The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-09-04
LETTER FROM PETERSBURG.
x aG.cul Ideas Of Lava Fellow Feeling Makes
an" oudrou> kind-Platte aud those Bonds
The Cotton Year Sudden Illness Sora, &c.
special Correspondence OF the Dl.patch.l

special Correspondence OF the Dl.patch.l
PETERSBURG, Sept. ., 1871.
The intensely partisan spirit which per-
Nld,> our Radical C!tv CUoncii, and the
general incapacity which distinguishes its
mrml ,rS. were strikiugly shown III some Of
jhr proceedings of Yesterdays session. For
>pl!." TIME past the two city bailiilS-one
Jane, !. Weeks. white, and Joseph Robin
SOB. 4 QpmpuUs and in.olent negro, have
h"rn claiming $500 each oftbe city as salary
f.! -" year Which ended july q, 1871. The
.r!'y tad refused 10 recognize this claim on
't" ground ID Il the Council which preceded
=" present BODY virtually abolished the
i.'a OF la'litl, which was clearly an unne-
yr,';tN Position; or, rather, it provided no
REMUNERATION for ii further than the fees
W.lri attached to its duties. But SO soon
a. he Radical Council came into place,
Weeks and Robinson, both red-mouthed
Radicals OF course, renewed their applica-
asn 'or the pay they never earned, a.stim-
M TIC easy role Of political martyrs and
e.nur" Of q favorable heariuw.
he committee TO whom tue matter was
frvgr"l actually got Weeks lawyer to
VIZ" Stl mani their report to the C0un-
'I. IRVING asked no advice and engaged NO
ctDn'c', except that Of the claimant against
'ae ci'y, whose interest they were sup
posed 10 represent and protect. And in
ID" L"llccIl several Radical members had
tH c1ronte!y 10 admit that they cared
h''AihG Tor the law; that the Conservatives
! I'll III HE 5al,ils' pay because they were
i'a&lcai>, and they meant TO restore it.
.'"1 - The Sl,2OO was appropriated, only
!'r Vote, beng cast against the pioneering
Proposition.
>eEcral Radicals evidently voted against
,''lf lncIInatlons and convictions, but the
Party sa>h was too keen 10 withstand, and ,
'''.y stopped and kissed it.
III" announcement Of General Mahone's
I"lo'c 10 make this city his permanent
! !",''"nce will perhaps occasion some sur
l",N III The state. 1t had been generally
,"i"'td that Lynchbure would remain the
"s4'td. abIdlng-placc, SO far as so active
way >"!iih2 man can be said TO have any
-, rH'iiieal place of habitation at all.
"c r nance Committee Of the Common
g'y1.A nave published u lengthy report,
~,iAs history of the negotiations by
T T-Eh The city loan Of $500, 900 was made.
~ statement sets the committee all right,
a., a., indeed, it has always appeared in the
,@hsactlpn, bat doesn't touch the action of
~, ,nr non. Platte, who is believed to have
,.',a about 5000 by the little financial
'At Certainly the bonds were sold at a
! nsinefaele advance on the price the city
-Ils0 ior Them only few days before.
19n DO conclude as did begin,
,r, ""' 9'' Gat whtSksy skin?'T
,r' ~ COTTON CO.. year closed on the 3lst of Au-
yH.I - Ae receipts Of the year ending Au-
,r,r o., lo'V. were q, $50 bales; for the
!"'' ehGed they amounted 10 81. 528-
ln,.,T7,, '''' ease. just ri present but little
n,,.h,' VI cotton Is coming IL, and the
txcr,, ct, W transportation generally is dull,
''D'A and Southwest are being convened