The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-07-02
rNIRGINLAs NEWS.gss.
letter from Petersburg.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.

| Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
| PFTERSBuRG, July; / 1872.
| The time for the regular meetings. OF tho
| City Council having beet, changed back to
| tho tst Of each month, by resolution adopted
! by u called meeting held Saturday night tho
new Council met this afternoon for tho HIST
time. Nearly all the members were present,
and tho proceedings were more harmonious
and expeditions Than usual. Tor tue reason,
| perhaps, that the Cuunclfs main business was
merely 10 ratiiy the nominations previously
made bv tho Republican c;lucus, the slips be-
inc already prepared for Calculation anti bel'ig
voted will, mechanical regularity. An ehnrt
was made 10 induce The Council to respect the
Recommendation of the iirtt companies
| for chief Of the brigade; n communication
asking for that priyilcgctoh nc restored TO the
companies being presented Ivy 4 committee
which represented them. A Republican
| member called for the records 10 IN, read
and il appearing that tie privilege had been
taken from The fire companies ly a ConsaIya-
tive Council, fare,iousv said he was satisfied
and opposed to any change; and Mr.. W. T..
Lacy. the CAUCUS nominee. WAS elected.
Appropriations as follows were asked and
ordered Water, Works, $l3i.I5; streets,
S%.3ij. 80; claims. S3%.O1 cemetery, ST. III.
The account of the Gas Company, amount
Ing to S.,Uta91, WIS referred to tile Gas
Committee. Other accounts will he presented
ut ill ADJOURNED meeting to be held on Friday
next ut L: NJ. 2. .f.tf,.
The designations OF w. L; LaGy aid j. f.
Justice lClig presented and accepted,
MeSsrS. J. J. Thompson and William f.
SpottSwood, both Conservatives, were unani-
mou>ly elected. There are reports that
other designations of Radical co,lucilmcn of
small ,7,il,re are To he made. and that Con-
scrva,ycS are to l'c elected i'm their stead.
The Republicans will h very careful, how
ever, to maintain Il majority sufficient to put
all partisan measures through.
\ resolution offered by II. Williams, dr.,
| (who is a candidate for Conyrcss) was
adopted providing that drinking men shall
| not ne appointed on the police corps, and
| That policemen suspended for that cause
shall not br rcinsiatcd within twelve months.
A motion was made just before the to!m-
iii adjourned that the salary of the Mayor
Ike fixed at $1,000 per annun. IT. was de-
icrrcd till the meeting on Friday next. II
| i quite doubtful whether the resolution will
lr,>S. the present salary tS3,On0) being al
| ready more than the services rendered by
| the present incumbent arr woltlE .-.tt
From the balance sheet Of the City Urea
| SHrcr IAN advance sheet Oh Wnlcn HAS neell
| securely it appears that the receipts of the
city from June |, 1871 :, TO Juuc ]. 1872. were
s:s,3.0i1.2i. The expenditures for the same
period were $50. 253.j2. Cash on hand,
Si9,7S9.73. ....,
Mr. H. r. 1Htl,m, Keeper of the Blandtnrd
| Cemetery, is lying PROSTATE from the effect
| of sunStroke. 1892 .tf #s.. .'.tfIN
| The Committee on Official Bonds refused
| this afternoon to receive the bond Of BIZ.
| Mike Farrell. Commissioner of the Revenue
elect, provoking Il sharp passage between the
chairman and Mr.. Bailey, of the Council,
| who is on the bolid 1854.
| A great MANY pic-nicS aid excursions of a
| festive kind will mark our observance of the
| glorious Fourth.
The children of Washingion-Strcet Metho-
dist Episcopal church will pass through
| Richmond tomorrow OH I. picnic trip TO
| Ashland. ROBIN ADAIR.