The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-07-28
LOCAL MATTERS.

LOCAL MATTERS.
Co0PERATIoN.-Ther never was n period
in the history of this State when co0pera-
ton among commercial men was so much
needed as now. We live under q new order
of things, and it behooves every man to put
his shoulder to the wheel in order to lift the
State from its depressed condition. All
should remember that whatever benefits
community in the aggregate benefits each
individual thereof for n community is but
an aggregation of individuals. A few days
ago, in commencing on the insufficient
cy of the support given to the Cham
Der of Commerce, we used this same
argument. We repeat it, and will con-
tinue to repeat it, with the hope that
the result we aim at will be reached; but
all this is merely predatory to remark
or two on new enterprise in which our
tobacco merchants, grain merchants, and
merchants generally, seem to have en-
barked quite earnestly-it is the erection OF
building for the joint use of the To-
bacco Exchange, Corn Exchange, and Cham
Der of Commerce.
As may be seen under the head OF . Re-
marksn ON the Corn and Flour Exchange
Yesterday. the grain trade in this city has
been steadily increasing since 1867 3; and the
same is the case in the tobacco line. This
gives encouragement to the project to wnlch
we allude, and shows the necessity OF lis
adoption for where commission merchants
are engaged at one and the same time IN
disposing of grain, tobacco, and other pro-
ducc, it is essential that their facilities for
so doing should be increased, and in no way
can this be better done than by concentra-
ting transactions under one common roof.
It is proposed, then, to do this and as a
preliminary step the Tobacco Exchange,
Corn Exchange, and Chamber Of Com
merce, appointed three committees, rs fol-
lows:
Tobacco ErChdnge.-C. r. Barksdale,
Alexander Cameron, James Thomas, Jr.,
Archibald Boiling, ". G.. Miller.
Corn Erchange.-T. G. Peyton, R. B.
Somerville, John B. Wilson, A. S. Lee, j.
H. Martin.
Chamber Of Commerce.-John Purcell,
R. E. Blankinship, W. S. Donnan, {. L.
Wortham, Il. Pickrell.
The chairmen of these three committees
were to have meeting, in which location,
cost, and style Of building were to he con-
sidered They were to report to meeting
of the three committees, and then each of
the committees was to report to its own as
sociation. The chairmcn, we believe, have
met, and site has been almost determined
on, and an architect is now engaged in pre-
pairing a plan. So far so good. This Is
rapid progress, and we arc glad of it, for it
shows activity and enterprise, two great
clements Of success nowadays.
Too much care cannot be expended on the
consideration Of the arrangement OF the
| building, and it is but proper to say that
| the gentleman who has it in hand is bending
his best skill to the work. For Corn and
Flour Exchange there arc several indispen-
sable requisitcs-t0 wit; en abundance and
a uniformity of light, good and pure vcnti-
lation, commodiousness of rooms, and IA
cility of ingress and egrcss. 1t will not do
that the members of the Corn Exchange
should be compelled to pass through the
| Tobacco Exchange on their way to the Corn
| Exchange, or rice rcrS0. There should be
independent access for each association to
its own room, and at the same time commu-
nication from one institution to the other
inside the building without going outside in
order to gain entrance.
Again Uniformity Of light, and an
abundance Of it, are necessary. Every
member of either Exchange knows this,
and we need not therefore enlarge on it
and with regard to room, it should be re-
membered that the building is not to be
erected for the present day alone, but for n
time in which our produce will be greatly
increased, and will require large space
wherein to dispose Of it. In the building,
too, there should be offices for merchants
These could be disposed of at good rent,
and would contribute to pay per centage
on the outlay. BY all means, then, let this
scheme 90 ahead. 1t will prove highly
beneficial in every point of view.
There are several other matters of minol
detail which we might refer to, but these
are all we'll understood by the architect
One thing, however, we would say, and il
is this Cary street, on which it is proposed
TO erect the building, is, beyond al ques'
ton, the noisicst in the city. The old
fashioned drays rattle over the stones al
day long with such a laundering sound
that one can't hear his own ears; ; and
therefore we think that wood pavement
or an asphaltum pavement mi ght be laid
down around the new building, and a few
yards beyond it either way, and this would
silence the present nuisance.
SHARP PRACTICE-A BoGUs INSTITUTION
OF MAsoNRY.-William Pearce, an elderly
man, was arraigned before Mayor Chahoor
yesterday morning for obtaining slGO under
false pretences. There was no evidence
taken, but from the statements made to rls
by parties concerned it appears that some
time since Pcarce pretending to be vested
with the power to do SOY organized a So
called Lodge of Masons among the coloreC
people. He raised Sl60 for this object, anC
presented dispensation, pretending thai
it came from Washington. The Lodge $50
called) was duly installed under Pearcc''
auspices, and he commenced comforting de
grees by wholesale.
Something occurred after some time to at