The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-03-10
Letter from Petersburg.
Correspondence ol Tue kichmond ,Dispatch.l-
PErKRsBURG, March 0, 1876.
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A correspondence Is now going on be.
tween the brigade officers andthe command.
ants Of the regiments formerly composing
Weisiger's brigade, Mahone's division OF
the Army of Northern Virginia, looking to
the holding of convention at some central
point, In the month Of May, for the purpose
of re0rganizing that command on social and
benevolent basis. The regiments which
formed this famous brigade were the Sixth,
Twelfth. Sixteenth, Forty first, and Sixty
first. The last named has already taken &C.
ton, and as far as heard from, the rank and
file of the others favor the proposition for
re6rgani cation.
ELECTION OF CHURCH OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
OF 4 MISSIONARY.
At the annual meeting of the Lay Associa-
ton of st. Pau's church held last night DR..
Thomas Withers was elected president for
the ensuing year, Jobu Mann vice-presi-
dent, and T. Eugene Davis treasurer.
Rev. Mr.. Ward, formerly Of Greensviile
county, who by election Of this Association
has for the past year or two been laboriBg
zealously and effectively as missionary in
the parish, offered his resignation; which
was laid on the table, with the hope that he
may be induced to withdraw It.
PREPARING run 1hL oLAAn SONOhA -SShOOL
CONVENTION.
Some of the best scholars Of the First Bap.
tist Sunday school in this city are in training
under Rev. DR.. Hatcher for their appearance
in dialogues and rs singers before the State
Convention to be held in Richmond on the
Both instant. Judging from the skill and
proficiency they have shown in their meet
ings here, you may expect treat.
TIE CHANGERS
are increasing rapidly 10 this section, and are
organizing in every direction. In Dld~ld-
die, on Saturday,. Fairfield Grange was Or
ginzed With large number Of members.
Disputauta Grange, in Prince George coun-
", was organized on Monday with twenty
gentlemen and eight ladies As members /; and
in the same county, on Friday of this week,
another grange will be organized at Lees
Mill.
WATER. PIPE AND OTHER CONTRACTS AWARDED.
The Water Committee of the Common
Council has awarded contract to the Ire.
deglr Iron.Works, Richmond, TO furnish
siXteen.inch pipes to be used in the intro
duction OF water into the Fifth Ward OF this
city. The contract for new valves and by
drants in the same ward has been given to
| Messrs. Wood & Co., Of Philadelphia. 1t
is proper to state that bids were made by the
proprietors of the fouDdries in this city to
furnish these articles, which were not ac-
cepted because they proposed to do the work
outside of Petersburg, and would not agree
to do it here even at an advanced rate.
TIE CoLoRED PEOPLE
here are behaving themselves well under the
ciyil.rights bill. They have thus far given
no cause of complaint nor made any effort 10
intrude themselves where they are not want
ed. 1t is believed their good sense and the
advice of the better class of their race will
keep them from the commission Of any rash
acts.
THE FLOOD IN THE APPoMATToX
is RAPIDLY subsidiug, and the water will soon
he within its natural boundaries. 1t has
been many years since the river was known
to keep so high for SO many consecutive days.
While good deal of Inconvenience has been
caused at our Wharyes, no material damage
has been Inflicted.
4 GOOD DEAL OF SICKNESS,
mainly of an inf immatory nature, prevails
in the city and adjacent counties-caused, OF
course, by the wet weather and changeaDle
temperature " have bad.
BISHOP wINGFIELD
will leave for the diocese of North California
early in April. He has consented to remain
and officiate at St. Paul'5 church until the
arrival of the new rector.
REV. THOMAS HUME, sR.,
whose death, in Portsmouth, was announced
Yesterday, commenced studying for the min
| istry under the Rev Gilbert Mason in this
city about the year 1881, and connected him.
self with the First Baptist church here in
the wear 1880. He went hence to the Rich.
mond Seminary, where he fioished bis
studies, and after ordination preached in the
counties around Petersburg. During the
war he was pastor Of the Second Baptist
church here. ROBIN HOOD.