The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-12


on the Spartanburg whiskey distilers, and OF
the shooting of Mr.. Cantrell by the guard, is
condensed from the Spartanburg papers:
On Friday last, R. Wallace, son of 4. s., W..
N. Fleming, A. P. Turner, Captains Cook and
Summerhays, and about sixty United States
soldiers, and S. T. Poinier, Esq, started for
the scene of the late ''whiskey disturbance, y
near the Cow pens battle-ground. ..
: The detachment arrived at Cowpens the fol-
lowing day, and marched on through "Keg-
town'Sand the vicinity, destroying still-houses
and such implements and fixtures as are used
in the manufacture Of whiskey. No resistance
was offered.
In passing through the country beyond the
Pacolett very few men could be founa at their
homes, and no satisfactory information as to
their whereabouts could be obtained.
The Spartan says:
The day after leaving Spartanburg, Mr.. y.
Cantrcll was arrested by W. N. Fleming with
out being Informed OF the charge against MIN, n.
and has no official information OF 1t yet. He
is an old man of slXty-four years, honest, IN
dustrious, peaceable and highly respected By
his entire Ieirhborhood. If he has ever been
guilty OF an offence against the law, we have
not been able to find it out He says himself
that the only cause of offence he has ever given
any of the United States officers was IN re-
fusing to obey avery peremptory anu insulting ms
order to give the road to Wallace and his party
on their first expedition. After his arrest, ne
was carried as o prisoner under guard until
Monday morning, He says he was frequently
told by his guard that they intended to shoot
him. These threats were made In such man
ner as induced him to believe that they would
be executed. 1t was also said, not to MIN, put
In his hearing, that If prisoner attempted 10
escape they would not shoot him, as trey mao
Rain thnt
he would be killed anyhow, he took advantage
of the first opportunity and attempted to es-
cane. No effort was made to recapture him
until the merciless, inhuman guard fired sew
eral balls at him. one of which took effect,
which will probably be the cause OF his death.
It is said in defence Of the guard, tnat tney
could not recopture him without shooting him.
one of the party says, ''that the old mans
superior knowledge Of the country gave him
an advantage which more than equallcd the
u snnerior strength and numbers OF the SOL
.diers.n A cause must be desperate indeed
which drives its. advocate to sncn mlseraple
subterfuges But the outrage does not sop
here. After the old mans wounds nave oeen
dressed by the surgeon (who is very klnd.) ne
is placed upon wagon and hauled IKE
/, hog, suffering the most excrucating agony
for two days, until the party reach the VII
lage, when he is lodged In jail upon COM
mfIment which does not reclte his onence.
He saws that whilst his wounds were being
dressed. one of the soldiers who very klndiy
,snnnnrted his body discovered that he had O
: pocket book, which he took out OF his pocket,
and has not returned. 1t contained ten dol
lars In currency and some notes. We suppose
it was confscatcd to defray his expenses on
the expedition. Comment Is unnecessary. Inc
transaction speaks for itself. We confess our
selves incompetent TO characterlzc II IN terms
approaching our conception OF its murderous,
inhuman .barbarity. We will only add, that
we are now perfectly satisfied OF the correct
ness of our former conjecture, that turner's
:, appointment in the revenue service was made
for the express purpose of creating the alstur,
y bance which followed. The trouble originated
from the seizure, by the sald turner, Who
ion@ins to -, which, said Turner, short
time previous, had sold to him. Nr. =,
desired to see Turner's authority, but nc
refused to show it. He had none. me sui
was afterwards forcibly taken from turner's
house. It's true that he had no COMMISSION
but the sanctity which invests United StaCes
official is so great that resistance to one VINO
even falsely pretends to be such is sufficient to
call out the army of the government to punish
: the neruetrator of such o high-handcd outrage.
And accordingly Mr.. Wallace, whose father Is
a candidate for seat in Congress, Tor Which
he was badly beaten by the vote OF the people,
reports that United States revenue otncer
laU DeGU OUSITuCGGu III tiiS NiSN~' ~
dnties. and procures the assistance Of an Off
Ger and guard of soldiers, who are ordered to
report to A. P. Turner, deputy revenue col
lector at spartanbag The officer COMES WnIso oqs s
finds Turner without commission; mallacG IS
informed. who forthwith relieves the Situation
OF its embarrassment, by coming in person
and bringing Turner's commission in his pock-
ct. The lime is short Affairs in washington ION
approaching crs isn:ona Tns 0ppHsns ,eesams
Washington, representing the Fourth c0ngrss- res
sional District in armed resistance to the oti- III
GERS Of the law, must not Lo lost Wallace Jr,
leads the party to the scene Oh action; M Hha' wa
followed has been already reported. me 1ele-
grams are manufactured and forwarded - Two
hundred lawlass men in arms-horses Killed
men wounded--U. S. officials besieged IN the
Jail. sc. But Mr.. Wallace did not get ms sea-,
and the unonending people, who did not vote
for hrc, have their property bItchered before
their eyes, and poor old man Cantre lies dy-
ing in the district Jail.