO WAS HE ?? “The Kansas troops killed him. He was an in- dustrious Dutchman, born of old Dutch stock in North Carolina, fhe troops took his mules, which were his subsistence, for he hauled cotton fora rine He followed the troops up to beg them to give him the mules back, and they got mad and shot him dead. There's old Shiloh church—a good many’s been killed there. During the war there was @ cavalry scout meeting there, and three or four were killed.” “This hardly answers my question,” I said. “I wish to ask you who were first killed after the war was over. To be plain with you, the State officials charge that after the peace, when your confede- rates had lost thelr arms, nobody was killed in Pope county, but that after your boys recovered or repurchased arins, killings began, and that four of the county officials (republicans) were shot during their verms of office. Now, please tell me the names of those men.’” “Their assasination nad’nothing to do with the present troubles, There is no connection between the series.”” “Tsee,” said I, in despair, “that J must go else- where to get my information.” “Well, the first oficial kilied was SHERIFF NAPIER, who had been elected to the office under the Mar- hy administration. He was killed, [ think, in 1865. je Was # native of the county and had been a Cap- tain in the federal army, It 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 a bad man and had been a jayhawker, How game he to be elected, then, if he was so finpoptiar?!? eset make, “T can't tell siri’* «Was anybody arrested for the act?” “It was not known who did it, sir!” THE MURDER OF COUNTY CLERK WILLIAM STOUT. “PEA VUR BAN RE PPR a ian, twenty murders there since the war. T oticial killed was the County Clerk, under the Murphy government, William Stout, an old citi- zen and a native of Alabama. He was originaliy a rebel And a member of the seceding Convention, and he disliked to see his sons enter the Confede- | rate army because that would compel him to stay home to watch the property. After the federals came in he got to be a very ardent Yankee, The federals came into Pope for good in September, who was a Methodist eee joined the radical party, repaired to Dardanelle and was believed to be among the raiding parties that dashed across aud through our county. He became very obnoxious. He was shot down in the house he lived in at Dover by somebody who put a gun at a knot hole from outside. It Wasin 1405, He was about fifty years of age.”* “Is It Known who did it 2"? “Tt was never known. He was qnite obnoxious.” “Yet, was he not elected under the fair conditions of the Murply government #"° “T believe he was."’ “Well, now, did anybody else, holdi: under the radicais, get hurt or killed / “Yes, Morris Williams,’ “ How was that?” THE FOURTH MAN MURDERED. “ Williams was the elder brother of John Williams, Dodson's present deputy, who now lies in a bad way athisfarm. Morris Williams appointed Johnny bugier inthe mounted infantry. Morris had worn a Confederate cockade eariiest in the war, and led @ rebel charge at Helena in 1868, but he got dissatis- fled to stay a Confederate lieutenant, and he came home and jay out in the woods, like hundreds of poo- le, to avoid arrest. In that wild way many of our loiks got vagabond habits, 1 tell you, sir, war demor- aiizes. Morris Wilhams, after the federals got in, joined them, and they made him a captain. He was a good officer, and after the war he was elected Sheriir to fill the unexpired term of Napier, who had been kilied, All the young. fellows now out- laws from Dover for killing Brown and Hickox, liked Morris Williams very much, He had a fine, open countenance, and was tall, intelligent and manly, He was shot in his own ard, near the house where he was born, about twelve miles north ng ofice here of Dover. He was about twenty-five years old when he died, This was Ip the summer of 1866.1 “Was he elected + swe Me pe | “Yea,” “Did the government under which he was elected franchise anybody ?”” “I believe not.” “Ts it Known who killed Morris Williams ?”” Pints! - a Samed rey John witieme grudge against our people, and the Hale family Dartisuariy, euapecting them of killing his brother. But only about two weeks nop Glover, the Missourian, was executed for doing the deed. He did it in revenge for the robbery of a woman near Morris’s house during the war.” “How did they execute him ?”’ “The Sheriff's officers shot him tn the road.” “Is that the way. you execute up here ?”? “That's the way we executed him.” “How long had Morris Williams held his office 1” ix months,’? ‘Was Glover ever arrested.” “Yes. He burned our jail down and got out.”” “It is certainly an unhealtny place for county ra,” said |. office: . THE COURT HOUSE AT DOVER. The little town of Dover—partly ruins, chiefly plain frame houses, some whitewashed, some weather-beaten blue or gray—contains at the best about five hundred people, and it became the county seat in 1843. In the middle of the village, upon a square, stands the naked brick Court House, railing, as if it ‘stood peatotly unenclosed b; any in @ sandy lot. t is fifty feet square, two stories high, and the roof rises from the four sides to the centre. In each side is a door, and from each of these doors the spec- tator can see four streets of the village, coming into the sq at the corners. Several groceries, mechanics’ ps, &c., surround the square, and upon a ledge or hill near by is what is called the college, Roads go out from the court house south- ward to Russellville, east to Scottsville and Mar- shall, and north to the Barks. A small stream, bid gl to the bayou, flows se the edge of the on ang the Ulinois Bayou is one mile to the westward, ‘The court house is sald to be one of the pest, if not the best, in the State. The lower floor ia di- vided into feur rooms, which are separated by two halls, runping through the middies of the bulldin, transversely. ‘The county clerk, Hickox, occupied up to the eyo ais death the two rooms on the east side fos ofices; one of the remaining rooms was by the Sheri’, and the fourth was rented out’ to lawyers for office purposes. ‘The stairs went up at the west ride and came pe. the court room, which occupied the whole of he second floor, just facing the Judge's seat. Un- der the Judge’s eye was the desk of the County Clerk, and to his left, removed some way, the Deputy Clerk. The jury sat to the Judge’s right, ae Cys a ye nates pene on he people # benches and plank geats withou' bases: 0 hot Boss the s' airway, The prisoner's box was between the jury and the bench, Such was the celebrated Court House at Dover, Pope county, Ark.—very piaip, sufficient and = unin- spiring. Twelve windows put on each of the equal sides gave an excess of light. ‘rhe Clerk’s room and furniture showed good taste and the sensibility ofcomfort, In this edifice, according to the usages. of justice, General Court was held twice a year, and County and Probate Court four times a year, The mails came and went only thrice a week by horse- back carrter; there was bo newspaper, and what is very singular there are very few negroes in that nee of the county, so that Sambo has had very ittle to do with this war, The two houses of en- tertainment, neither of which strictly is a hotel, are kept by Henry Kirchofy, a German, and Captain Scott. The state of jety is crude and commer. cial lite dull since the days of soldiering. the young men are fairly educated, but the majority have little or nothing to do, and ail carry arms per- etually and are good horsemen and self-reliant unters. The names of some of the principal resi- dents may indicate the prevailing extraction :— Judge Davis, Dr. MacFadden, W. James, Benjamio Young, John Haile, Johnson and MeMurray, Such was Dover after the war, a retired little place, pretty enough, but in a wid 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 Sheri? Morris Williams, described above, a Mr, y W psen to fill out 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 a defaulter to the county very soon, and one J. T. Clear undertook to fill out his unexpired term. Stout, meantime, was pardoned by Governor Hadley before they could get him to the penitentiary, and this is another subject of ‘complaint at Dover, as his defalcation amounted to $16,000. Clear was speedily stricken with disease, and while he was lying ill his deputy, one Hollinger, performed the duties of the otice, The Minstrel party did not trust Hollinger, and by Hickox, the new Clerk’s influence, Governor Hadiey, acting for Senator Clayton, had Hollinger ousted and Elisha W. Dodson made deputy tn his place. Clear, ap- proaching his end, speedily resigned the Sheriff's Office absolutely, and Hickox and the gfayton influ- ence had Dodson made Sheritfo! Pope county. Dod- son has now been Sheriff a year and some months, Meantime the new constitution had gone into operation ; disfranchisement on a large scale was enacted, and the new board of county oficials 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- tle Rock, as that in turn leaned upon the paternal government at Washington. Thus the proper order of republican government was reversed; govern- ment proceeded to the people instead of from thei, and the right of suffrage was manipulated to sui the interests of a State ring, which really governed thrdugh the secret leagues which were plentifully distributed in the Arkansas country. At the head of these leagues stood Powell Clayton, and he had added to the regular oath of a Union League a clause ple aging all to support “the present admin- istration of the State of Arkansas.”” Here were two bad influences and organizations inevitably foreordained to meet each other and shed blood; and insidious spolitics operating une equally against an srmas-hesring 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 palmy 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 was an Insult to a self-governing people. They were to vote at opposite sides or windows, yea or nay, for the constitution or against if, and those who voted tor it only had right to vote for State and county officers, The precious document ftself ordained 3s follows :— Kop or registering under o person diaqualifed from voting this constitution shall vote for candidates tor any offic nor shall be permitted to vote for the ratification or r tion of this constitution at the erein authie The Governor and all other officers elected under tins constitution shall ente the duties of their offices when they shall have clared duly elceted by said Board ot Commissioners shall have duly qualified, ‘All officers shall qualify and enter upon the discharge of the duties of their offces within ntteen days atter the have been duly notified of their election or appointment, It came to pass, therefore, that the Union Leagues—secretly and ubiquitously organized, and rene: all the machinery of nomination—pre- pared full tickets and voted tnem, while those voting against the constitution had no right toa choice of officers; and also that democrats who might vote for the constitution had no ticket in the fleld, lacking instrumentalities and obliged to encounter military and militia opposition. In the name of freedom tyranny and fraud were done in every county of Arkansaa, and Minstrel and Brin- dle Tail are equally responsible for it. “We were in a tight place,” sald Governor Clay- ton’s most intimate friend to me. “By God! it 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-minded. A conquered people must be held down by the laws of conquest. [n five years from this time the rebel society will govern every Commonweaith in the country.” Such were the words of the President of the Con- stitutional Convention, ‘Thomas M. Bowen, of eee 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, bas audacity and “gameness” for his chief intellectual and moral quality, “We don’t run,” said the President of the Con- vention. “We will never leave the State till we are carried out," gricd the warring clerical orator, Joseph brooks. ~ + ¢ <% a ae Afmed like the natives of Arkansas, the new political dynasty invited and confronted death with death and made “pluck” the measure of man- hood and the ioundation of authority, A State thus revived and a sentiment of desperation thus made the fashion could not but be met half way by the born dare-devils of pro-slavery Arkansas, And the men elected to take charge of Pope ied A the interests of the Clayton faction behaved like conquerors and have leit an impression not uniike that which the Spanish conquistadores left upon the Peruvians and Mexicans. Pope county passed into the hanas of the follow- ing persons under the constitution:— County Clerk—Wallace H. Hickox, of Illinois, Sherif—Elisha W. Dodson, of Arkansas. Clreuit Superintendent of Public Instruction—W. A, Stuart, imported Puritan. Deputy Sherif—Jonn H, Williams, native, County and Probate Juage—W. T. Brown. County Assessor—Joln H, Martin, Assistant Judges and Justices—Alien Brown, of Dover, and two more, The head centre in this combination was the federal oilicer, Hickox, a native of Oneida county, New York. force which speedily put the whole county into his hands. CONQUISTADORE HICKOX. Hickox was the typical carpet-bagger. Said a citizen to me :—‘‘He has carried Pope county in the hollow of his land since 1865." He was about thirty-four years old, good looking, cool, bold, reticent and surly. He made no efforts to conclli- ate anybody, seemed to the crude people there propeiled aud supported by an unseen force, and over every other county oficer he ob- tained = that ort of mental influence which came rom pertinacity, will and depth of character which supply resources and make control. Rebels and subordinates felt it alike; he expressed the conquest of the South in | his mode and form—that expected thing which had been areninenene without reason of the central authority, but im which a thousand adventurers have voluntarily supplanted it, and have gone forth like the devils out of the man into the swine, to root and wallow with all the coolness of divine and natural right and preordination, - “Hekow bad a fine stature, @ ruddy complexion He had will, intelligence and a secret { some of | 5 nd brown hair, and his eyes were cold and sarty, aud never invited eonfidence nor acquamtance- ship. He wore a full brown beard and moustache ; from his waist up he had one of the most perfect bodies, physically, ever seen in that remote country, a8 was remarked when he was stripped after death. His head was shapely and large, and there was the firmness of command and resolution ever present upon his countenance, He weighed nearly two hundred pounds, -He was without social inclinations, although well fitted to be popu- lar, and he was what ls called in Arkansas a war Mason—that is, @ mercenary Mason, trading in social treason on his Cog the carefnl and aceu- Hickox'’s name a (apg in te Adjutant General, Albert rate report of the W. Bishop, as follows:— Wallace H. Hickox, Sec- ond Lieutenant Fourth regiment Arkansas cavalry ; appointed from quartermaster’s; sergeant of Fif- teenth Illinois cavalry; mustered out at Little Rock, Ark., October 5, 1864.7 The same report shows that Hickox’s new regiment was engaged in fighting a good deal with bushwhackers and rebel regulars in Pope county and in the battle at Dar- danelle. He was a brave and self-contained man, ‘who seemed to heartily despise and dislike the Confederate people from the date of his coming among them. As a clerk he was neat, orderly and satisfactory, but in his private habits he was irregular, libibidinous, and sometimes got drunk. ‘The Dover people contend that he left a wife and several children in Illinois, and state that his mother, who came to look into his estate after his murder, was astonished to find that he had mar- vied again, But this ls not uncommon amoug the Arkansas Rpt lg who hold that one of the advantages of owning a State is to own a di- vorce court within it, Hickox married a woman of pretty face and com- mon family in me southern part of Pope county, between Rusacliville and Galley Rock. Although he had two children by this wife he never took her to Dover after he 7k made Sherif; but, as is uni- versally alleged in that village, he took up witha boarding house Eoouee. and lived upon scandalous): intimate terms with her, ‘This woman and his wife afterward wept other at his grave, whither he was laid in his blanket without a cotlin—a touching and impressive picture of military adventure and seml-outlawry under the auspices of modern et otsbag authority. e military vices of Hickox led to hisdeath. He was forever mentally upraiding the better people of Pope county that they had ostracized him when he had = socially ostracized himself, and he took no part in religious, Ma- sonic or feneral society, looking sturdily away from the usual processes of political success, and showing by his intrepid bearing that, as le ruled withont other right than force, force should be his chief constituency, He was always mad at he opposition party, never said anything vo recon- cile it, and sought to make his cepaty, @ super- numerary Methodist preacher named Hickerson, cease all relations with the leading citizens. He was quick to apprehend who did not like him, but indifferent as to who did, Indeed, he was a brave, disagreeable, commanding and cruel typé of man, with capacity for ofice, but not under a repreadii- tative system. At first his mental and physical force and authoritative bearmg bore back all sistance and made a certain kind of awe, w rotected and strengthened him, Time ch and familiarity wore this oi! at last, and thick gather- | ing destiny brought him: to his violent end, He was @ young man, probably about thirty- six or thirty-eight. He moved to Dover from the region where he had planted a litle cotton and pulled the pohtical wires tn the leagues, with nothing but his wearing apparel, Which was the sum of his substantial possessions. He had been made one of the three reyristers the county by the Cs the subsequent Bri introduced him to In one of his sprees he received a flogging at the hands of Lieutenant Wil- son, of the regular army, who commanded in Pope for afew months after thé constitution went operation. Howe , Hickox had served out nea the whole of his four years’ term when the events precipitated his death. He will be remembered in that county for years to come os the creation of a period of force and the ablest of all the local carpet- baggers. He was probably the superior of Powell Clayton intellectually and bis equal in intrepid courage. DEPUTY CLERK REV. NICKERSON. The old supernumerary preacher, Hickerson, whom Hickox employed, was the link between him and the community. This woridly-eyed and plau- sible old man had roved around Tennessee, been transferred to the Arkansas Conference, and about 1870 he switched otf to the Methodist Protestant or Lay Delegation Church. He is now President of the North Arkansas Conference of this denomina- tion, Last January Hickox employed him at $100 a mouth salary and discharged him August 30, 1872, for dupiicity and insubordivation. ‘The ne day Hickox was shot dead off his horse, at a daylight hour, within 200 yards of the Court House, The coincidence appears that preachers in politics are insincere and dangerous nuisances and strike | the mean between God and Maminon not far from hypocrisy. | Hickerson is a tall old man, witn a siender, cierical body; a subtle and subdued expression of countenance, which wears at times a furtive look; gray hair and beard, and he moves around with @ waiking stick, All the Northern men distrust him, and I found him an in- re telligent but not always reiiable authority. are some points, however, where his word is the only evidence, and - have applied to these the usual rules of inquiry and eriticism, SHEKIVF DODSON. Elisha W. Dodson, or Captain Dodson, as he ts generally calied, is a native of Tennessee and is now above fifty years of age and has a married daughter. He ig a man of the medium size, « evasive and down-looking, and he always bore questionable charactery living before the wa trading horses and sometimes stealing them, and by common gambling with the villagers, young Neca and river people. He hung around Pope county before the war, between Dover and Norristown, «and jomed the Con- federate army at the Med del | of hostili- ties, Not being promoted e deserted, took to horse stealing and bushwhacking, and played fast and loose between the rebel populace and the tederal lines of occupation, The spurs of Boston Mountain, in Northern Pope county, were frequently the advanced posts of the Northern sol- diery, and a good many of the people there went by the name of the “Mountain Feds.’ Dodson had held surreptitious communication with the party of invasion before he formed a gueriila band, known by the name of ‘Independent Federals.” At one time he was apprehensive that his name had been discovered on some captured rolis and that he might be shot as a spy. Pew men came out of the army with a record go indiiferent for good ser- vice, He took a little farm above Norrixtown, and the first step he made was to cut down the slash timber in and around it to prevent enemies ap- proaching under cover, For a while he removed to Washington county, in the northwestern part of the State, near the battle fields of Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove. His present abode is at Russeliville, In Bishop's report he is written down as follows:— “Elisha W. Dodson, Captain. Appointed from private to firet Meutenant, October 1s, 1s05; dis- missed Feb. 15, 1864,” He therefore left the army in as bad odor as he entered it. The Third Arkansas Cavairy, to which he was attached, was organized at Little Rock avd dis- banded at Lewisburg, in the immediate region of Pope county, June 30, 1865, The Adjutant Gene- ral’s historical memorandum says of the Third regiment :— “Two battalions were sent up the Arkatisas River to hold @ large scope of territory infested by nu- merons guerilia bands, who were robbing aud mur- dering Union families in the most barbarous man- ner that human depravity could invent. ritory held by these marauders was soon wrested from their hands, The regiment has been generally en- gaged in ridding the c of the numerous predatory bands which have cursed this district with their infamous operations since the inception of the rebellion, It was long stationed at Lewis- burg on the Arkansas River, and detachments were constantly alert scouring the country and breaking bee lesser haunts of the enemy.” ‘his description accounts both for the predatory and assassinating youth of Pope county and tor Dodson. capacity, bat of a sinister and manifest brutalit, and ferocity. His head is large and destruct) looking, with enormous ears, heavy jaws, a large blackish-gray mustache and beard dropping straight upon his breast; he ia wiry, strong and uneasy, and he wears heavy arms and bespeaks the desperado, Tt man {s the surviving ally and con- federnte of Hickéx ahd the master and associate of Williams. He lives but in fe fays that he will die in Pope co beyond Th ty and will not ily the night of the sth of July, and the builet which passed through Hickox’s brain was, perhaps, aimed at Dodsoi Since Hickox’s death Dodson’s mental re’ STEWART, THE PIOUS SUPERINTENDENT, man of a practical turn, but of positive op es great activity, of whom I shall say more le after, DEPUTY SHERIFF WILLIAMS. Joun Williams lived at the foot of Boston Moun- tain, some twojmiles above the Haile family, Lie was twenty-four years of age at the time of his death, and possessed @ commonplace character— neither good nor bad. He was not thought to be very shrewd nor self-reliant, and the rally said that he had “the big hea ople gene- | that he thought much more of himself thau tus ca- acity justified, iiliams folke, started @ story that during the war, when provisions were scarce, young Williains and others had gone to Haile’s house, and, in the | absence of the males, helped himself to lard. ‘The; ave him the name of Greasy Williams” or “ jourd Williams’’—the latter because the lard 1s kept in gourds, Beyond this general expression of contempt the Hatles and other Confederate famiites entertained no ill will to Williams until Dodson ap- pointed the boy his Seputy. This deepened the I will and increased Williams’ self-importance. He became aie imperious and offensive, and it was thought laid to the door of the Hailes and others the murder of bis brother, Morris Williams, ex-lieuten- | fy in the federal army, who had been shot dead in fy ardja @ cowardly way by parties tili of late own, p unk Mr. Williams’ greatness has cost him @ hall throug the throat and jaw and few probabilities of le It was fot dileged attempt to ssinate him that the citizens had been arrested who wére glai near Shilon church by the Sheriff's posse, Tha measure cost Hickox and Brown their lives, ene Pope Kae gt dagi civil war, and Ls it up outlawry and w perilous protection of the militia to-day. In your next iseue I will degeribe these bioody poenes at length. er He is a fellow of inferior intellectual | of his life, yet le | He is almost universally believed to | have massacred Tucker and Haile, his prisoners, on | f —mewning | The Hatles, who never liked the | ing an interrupted and secure domestic life. | THE BIBLE IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS The Commissioners of Education of Long Teli City Override the Decision of the State Superintendent and Read the Bible im the Schools—Opposition of Catholics, Protestants and Teachers te the Measure. “The Bible in the Public Schools,” which at this time last year was the all-absorbing topic, has now, hear its birthday anniversary, assumed a new form, which, although handsome to the theoretical eye, is ug'y and impracticable when viewed through the medium of common sense, The “Btble war,’? which began on the 26th of last September—by Mr. Fiesel, a First ward trustee, entering a protest in the school register against the reading of the Bible—soon becaine so bitter that the State Su- perintendent found it necessary to step in and quell what gave promise of becoming a violent, if not bloody, controversy by removing the cause, He ordered that t .e Bible shonld not be read in the school during school hours, which virtually meant that the Bible should not be read at all, But, not- withstanding this decision of the State Superinten- dent, the Commissioners of Education of Loug Island City had taken upon themselves to almost reject the dec'sion by calling school at forty-five minutes past cight o'clock for the pur: pose of reading the Bible. They say that none but those who wist need at- tend to this reading of the Bible, for school is not formally opened wutil nine o'clock, This law was passed at the last meeting of the Board, which was held on the first Friday of tre present month, when article 12, section 18, of the Bylaws, which previously read— at ort recess bi leven and a dinner recess all be allowed. The daily the reading of a portion ote or comment, and the shall be opened YM. <3 sh iptures, w singing of secular airs. These opening exercises shall not occupy more than fifteen minutes was amended so as to read thus:— opened at a quarter” not those who wish ‘and remain to nine o'clock for the ac to hear reading trom t open until three P.M. ten and eleven, anita dinner recess trom twelve to one, shall be allow of the Scriptures shail not oceupy m0} minutes. It should be um | stood that the opening hour is not chauved at all, but | school Is open for those of the pupils who wish to listen to the reading of the Bible. This amendment was drawn up and read to the Commissioners by Mr. pquet, who, being @ lawyer and at the same tine—strange as it may seem—an ardent lover of the Bible, saw) that there was a loophole in the decision of the Supermtendent large enough for him to stick a technical weilze into. As the Superintendent would not have the Bib! read during the school hours—-from nine to th he thought he would extend the hours {rom a quarter to nine to three, and have the Bible read ducing his additional quarter hour, and thus—although atiendance was not compulsory—have the ling of the Bible part of the exercises. The Board consists of five mem- bers, four of whom were present. when Laro- quet Pron raed this measure, It rece Jeet enough votes to e it—three-fifths of the Board, ‘The two opposing mem! , the teachers and citi. ens of Long Tsiand ©} both Catholics and | Protestants, ave unanimous in their condemnation of the Incasu stigmatize as notonly Sc but higt n halt-past primeiy ALD representative | stated that the ure is sly opposed all through, He ihissioners, “Read the Bible with da con- versation one wh. says he said to | to all or not at all.” The HEkaLp reporter asked Mr, Leiberg how the measure worked thus far, and he answered :— “It don’t work at all; only inasmuch as it de- stroys the discipline of the school, creates much trouble for me and the teachers and is productive of insubordination among the pupils, The conse. quence of the measure 1s that I have to convene school tivice instead of once, and at neither of these times can I do it to satisfaction, as the time between the two openings is so short."” “It has done someiling to-vemove the biter feel- fogs engendered by compelling Cathol ‘hiidren to listen to the King James version of the Bible, has 16 not"? 3 ‘0, it has not; it has only served to draw more distinctly the line between the creeds; and, as a conscquence, we hear that the children, Ins'ead of acting towards one uer as they had done be- fore, have become clanu atholic aud Catholic, and Protestant and Protestant.” “Do many of the children attend the reading of the Bibley” “Well, I have an average attendance of 600 pupils, out of these about thirty or forty attend the reading of the Bible. More than half of these don’t er from the lible, so you can see that d Catholics are unfavorable to z her stated that he thonght the ould soon fail through, as the school kept in order ov discipline as long 43 it 1s in operation, LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. mS MASE THE Frevcn Htsrortax, Amédée Theirry, hae written a life of St, Jerome and another of Cbhrysos- tom as a partof his “Récits de ! Histoire Romance,.”? UNDER THE TrrLy, “An Appeal to the Good Sense of the Voters of the United States,” Mrs. Sarah A, Wright—who informs us that she is @ native of Vir- ginla—has written & pamphict on the Presidentiay election, The brochure is essentially a woman's work, in which the heart counts for more than the head. The style is turgid, and declamation re- places logical argument. Still we are glad to have heard Mrs, Wright's voice; and if any other lady has anything to say on the subject we shall prom- ise them a respectiul hearing, ERY USEFUL WORK is in course of publication by E. J. Hale & Son, under the title, “A Cyciopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dick ” The work has been arranged by F. G. Fontaine for ready reference, and will be of invaluable service to literary men as a book of refe: ‘Te FOLLOWING Mopest Lerrer from Charles’ Reade has been forwarded to us for publication, ‘The gentleman’s modesty 1s only equalled by bis temper and choice manners + 4 N Conrecr, Oxvorn, My Dran Sin—It you consider what gross Insults, inja tice and scurrility have been le veiled against me on your rfor writing the on the year sted peopl mider that tantly and sales ot 1 $ founded on what Byles tri th a mendacious, hui virtuous, wonan’s child on her own has- + for co-operatn¢ eto pass off anothe: ad—In course of the trial it came out that thi fenvered an intelligent labo- » remarked on the consequences tht this crime rise to Lue npper classes society, 4 » high titles cmd vast possessions be averied from their lawrnt own 1s sei me pondering what es might tempta virtuous Womat in the upper classes fo commut stich 4 Crime Without inspleing 0 isgust. From this germ the plot grew, and according to my method was sketched out to the last chapter betore a word was written, | Weer vou wisit me in England 1 will show you the sald plot cnifré, Now, observe, If had in this plot substituted adultery position T should have been no. true artist; for ; the other ts a novelty, and an invention. I carried out paluted my herolne both before nots, but capable of lying, Asa and very strongly. she was a woman nt. The temporary cessary to that part of Bassett, Tt was essen- Dut the reader, it amity It had @ wady Bassett's love for love, aud her deceit could never adultery. This, not her uid have resisted to that must of society currence of eircam was ne the plot which respects Richard ial to the siory he should be deceived, | he had studied iny work, instead of sk safeguard against that delusion, her husband was try de: Ww the passage you aliude to ‘the mistre eret Over the sub \. ise hor | own miultery with fi nt to | Ate This is too monstre nt reater ought | to be able to argue backwards, and so see that the originat proposition could not bs a thing quite distinct from its Owl steps. As for the notion that Tintended go stupid, coarse and Inconsistent a thing as adultery by I asvett, but was into. s« we much higher, | drawn by popula vi ‘4 truer to character ane nore ingenious, this theory shows As great an ignorance of my character as of Lady Bassett’s. When did {ever budge an tich out of my path tor poptilar clamor or tand scurrility of eriticasters! I write from ut t ion that my American c.cach number the 8ame week that they " Osgood & Co. printed the number 'y Weller’s first whisper to Lady Bassett s t ad ihe tive next numbers in their hands, duly | prifted and received by me in England; in Bgint of fact | the entire story was finished about the 2d or 3d of April. | My readers ought to learn to. suspend their jndements | now and then, It is what all wise men do someth | "When what you ca y fairly. the logic of ev | pointed one way ole character of Lad: ay sett pointed another, why could they not find one gr. Aighdence and signed their jnlgmentatorn week ortwor Bat, no; not being invents themselves, the: rush at once into a monplace ern forgetting that the author was ne ‘or, and that their narrow ex- periences are no asure of his mind and researches. I cannot reconelle this extreme confidence in themselves and this hasty distrust of me and my resources with the | respect which some of iny friends the water profess ig me iM UT Ate jt! hin ‘1 am afraid, sir, thy i¢ a dash of asperity in this hasty letier. I beg you will not er it ieveilea at is who ustoin of your country, have deviated trom the pres f y writing to me like agentioman. T ain, dear sir, y CHARLES READE. o FRANKLIN Lester, Esq., Chicago. fuithtully, John Chase, of Lynn, Mass., has worked at sh making on the same bench for the last ees pa 8 He uses a lapstone which bas been in ui y different shoremakers for uowards of one dred and twenty-seven year