The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-06-13

NoKE-CoLLEGE CeMSiENCEMENT-RArL
RoAD-MEN IN COUNCIL IN NEW YORK
THE ToBACcO-TAX QUESTION HOMO
TO THE DEAD-ARMS AND MUNITIONS OF
WARRIOR RUssIA-TfiE DUCHESS OF Ed
INBURGH-LABoREEs OF QUEBEC ON A
STRIKE; STORES pLUNDERED.
Washington.
AN EFFORT TO COUNTERFEIT THE TESTIMONY
OF ANDERSON AND HELP SHERMAN 4 Co.
CONGRESSMAN pARRALI. IN GENERAL BUT
LER'S HANDS AND 0vERwHELMs HIM-AN
INTERESTING DRAMATIC sCENE--THE NEW
ORLEANS NoTARY'S DECLARATION 10 THE
GENUINENESS OF HIS SIGNATURE TO THE
WEBER.ANDERSoN AGREEMENT - WILDER
AND DICKS on THE STAND-APPoINTMENT
CLERK HAS A CHANCE TO TELL WHAT HE
KNOWS.
[trom Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, June Congressman
Darrall was again on the stand, and made
every effort to counteract the testimony OF
Anderson and help Sherman & Co.; but he
was embarrassed at every turn by the facts
that last winter he believed in the Sherman
letter and told a number Of persons so; that
ne believed implicitly in Anderson and re-
lied on him to control Stanley Matthews and
secure him office. He was confronted with
the further fact that he said yesterday that
Anderson always said to him last winter
that he wanted no place for himself, but only
wanted to help his friends, as he was salts
fed with his place on the North american.
When cross-eXsmined by Governor Cox as
to the reputation OF Anderson, he said he
drank hard in New Orleans, and his
reputation would have been thought bad at
the North. His eyes were opened to An
derson's unworthiness in March, when
Nash talked to him about "the Nash agree
ment," and said he was foolish for signing
it with Anderson; and yet witness admit
ted, when questioned by Mr.. McMahon,
that be never revoked the strong recon-
mendation he had given Anderson for
consulshp, and continued to write him
friendly letters and urgent appeals to come
from Philadelphia to Washington to see
Matthews for him.
Mr.. McMahon: You say that Anderson
threatened Matthews with exposure, and
Matthews told you afterwards that he would
have nothing more to do with Anderson.
why, then, did you write to Anderson
April 10Th, after all this had occurred, to
write to Matthews for you?" This puzzled
witness. Witness told Dir. Cox that when
he saw the papers Anderson had he dis
covered they were OF no account, and yet
MIR. McMahon made him acknowledge that
after he had seen them he telegraphed as
follows to Anderson "Best come over to-
night, sure. Sent passes Thursday. Bring
papers. Appointment be made Tuesday,
sure" Why send for the papers in this
emergency if they were Of no ac-
count? And. why did he expect with
them to influence Matthews at the
most critical period in the squabble over
the New Orleans collectorship? In response
TO a question from Mr.. McMahon he said
that after going to New Orleans he received
a letter from Anderson, who said he IN
tended to testify before the investigating
committee, and he (the witness) wrote to
him "to pitch in and expose the psalm
singing hypocrites, and that the papers in
his possession would do it." In reply to
question by Mr.. Blackburn he said he went
Yesterday to the White House while the in
yestigation was going on because he wanted
TO see the President very much, and did
not suppose the committee would want him
before his return.
GENERAL BUTLER TAKES DARRALL IN HAND.
General Butler took the witness in hand
ut ten minutes past 1, and his questions
were asked at first with solemn earnestness.
He told witness he assumed all the time he
meant to tell the truth, and whenever wit"
ness would :. scatter" in his replies General
Butler would quietly bring him to the
point. There was something magnetic In
the manner Of the Questioner. that seemed to
stop the flow of the language OF the witness.
Finally, while drawing from witness the
story of bis candidacy for the collectorshlp
Of New Orleans, in stentorian voice General
Butler demanded OF him whether ne hTst
sought Anderson to aid him or An
derson sought him. Witness stammered
and became confused, and said, "Proba-
bly, did and problbIy he did, General
Rutler "No, no; it couldn't have been
both; tell me whether you, when you de-
termined to be candidate for one OF the
first offices in the gift OF the President
went to this rascal-this loafer--apd asked
him to aid you; or whether he came to
vousv Witness became more muddled IN
his replies, and hardly seemed capable OF
remembering anything. Witness, at fifteen
minutes to ,, said, / got mixed there, and
Quickly tried to remedy the mistake, when
General Butler said. let me give you
a piece of advice, ''Try to testify from
your recollection and not from the record"
Witness agreed that be was surprised that
Judge Harlan was willing to get an office
for Anderson il he would deliver him the
Weber agreement, but could not remember
whether the fact that Harlan had two inter-
views in New Orleans with such a man as
Anderson surprised him at the time. Gen
eral Butler asked him when he.hrst heard
OF the Sherman letter. Witness couldn't
fix the date, when General Butler sald'
" You can't recollect when you first heard
OF this remarkable letter? / recollect we'll
when first heard Of it." He said be heard
~ II f;rst from Anderson, and stated what