Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-12

| terrOr-SCrlckell. lHe OuuS were HOW lcdI-
fully against White, for his own dog turned
upon him and lodged his teeth in his leg.
But the escape was miraculous. Smith,
Mulrs companion, rushed to the wagon for
a loaded gun. White seized the moment
and threw Null, and fled. Null and his
team traced their way unmOlested into
some remOter region.
Probably, the most desperate battle be-
tween raiders and moOnshners was in over
ton county, Tennessee. Campbell Morgan
who had been so badly riddlcd in Il previous
posse had cut up Il brandy still during the
day. AS their ,jaded horses could travel no
further, the party halted for the night at
the house of James Peek, a centenarian.
While some of the men were out in the
garden chatting with the venerable host,
shot came whizzing from brush covered
hill about a hundred yards distant. 1t pen
etrated the breast of Deputy Phillips. Bull
let followed bullet in quick succession, and
from vantages becoming nearer. The assail-
ants Skulkeu from tree to tree until within
thirty yards Of the house. Meanwhile the
party within the residence had rushed out
with guns, and the tlurderous work was re-
ciprocated. Deputy Ayres hid in a fence
corner, and patiently bided his time. When
Campbell Morgan exposed himself from
behind the covert steady aim was di
rected upon him. The ball sped home and
he staggered back, and was seen no more.
Three of the raiders were seriously wound
ed. How many moonshiners felt the hot
lead of the Federal rifles was never known.
The posse held them at bay and retreated
along the road to Nashville. AfterWard
Morgan becamea Il Federal deputy and did
good service.
The Redmond gang in South Carolina,
long gave serious trouble. 1t numbered at
least one hundred and fifty, and its precau-
tionary signal system was widely extended.
Strong detachments of regular troops were
sent to Guell the turbulent distillers in this
region. In the "Eog Back" mountain,
near Greenville, force found an eighty gal.
lon still. They had ridden over the top of
the mountain, down through narrow pass,
and entered ravine. AS the destruction
of the wildcat outfit began, a band of Wo-
men, who had watched the approach, gave
peculiar shout of warning. 1t aroused
the whole neighborhood, and shot rained
down on the devoted party from rocks and
trees along the mountain. Riding away,
carried off to Jail.
There were over 5000 arrests made and
5000 stills cut up in the years when resist
ance to internal revenue taxes was so RAM
pant. Yet many raid resulted in humili-
ating retreat. The mountain fastnesses, the
codes of signals among the bus)Whackers,
and their desperate courage rendered attack
at all times an almost blind task OF life.
Attempt after attempt was abandoned IN
the Derrong settlement to subdue the league
of seventy-five men who hurried to am
bush when the horn Of alarm sounded.
This section was five miles from Hiawasse,
and road hemmed in by mountain slopes
and laurel thickets running though detiles as
serpentine as the Ganges. The windings of
the road were picketed. When the invad-
der appeared yells proceeded from the
knobs, and were caught up and sent from
point to point like the signal fires once
lighted from peak to peak. Finally old
Berrong, a small and shriveled old man,
came to the collectors office and surrender
ed.
The recent fatal collisions with moonshn-
ers in Northern Georgia and inGrundy coun-
ty, Tennessee, are sporadic Manifestations OF
the former turbulent disposition. The tiS-
cal year of 1881 was stained by bnt one cas-
uality in the revenue service. Grundy
county has been the scene of former raid.
\ few years ago a distillery was located
near Tracy City. 1t was in a cave, the ap-
proach to which was through rugged raw
ine Two officers essayed its destruction.
AS they entered the still-house the opera
tor departed on the douhle-quick, but at the
same instant band of men appeared upon
a bluff overlooking the spot. Two of the
mountain guardians were killed, but the
officers were glad to retreat, leaving the
field undisturbed. The still was then own
ed by man named Upton, and is one of
the same family who fell mortally wounded
in the affray last week.
Revenue seizures have not been confined
to the South. The ignorance which bred
defiance was only associated with the idea
of paying a tax. The moonshiner could
never perceive why he could not distil
liquor from his own corn without divid-
ing the profits. In Brooklyn the illicit dis
tiller was deliberate criminal fraud was
the precise intent of his mind. There were
numerous raidsin Irishtown, along the river
front in the last decade. One Of the most
famous of the revenue expeditions was that
against the five Brady brothers, whose still
was near the waters edge, along the Pali-
sadeS. Rum was the manufacture, and
black strap molasses the material. Suspi-
cion had become attached to them from
their earlier completely with illegal distill-
ing in New York city. One night an old
battered slo0p was seen slowly lowering
around below Brooklyn, stopping at Ho-
bOken for coal. iIer cargo was molasses.
The revenue men followed her up the Hud-
son in a rowbOat, and ten miles away sur
prised the operators of the still. Convic-
tons followed. In their detective work
about New York city the revenue men be-
came experienced smellers, and often in the
dead calm of the night caught the aroma of
fermenting mash. The shreWd distiller
learned this clue, and the favorite place for
his forbidden work became the bone-bOiling
establishments, where the OdOrS Overcane
the tell tale fumes of whisky. The ears of
these special agents also grew attuned to
the melodious sounds Of driven bungs.
There was one remarkable phase Of the
Government policy. Not only did reve-
nue. officers relentlessly hunt out the wild
caters Of the South, and amass fees by
wholesale arrests of destitute and illiterate
accomplices, but they were the prOselytiZ-
ers of a whisky gospel By official circular
they were instructed 10 encourage the start
ing of legal distlleries. The Government
policy was not only to lay an excise upon
liquor, but to foster it that the revenue
might be larger. 1t was q national recOg-
milton that John Barleycorn is immortal.
MCCLELLAN AND GRANT.-The follow
ing anecdote told by Ex-Governor Van
Zandt, Of Rhode Island, has much signiti-
canoe and no little interest at this time. At
Richfled Springs, Gen. Mcclellan, in con-
versation with his friends, said:
81 knew Grant very well at West Point.
Upon my appointment as commander of
the Army of the Potomac, | left headquar-
ters and went to Washington to confer with
the President and with the Secretary of
War, and was absent more than a week.
During the absence Gen. Grant left Galena
and came to my headquarters, as he after
wards informed me, for the purpose of ask