Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-13

lev. Broad street has become, since the ire, the
principal street Of the city. Il is more ire
auented, especially by ladies, aud along It are
collected the stores and shops whose contents
are most injured by dust. Ii some public Spir-
tied citizen will take round a subscription pa
per, he will easily raise the sum necessary 10
keep two or three water-carts gong. Inc
comfort gained, the protection TO googs ana
the increase of custom will repay the cost
many times over. Who will take II IN Maud
MEETING oY rHE CRY CouNcIL.-The Coun-
ell met at four O'Clock yesterday evening, Mr.
Glazebrook in the Chair. Present, MeSsrs.
Burr, Stokes, Lancaster, Eppes, Scott, Clopton,
Griffin, Lee, Millspaugh, Smith and Tardy.
Mr. Burr. from the Committee on Claims,
made a report recommending that one hundred
dollars of the class tax against NJ. d. Maine be
remitted. Also that fifty dollars OF the class
tax against A. $. Lee x Co. be RENTED. Also
that class tax against Ash Leyy'and ). J.. BY
erly be RENTED. Adversely to the petition OF
Hill and krsbS for the return Of part OF the IL
cense tax paid by them Also that the tax on
the Richmond Female Seminary be RENTED.
The report, erceDf that portion which relates to
the petition Of Hill x HrebS, was adopted. Said
petition was thcreupOn recUmmitted.
The Committee on the Markets reported in
favor of reducing the fees Of the weigh-masterS
for weighing hay and other forage from 10 10 >
cents. Adopted.
On motion Of Mr.. Lee, the Committee on
Markets were instructed TO report an ordinance
giving the weigh-maSter fixed salary. Adopt
ed.
CHARGES AGAINST THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
AIMS HOUSE.
Messrs. Glazebrook, Lancaster, Lee, Clopton,
EppeS and Griffin, the committee to whom was
referred the communication preterring charges
against the Superintendent OF the Aims House,
reported that, after the fullest investigation,
they find the charges To be without foundation
that the charges originated among paupcrs who
LETT the institution without permiSSlOn-com-
mtted violations of the laws, and are now ln-
mates of the Jail. They furthermore state
that the Superintendent has performed the
duties of his position most faithfully.
They also lind the complaints OF Colonel
Davis, \. \. e., against the Superintendent, TO
be grOundleSS.
The report OF Col. Davis made TO General
Turner, and by hiA transmitted to the coun-
ell, charges the Superintendent, Mr.. Phillips,
with not permitting the pauperS to visit the city,
even in search Of employment, without his per-
mission, which is Numerically opposed TO the
rule which prevails in such institutions at the
North that he allows no one TO come to the
institution except his favortes; that he had a
woman ducked and then placed in cell IN
wet clothes without food, in December, for
coming 70 the city in search OF employment to
gain money TO buy her destitute children clo-
thing that he made females, without shoes,
wash clothes in a room in December, 1860, and
January, 1866, in which the water was three
inches deep; that he forced sick women ont OF
their beds to do work that he has made base
propositions to the female paupers, TO which
some, through fear, have yielded that he locks
the house up at p. NJ, goes home, and does
not sometimes return until p. NJ. the next
day. Thereport closes with list OF witnesses
who were examined by the committee of the
council on Friday and Saturday, during the IN
veStigatiOn they then made, upon which their
report given above is based.
The bill OF the Midlothian Coal Mining Com
pany, amounting To- SlO2, 900, was referred to
the Committee ON Gas Works.
One hundred dollars was ordered to be paid
Chief Engineer L. L. Barnes, of the Fire De-
partment.
An ordinance increasing the pay for digging
graves in St. Johns and ShuckOe Hill Gene
teries, between fifty and seventy-hye per cent,
was adopted.