The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-06-24
. Correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette.
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Tho Fat Woods Investigating Conn.
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- -svtsness-Butler Hears OF One OF
woods's g" Good Acts .t.
WASHINGTON. June %, 1870.
The following is faithful and graphic
report of the appearance of General Brad
lev II. johnson before the Pat Woods COM
mittee on Friday last. Butler will perhaps
call for an investigating committee to ascer-
tain how the facts leaked out; but who
caresf ....r. .s
Butler was attempting to show that the
citizens of Richmond approved Of Pat
Woods's beating Porter, and a witness
swore that gentleman, on bidding Fat
goodbye in the cars, had given him money,
and told him "to recollect the First Viz
ginia."
The witness was mistaken, however, and
General Bradley T. johnson, who was pre-
seat rs Woods's counsel, had himself sworn
as a witness, in order to explain that he had
given the money, and that Moore, faC
former Colonel, had told MIN 10 recoliect
the First Virginia.
General johnson said "I had never
heard OF Pat before the beating, and was
onnlied to to defend him because my prac-
ticc was in the Federal courts, and l was
familiar with the laws of Congress. That
finding him about to be carried among
strangers, illegally, poor and without mo-
new, gave him what had about me-"
Butler: "Did you ever hear of any other
act, good or bad, done by Pat Woods be-
sides this assault on Porter!"
The question was objected to by one of
the committee.
Butler then avowed that his object was to
show that the witness, whom he said he be-
licycd to be highly respectable gentleman,
sympathiZed with Pat (Of whom General
johnson had never heard before this EVENT.
to such an extent as to have given him mo-
ney, from which he would draw the infer.
ence that he General Johnson) approved
of Pats act.
After long discussion the committee
rnled that the question should be answered,
and Butler repeated it as above.
General johnson: Eyes, have heard OF
one other good act of his"
What was it?" asked Butler, and he
and the others of the committee looked at
the witness with great interest.
General johnson "He carried the Colors
of the First Virginia regiment for four
years"
Buffers face was study as he received
this reply. lie fairly gasped for breath,
Butler " Oh yes you were 3r1SadleiI.
general in the Confederate army, believe"
General johnson 81 was, and nope
the time will never come when l shall not
be willing TO divide what / have with these
men,"
General johnson declined to make an ar
gument before the, committee on the
ground that they had no right to try
Woods that if he was to be tried it must
be by the House itself, in public, and not
by a committee, in a locked room; and
that, under the Constitution, Woods had
the right to be represented by counsel be-
fore the very court that tried him. General
johnson, therefore, claimed the right to
speak to the House. or not at all.
The committee is understood to have re-
solved to report the fact that the prisoners
counsel claim to be heard before the House,
but will not recommend that tho request he
granted. 1t is probable that n resolution
will be offered in the House ut the proper
time that Woods's counsel may be heard,
it will no doubt be voted down.
REGULATIONS FOR FRUIT DIsTILLERs.-The
Commissioner of Internal Revenue has inst
issued revised edition Of the regulations
the distilation of brandy from
apples, peaches, or grapes exclusively, to 20
into effect July 1st. Under the authority
given him he has exempted this class of dis
tillers from certain provisions Of the act Of
July, 1863, not applicable to this kind Of
distillation. After the capacity of the still
has been determined. the distiller is to give
bond in double the amount of tax on the
brandy which his still is capable of produce
ing in thirty days, or where double the
amount Of tax is less than $500, then in
the sum of $500. He is also required
to pay tax at the rate of $50 per an
mum. The per diem capacity tax heretofore
charged will not hereafter be assessed.
Distillers from fruit are defined to be those
who distill brandy from apples, peaches, or
grapes, or the undiStilled products of either
or all of these fruits exclusively. Under
this construction the distiller will be at
liberty to receive any of the undistillcd
products of said fruits, such lis cider,
pomace, sour wine, &C., from others, and
distill same under these regulations; but
where he is to return brandy in lieu thereof
it is required that the brandy be put up,
marked, and stamped, the same as if the dis
tiller had distilled it from his own fruit and
for his own consumption or sale. The con-
dition of these fruits as ordinarily used for
diStillation is classified as pomace, cider,
must, sour wine, wash, cheese, and lees.
By pomace is meant crushed fruit without
the juice expressed therefrom cider, the
expressed juice of apples; must, the I'M
fermented juice Of the grape; sour wine,
the fermented juice Of the grape; cheese,
the residue of fruit after the juice has been
expressed therefrom; wash, the liquid cN-
pressed from the cheese after adding water
thereto; lees or piquette, the settings Of
wine. Explicit instructions are given to
assessors, and all the forms required will be
furnished in printed copies.
The DANGER IN THE WHITTEMORE CASE.
The Washington correspondent of the Bal
timore Gazette says I" MIR. Eldridge de-
mocrat) also questioned the right of either
branch of Congress to refuse to admit a
unless he shall be shown to
have been convicted Of some offence by due
course of law. Undoubtedly this is the
true position. But just such cases as THIS
have always been seized upon by ingenious
against public liberty TO MAKE
uague precedents of. To what individual
and party purposes the precedent now SCI
will be applied no one can tell" ~.
The probability still is that Mr.. Aker-
man aoiN not be confirmed. EX-Goyernor
Wells. of Virginia, is now talked of-so is
Pierrepont. Of New York-but If he shall
be appointed, Mr.. Fish must 60 OUT
WASHINGTON Ietter--Bdltimore Gazette.
VIRGINIA NEWS.
ETTER FROM LEXINGTON