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The 'court met a few davs oftar this, and*a bench warrant was issued ibr uic for stealing the two overcoats JUDGE MACKEY's l'AUT. I have been informed by an officer of*, , the Court of Pickens GouUvy that when the charge was 'preferred iu court against Hcduiond, of haviug led this raid and of haviug taken the overcoats, the grand jury examined the witnesses aud, finding no proof against him in either matter, returned to the court room and hauded iu a vcrdicW of "No bill !" Judge Mackcy at once sent theui back with other witnesses, aud again they returned with the same verdict, lie scut them back the third time with the rw><> ., mark, "1 suppose, gentlemen, you have not had enough witnesses," aud seeing that lie was determined to have if, they returned at last with an indictment. The proceedings in a grand jury room are, of course,' secret, (?) but it is said iu Pickcus County that the evidence upon which this one based its final verdict was two-fold, to wit: First, that two overcoats were taken by a party of men from Hondrick's house seeoiwl ?!?<??. ltn.l inond was seen at Pickens Courthouse next dot/ with the same party. On this alleged cvideuce '"the Court issued its bcuch warraut, ordering Redmotfd to be brought into its prcincts dead or alive. A posse wat accordingly sent after liiu:. they found him at work in his hold, and ordered him to halt und surrender. Not knowing who they were or what they wanted, Redmond refused to obey, and they fired upou him and continued tiring until he obtained shelter in the woods. Possibly being just uicn they did not try to hit him?we may hone had takon place on the Saturday, the 19th, preceding the ineffectual raid after Gary, which took place Monday, the 11th, and of course Redmond, who did not lead the Gary Yaid, led the jainbreakers also. Of course he did no such thiug. Tn.point of fact, he was across the lino in North Carolina when the jail was broken, and knew nothing of it until ho was informed of the occurrence. There are plenty of witnesses to prove that lie was in North Carolina at the time, atid. if this is not nnniifrh Sheriff I -- ? ?V..VI III I'iiiuiutu 13 ready to testify that he was not ia the party who rescued the prisoners from his keeping. | But the timorous revenue officers declared that ''Redmond and his gang of forty or fifty men'-. had chased them ncross the country for two days and until they louud j . stt^fty with in the walls of Kasley Station ; . ?V'homo^ne had evidently stolen their sacred , overcoats from the (sometimes) inviolable, i sauetuary of a private dwelling; Judge i Mackey and all the mighty revenue depart- j mcnt were excited for the fate of the j country, and an example must bo made of i somebody ! Who so suitablo lor the s^cri- i fice as Redmond?the official revenue scape- ; goat?the raging ram presently to be caught in the thicket! > THK HATCH OP WARRANTS. T understand that at the same time the aforesaid bench warrant was issued for Red- | mond four others were issued for certain revenuo officers who were also charged with | sundry crimes and misdemeanors. That one against Redmond, as we have seen, was ; very nearly put into fatal execution, and still hangs over his head ; the others, I am informed, were recalled before the court adjourned. Why wero they issued, nud why and when recalled ? I <lc? not know. A NOT II Kit HIT OF HISTORY. And while I am off n?y subject, let i?c inform the public of another bit of revenue history. L do not propose to defend those who broke into PickchMjuil, but it may be as well to know, for the first time, whom it ' was they turned loose on that occasion.? The rescued prisoners were three in number; ouo a man named Hcascly, who was caught in an illicit still house; the other two were a father and son named Stunsill. Tho father was GO years of age, and the son 16. lloth were arrested at their home*, handcuffed, carried to Pickens and there lodged in jail to await trial. Their neighbors released them, and they returned to their homes and resumed their daily labor on the little farm from which tliey had been torn and marched o(V in disgrace. Ho arrested a little later by tho county officer they were carried before tho commissioner and discharged, there being no evidence against them. So much for tho Pickens jail delivery, of which one crime at least, gentlemen, 1 charge you to acquit the prisoner, Lewis H. Hcduiond. JUDOF. MACKF.Y. | One woid of explanation in regard to I Judge Muckey. I rcooguizc the fact that it is scarcely within u>y proviuco to criticise his action iu the mutters above referred to, or that of any Judge of his ability in aoy matter. Hut I feel tree to say, nevertheless, tITat I am honestly of opiniou that he acted with more zeal than discretion in this one ir/?f.lnce, and would have accomplished much more .good had ho followed up Redmond less closely and the revcuue officers more so. To do hiui justice, however, he did order the recently reported investigation, and would no doubt make pood use of it if opportunity were presented. To return to Redmond. 1 have promised to end his story with this letter, and though I hope no one <f toy readers have wearied of him as yet, 1 shall try to koep my word. _ A FALSE ALARM. Feeling really ill from the effeots of fatigue, as 1 have said before, I was compelled to close uiy second interview with hi^Qfl^iulc before midnight, when he again accompanied, me to the house of our mutual friend, my host. There I bade him good-night, and went to bed, while he and my host took blankets and walked off to sleep in the woods. I quickly fell iuto an uneasy scuii-couscious state, from which J was startled an hour later by the subdued voicfi of our kind young hostess whispering to my companion, Mr. Fields, to "get up, please, and strike a lightthe Revenues aro-nll around the house!" The frightened wile^'as clad in her night-dress only, and scorned beside herself with anxiety and alacm. "I have heard sonic one walking iu thft yard," she said, "and they always come about this time of uiglit!" Mr. Fields arose and striking a match, (how hard they were to find !) went to the window and called, "Who is there?" A voice answered, a whispered consultation followed, and at last my companion came back and whispered to me that not the Revenues but the prisoner they had captured the day hefore was without! I congratulated him in my heart on his escape, and Mrs. rum- j lunged around and got him a supper. 1 did not^ec liim, but my ho?toss and uiy com- 1 pan ion told me tluy never saw a man cat so much in their respective lives. Then he pushed on over the hills and far away to home from which ho had been taken J the morning belore, and where, no doubt, he was welcomed as one riseu from the dead. It was the old story of captors dyaiugv a sudden dash for Redmond?nay, how the wfioNT neighbor" hood rejoiced over the fuel of his escape next moruiug! Pcccavi, but I couldu't help it. nor could you had you becu iu my pi Redmond's benevolence. Redmond breakfasted with us next morning. and our hostess waited upon us and could not do enough for him. The simplehearted women of the mountains all admire if they do not love him, and neither his name nor his presence have any terrors for them. Why it was only last year, say they, that he paid off the taxes which were hanging over the heads of I am afraid to state how many poor families, and took his pay, when he got any, in "chips and whetstones" and other like valuables, among which wos a veteran raui, which one old lady forced upon him, aud which he envcr saw after the dnjr of trausfer. It preferred her yard to his, it seemed, aud he never went back for it. And besides all this, did he not rido five coakeeutive days "working for Hampton" during the last campaign, and on clec lion clay did lie not hitch up his own wagon and team anil tend eight or ten old men who couldn't walk, and who hadn't voted for years, all the way from their houics to the poll at Eastatoe, where he dare not go himself? And, outlaw as ho is, is he not now supporting his three sisters, who have 110 other dependence, and one of whom has heen a cripple for eleven years? Certainly he has done and lie is doing all these things, us every body hereabouts will tell you. OTIlEIt (loot) DEEDS. It was uot so very long ago that a poor man, whose oxen and four sheep which he had tuken to market were levied on for taxes at Pickens Courthouse, met "the Major" in the road and asked for help and got it. It was a small sum, only 8(> ^5, but it was a very large sum to the poor farmer and to the despised Samaritan, but it was given freely, and has never been returned or asked for. No, the money was neither stolen on the highway nor was it the return of any unlawful sale; it was the price of produce grown 011 the outlaw's farm by hard labor, and which farm and home he dares not visit except at night and at long intervals, at the risk of his life. "The Revenues have been there after bim very often," said one, a Revenue himself, to uic today. HOW REDMOND TOLD IIIS TALE. I liavo made another digression I find, but do not think I need apologize for it.? iNot so much of good lias ever been said concerning Lewis 1{. Redmond that I need silence the public voice of his praise on this the one single occasion of his justification. I have written down in these letters every word which he lots said against himself in speaking of his own misdeeds to inc. I declare that the story was not told boastingly or evasively?but ijnictly and as ' J '? 1 1 -1 i " yuri *{.? f x I believe truthfully. He w^B^nJpiwl to be correct throughout, ami <fh.ite\cr other crimes have been charged against- him do man has ever yet accused him of'lying.? "What he tells you you may rely oh," is the tcstimouy ot nil, and wheo IteduJmd gavo Mrs. Barton his word that he *ould not, harm his worst cueuiy, her huaiand, the knew her.tnan, and called upof that busband to come out uud face a dozfti rifles iu the hands of augry men who wefe eager to kill hiin on the spot. You may coudetnu some things he has done, and of which he has told you, if. you will, but, for sweet Justice's sake, give hiui credit fdr the good that is in hiui, and of which otker people tell you. What he has done^ti partly may compute. Himself only knof-a what he ? has resisted. "tie will tuktf.nioro cursing than any man I ever saw^r said a mountaineer to uie. "I heard ajmuu call him a G?J d?d liar, and ho fcrily laughed at hiui. He tries to keep the peace at all times, and never has a fufcs with auv one wheu he can help it. lie is fair, and will bold his end of the bridlfc, but when ho starts he is game. Wheu Jie says 'that's euough,' you may kuow it|s a pleuty. IIo i is one of the most sensible men I know, and only needs an education to make him a leader in the country." This may be poor logic, but it presents no bad picture of the character of its subject. Til K LAST INTERVIEW. 1 After breakfiiit our party went oucc more upon the hillside where 1 held my third and last interview with the outlaw.? Ttirr vomrersatimi-was erf a more gi?brnl ' character than on former occasions, j>ud his thoughts were directed at last to a revictr of his early life. 4,You were not old enough to go into the army during the war, were you?" I asked. "Yes,'' he said, "I ran away lroni home ' when 1 was thirteen years old, and went to | join the company my brother belonged to. I When I first talked about going my father 1 j said if I went he would bring me back and 1 whip mc half to death, lie sent uic to ' food the horses one night, and 1 took a pair i of pants and a shirt and struck out for the nearest station, where my brother was, aud 1 got there just as tho chickens were trowing ' for day. My brother and the other men 1 (old mc to go back, but I wouldn't. The '1 and stopped mc. I couldn't help from ( shedding.tears t? save my life, lie begged , me to go back, and the uiun beggad me, so 1 [ went. My brother'came homo afterwards ! on sick furlough, and when he returned to his company 1 went with him and stayed six months. He was shot and sent home, and they gave me a furlongli at tHe same 1 time to go with him. The Yankees captured him at home soon after, but 1 was so j young they did uot bother mo. I never saw 1 my brother again ; ho died in some North- 1 eru prison. Auotber brother, the oldest, ' shattered," and was badly wounded' U? 'the'" foot. He had received seven balls in all. I have another brother living in , (another State,) but I ucver write to him now, and he docs not know of u>y troubles. If I wero to tell him it would only distress him, and he might come and get into a difficulty on my account." TIIE OUTLAW WEEPS. The outlaw paused, and looking up I saw that lie was weeping and had buri"d his face in his hands. 1 bad i>ceu 'intent on ' my note book whila iic was speaking, and j though 1 detected a slight tremor in his , voice, did not suspect the cause or look up i until he ceased speaking. 1 was both surprised and shocked beyond measure at such a manifestation of emotion iu such a man, and knew not what to say. He tried to control himself, and looking at mo with a smilling, tear-wet face, sobhetf out in spite of all his effort: "I can't help it. 1 can't help it. I aui nota crying man. but when I i w '.ma ~ " ! y think of tlu'sc things and of tn^Tatiter and , brothers, and how they fought and were shot j j to pieces or died in prison, and thej^ think j how 1 have been served, 1 can't heljkcrying. j J L ought not to do it, but 1 can't hey it?1 ! can't help it," lie repeated sadly, again and again, as if in shauied apology for ft weakness ho feared I would despise. I plid not despise him, I was sorry for hiia. 1 am a poor, tender-hearted fool myself, at best.? One touch ot nature will make mc feel akin to anybody, even a revenue officer, and my befet nature was touched. Bohemian and brigand, wo were there together, sitting apart, with the mountaineers lookindwonderiugly on, and it was all I could |do to ii _.i - - - - - swiwiuw sometning Dig nud hard iui iny * throat, and keep my own tears back, that's an honest confession, and any knave or fool is at liberty to poke fun at lie if he likes. ' ON I.Y OIVK HIM A 011A MO f. I "* *" , Redmond, the outlaw, dried his sinful 11 tears, and the smile he nlwnyj wears eaino : back again to his face, though his voice was I very sad and came froui his heart when he I said in his own unaffected way: '-It! looks hard for me to have to go through all I this. If I had docc anything worthy of it J I would not mind, but 1 have not done more i ,than other people, and why should I have to | .HUM.' i-l - JL . - 1 ' bear it all 1 If they would only give vie a chance (God help hiui!) like they give other moo, I wouldn't miud it. I have settled my' troubles with Barton and Hendricks, and this very week Gary sent mo word that if I would lot him alone he would quit the revenue service and go to work on his farm. I have nothing against hint or any man. If they would let vie aloue I certainly would not trouble thetu. I sent word so to him. 1 wouldn't have any trouble now, but lor this reward that has been offered for my capture, and they think they will get it il' they kill mo even. It was for the Pickens jail delivery and I was not., there, and for the raid ou Gary* * I had nothing to do except what I have tQ)d you. 1 only want peace, so I can go Daolc to my farm and work for myself and ?.. -m?* *?-? - - uij oiaiuio, v?iiuuui> ueiug ?noc at every day like a dog. They hare shot at me twentysix times already, and I think that ought to be enough. I am willing to surrender myself and atand my trial for killing Duckworth. I know they would acquit inc. I have uo money to pay a lawyer, but I suppose they would pay mo the reward if T surrendered myself, and he. might take that! They say they are willing to givo auiuesty to all other uicu, and I don't sec why they should leave nic out. Do you think they will?'' he said suddenly. "I do not know." I replied, ''but I will speak to Governor Hampton for you," (is 1 had promised him before this to do.) T1IE MESSAOETO HAMPTON. "Tell Governor Hampton," he said earnestly in parting, "I am u poor man and have worked for my living all uiy life. I have not had a /air chance siucc this revenue party came in, and if he wants a recommendation of me?from my childhood up ?1 can give it to him. I would rather s^nd him one than out. I will leave it to the citizens of the country, to llradley aud llowen and Fields, and other county officers here aud iu North Carolina. The sheriti's of Pickens and Transylvania counties will sign it, and every good citizen that knows ine will sign it. Every man in Pickens will sign it, and I will send it to him if he wants it. Tell him I only want to go home and lire at peace, and would be willing to Jtand trial even in the Uuited States Courts if I thought I oould g*t otily a fair trial ' there. I am ready tu surrender to morrow, ttuiuM* ffrft fclO-.bOO bail of good citizens, if allowed. Toll Governor Hampton ull fhM for me," he said, l,uud see what you 3an do f< r me. I will wait for news from you. 1 know you tire u>) friend now, and if you can do anything lor me write or send mo word, and 1 will go and surrender myself." Alas! what can I do for him '( Nothing but to feebly wrilo down bis far off impassioned appeal to the executors of that stem law which has outlawed him, and then iwait the answer I must send. What shall it be ? Will they give hiui a chance or not 1 I do not know ! rnu true story, of .jrhe box.d kjedmoni/s 5 ' \?oofe'kl> i.ovk. .-ayiixk, ^w1y *S'.?"1 u discretion#". i Aid "going a little too far," are terms in .vhich the revenue hounds prefer to spqak )f their recent outrages. "1 do uot deuy," 'ays one, "that some of the members of the ' torcc have committed indiscretions in the i lischarge of their duty." 'T think myself,' i says another, "that they have gone a littlo i too far iuto private houses." 1 Indiscretions let them be ; they will smell to high Heaven just as sweetly under this name as if called by any other, and it may bo found that going Just wcr tfie threshold, i jr even sticking a few feet of the barrel of i jue's gun just over the threshold of a pri- I rate house is far enough to send tho tres- ; passer permanently over the threshold of a < jcitain public bouse whose name shall be 1 i I have to make one or two remarks only concerning Redmond, which I neglected to < insert in their proper place, and will them I resume iu a general way the subject of in- i discretions which was broken off by my i visit to him. The first of these is that he iias no Indian blood in his veins as lias l been charged by the revenue officers for the purpose, as 1 suspect, of investing his char- < icter with an air of treachery, and possibly if inducing the general government to send [). O. Howard after him. There is no trace i if such alleged origin in a single feature i if his face, and as he can prove his descent from Irish aud German aucestors it is really j difficult to imagine where the Indian alloy couies in. One of his sisters is fair haired I iD(l of as fair complexion as nny fraulien I in Rhincland. llo has too in his possession full documentary ovidcnco of the fact that his grandfather (or, perhaps, greatgrandfather) was a faithful soldier in the American army during the Revolutionary war, and received a pension and liberal grant of land "in recognition of gallant services rendered" as such. Perhaps-ttota same parcel of land is that whereon tho outlaw's sisters now live, but whereon he sets his foot only at the imminent peril of his life. At least he would not leave it and them when an aunt in North Carolina offered to give him a farm in that State, worth ' ,0(K>, if ho would come, aloue, and live on ! it. The second remark is that he had 110 ' hand iu tho shooting of Ijoc Pistoer n lew | weeks ago. The circumstances of this' affair are uot generally known and aro as follows; A squad of revenue officers went on one of theii periodical raids to Redmood's house, and seeing a man couio out of it with a baby iu his arms, they cried- , halt, and this command being disregarded, they as usual tired seven shots after him, without effect, however, and he escaped.? Alter leaving the house, uud when souio distance from it, tho party was in turn fired iuto from tho roadside, and Fisher, their guido, was wounded in the wrist by a singlo buck-shot. No one else was touched. Tho waft., wUuyfixed jfr<Mhal ^irns not nioro than' Wty yards from the roadside," and was hiuiselt fired at sevoral tinios by the party. Rcdiuoud declares that ho was not this man; and his statement is su&tniucd by tho fact that but one buckshot of the load reached its aim ! Redmond doesn't shoot that wav. A man who could ?nutf a candle with u pistol ball, as Redmond can, or who could kill a rabbit runuing, or a bird flying, with u pistol ball as Redmond can, or who could " t ride full gallop and hit a email sapling at * fiftccu paces with a pistol ball as Redmond cau, or lastly, who could turn rapidly on his heel and put six balls one after another into a small tree at thirty paces, as Redmond can, I say I don't think such a man would miss a revenue squad or even their guido at fifty yards, with a load of buckshot, fired from "a gun resting on a log." It docsu't look reasonable, and it is really going a little too far to assert it. True, tho officers swore it was Redmond, but it must bo borno ju mind yhfttfthoy ^yflQTjhat. and every ct>w ana snecp uud stump in tho uiouutuins is Reduioud, aud as it is likely they nVe mistaken sometimes, they may bo agaiu in this ease. A third und last remark concerns tho outlaw's moral character, which has been held up to reproach on every possible occasion because of the relation he has borno to one of Ladd's sisters. It is not a subject that I need or care to say much about for obvious reasons ; but I may be allowed to say th:s much : l''irst, that some at least of the revenue officers arc not at liberty, from a biblical pniutof view, to heuvo stones at him to any great extent; and second, that tho iujurv he bus dl.. .! ho nrnim ? - ? i" "f sea to repair, ah fur as potwible, at the first opportunity, by marrying tho woman ho has wronged. She was presmt for a few press purpose or having tho ccremouy performed by uiy companion, Mr. Fields, who hud also atteuded for this purpose. It was arranged in my presence that the ceremony should take place next morning about sunrise, with myself as a witness, and it was only postponed from the appointed hour until?on account of the absence of a second witness, whose presenco for good reasons was desired by both the parties most interested. I could say more if i were not assured that what I might my would probably lead .to the presence of certain lini~ " " " cited guests ""Tine peculiar ?bject -fn TJeTng there at such a timo I do boi care to further. The readera of the Newt and Courier' shall be informed of the fact when the ceremony takes place. It will bo a veritable ''wedding in high life"?on the top of n* mountain. My parting with Ueduiond was a sad one, to hitn and to mc. The feeling eloqucucc of his last w^rds?the appeal to Governor Hampton?I cau not give in any words. I am only sorry that tho Governor, aud every citizen of tho State over which he rules, could not have heard him aud seen him with me; and I left bitu feeling that I had a high (gust committed to my keepiug in the vindication of an oppressed and persecuted man. I need not ignore offences he has committed ; he has told that i.: - ! ' - 5iurj iiiuisisu wuuout reservation or evasion, :uid 1 have followed his example in repeating it as he gave it. The wrong ho has iluiie, however, was not done maliciously, but from the natural impulse every brave man feels to resent undeserved and repeated injury. To those who say lie should have borne them in patience and appealed to the law for protection, 1 have only to reply : Do you know what law was in'South Carolina at the time of which I speak, and do you approve Kllcntoii and Hamburg, and tbeu condemn him? The rude, unlettered uien of the mountains arc not qualified to moralize prettily about the abstract duty of good citizens, to take every case of insultand injury into the nearest court. They only know when they suffer a wrong and how to resent one, uud not having been particularly edified by the results of their experimental applications to courts for relief, they naturally concluded to take caro of themselves. Wheu they violated what sceuied to them an oppressive and partial law, they fouud that the baud of the Geuoral Government fell heavy upon theui ; when in nffioni-o ' ?vv.U nuintvu JUHII UIJU cum moil laws, they found that tho General Govorumeut was equally ready and willing to shield these from the consequcnees of their nets ; and the temptation to substitute certain and summary punishment for nominal or no punishment, was well-nigh irresistible. These were the circumstances and considerations that have made l<edmond an outlaw and have come near outlawing Pickcmt {Coittmu.-d oz 4(A l'uye.]