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1 i I i 4 GAEE HI UMBER 210 v. FIFTY-THIRD YEAR. LITTLE ROCK, lAJRK, THURSDAY; AUGUST 1, 18T2. piADVANCR $10 PER ANNUM nBnjaBBBBBjBjaBBBnojBBnnan i i. Trm a 1 mm day, July 17tbt affidavits were made, and cising the functions of their respective office before trial, POLITICAL.

on the 18lh Judre May issued his War tibroen tiy. I insiracted the Bheriff ta tru who does not know him, nd who discharge the prisoners for failure of the does sot know him His nsme rants for their aTesf, appointing Charles have no power or authority to remove LATEST DISPATCHES B. 6RATZ BROVM. kill them. The court is not opened until after dinner.

Then a proceeding for con-terrnt of roart tgsinst Capt. Barry, of the Dardanelle Transcript, for publishing an article commen iug on thete proceedings in his new8naner ncbliyhed in another pIsJnUB to produce mr witness to sas- wooia exci.e a popular eniuiuusaui wuim Brown, of thai cut. to make the arrest. or suspend either of them from omea far Meetings and Conventions of Calla tain their charge. The same was donf, would be certain Tictory.

A DCXOCKAT. Ha placed the warrants in Brown hands with instructions to arrest the I Demtcrats and Libera! and so tbe ioTrstieation ended. to show yon, furthermore, that "as- far as thej safety of the colored race in their franchisea and in. their con-cerhed, it can never he comparable a war against the white race. I say that wherever it is so anUgoniatie, it haa been made so by the -power of the It is the administration which has produced this aBimosity and A resistance to' their lawiui autnorny is not only a crime, bat an act which the state government will net long tolerate.

parties. He further instructed Mr, learn that some parties are trying to make it appear that the court was intimidated the last day it was held, and that Brown not ts arrest Dodn ard Hickox POPE COUNTY.5 1 i MEETING 01 TflE DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. 1 untU the of -l examination, the IS Speech at the WaSS ConVen-22d of he coold just read 1- i I)hh rmiit 'liAmAAMte -inn hit was the reason ol my not pad mg in mj appearance Friday. It it not to; sickne. inirg con it was sitting, was taken up by Jouge it, Bating as a committing msg-htrete of Pone county.

This' case had arLen since the othir cae hal been set for hearing that morning, yet it was allowed the precedence, and occupied the time of the court until 5 o'clock. Then Judge May insisted on! adjourning. First, alone preyented me. I v' tiuu ui utiiu uciiiuu aio uiiu. Liberal Republicans.

Thee men are officers. cannot np it, any more than you can I can no more get rid of them than yon cn- Tbe tim-; however, is not far distant when yoa can select others, if these do not suit yoa long as they remain oUcers, jthey must not be disturbed by v'o'euce. -r Two -sheriffs of Pope county and! one clerk have already buo ar sinated and Booms of Dbmotratic akb. BTTBCSTSLExKCWT1TCOMlirTT. ti iaTTLB Roei, aty 22, 1472.

i nnra at nrolutioii adopted One great dimcolty daring tne wnoie it to them. We; suppose these-; appointees and tools of Clayton were murderers a little more gent-el than the rest of the posse Mr. lBrown proceeded to Pope county and arrested six of the gsng, examination was to prevent tbe hostile Truthful Account of the Troubles and the Farce of an ExaminationA Republican Paper on the Situation. parlies from coming in collision i with ech other wh'le armed. Both partie Ka- 1 th eommitteo on th 2Utof Jane.

1872. a general meeting of th state central committee hereby i tn KaLl in thiiritvat the roomi Scathing Rebuke of the tiona! Administration when DadBoo ai.d Hickox appeared before him. armed, and desired Mr. Brown raid cemmitee. at 11 e'cloek a.m., an the ni.iniirtk Ait of Amcast.

1872 Al to turn the pr'sooera over to them they pledged themselyes to come in and answer any charge again them if thfy ould be protected while prisoners consequently there were ten guards on each aide selected that the -respective parties mattera of TrT grare importance will eeme before the eommittee errr member 18 murdered, and no attempt has been liade, so far as 1 au advise bring the murderers to justice. I am sa'isfied that' there are' enough good eitixer. in Pope cornty to prevent the awssiOatiorvof yonr (present county officii, and I look to you to 5 --a sTi Proclamation by the Governor He Threatens Martial Law. would, be respotbte for the.r appearance. Brown and Dodson said that he was not out Iho contract between-: them and Mr.

Brown then said he would act no Hickox, and their, attorney. B. earnestly reenested to be vretent. UOHDOIN. EAY.

Chairman. 1 Fat IlKMrSTBAi), Secretary, i i i could plsce confidence in to guard them. The msyor of Bos-ellville closed the sa- prevent anything of this Kind, unless yoa want the sins of others visited upon. yoa. ColUMBCS, July 31.

The liberal, and democratic mass convention reaseembled at 2 p.mn on the east front of the After choqting. twio 'electors, a committee was appointed, to wait on B. Grata Brown at his hotel. They soon returned with that gentleman, who was in- MEETING OF THE LIBERAL XtEPCBLI- loons and put out a ponce lorce, wuu iu-strncuons to compel all persons coming i The following remarkable proclama Shepaid, were, iu close consultation in Evil-disoosed persons, backed by a ve hostility. ThU indirect antagonism will be I fatal to the black man, even if it I should not touch their liberties them- selyea, Bat I have not tie time to go into an argument of these questions.

The speaker then closed by saying that he hoped to again speak to the people of Ohio during the campaign. i Tb Ilantr'n tonflnrrntlea Eatlnaated ait I.0,eo. Kew Yorjc, July 31v--The damage the fire at Honter's Point is estimated by insurance agents at a million and a Last night immense crowds of spectators visited: the scene of the conflagration. The fire continued to burn all last night. Tbe spectacle presented upon the river-was singularly beautiful, all the surrounding section being brilliantly lighted Though it has materially abated, the fire will probably continue to-day if the supply of oil holds out? 2fo fire of this CAS CESTRAL COMMITTEE however, the other case was called up and pressed for trial, and finally the prosecution stated; they would be ready early in the morning, and the court that it should be taken up at 9 o'clock the next (Friday morning, and disposed of that day.

With this assurance the court was adjourned until 9 o'clock next morning. The defendants were allowed to return home for tbe 'night, on their promise to attend in the Dodson and his gang scattered, and all was The next day prom oily the defendants arrived again, with their crowd of witnesses to establish a triumphant defense.1 Dodson, Hickox, and five or six of 'their followers strayed. in. Capt. Barry's case hsd not yet been disposed of.

Nine o'clock came, but no Judge May; ten o'clock, eleven, twelve. in to put their arms awsy, except the this city on fcuiwsy, the I4tf of July, Mntl eammittM of the liberal nal and corrupt pre, will in the future, as in the past, advise you that your guard and such peace officers a were en wiih-bis honoiv a beautiful day for such tepublieaa party will neet at the Timei of- beautiful work. And again, on Friday titled to wear them in tne aucnarge oi their duties. I grievances are of such a character as to StMN KIRKWOOD. justify yoar in resisting the law, and in night, the 8A of, July, aier)he affidavit trodocid by Jndge Spauldtng as the next had been mode, said Judge May enter- president cf the United States.

Some capital is attempted to be made defying its omcera. ia regard to the prisoners from Dover "it tamed and Kept all nizht one. of the one of 1 ssy to you, sucn men are not-your tion appeared in the omcial organ of Wednesday To the Citizens of Pope County It was represented to me that certain evil-disposed persons, on fhe 5th day of Jury, 1872, did attempt the assassination of J. H. Williams, a deputy sheriff in and for the county of Pope, state of Arkansas.

Afterward, to-wit on the 8th day of July, 1872,. Joseph Tucker, Wrc Hale and N. J. Hale were arrested by the sheriff and his noese. on the charge of coming with an armea squaa.

am DISTRICT CONGRESSIONAL SECOXD; parties charged lo have Committed the above murder, and' on the 20; of July informed that there were ten prisoners, friends; they seek power, through! your blood, and expect to laxariate ovet the desolations of your homes and yout fire It GOSYENTION. Caitbks. Jely 22. 1872. was again in close Vxnsultation with Dodson and Hickox.

On the 22d May he ten guards and twenty-three witnesses in the squad, besides some citizens. When they came in J.hey were inarched to the sides, The men who now inciting 9 To the Voter of the Second Congressional District: tt -i selected and appointed M. lne general inquiry "Where the you to strife are not those who art tuQer eoard-bouse, and tbe sheritt aseureq me the loss of life and property equsltyi with The citizens of Bussellville that thev were all but the of v.liJuftlton, as his deputy eheriff for Pone county: and appointed four A coBTeation ef the demoeratie and eon-MrratiTt party ef the Second congressional k. klA t. Princeton.

I allSS prepared a dinner for the defendants at On taking the stand, Mr Brown said he was physically unable to mke a long speech, his speech at Frankfort yesterday, united aith the, ride to this city, having given him a severe headache. He" had always had a controlling interest in national politics, audi has so happened that her vote has always been decisive in the great presidential contents of the past. It would seem as if tha. Influence was hot to bs lessened in the nreaent contest. 4 She guards.

I will state in this connection that Being connected with the attempted assas- ot uv' relatives of the eleven men to aination of Deoutv Sheriff Williams. eoanty.OB VTdBesay. the 4th day of eep- when Dodson and his poste were on trial magnitude was ever before witnessed. guard the prisoners when the prisoners hould say tney were ready for examina tember, isit, for tne purpose oi hobukuh a candidate fereenerees. It is deemed highly important that all tie nnntiM kj riiKtriet ahanid be represent- yourselves they are calmly and uetiDsr-ately inciting yoa to a resistance of tbe laws for the sole purpose of repeating the desolation of your nVsides and homes in other portions of the sta'e and nation, as a reason why.

they should be placed in offi they are yon toj your their" own expense. The aflerpoon drags on," but Judge May neither comes nor- is heard The court dissolves by the operation of And thus' ends i the feeble effort to divert public attention from the horrible record of the late and tion. Do-isosi, at 1 the jacge 4 they were resdyV wbereupoti the court was open'. d-J Tbe prisoners waived an examination and asked to be. bound over to the circuit which wt3 done by ed.

and tbose whieb hawe not alrea- done so are earnestly requested to appoint dele-; a-alea to attend said eonTentieg. The nnaniaiity with which Ureeley and Brown were nominated at Baltimore ha ik. niunii ram extreme of tbe iBsacellBB nf ttin AnarleaBi Fleet la Enclloh Waters. London July American fleet will be inspected at Co wee by the prince and princess of Waldes, and prhbably the queen. The princej will entertain a number of the offieersjof the fleet to-mor own ruin, to the end that they may1 grat -I-' 1 Whilst these persons (Tucker and the two Hales) were in the custody of the sheriff and his posse, on their way to a commit ing magistrate, they were fired upon! in the night time, from the bushes, and Tucker was killed, and one of the Hales wounded (fmm which wound he has since died).

Upon learning these facts I went in person to Pope county, and found many of the citizens in a state of excitement, and many of them under arms. On the one side it was claimed that the killing of Tucker and tbe wound- looked upon from all quarters of tha ify an inordiaate ambition for greed and cover op guilt by fastening crime oa in-eain. 1 1 do not desire to use force in? the nocent citizens. Then the weary defend- Judge May, notwithstanding the charge anion to the other not only with the hope bat the weU-f- ended belief that sueoess ants and their witnesses, woo have ben en'orcement of the laws, bat the law! muft take its course, unaided by armed -j i was murder in the degree. W.

A. Stuart snd tha twenty one others were fconnd over in the sum of $500 will erowm our efforts in flovemoer i ojer-. vn in iAt rations. DOta row, and on Friday they will be enj hi his friends would come in town armed, but would put their arms away upon arrival. As far as I could go was to instruct the sheriff to see that' the police compelled all parties not entitled to be ir arms to put the same away.

The only instance brought to my notice of any of tbe prisoners wearing arms in the court-room while on trial was Dod-son, and I immediately ordered him disarmed, which was done, anything to the contrary that Mr. might say. Now Batten field and Barry are trying to makeigreat capital, politically, but of this metier, especially Barry of the Tranacript, who is an insignificant puppy an instigator of for whose conduct in this matter as for contempt, will be properly; attended lo when my court mec'B in Yell county or Pope. i tained by the mayor of. Soalhaniptc torn from their suffering crops snd Compelled to travel miles to attend court- some of them beiog too poor almost to pay for a dinner, ere allowed to return to their homes.

This is the truthful record People of Arkansas, you see your con Now, therefore, IJ OzroA. Hadley, as nation with.g.eat interest. that so far as lbs questions that ere be ore the eople it was reduced substantially 'jTthisi whether it shall be possibl for? the people tf the United SaUs to insd ia March au'adaiiiiistra-ttoa that wUT give a better account of the dition. -1 You see your surroundings. state and national.

It is confideBtly be-liered that the people of the Second regional will not be loan wanting in i he diseharse ef their daty at this import, sat crisis in the kistory ot oureontry. Uy order ot the execatire eommitteo of the governor of the sute ot Araansas, oy NEWS OF THE MORNING. ins: of Hale was the deliberate work of virtue of tne (power vestea in me ny tne i Yoa know your duty to yburselven'and to your families. Continue to. abide by the law.

Shed no blood. -Your conduct of justice and the law in Pope county. constitution nd laws of Arkansas, ao command sit persona to return td their the sheriff's posse, and that 4he firing upon the prisoners and posse was done by-agreement with the sheriff, and by his We suppose we will not be guilty of fTy JT. BEARD Kil. Chairman in withholding your hands wlilst the cry homes and their daily avocations imme contempt of court when we say of Judge of innocent blood was loudly csllin? May, os a man and not as a cowl or a diately, and thereafter demean themselves a friends, for the purpose of furnishing a nretcxt for the killing of Tucker and Hale.

troubles of the country a oetter solution ef the diversities that have sprung up between the sections ra mo certain adjust TWENTT-FIKST PIS from the grbund has been noble and .3 as peaceoDie ana law-auiamg Nellie Grant is in Vienna. The City bank of Memphis suspended yesterday. $50,000 assets unknown. The republicans of the Nineteenth Ohio di-ttrict yesterday senomiaated Gen. TRICT CONVESTIOS.

i A violation of this command will' re On the other fide it was claimed that jvdgt, that the afflicted citizens of Pope regard him as no better than Dodson, Hickox," Stuart or Cloniger, and ss the glorious it is sublime it is God-like. The people; of noble old Pope have cov I Tti Munatina tit tne Twenty- sult, no matter, who advises youjtolhe certain citizens of Pope county had way .1 MMnnftd Af iba eobaties of laid and ambushed the sheriff and his boon companion of murderers, high ered tnempeive witn glory. iNot aurep of even guilty blood has been ehed.r To Governor, whatever yon do, I would urge yeu not to declare martial law in Pope county, unless there should be more justification for it than now." I will go contrary, in placing ope county Dnaer mastial law, where it will be kepi until such time "si in my opinion peace and waymen, robbers and assassins. fcaline. Uallas and Perry, and a portion of the county ef Uraot, for the parpo-e nminaunc eaadidates for members of the next reneral assembly, will be held at posee, and had fired Upon them for the sole purpose of effecting a release and the escaDe of the prisoners.

Which of these We append also an article from the the law and to tbe testimony have you appealed thai law, as they administer answers let; murderers go free. A straw J. A- Garfield for congress. Army boll worms are doing great dam- Princeton, on Thanday. the fifth bay down and see yon as soon as I get able Dardanelle Transcript whose fitmKr Holt.

A fall daloatiom IrotB These lviner editors no here, who are order will follow a withdrawal of the troop, i i In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand! and caased the seal bf the two theories is correct, as to tbe killing of Tucker and Hale, it is not my province the several eouatie composiaK said dictriet editor was arrested for contempt, review age to cotton in the vicinity of Selma, ment of the conflict of 'races that has been brewing for some years past than the one vhich'; now hohN power.7 The speaker ideclared -that Grant speikers, -instead; of answering such questions as to why' they have not fulfilled their promises made about peace in the south, it found they said little about th "cordial shaking of right nands between the iraesw, but only told that- under Grant the national debt opposed to the state and national admin bond is all that is necessary to bind these midnight arsassins and worse than wiid beasts of the forests. to determine. Ala4 and the crop will be short. is earnestly reqnesccu. Uy order of tht' exeeatire committee, ef saiddistrictt WM.

A. CKAWFORU, I Chairman. istrations, are doing, eyeryuung tney can to fqrther their base desires, and you must Ot. arriviaz at Eusllville, in your state ta pe amxea at inline ac, mu thirtieth day! of July, in the year bf our county. I sent word to the citizens of ing the murders by Dodson' and his posse.

We have previously published the dying statement of young Hale and the affidavit of Mr. West, referred to Lord one thousand eigm nun- allow a large margin on uitir iwcukuu in regard to Pope county. A shooting affray at Ellsworth, on Monday, resulted in the death of ak Texas desperado named Oliver and a manSg Dover (where I was advised three or four hundred armed men had assembled) that Hoping that J. will De awe to visit you I desired to consult with their leading STATE HEWS. if 1 CT.ARK.

Col. Duane Thompson has resigned tbe below, but this will be found of interest soon, I remain, yours truly, and representative men. Some fifteen or just now. Bead it carefly seal. dred and seventy-twoy O.

A. Hadiby, Goverjior. By the Governor J. Hi Johhsok, Secretary of a ate. Aa an offset to tbe above we append, below, an article from the Russellville nod been reduced at the rate of a hundred Wiluak A.

uit. SUMNER AND GREELEY. The following are the facts of the mayoralty' of Arkadelnhii, and is suc twenty came to Bussellville, in compli- aace my request. They assured me that the citizens of that portion ef the countv defined peece. and would aid in murder of Willam Hale and Joe Tucker, ceeded by A.

Gan tt. from Michigan named Kennedy. i The semi-annnal session of the Hebrew order Bnai Brith was held in New Yfrk 1 on Tuesday, representatives being present! fom different parts of the country. A glorious rain fell yesterday at Mem-" phis, snspendiiig the heated of ten of Pope county, committed -by E. lot iui tuunir, cuuiuiuku-uj i Tribune of July 27th--a paper published Dodson, sheriff W.

H. Hickox, clerk Atlsst Charles Sumner has come out MEETING OF CONWAV COUXTY CES-TRAtt COMMITTEE. The members1 of the Cemocratio 'central eommitteo of Cenway county are requested to meet at hpriBcneld oa the 6 of Aajcot, at it o'clock, a.m., for the purpose of cnll-inr a county convention also, eonsaltatiea with the liberal republican committee, to rether with sue a other business as may corns before it. U. W.

BURROW, 5 a Chairman Committee. i MOT SPRDfGI COUNTY DEMOCRATIC fj COISVENTIOS. A conrentioja of the eonservaUTe-deinb-eratie voters of the county of Sprise hereby cal.ed at Moekpert, Friday, Aucust ta elBcLdelda-atas to the representative tbe preservation and enforcsment of the law. and that all the people wanted was of said county, and W. A.

Stuart, school in the midstof the troubles. The Tribune boldly against Grant and advises the col The Swandard, in mentioning that materials for a new Minstrel iaper have'ar-rived at Arkadelpbia, omits to -state whether or not Timmons will be the chiel and twenty-one others, millions per year. He est'd the people know to their sorrow who paid the debt la regard to the reconst "action policy of Grant, the speaker said it had been a failure, and had not succeeded in restoring peace, border, good government and honest administration tiv ny of the states under its control. He said, on the other hand, in Virginia, where liberalism is republican In politics, snd tip to that a judicial investigation take place at once, and thai the euilty should be dealt members of Deputy Sheriff Williams1 ored people to vote for Horace Greeley. Can any colored man doubt longer as to militia, taken from the statements of short time since was 'one of Gov, Bad-ley's official journals.

The editori of that with according to law. aasurea tneee Hale and the two prisoners who the proper course for him to pursue, af- oiiiiens that the attemp'e I eseaseinatioa top roadlno- th archinsr comuarison of I of Denutv Sheriff Williams, the paper was a federal soldier, and hM been escaped so miraculously with their, lives from a doom so well planned, yet so bun- -t the respective histories of Greeley and killing of Tucker, and the wounding identified with the republican party since scribe oaiU "1 Mr. Henry M. Carter, a prominent citizen and merchant of Arkadelpbia, a few dy since. The Standard says of the crops: glingly executed ss to bring the odium Hale (from which wound he has since n-mtrie't.

to 'be ho Hen at the close of the warJ What ha aays of Grant as made by Mr. Sumner 7 The of foul, fiendish murder-upon the per i Mnt tt. Mnscniber 21st. and to the con i days duration, which has been ihe longest and hottest ever known there. I A Geneva telegram says complete hart moby exists in the board ol arbitrators I and a speedy settlement of all before the tribunal is 'expected 'within a -few I' 1 A Ealeigh (N.

C) dispatch says ns one expects the election to day to pass off i without bloodshed. It is estimated there oressional dittrtct -convention not yet fijst has a life-long, record aa a reformer petratora. snd their accessories, before snd after the facts are submitd, that our called), ana to nomineve eniy ouona. died), should be fully investigated. The citizens there present signified to me that they had confidence in the honesty and integrity 'f Judge May, and would be content with an examination to be holden -The cotton crop of this county, it is skid, is i the -finest ever, known in the county, i.

The uniform warm weather: for haa had its fall sway, all went well none, either black or white, Were Tennessee, which had been a perfect hell oindcr. Brownlow's administration-, has also changed, and, continued the speaker, go there to-day, where i liberalism is triumphant, and you wUl fiad peace and ZACUARIAU PHILLIPS. UII VV a Ktsl.kV. i and anti-slaveryr man; lhe.lat has no record worth publishing, save that he was a Buchanan democrat, i a. pro-elavery the affair cannot be tortured into 'democratic Being on tbe spot, perfectly familiar with all, the facta, an4 of the same political persuasion as the governor, we leave it to an impartial- publib to determine who- is- correct in these state- JOHN O.

before him. This done, 1 visited tbe people msy know what desperate strains the "rule or policy of radicalism is driven in our section, by the Greeley and Brooks reform party. Here they are Deputy Sheriff Williams reported that he had been fired I 1LUAA VAIHAWi Jixeeutive Committee several weeks past has been most favorable to its growth, both in stock and boll, and with no future disaster, the yield, man and a soldier. Greeley has always other party in srms (some of whom were stood as the friend ef the colored man members of the state guard) and commanded them to return to their homes, and restore such property as they had THE' GOVERNOR'S PROCLAMATION meats the governor or the editor of the where the crops have been well worked, will be Grant proved by bi treatment of the jcol-ored men of Hayti, one of the only two upon while fetumg his horses, the balls taking effect in bis hat, through A LETTER FROM JUDGE MAY. good order, and a kindly feeling between tbe races yoa find the state rapWly re-, suming its condition of natural prosperity, putting its it' order, GREENE.

colored nationalities on this side of the i -i will be a hundred serious affrays through out the state. --r I Senor Mariscabroutie, minister of for-', -eigtf affairs for Mexico under President Juarez, and now charged the second time, to represent Mexico at- Washington, ar It was our intention The Randolph, Express says to say something "he cares nothing for the From; Greene county we have news of a Tribune. bf Arkansas, read this Powell Clayton returned to Arkansas a few days af.er Jam 33 Fitch, his servile tool, the ia famous registrar of Johnson county In M8G8, and of Polski Sn 1870, came to Pope ostensibly to orate on the Fourth of July, at the Minstrel barbacue. The two barb -cues held -by the reform singular phenomenon. While some men taken from the citizens of the county to the owners, saying to them that the grievances and difficulties of which they complained should be fairly invratigoted before Judge and tbat the guilty should be msde to Buffer, i With this they expressed themselves satisfied, and returned to their home, as I am informed.

thn asked Judre Mtv to sro to Podo colored race," Tbe first.ia in favos of reconciliation between the lately warring his shirt sleeve," and through a heavy braes belt-pla'e, and. a glancing shot on the' leather belt. Whereupon Dodson, Hickox, Stuart Co. proceeded to a point nine miles north of Dover, to the residences of William Hale and his father, N. J.

Hale, without any warrant of arrest, and took thm prisoners. When they asked upon what grounds were they ar were digging a well on tne farm ot J4r. building np its railroad laboring, to protect and secure the rights; of its citizens you do not hear of this antagonism of races that is the crv inSforth Carolina. in this morning's paper upon the very singular document issued by his excel lency, whjch was published in yesterday's organ an is re-published in to-dsy's CA-'KfT but wine to press on' our col- McCaney, about four miles east of Uames-ville, a few days ago, and when they had reached the depth of thirty feet, they uvea in ixew iurt iwwiiji The mayor of, Yedio and a number of j' sections, and people 6f al races the last wan's the peace that isf made by the sword. 1 nirtv on that day outnumbered the Min- a a i a.

1 commenced to bore a hole with a common Japanese: embassadora on Tuesday atj .1 nnnnlv and hold an exsmininz court, for I atrel affair. qmns. are) unahle to do so. Instead, jwe j. ds snowed tne nanawrit-wall.

That evening Fitch, Sumner and Grant were the true apos rested, Dodson "By God, you'll anger in the bottom of the well, when the vurnose of commiuinir persons ling oa tha append below a letter from May Dodson and Hickox repaired to Dover, mm tles of the anti-slavery cause. The first find out soon enough." Upon inquiring where they were to be carried for trial, to' his excellency on the subject of his at once a strange, rambling noise was heard, and a blast of air or gas ejected from the aperture made by- the auger. charged with crime to js or to hold them to baily to answer at the next term of the Pone circuit court i wbicn nas oeen ouui jur tue Japanese government at New Yprk. i A German named Henry Swigert, while was possibly the most conspicuous, but, only because the scene his labors was i they were informed by the sheriff, to Dover Ihe county seat. When they arrived at Dover, they arrested Joe Tucker snd The workmen suddenly vacated that-hole court, which directly contradicts many statements made by tbe governor.

Bead it, and then read what the governor aays. I might add tGat if yoa would go farther and go to Missouri, where perhaps this policy has had most emphatic trial, you might see there I 'will say, although, I do not to be boastful of my own state as prosperous a condition of things aa in any state of this nation. You gwill' find that state, which was upheaved almost by volcanic action aa it were, and left -with the. edge of society ragged, jagged and sharp, and cutting in the senate chamber thelatter was attempting to- beard the fast train west and ascended to terra fitma, there to await developments- A stream of sand i was Perry West, and theu staled to the pns- I am informed that udjre May went to Pope coon'y; hsd the sheriff and his posee arrested upon a charge of killing TucLer and Hale; that the sheriff snd his pease waived an examination and gave bond in on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, yes probably the more effective, because hi work was brought to the daily and weekly tbe county site, where they met Deputy Sheriff Williams, and the diabolical plot and massacre immediately thereafter were concocted. 1 Friday morning, the 5th, Williams started home, in pursuance of ihe conspiracy, and the three othee parties left Dover or the southern portion of the That nig'it Willisn pretended to be shot by ku-klux.

Nobodyj a word of it. The c5 coo tances snd the Judge May's letter ie creditable to htm, outside of his 'personal allusions to the thrown steadily for over turee days Jugn above the earth, and the escaping air terday, eight miles below; Wheeling, feBj oners that Judge May (anothetof Clayton's appointed tools, and just about as much tit to be a circuit judge as Di.ason, made a fearful noise as it rushed from notice of hundreds of thousands of readers during all the years of the great strug the mouth of the well. After about three Hickox: Stuart (Jo. are to execute well- 1 1 editors of the Transcript and 'Tribune. This difficulty with them is a side issue thai is not involved with the principal planned ku-klux outrages for political gle.

Bjth were called upon to undergo days the internal forces seemed to have spent themselves the noise ceased the under the cars and wss instantly killed, The body was horribly mangled. The election for county officers toda i is the engrossing subject at MemphisVil The canvass has been; an- 5 such sums as Judge Msy directed, for their.appea ranee at the next term of the circuit court. -i I am further i a formed that udge May issued warrants for the an est' of (en persons (whose names are now: unknown to me), charged with firing upon the sher against 'each other, as smooth and capital), had ordered them to bring them (the prisoners) before him at Dardanelle, the pains and dsngersof personal ssult workmen descended and explored the case. His letter presents him in much for speaking their faith: Sumner from scene of their fright. Nothing nnusual Thev then announced to the prisoners positive proof render it in possible to be truev 4 Dodton and Uicko never reujnwd to Dover until they bad collected their more; favorable light in his conaection the cane of Brooks, of South Carolina; that they were arrested lor tne muraer ot i appeared, except ie large neap oi anu with the troubles.

The place of a circuit Morrison Williams, who was murdered armed band of.a9ins whom dig iff's posse, etc. Thete warrants am aa judge is at aB times a difficult! one, and plea writ as any other state in the anion-: You will find 3u the politic of Missouri that there are not now existing any aninxo'utiei tliat grew out of the war. It people are all in harmony and accord, and a-e ecgag- 1 in industriil pursuits Greeley from the hand of Bust, of Arkansas. Whatever msy be the result of two years ago, and they be if they I IS which had 'accumulated, work was resumed, and good water after i descending a few feet further. Who'c4n explain the phenomenon much alldwance should be made at didn't have revenge.

1. hey then started bitter one, and some trouble is anticg pated. A special police force will he placed on duty, and the saloons att', closed. James A. Kenneday belonging to thf the coming election, each will occupy a higher niche in the temple of fame than with the four prisoners, as.

they said, to Dardanelle, in Yell stating that i juncture like the present one, when the deeoest passions of human nature are they expected to be bushwhacked, -i ar POPE;" The Bussellville Tribune contains the a Grant. It would be staacge, indeed, if rivine at the Williamson camp-ground, vised were serv or at lestt te most of piy by the name of posse Arrest are them, and about fortynilntfa subpee- mode of innocent young men, good citi-ncad by the. defendants. I am adviar senp, of the first rank in the community, that on the day set for the hearing of the Circuit Superintendent Stuart Ss of tbe ten persons arrested on a charge of firing gang. Then follows the ride of death upon the sheriff's posse, etc, the prison- tbe hin subteriugeof anambosaade the era came to the court armed with double- whol sale butchery of defenceless pris barreled shotguns and navy revolvers; onr rs.

Then ensue the infamous deeds that the forty witnesses were of burglary and robbery, the break ing up armed, and that from forty to sixty other of warring on liale children, mrann. all oLvhom vers md with snd the terrifying of the citizens of a following call for a citizens meeting aroused; iTA Daxpasxxxx, Ar kn July 30, 1872. Gev.O. A. HadSeyt the colored men of the country were ever to be tbe means of denying to Greeley about a half an hour by sun, a distance of three miles from Bussell engineer corpe of the Iron Mountain rails road, waa taken siek at Poplar Blufflaff i Sunday, and procured from a druggist the good c'ttsens- of they have forgotten the animosities of the pa no longer 'even think of them.

Yoa will fiod, furhermore, if yoa want to proUot the colored race in ita freedom snd franchise, illustration of the manner of doing tC You will find ville.4.; rivine: them an hour and and Sumner the triumph; that is their county are able and determ-ntd t' up it. Dear Cava iter I was seized wit a a due for their immense labor in behalf of Kyvere attack of rheumatism of the chest half to reach Bussellville before dark. Here they stated tbat if they, could get forage they would stay all night. From hold tbe majesty of tne law ana the oig-niiy of the our to. pr.erve: order, bring offenders to justice and have peace, last Friday morning, and have been con- their Grant's only hope of success what he supposed to be tincture of buchn, but which proved to be aconite.

He took dose and died in two. hours. His body was taken to St. Louis, where he resided. i the close private consultation.

and the rests seennng the solid colored vote of Qd who in no mannCJM a pa whole county and portions of other counties. The arnvd marauders are at large, and the chief ex eutive hobnobs with them fined lo nay oeu most oi tne time since, just being abae bow to ait up in my mom to write, this in regard to the Pope 6 muntv trouble. "j'j r'-i that' th: prineipleV not only im-beddt in the constitution of the state, but goarenteed by the democracy by a we call on all good cit'ztns ot tue cjunty to et at the precincts in their respective townships on Saturday, August 3, the south, if ureetey; ana oumner are HABKETS BT TELEeBAFH. of the guard for the prisoners, accoinpo-niei them to the plsce where tbe examination was to be held, snd this, I am ad general manner of tbe actions of Do Ison, Hickox Co. at- this place, the prisoners became much alarmed.

Some time after dark the prisoners were placed "4 beaten, it will be by the colored race, to procure whose freedom has been the 1872, for the purpose of taking the mat itBsrirrsv July SU Cotton nominal for lnv tuidillina reeeiDta 37 bale: exports St ter into Considertion, pledging ouraelre vote of the whole' state, which has a bonded snd some odd thousand, I beleve, and a- few opposition; labor of their liver What ingratitude, oa tbeir horses in front of the posse, ex bales. Floor nominal. Cora dnll at 56a6w i I enclose herewith my letter: to the citizens Pbpe county, dated at Dover, 17th inst. t'f hie letter we havepub lished in a previous issue. Oath234 went to iHassellville.

spoointed Tbos. together for tha enforcement-! the law, and sendins delegates to a meeting of the vised, wss done against the advice rnd over: the protest, of the ccuo'wKfor the prisoneis. The couneel for snd; On behalf of the state, by reason of these violent cept iodson and llickox, who were in if Greeley is ft and sends them arms. Warrants are sworn out against them and still they are not arrested. Dodson, Hickox, S.nart Co.

sre in daily consultation with Msy, the circuit judge. The marauders are invited to court. They come loaded down with revolvets and double-barreled shot-gun. Tha swagger about the street i of Ku-sellville breathing out threatening and front, when Dodson locked back and said, The letter is addressed to quite a num citizens of the county, to be held at Bussellville on Saturday, AngusMOth, for "By God, it looked like half his men were and revolutionary -proceedings, ber of colored men, and is quite lengthy A. Yoa vrill hnd tbat tere is no feeling all that Isnd to larb the present condition of sffjrs.

You wU End no white -man theie "with prejudicr's A. Hanks special sheriri, e-C. Dodson and twenty-one of his men came in and to-the sheriff. I selected Oa.tsda.ll 4041e. Corn meal arm at Hay; no sales.

Bran firm at 17e. llafoa 6rm ehoulders7(3 i4t clear sides Lard: na ilaa: Pert: 1 CmciBsaTi. July 31. Cotton dnlL shade lower, i'lour In "soed deasand.feri old 1838 23: new tjOOsO. Wheat in rair demand bat lower; ld $1.55.

Cora in aw demand at 47348. Perk dnll and nominal rml.r SU fill; nitv SltTsa aatas. Lard at 1 1 the fame purpose. Let every good citizen turn out. and exhaustive In details.

We shall endeavor to publish it in fall to-morrow. gone," with a tend is Jaugu. Alter starting, some one said, ''It's dark aa Dodson said, Eitypt has no eyes and having proceeded but a short distance, The ciu'xeas of Illinois township will threat of violence made in bis hearing, wss constrained to withdraw from a prosecution where tbe rouit and in officers would be compelled to behold the prisoners, and tbe witnesses subpmnrd in their further slaughter. 1 he examiamg court, holden by Circuit Judge May, finally si John Williams ras chief of guards, and int rnrttd him ta select tea men to guard meet at JL.usiellville on the 3d at 10 o'clock Mas Cxtizehs. and against the colored race.

You will. find them there taken by the about one quarter of a mile from the and forty witn -se appear tor tne prose 'col. rc. newton: I tbe prwoners; sad instructed the sheriff, s. kwmtcd tha nrisonera." to disarm camp-ground, witnesses heard a voice them and tern them over to tbe guards, from the roadside say "halt," and some eight or ten guns were fired, blaze 'BAHtpOLPII.

1 The same paper rays Two children of Widow Williford were Recommended for Cos a rets man of etna and neminal at 7)4o. e. ii4s? meats ia good, demand sales at 7'yi'sSe. i Bacon in -rood demand at SHSSJe.4 Sagar enred hams firm at 15w; ia fair demand at Whisky active and BdvaBeed 89c. LouisviLts Jaly 31, Tohaeeo; sales 127 hhdsi lns 7e8Ho5 lew lft, ood.

8JvSj 13s. BaKBine ia fair demand at 1j1oo.h romz directly upward. Dodson and who were tinder his charge, babpoenas were issued for all. witnesses asked tor on hand that heir feelings and thelf rights are respected. will find they hive all, through the stite sfabl'shed their school1? and churches, and are rebuilding themselvt to be worthy members of so- behalf, all srmed to the teeth, denying cation, to erpose the damnable plot," 1 he the authority of the judge, and juris- defendant! wear their weapdnat.

within diction in the premises The sheriff and the. very! court-room. Their counsel, hie party have submitted themselves to Gen. Gantt and Judge Wilshire, assisted the law, and, so far as I am informed, bv the prosecuting attorney ef the cir-have kept the peace and their assurances cuit, T. M.

Gibson, waive examination td me. Those persons charged with fir- snd are admitted to bail by Judge May nnnn ih sheriff and his Dosse have in the sura of 5000 each for Dodson and drowned Spring river, in Sbaro Hickox having turned to one side of the Third District. Mubfreesbobo, Ark July 23. road, the prisoners were then fired upon County, on Saturday morning last. It either side, and served.

fWhen tbe case was ready for examination thedefendants aa examination and asked tl be by the posse, resulting in the death of Joe appears that the children haa ev i An Vi oa rt ars t.A i to go across the river to visit a neighbor, Tucker, and mortally wounding William Editors Gazettc: As the time for appearance at admitted to bail for their Hale; the bullet-holes, silent witnesses, a JESS lvw KB iu ta tin bwiw a at 30 4 Flour 'steaey I oxtra amily tm.J. ra'n Wheat. new, tt.30i.4a Cen 1 fio. Provisions in lair demand. Mess peri tl, not done so, and I am advised that citi- Hickox, and a much smaller amount for wnanf Pone ermntv.

in the vicinity of 1 the other defendanU, to answer at the the next term of the I'ope circuit court. I meeting of the congressional conven- pointing directly to who were their mur and intended remaining all night. JSot making their appearance next morning, their mother became alarmed and eearch was at nee instituted for them. The neishbors whom the children' intended Dover, are now ia arms, determined to I next circuit court to the charge of mur- Tbe oiloM as cuargeu oeirg oei.au.uo Uon of thk aj8trct draws near, as is same was graated-IW and L.M,. mram are broaeht before derers.

One of the escaped witnesses, covered by the darkness and wood, remained in full hearing of the dark and der in the first degree. These bonds renst the authority of the law it "each in the sum of $5000, the remainder have not vet been civen, though the ptr- the neonle. bv the respective friends of ciely. You will find that they have their normal schools; that they have their slate university, eo to ik, end that that state university or normal school has received its endowment at the hanOs of a democratic legislature. I-call that proof of the result of a liberal policy.

I appeal to you to judge of this work- on the one h-ud as against the policy of the C-jui t-LaL officers. I do not desire to place Pope county bloody tragedy, and heard the dying groans bf his companion, poor, bleeding Affidavit were then filed before me by'I the parties, as to the most suitable person ties are at large, armed, and defying the law.) Thereupon, on the sole affidavit of W. Dad son, tbe head a'ssin, Judge May issuet warrants a era inst ten of the first fia.2513.5U eosov uaoon oo. faekea i Jiulk meats SHe, 6. BiaXe.

hnsav: eared hams 14J4tl5ei at4 Sie.li4 Kiej order lots V4o hiber the above attotatiens. Whisky firm atB7e. -i st. Louis. aly SI.

Cotton dull and nsjn inal. Flour qaiet and naehanged. Vhejit; opened firm and closed doll; sample edwiBter No. 1 but tbe telSeei 4eelined. Can a tltade better Mo.2miK.i SHc.

Whisky lower at "se Fork, dnll eff-riaj! at withoot bayers; orer fU balk me 3. tit clear side o. under martial law, or subject its citizens to the loss of property consequent upon Joe Tucker, and the imprecations of this visiting slated that the children had not been seen. The people now became after tracing tbe children to where they entered the river they were soon- satkfied that they had met a watery grave. The bodies were Dodeoo, charging Reese Hogan and nine repregen, ja congress.

Among the othersith bh hendish gang of outlaws, end especially, quartering militia in tbe county, but the the oaths of Had ley's pet, Djdson, "Ob 1 young men of Pope, and they are bi ought lo Bussellville to answer to -the charge of eonslitatinj? the ambuscade, which it by Ood, I've got you now where I wanted WarranUwere issued, and on Thursday know of nd one possessing more general moraipg defendants came is and surren- qaaJifications for the place than Col. B. law must and shall neeniorceu, respecieu and obeyed, and, if necessary, the entire fore; of the state will be employed for tbat purpose. Citizens must return to you," and then with a double-barreled is pretended by the Dodson posse. dered, and were put under guard Dring- if ewton, of your city.

Of pre-eminent Ing in with them twenty-three Jj- leffal talent and education, shot-gun blew off one ride of hU head, and the voice of poor Joe Tucker was hushed forever. Around this Bcene of bloody death, fiendish laughs and blasphemous fired on them. Ih examination is set for Thursday, the 25th, 8t EueUville. devotion to the cause ef it. nMmiiniL lIm eoart was occupied iCoL Newton's Promptly on tbat day every one of these their homes, lay down their arms and attend to the daily avocations of life.

It has been represented to me that the citizens of Pope county will not lay down their arms, nor return to their found on a shoal, a short distance-below where they attempted to cross. WOODKTTIT. The Augusta Bulletin of the 27ili says: The last week's rains have done immense beneQt to the ctrn and not dam-sped the cotton. The dry, hot weather of this week has enabled the planters to get he grass under. and democracy has never been ia the afternoon by the contempt case of defendants sp pears for trial.

-They come Barry. I mnt Tinm Thursday evening, and 4 imprecations made night hideous, bach, fellow countrymen of Arkanf are the main facts of Hadlty's innocent murderers, whom he promised the people should be brought to justice, and at the fame Beon quiat: thealders4i4e: eloarrioFi Sis: elear sides WadlJies Lard qaiet i ye i fned 9i Hoes and caile nnehanifpd. Nkwvblbabb. Jaly 31. Vourdatl; t.60?7ift family 8--''-e Corn qnSttj mixed i56(fil 5Set wbito Oats Hay oiiet; irime t24rebotre S27.

Bj-ain t.O Pr held a sare bat firm atS4e, 7Ye. -Sotar enred haws lwert 1446 la Lard, refined choice, H- 1 i few- VnK, Jaly Hi. Cotton more-aQv: and lowoasr; middUr uplands 21Vie. feid -1 1 rout aad modertey active within' St, raeiaof -UiK at ilerch-. ts are large bnyera inaotieiit; tiia new tariff Jul" St.

Cott flat: Bt il-' Ai.lor rf5j-Cit Orlaana Hi' -J administration on. the o.her, and when you make up your loulations to what is Injst for the nation" do it honestly, do it ion -cieuliously, and do it with a fall knowledge of what youare doing. Fellow- citizens, I would gladly, if I were able, go oa with the reuiaiks andQin-der4 ke to how the policy of the so far asthe elenienN of pociely at work in the south aio. has been a faUure. And why hau it been a failure t-i.

could show yeu that it could not by any possibility have been any-tliiiig tian a I irsuM like Friday morning was taken sick, and have not been able to return to Bussellville it hi ll tV questioned. I speak adyisedly wlien I assert that throughout southwestern Arkansas his name wol a synonym of success." Should the congressional convention, in I's wisdom, nominate him, hi election would be rtain. Many of the candidates named have a local reputa- hiit it.ev are not cenerally known. turn for time sent two cases of arms to homes, so long ss the sherifl and clerk attempt to exercise the duties of their respective offices. The authority of your civil officers must and shall-be respected.

The mere fact that some of them are charged with the killing of Tucker and Hale, and that are bound ner to answer such charge, does not vet. Jtriday evening cpeesai duiu Mackey, came over to asccrtun the the renewal of their bloody work. Far-? I lllorace Greeley has reconsidered hia with a cloud of witnesses. They declere themselves ready to prove that at the time of the pretended each of them wss miles! away, not dreaming of the murderous dtsiens of the heriff and hi mob. Judge May comes over from Dardanelle in the morning.

The day drag on. Dodon, Stnsrt and Cloniger hang around town, iiruipd to I he teeth, threatening if the rs-caia Cftr ir id run in calLeuanJ nt not KDHDink. ther, in obedience in Ila ley orders, I l.umose of makinff a stay on Lou his tool, one Jude AV'illiam N. Hay, re- lolaud, and is now determined, in odi-Daired to IoVer to hae tlue criminals 'i nan wkh hin familv. -to visit liis tdd knew from tlie severity of the sttatk thst would not be able under a week 'to hold court.

The prowcu ion had not, no to that lime, had a subiwent i ined, where he will I -fljei i0 balei; export and speeeiaUvs Nwi.n ia "nntive and to tne manor fuels, ex or arrested and essiuined, and txir.fi ntl in h-inie in New Ilampshiie, jail, a by iLe law required, Oa tu.ei nnitio a cr tacrf. euUish their gu'lt. nor these under tbe prevent them frcra born," aiJ there is not a man ia the dw- i and LatimateJ that they did not intend (9 i II.