Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-04
By TELE G B A P &
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES.
NEW YORK.

Nsw Yopx, D December 3 -Oae OF the
greatest whisky raids made in the neigh
horhood of this city since the passage OF
the revenue laws, took place this morn
inc in the Fifth ward at B-ooBivn, 10 the
ssc,;on adjoining the Navy Yard and
known az Irish Town. Extensive or
rapgemsnts were made for the attack, as
Il was spprehended resistance would Dc
offered. Msjor General Mcdowell or
dered out five hundred regular troops to
oo.onerste with the revenue officers under
Collec,or Plessanton. The distilleries
were twenty 10 number, end were stu
a,ed ON Marshall, Little, Uoited States,
plvmonth and Water streets and on
Hndson avenue. Tie troops formed IN
a line and the revenue officer, attacked
ehe distiIleries. Thousands of gallons OF
vh;sky were allowed to run from the
watts A number of stills were running
at the time. Thirty five barrels OF
whisky we're seized, and thirteen dlstille-
r;es were either destroyed or captured.
The captured stills we're stored In the
navy yard. The still pumps. etc, cap
tured are valued at several thousand dol
lara The stills broken up were capable
of running out Eve hundred barrels OF
whisky day. Few of The stills we're re-
moved last night. On the former raid
nine stills were se'zsd by some officers
The working party was attacked In l., tile
street. where there was crowd number
;pg near two thousand people. Several
persons were Injured by bricks thrown
from house tops. The presence OF troops,
however, prevented serious outbreak.
The crowd followed the troops to the
navy ysrd entrance, keeping up volley
Of missiler. A German, who was in the
working party, had his head laid open BY
max 10 the hands Of rUffian. The
rioters coDgregated about the gates aud
10 the adjacent streets, mutteriDg threats
of vengeance against The troops and rev.
epue officials; but at O late hour this
afternoon the troops returned to Govern
or's Island and Fort II Amiton, by trsus-
ports.
Richardson's remains have been for
warded to Franklin, Massachusetts,, for
interment
The steamer D. G. Hoskins. Captain
Edward Wakemsn. hence on November
Is bound for San Francisco, foundered
IN the Golf S rean about four hundred
miles from New York, on the 18Th Of No
vember, at 1920 pm. The Captain, hrst
assistant engineer and ten men lett the
steamer in an oar boat and were picked
up by the schooner Grasmere, on Novem-
Der 10, and taken to Bermuda. After
getting alongsids of the schooner, one OF
the men stepped suddenly to one side of
the boat and cspsized her, and three of
the twelve were drowned. The stewart,
a passenger and a seaman, with four or
five others in another boat, are missing,
as is also a raft containing some more.
A riot, the impelliDg cause which
was politics and liquor, occurred in the
liquor store of Thomas Donohue, in Sc
,cond Avenue, this afternoon, in which
Florence Scounrel, a noted politician
and candidate for Alderman, was NOR
tally wounded, George johnson fatally
shot and James Martin, died, Thomas
Donohue badly Injured, but will recover.
Scounrel'a brother John is supposed to
have shot Johnson, and. Donohue is be-
lieved to have shot Scounrel. All who
we're present and unipjured are under
arrest
1t is stated that the Fenisns are pre-
pairing new movement on Canada.
They are said TO have plenty OF rifles,
but need money to purchase smmuni-
ton.
John c. Fremont, it is said, has OBJ
tanned loan in Europe for his Southern
Pacific railroad.