The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-07-19
LOCAL MATTERS.
cry C(1IJNCIL.

CITY COUNCIL.
An adjourned meeting of this body was held
At o'clock yesterday evening. Present, Pre-
sident Myers; and Messrs. Darlington, Talbot,
Saunders, Hill, McCauce, Richards, Snead,
| Fry, Maspin and Scott.
Deputy Cole ctor. The appointment OF
VIM C.. Young by Mr.. Hobson as deputy
collector was confirmed.
Referred.-A petition from the Richmond
and Danville Railroad Company asking for re.
mission of a tax recently imposed-from which
they are exempted by their charter-was duly
referred.
Superintendent City Grounds.-CharlesA A.
Kuhle was appointed superintendent and keep.
er Of the City Grounds, at a salary of $500.
Water.-The special order, the considera.
ton of the report Of the Watering Committee,
was then taken up.
10 order TO provide for the present destitu.
| ton Of water upon Shockoe and Church Hills,
the report recommended the construction OF a
sixteen inch main pipe from Cary along Ord
street to Broad, down Broad to Mayo street,
Church Hill, and the report was discussed at
some length by DR.. Snead and others, who de-
sired that the reservoirs should be raised at
such height as to force water over the highest
building in the city. This and other improve
menis were originally suggested by the COM
mittee, but owing to the heavy debt under
which the city is now burthened, it was
thought best to waive, until some more oppor-
tune and favorable financial period, the pro
posed improvements. The resolution recon-
mended by the committee was adopted as fol.
lows:
Resolre.l, That the sum of thirty three thou
| sand FIVE hundred and eighty five dollars be ap
propriated for laying down additional mains in
| the civ from the Water Works on the streets
designated in the above report, and the Cham
| berlain be authorized to pay the same out OF
| the proceeds of the sales of bonds issued by
| resolution of the Council passed on the 18th
| day of June, 1858.
The Council then adjourned.
UNLAWFUL AssEMBLAGEs-On yesterday, about
IL o'clock, Mr. Howard, OF the Hastings Court, sent
word to the Mayor that number of negroes, be
longing to the estate of the late John Enders were
impression that they had been freed By Mr. Eswill.
Mr. Enders, Ir, son of the deceased, and manager,
as we understood, of the estate, was called but said
he had given the slaves order or permission to
make application in the manner ia ey have at court
The Mayor then had the negroes arraigned before
him-some twenty in cumberland said to them
tina, be supposed, from their making application to
Mr. Howard that they supposed this year they were
to be set free. Now he had called them in to tell
them explicitly, that he knew everything on record
with relation to their freedom and that they were
not now free. He would say if they again bothered
the Clerk of the Hastings Court with this matter
he would if their master did not do it, order them
thirty nine lashes for each offence. In this place
no such thing could be allowed, as slaves going
about the streets enquirng with reference to their
| freedom.
Watson, a slave to Col Myers, out of an unlaw
full assemblsge of nine negroes, congregated on
Gerry street, about O'clock was arrested by watch
man Mccormick. with four others The four were
punished with five lashes each at the cage and con-
| seauently we do not know their names. Watson
was brought to Court because he undertook to
elude arrest and said no Waterman should take
him Previous good character operated in bis ia.
vor and he was ordered five lsshes
ARREsT.-Oficer Tyler, soon after the flight of
| Jesse J Roach and Alexander White, charged
with being concerned in the alleged conspiracy to
defraud, at gaming Martin Spicer, of Fredericks-
burg, on Tuesday evening last, hearing of their
1 whereabouts started upon one of his detective
tours and traced the accused to Petersburg and
thence to Norfolk. On Friday evening, assisted by
officers Cox and Cspheart of Norfolk, he arrested
White and Roach. They were brought to this city
yesterday morning in the Jamestown. Their ex'
animation was continued until to-day. The re-
CURED security, $500 each, had not been given when
our Reporter left court They were subsequently
committed to jail.
| INsoLENcE-On Sunday, as two young men
named William Parker and M. Graves, were walk
ing together near the Old Market, they met a free
negro named George Richards, who endeavored to
keep the inside of the walk, and when slightly
pushed aside by Parker, said he had as much right
to the inside as they had. He then followed the
two white men some dstar CO. threaten min to stake