Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-03-18
E'Eae Marvellous EsaId and the
MANY Tales About III.

Tho sensational newspaper correspondent
who manufactures Southern outragcs and
sends special kilograms to Northern aud
Western papers otong nothing has about
mado the counties of Northeastern Georgia
the seat Of q terrible war rcccutly.
The revenue raids, which dashed through
tao mountains dastreyio&, liquor in more
lscnscs thuu one have been; made tho subject
of many a horoio story, while every think
lug man in Georgia, whose mind was clear
Of prejudice, knew that these stories were
wild cxaggcrations, yet they were calculated
really slardcrs on the people of North
Georgia
Yesterday reporter of the Con stitution
met Col. H. p. Furrow, United States
District Attorney, who has just returned
from visit OF ten duya to the very counties
where the trouble has been reported
Knowing that Col. Farrow is aversc to
interviews on official business, the reporter
applied his augur very gently at first lie was
pleased to iind that Col. Farrow looked on
the matter in very liberal way. IIo said
that he was perfectly willing to tell all he
knew about tho reported outrages, espc-
cially since twas due the people thus mis-
represented that the truth Of tho case be
recorded. Cpl Earfoa says he has travelled
extensively through Hall, Lumpkin, White,
Fannin, Pickcns, Rabun and other counties
through which the raid made its way. lie
was careful to ascertain all information as to
the reported outragcs. IIo had seen the
reports in sensational papers of how tho
brave patient mon in tho raid had toilod
through the mountains day after day, aud all
the while under consistent fire from the
mountaneors' rifles. Col. Farrow like
many others, had been surprised that oil
this constant firing had done no harm. If
the men of North Georgia are dcxterous
in nny practice they arc SO in in tho use of
their rifles 1t was then evident that most
if not all this firing had been on paper and
With lead pencils instead of rifles.
Col. Farrow saJg that ho has the concur
rent testimony of mon on tho road and
citizens living along the route it passed that
from the time it left Gainesville all the way
Gainesville, thcro wus not single shot fired
at tho officers. There were only two shots
fired and both of them were from men in
tho raid. Young Bolton was carrying his
gun loosely against his saddle when it went
off and fatally wounded man named
Starnes, who was riding near him. The other
shot was carclessly fired by ono of tho men
in the party. These two shots were echoed
through the mountains until they sounded
like continuous and terrible vollcy which
has since been sounding in tho columns of
various newspapers Col. Farrow con
vcrstd freely with men of oil political
opinions and of acknowledged reliability
and found that'thcro was really no founda-
ton for those wild and unscrupulous tales.
Tho testimony of citizens is confirmed by
that Of mon on the raid.
1t is not diilicultto explain why these false
reports were 80 >busily circulated. 1t was
the object Of tho revenue raiders to glorify
themselves and it, was also their aim to show
that tho present administration of tho
United States authority in Georgia had been
80 lenient as to allow, q spirit of rebellion
against it to grow UP in certain looali
ties.
Tho people of North Georgia arc as law
abiding and as peaceablo as those Of any
other section of the State. Col. Farrow
says that in ten days closo observation
among them, lie saw nothing to indicate the
least disregard for authority, State or Fed
eral, but Oh the contrary, found the senti--
ment of tho people in favor of law, order
and justice.