Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-12-31

ReIUrn OF the Raiders-Omeial Pig
ures OF the Results.

ureS OF the Results.
Captain G.. w. Atkinson, Agent of
the Internal Revenue Department, |
who was general supervisor OF the
movements, and Deputy Collector w. |
r. Cooper, who had charge Of the
Second Tennessee force, together with
their men, arrived home Sunday from
their extensive raid upon Illicit dis
tillers along the Tennessee and Ken
lucky border, mention of which was
made in our Sundays issue.
They had no further experience
after Cap. w. w. Dunn left them, as
mentioned by Us. The news went
ahead Of them into Hancock and the
Blackwater country, so that the off,
GERS would have been unable to ac-
complish anything successfully.
The expedition was fourteen days
ca ronte, and consisted of the follow.
ing:
Deputy Collector w. r. Cooper, in
charge of the Second Tennessee force,
averaging Is men; Deputy J. NJ.
Davis, with the Fifth Tennessee
force, about 80 men; and Special
Deputy r. A. Burnside, in charge of
the Eighth Kentucky force. Capt. G.
w. Atkinson, Revenue Agent, super
vised the movements and operations.
In their fourteen days travel they
went over 40S miles, horse back, all
most all rough, mountainous country.
1t was fesrfulIy and bitterly cold all
the time. 1t showed on them six days
rained one, ice was abundant, and the
sufferings of the raiders were intense.
From the official report made by
Cspts. Atkinson and Cooper to the De-
partment at Washington, we are per-
mitted to give the following figures of
the results of the raid:
They seized IS distilleries, of
which were in Tennessee, 8 in Ken
lucky and 2 in Virginia. They also
captured Is 200 gallons of mash and
beer, 1644 gallons siDglipgs, 81 gallons
whisky, 45 bushels meal and Is BUSH
els malt, 10 copper stills and caps, IL
worms, and 264 mash tubs. Value OF
property destroyed, S., 800.
INCIDENTS.
The distillery seized in Lee county,
Va, at which a bloody conflict was
barely GyeEted, as mentioned by Us
Sunday, belonged to the notorious
Wyley RtdmUn, alias Carmack, WHO
figured about our Federal Court in
July, 1877. Deputy Collector Cooper
seized a still from him in Lee county,
Va, last February. With the excep-
ton of demonstrations about this dis
tilleTy, a. reported, 40 farther rtsist-
ance Was offered al any other dislii-
leries Oh tue raid.
= Deputy Marshal j NJ. Cuvi er, Ia
attempting To arrest JOHN 10y, OF
. Campbell county, vas resisted, vnere-
upon one of the guards ~mot Lpy in
the foot, during tue laiu.
ANOTHER BRANCH OF THE RAID.
The following communication ex-
= plains Itself:
NASHVILLE, TENN, Dee. Is. 1878.
, ". IL. Cooper, Deputy Collector Sec
DEAR CIR: l suppose you have got
! In by this time, anu like Us have suf
q fered the perils of the winter In Lhsl
, | wild country. We reached the head
of RLCky Creek the night after We
left jamestown and destroy ed the dis.
t tilleTy Of Blevins, very large one in
Scott county, ana the next morning
joined by tue Kentucky squad, went
down Rocky Greek, round severa
-, distllleries aud made several arrests
" Then we left and went over to Little
South Fork, and back to Tennessee
getting about twelve distilleries in oul
# route. We found that there had beer
- force of siXty-tiye men organ
lied and were armed t
clean out the Kentucky squad
and we saw their tracks in the snow
as il an army had passed. L am Of tn
IopinlOn that there are plenty OF stlil'
II in that part of Kentucky, and tina
10 there are plenty OF men in readiness L
fight for them.
AS much of our work is along the
]. line of your District, / would bt
II obliged, and it might be of some ser
r. vice to both of us, if you will Lave {
special deputatiOn sent myself, Capt
9 J. Nj. Davis ami Capt. Jno. M. Phil
lips TO eI able US to do such work as il
AAOb6 TIC 1IAC vi Jul Lis
tricts. | am, very respectfully, YOU
A obedient servant, S. ID. MATHES.
: Special Deputy and Commissioner.
CONGRATULATIONS.
i Tie following is a copy OF q tele-
Il gram received yesterday in reply t
}. the official report made to the Depart
q ment of the raid:
"a WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec 80, rs
= @. W. AtkisOn, ReUeRue agent, RaOa;
CilLe, Tennessee:
q am graufied at the success of YOU
Ii operations, and especially that n'
!. fOrcible resistance has been met
Please convey the thanks of the Office
10 to their other officers engaged.
e GREEN b. RAUM,
!. Commissioner.
II was certainly a successful expedi
K ton, everything considered, and Capt