The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-09-04


NASHVILLE, Aug 2T.-The party
vi raiders retur1ed from 0yerton
county this evening. Commissioner
S. ID. Mather makes a lengthy re-
port - G. Hector Wocdcock of the
tscis t,Ea.erg the rec, IA, desperate
and ssaEalaaFy eoLiiicf, Ia tag near
~ tsa day, and nights, hetsstn the
officers asa illici. disulicrs He
ttates tia. The attavk made on the
residence Of james Peck, near Wa
ieriOo Falls, on the line Vt Putnam
abb Uverton counties, .n the even
Ing oi The 23d, was Que of the most
determined, bloody and fierce attacks
ever known in The history Of internal
revenue matters.
The Tennessee party stopped al
the residence of Peck, who is l02
years OH. to stay over night. Two
went out to feed the horses some dis.
tancc from the house, and some s
armed men ran down the hill. They
jumped the fence, and while in the
act one shot was fred from the party
striking Officer Phillips, iniieting O
dangerous wound. On the way 10
the house in the valley thirty shots
were fred. The yer men ran
cut and began firing. In this at
tack Tippins and Smith, of the rev
enue party, were wounded. All re-
turned to the house. Two kept
watch, two were despatched to
Nashville for assistance, and three
were wounded of the party, original.
ly twelve
"a Saturday morning e son o.
James Peck went on the road and
was shot at. He found our that The
attacking party numbered II hundred
men. Peck's family occupied one
building and the revenue men the
other, etwo-story log houee, uuiin-
ished. Firing was kept up ali day
by both parties. The party
had 10 water and little 10 q At
sundown IL seemed that 6 thousand
men surrounded the house. judging
from the sound of bngles, shouting
and firing. The whole night was
pandemonium itself.
On Sunday morning the first order
WIS that 10 one could go for water.
Peck's daughter went 70 the spring
and had the bucket taken away from
her, and minute was given her
TO get back to the house or be shot.
The roads were barricaded with high
fences. The blockade was complete.
Firing was kept up regularly every
ten minutes. At 10 O'clock il began
TO rain, by which the besieged party
secured water. The firing on the
attacking side was doubled. scores OF
shots barely escaping the revenue
men.
In this condition CT affairs citizens
arrived from Livingston, who secur-
ed admittance through the lines to
see the wounded revenue men. Am.
munition giving out, citizens visited
Campbell Morgan, leader of the baud
of Illicit distillers, who said if the rev.
enue men would petition the Presi-
dent and Federal Court to pardon all
offences to date, they would release
them. The answer came that they
could not control the action of the
Federal Court, and could not prom
Use that anything could be complied
with. The messenger returned to
Morgan, who said that be had heard
that Davis intended 10 kill him on
sight. He aid this to defend him
self. If the Government had process
II serve on him, and would serve by
any one except Davis, be would M
swer, give bond, and use his Influence
to correct the ways of his neighbor-
hood, and this be his last shot. This
proposition was acceded 10. \
number of cilizeps came in, under
whose the evenue meu arriy-
ed at CJokville at sundJwu.
The Commissioner does not know
how many cf the opposing party
were killed or wounded. but heard
that four were missing.