The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-04-13
LOCAL MATTERS.

CrrY CouNcrL.-DEyKRREp ?RccsEpITcs. -
Contested Election.-At the regular monthly meet
Ing on Monday evening last, communication was
received from Philip Harrison, Jr, snnouucing his
intention to contest the election OF NJ Lsdd, a.
City Surveyor, on the ground of ineligibilty. On
motion II was laid on the table.
Approred The bond OF w Smith, appointed
keeper of the City Magazine, was received and sp.
proved.
Refrred-The petition of E Fl Clarke for remis.
sion of tax was read and duly referred.
Account Thomas Wheelys account for rooms
and accommodations furnished to poll clerks during
the late election, amounting to SAT so, was read
and referred.
Faance.-Mr. McCance, from the Committee Of
Finance, reported an ordinance authorising tenn.
porary loan from time TO time OF sums not exceed.
ing in the aggregate the amount of s2o,0 600. The
ordinance was adopted.
Salary Of The Mayor.-A resolution offered BY
Mr. Scott and instruc,ing the committee on Financs
to enquire into the expediency of increasing the
salary of the Mayor, was read and adopted.
Remission of Tar Petitions from Daniel Sims
and Z Seldom, asking for remission of tax were
On motion of Mr. Scott taken up and recommitted.
On motion of Mr. Scott, the committee on Claims
were discharged from the consideration of the ne.
tition OF w McCance, and said petition was re-
ferred to the committee of Equalizers. Mr. Car.
rington then offered the following resolution
Resolred, That the committee on the First Mar.
ket be Instructed to enquire into the expediency
OF repairing and fitting up he rooms over the first
market, known by the name of Military Hall, and
report to the Council estimate of the cost of the
same.
The resolution was agreed to, and then on mo.
ton the Council adjourned.
THE GAS WoRKs-It has been urged upon US as
matter of justice, to state the substance of the de
bate in that meeting of the Council which adopted
the report of the subcommittee Oh the propriety
of purchasing lot for the Gas Works, at Rockets
The writer of this, having not the slightest person
al feeling in the matter, yields to the request sim.
ply for the reason that it was made. Recurring to
our notes on the occasion, we find the following a
fair state ment of the chief points in the debate
which were omitted in our report published at II Q
time:
The committee having reported unanimously in ia
of the gradual removal of the Gas Works to Rock
etts Mr. ANDERSON took occasion refer to the pro-
longed contest in the Council three years SINCE when
the various plans and spectca ions of the bidders
reviewed and discussed. MIR. A. partner
in the proposal of Batten, DUNCAN Il Co., who had
proposed to build the works at Rockets putting in
bid for that locality, and also tor the site already
lected by the Council; but they urged Rockets as
the proper site. Mr.. ANDERSON said that he
claimed credit for himself and those with whom he
was then associated for the foresight they had dis
played in advising the location at Rockets and
sidered himself indicated. When he and those
with whom he had acted made their proposals he
found fault with far and near but he did not re-
gard the heaped upon him, for he felt he
interest
ed I'll at he In looking back to that period he felt
regret at the part he had taken in the controver
sy but had the qualification of being sustained late
it was, by the imous voice of the Committee
Mr.. ROBINSON said that in looking back at the past
he saw cause to be satisfied and no cause to regret
the action of the Council. He went to state that
before the advertisement for proposals published
the Council had already purchased the site for the
works. and that there seemed 10 be serious d wis
ion of opinion that pon-that after the proposals
were all submitted to the committee on light and
that committee had reported IN favor of one of the
bidders the Council called for all the plans and spe-
clhcanons and these were examined and criticised
by the Council with the view of ascertaining
which was best; and that the worst and most imper
feet IN details of all that were presented the
plan and specifications of the company, of which Mr.
Anderson was party. Mr.. R. then went on to men
ton one serious objection to that proposition, viz
that it proposed to supply the large main ten inch
pipe, through SIX INCH pipe at the works. (Mr.
ANDERSON interrupted MIR. Robinson with the re-
mark that this not correct statement of the
proposal) Mr.. ROBINSON went on to say that though
it might be advisable to change the location of the
works, and he did not know enough of the matter to
say whether it was or was not-there most
important thing that the city had that it would not
Lave had under the plan of Batten, DUNCAN Co. and
that was proper ~ proportional system of pipes for
the distribution of gas through the city. Mr. R. re-
ferred by name to prominent member of the Coun-
Gil who, the time of the debate upon the plans
gave his preference to that favored by Mr. Anderson
who perfectly satisfied that it was not the
best that was offered, and was grated that it
jected.
Mr. MYERS took occasion to say that there was no
he
works at this time That had such been the PROPOSE
ton before it. he had il it could have passed
1t certainly would not have received his vote. The
idea was In of the probable further advance in
the value OF property to money by purchasing
this time at Rockets and putting there such add
tonaI works as might be necessary for present con-
sumption, and at some future time, when circu1H-
stances justified it, to remove the entire works except
the sas-hoders now built, to the Rockets location.
@*The proposition of Messrs Baton, DUNCAN e.
Co, for too si1.iach pipes, to supply the large
mains in the heat of the city from the works at
Rockets, the one to pass along Water street, the
other up Main street. But these two, for that dis
lance would have been entirely insufficient We
do not refer to the matter in any unkind spirit but
merely as an act of simple justice, the subject be
ing already revived.
We have just received the Charleston Courier
containing a long report Of a committee OF citi.
gems of Charleston appointed to examine into the
causes of bad and deficient light OF which there
had been very great complaint The works there
were built by Batten DUNCAN a. Co; and they In
troduced there this very principle OF small sup
ply pipe from the works feeding a large main in
the street. The committee condemn it in the most
pointed manner. They say " The advantage of
| the ten-inch main in Church and Market streets is
defeated in great degree by diminishing its cspa
city at the works By increasing the outlet pipe to
| the same size with the street main, the flow from
the gasometers will be more easy, and the benefit
of their pressure more extensively felt"
But tits quite enough to say that Mr. CAMPBELL,
the intelligent Superintendent of the works, pre-
poses now to lay down a sEvENTREN-INCH PIPE
from Rockets.
sHoo1ING.-A man named Royal Blackburn was
on yesterday, afraigned before the Mayor ON the
charge of shooting Edward DENLY on Sunday
morning last. From the testimony presented, il
appeared that On that morning DENLY, in company
with two other men, took boat from Mayo's
island, which belonged to Blackburn, under the
Impression that it was the property OF Mr. VIII
liam Fuqua On getting out into the river with the