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Oil City Market.

gfnghaIns continue in fair demand fJuf dress
styles are notquick. Men'swear woolens NOV
in 81
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Piftsburg Oil Market.

PITTsBURG, Nav l3.-Petroleum-Quiet; crlude
sl o44s9l % at Parker's for immediate ship
ment; refined lie for Philadelphia delivery.
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Pelts, 5oc@A IS, at TO quahty.
Damaged hides and skins, two-thirds price.
Partly cured h0lc less per ~.
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GUNPOWDER-We quote prices al s. Is per
keg for rifle; So 80 per keg for blasting.
HIDES-Quotations corrected by l.. Rauh q
Sons, 2l9 South Pennsylvania street. Market
remains unchanged, little activity being dis
played.
We quote in store:
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Milwaukee Market.

MILWAUKEE, May l3.-FIour-Dull and un-
Wheat-weak opened at an advance of &c
81 I415; No Milwaukee 81 ID; No do 81 l04;
May 81 l01s; June 81 0s54; July 81 O65z; No 3 do
CoFn-Quiet; No Old sssSa4Oc; new s7@ssc.
oats-A shade easier; No 22614c.
BBys,mNoN Ss1zc: s.,l. Gosh
Provisions-Dull and nominal; pork " %.
Lard: steam s. 20.
Receipts-Flour $500 bbls; wheat 900 bu.
Shipments-Flour 400 bbls; wheat 10000 bu.
Boston Market.
BOSTON, May l3-Flour-Duu and I'M
changed: western supertine " 5o94; extras
Ohio, Indiana and Michigan IS 75@6 IS;
Illinois s6@6 IS; st. Louis s697; patent Wis
Corn-Qufet and unchanged mixed and
Oats-Q1iet; No i and extra white se@42c;
No 2 white and No mixed So15Sooc; NO
white and No mixed 3519@S5c.
So. Louis Live Stock Market.
ST. LOUIS, May lS.-Cattle-Strong, and some
sales higher; prime to choice native shipping
to good butchers So 9O@f IS; cows and heifers
So sol; corn fed Texans IS 1904 30; grass fed
do 81 50@3 50. Receipts 800 head -
Hogs-Acti but lower; light shipping Is 10
as Is; packing % 1903 25; butchers 2ogS 81.
Receipts $500 head.
Sheep-Scarce and wante. All good grades
would command full prices. Receipts none.
Buffalo Cattle Market.
BUFFALO, May 1S.-Cattle = Receipts 2,5Sl
head: no sales to-day fresh arrivals consigned
through; yards bare.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts 800 head. Mar
ket active; western clipped sheep "a 5o@5 10;
western woods S. 50@5 6; extra clipped year
lings IS rs: spring lembs not wanted; all sold.
Hogs-Receipts Ass head. Market mode
rately active; York light weights So 5093 80;
heavy So 5003 20; common rough 81 SO9S 40.
New York Dry Goods Market.
NEW DIRK, May 1s.-Basiness quiet with
commission houses, and importers and
| iobbing trade is sluggish. Cotton goods are In
more active. Fancy prints quiet, but low
priced shlrtings IN steady request, staple
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East Liberty Live stock Market.

EAST LIBERTY, May 3-Cattle-Recelpts
sinc4and including Friday 1913 head of thor
ouglfand 255 head of yard stock. Total tor the
week ending this day 5,S72 head OF thorough
and S74 head of yard, against 4,S92 head Of
thorough and ,U23 head of yard the week be-
fore. Not many cattle on hand, and nothing
doing in the wholesale line. The retail bust
ness is also slow at about &c advance over last
week. Best 50 2545 IS; good butcher stock
81 75@4 10; common butcher stock 81 25@5 30.
Hogs-Receipts to-day $40 head; total for
the week 1920 head, against ii $50 head for
the week before. Workers IS SOFAS 20; Phil
adelphias So 75@3 50.
Sheep-Receipts to-day 700 head; total for
the week 1900 head, against 1890 head the
week before: Selling at S495; all sold and
prospect good.
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[For the Dispatch.]
Call q Halt.

Messrs. Editors: The proposition so to
amend the charter as to take away from the
people the right to elect all Of the municipa!
officers except two mayor. and Treasurer).
which the State Constitution makes 80 cleo.
tive, is grave and serious matter.
What have the voters Of Richmond done
that they should be thus disfranchised?
II they can be trusted to elect Council
man, why cannot they be trusted to elect
justices OF the Peace, Auditor, Collector,
and High Constable? Now, Councilmen may
say that sby their plan we will secure better
officers. There is no way OF judging the
future better than by the past. II so, compare
the officers in place to-day who were elected
by the Council with those elected by the
people, Wherein does the superiority oi
the former over the latter appearp
The disfranchisement OF the people to
this extent will save nothing. Elections
must still be held to choose Councilmen,
Mayor, und Treasurer, and it will cost no.
thing additional to elect Justices, High Con.
stable, Collector, and Auditor, as we dc
now. b
The patronage OF the City Council Is
already very great. Backed by it. q mem
ber, however undesirable, may long defy
the popular will. When thet time comes
when the Councilnen and all the Office
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GINS Question

Editors of Dispatch: In the communities
ton of l.. T. G. agninst the reduction on the
price OF gas he argues that the city has
spent 81 100000 in the construction of the
works, and therefore should receive back.
to the credit Of the city, the sum OF 100000
annually, and chargeable to expenses OF the
gas.works. Such is not the fact. At the
time the works were commenced the city
appropriated $25O,000 to build the works on
Cary street, together with the mains, &C.,
for supplying the.zcity. When they re-
moved the works 10 Rockets another $780,
900 was appropriated by the city, making
the sum total by the city OF S350,000. All
over and above that has been paid by the
consumer, from year to year, from the re-
ceipts to the city for the use OF gas-as the
last annual statement Of the works will show
in its disbursements, so much for conSt11Ac-
tion, ten thousand dollars, and so ON all the
way back to the commencement OF
the consumption OF gas in the city.
Does j.. II. G. say that amount, $4,000,
and so On back, is paid by the city except
indirectly, after being collected from the
consumer? The annual statement will show
these facts-thus: the S650,000 to complete
the works to its present status has been paid
by the consumer from year to year; and
You wish the man who consumed to pay
interest on bis own money from year TO
year as the works were extended The cX-
tension from time to time was paid from
the receipts from gas and charged to con-
struction account, as shown in the last re-
port. Let L. t. e. go and look at the ac-
count for construction on the books Of the
works and see for himself now much has
been charged to that account, which is now
Lx,. e al 11sA.
but which was paid and taken from the
consumer for. the use Of gas.
n. e. Let the city adopt 4 gds-tar per
capita upon the head of every family suffi-
cient to pay for the street-lights---for every
body gets the benefit OF that-then reduce
the price to 81 to the consumer, pay the
city the interest on the s350,000, and you
will then have the works yielding surplus
sufficient for construction.
A GAS-CONSUMER
ever since The works were established
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a Ecster on the Discipline Of the Col.
ored Battalion of Richmond.

RICHMOND, VA, January 13, 1878.
Editors Dispatch: Noticing for some
considerable time the movements Of the
colored battalion, and finding it SO very
different from that Of our sister -city-Ra-
leigh, N. CT am compelled to call the at
tention Of the community at large. I
noticed on the first day Of january the col
ored people OF North Carolina had a grand
turnout in honor OF their emancipation,
and it proved to be the grandest OF it's
kind ever witnessed. The battalion OF
Richmond has been organized nearly
three. years, and has never had one
parade in uniform rs q battalion
ought to. There is but one officer uni
formed as field-cflicer, and he, as it lap
pened. is sergeant. The battalion had
two moonlight parades during last summer,
the present commandant in charge. | no
tice, again, when the Chief Magistrate OF
the United States came to our city of seven
hills, all Of the militia OF the city were or
dercd out in honor Of his EXcellency. Our
battalion went out, Captain j. &. ip com.
mand. Their major could not be found.
Again, when the Governor Of our State was
inaugurated, the battalion was called out,
but did not participate; yet and still in
charge Of some one else, hut not the major.
think, and all good people OF the Com
monwealth, that three years is long enough
to organize an army of ten thousat.d men,
well drilled, we'll disciplined, and good sol
diers in every respect. The law says, ii 1
understand that part, that in sixty days
after an officer shall have been commission
ed he and his company must report to the
Acknowledgement for inspection. On this
basis [ notice two companies organized
here, and they have never been inspected.
There are companies in the city without
captains; there are some without lieuten-
ants, &C., and those that have no captains
the whole duty and responsibility fall on
their ieutenants. Captains, be diligent
and studious; lieutenants, bear a good
name and reputation; and ye sergeants,
pay attention and obey your officers. am
not one Of the soldier-boyS, but we'll
wisher and a strong thinker. ALPHA.
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MAKE A NOTE OF
OUR GRAND DRIVING SALES
WHEN YOU START
TO BUY YOUR CLOTHING.
A. SAKs & Co., 1918 Main street,
One Price, c. O. %.

scTESCK's PULMoNIC SYRUP, SEA-WEED TON
1c. AND MANDRAKE PILLs-These deservcdly-cel-
ebrsed and popular medicines have effected rego-
uticn In The healing art, and proved the faacy OF
several maxims which have for many years Oh
,ruced the progress OF medical science. The false
supposition that "Consumntlon Is incurable' de-
TERED physicians from attempting 10 find remedies
for that disease and patients afflicted with it recon-
cIled themselves to death without making an ehort
10 escape from a doom which they supposed TO he
unavoidable 1t Is now proved, however, that
ronsumption can be cured, and that It mas oees
cured In very great number OF cases (some oi thehi
apparently desperate one,l by ScHENcK's PULMo-
MIC SYRUP alone; and 10 other cases by the same
medicine In connection with sCHENCK's sEA-WEED
TONIC and MANDRAKE PILLS. one or botli, accora-
ing to the requirements of the ease.
DR.. Schenck himself, who enjoyed uninterrupted
good health for more than forty years. was supposed
a. one lime to be the very gale OF death MS pnS
Lsicians having pronounced bis case hopeless, anu
abandoned hin, TO his fate. He was cured by tue
aforesaid medicines, and since his recovery many
thousands similarly affected have used Df'
schenck's preparations With the same remarRaoe
success.
Full directions accompany each, making IL ho'
absolutely necessaI 10 personally see Dr. sehenck
unless patients wish their lnngs examined and foi
this purpose he Is professionally NJ his prineipa
Office, corner Sixth and Arch streets, Philadelphla
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MANCHESTER AND VICINITY.

The City Coancu-Jfr. Brooks as Present
and Males q Statement-Ihe Richmond
Cedar Works-Th Matter Finally Settled
The Cedar Works Company has Eight
Years. Rent Free.-An adjourned meeting
Of the City Council was held last night.
Present at roll-caIl (7:50 o'clock: G.. C.
McRae (president), r. s. Whitehead, j. FL.
Matthews, n. a. Eubank, Ajax Gary, w.
l.. Moody, A. Monteiro, and E. Gallagher.
The Chair stated that Mr.. Brooks was
present. who desired to make statement.
The privilege was granted.
Mr. Brooks said that he was absent from
the meeting last Saturday night. owing to
the fact that he was in Richmond attending
to business; that he had the advice Of a
friend not to come. He spoke Of his sur
prise at the reports in the papers Saturday
and Sunday, and then went into. full eX-
planation OF his late troubles in connection
with the city. Ge stated that he was always
willing and ready to settle; that he had
never embezzled one cent, and that ne
never would do such thing. He had not
been mile and half from the city for two
months and half.
Mr.. Brooks was entirely cool and dispas.
sionate, and his speech was listened to with
much interest by the spectators and the
members OF the Council.
In conclusion, he reiterated that he hao
had troubles recently heaped upon him, moi
financial troubles, but troubles Of more
serious nature, and that he was ready te
pay every cent that he owed.
Under the head OF business DR.. Mnnteirt
asked for the Richmond cedar-works ques
tion, which was pending at the last meet
ing. He asked that the rules be suspended
which required his resolutions concerning
the cedar-works 10 lie over till the mex
regular meeting. Agreed to.
The following resolution, offered by DR.
Monteiro Saturday night, was read by tn
Chair:
Whereas it is the opinion Of this body
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t that the best interests OF Manchester de
| maud that the Richmohd Cedar Manufac
turing Company should be encouraged te
remain in the city by every fair and honor
able means, be it
1 ftesoiued, That said company be granted
their request on the conditions agreed or
/ by the Council on the 18th instant, will
! the change only of the period OF eight years
| where the agreement was six; also, the
| tenure OF the buildings to be erected shal
| be held by the city under the like condi
tions as those Of Dunlop & McCance's mill,
President McRae made some remarks, in
which he said be wished it expressly under
stood that while leases may be renewed the
buildings must follow the soil. Dir. MeRae
made motion that the following clause in
1.-THE above resolution be stricken out: "Also
the tenure Of the buildings" &c.
The reading of the deed to Dunlop i Nc
Canoe was called for. BY request DR.. Mon
teiro read the same in full.
1Ir. Eubank asked if the lease had not
been renewed.
The Chair stated that it had, with some
notifications concerning taxes.
Mr.. Eubank addressed the Council in
favor Of granting. the Cedar-W forks Com
pany their request.
ISLlGlOIiS StSuGu luIlIS fOt
ing the grant were read.
be allowed to address the Council briefly.
Agreed to.
Mr. Perdue said that as q representative
OF the bondhoders he woutd protest against
the granting the Cedar Works proposition.
He thotsght as his bonds were secured by
the water rents that he was interested in the
matter and Shouid have q word.
DR.. Monteiro replied to Mr.. Perdue in a
vigorous and telling speech OF ten or fifteen
minutes.
The Chair then put the motion 10 strike
out the clause "also the tenure" &c., OF
DR.. Monteiro's resolution. Lost.
ArEs-Messrs. McRac, Whitehead Moody, and
NoEs.-Messrs. Matthews, Enbank. Gallagher,
Gibbs, Atantcro, Batchci!cr, ard Gary-7
Mr.. Perduc made request to be allowed
to enter protest in writing, which should
be placed upon tic calendar in regard TO
his opposition to the cedar-works grant.
Considerable discussion cnsued.
Mr.. Perdue withdrew his request.
The original resolution as given above
granting the ccdar-works company eight
yearS-.was carried by the following vote:
AYEs:-Messrs. Barcheller, Eabank; Gallagher;
Gary, Gibbs. Matthews, Montcro, Moody, and
Whitehead-9.
NoEs.-Messrs. MeRae and samnson-o.
Mr.. Gary stated that rs he had opposed
the resolution ct a previous meeting he
would state that lie had changed his posi-
ton upon the petition Of his constituents.
Mr.. Moody, before he voted, wished to
be fully satisfied as to certain points re-
garding the lease.
On motion the Council adjourned.
A special meeting will be held Friday
night to hear report from Mr.. Charles W.
Turner, who was appointed to settle with
Mr.. Brooks, and who has made such settle
ment satisfactorily.
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PERs0NM.-By the elections Of yesterday
nc change was made in the State officers
except as to superintendent OF Public
Printing. Captain K. e. Frayser succeeds
Major r. f. Walker in that position. The
Second Auditor, Treasurer, and Railroad
Commissioner are to be chosen at time
hereafter to be fixed.
Miss Rosabela, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
P. Strause, and Emanuel Raab, Esq, were
married at the Eleventh-Strcet synagogue
YESTERDAY evening. at Virginia Hall last
night they had grand reception ana aln-
ner.
A number OF enterprising merchants, with
J. p. Yancey as chairman, and j. NJ. Nowlan
as secretary, met last evening and resolved
TO organize q commercial club in this city
for the purpose Of entertaining merchants
with the view OF making Richclond more
attractive rs 4 trade-centre.
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4 Personal Erplanation.-It is but just
to G. C. McRac, ESD, president OF the City
Council, to state that he was not present at
the meeting OF the Council August 3. 1877,
when the resolution creating the Special
Street Committee was passed. He was
elected member OF the Council July Goth
uice William II. Garrett, who failed to
qualify, and granted leave OF absence for
sixty days on account OF III health. Mr..
McRae several times called attention to the
alleged violation OF the charter, aud it was
on his motion that the investigation which
eliminated in the proceedings before the
grand jury Tuesday was begun. This item
il written without the knowledge Or con-
sent of Mr.. McRae, and is an act of simple
iustipp
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Iholders and all the city employees are bound
together in one common fate, nothing short
OF political revolution will enable the
people to dfslodge any one, however objec.
tionable to them.
There has hitherto been wise division
OF the elective power between the peopc
and the City CounciI,and no strong reason
has yet been presented for change. inow
wesurrender these Offices into the hands OF
the City. Council the time may come when
we viii be restiTe in oU bondage, but we
will never have any to blame but ourselves.
Let the people speak to their representa-
tiyes in the General Assembly on this SUBJ
iect. Let them say whether they wish to
enlarge the ofFice-bestowing Jurisdiction OF
the Council.
No amendment to the charter should be
made until this proposition is thoroughly
canvassed, and until it is apparent that the
people wish it. No OFFIcE-HoLDER.
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WEATHER REPORT

| INDICATIONS. FOR TO-DAY For the Mid
weather, cold northwesterly veering to
warmer southerly winds, rising followed by
falling barometer.
For the South Atlantic States, cIeaf or
partly cloudy weather, cold northerly, pos
sibly veering to warmer southeasterly
winds, stationary or higher pressure.
For the Gulf States, Tennessee. and the
Ohio Valley, warmer, clear, or partly cloudy
weather, southeast to'southwest winds, and
falling barometer.
Of:shorc signals continue at Cape Lookout,
Cape Hatteras, Kitty Hawk, Cape Henry,
Norfolk, Baltimore, Cape May, Atlantic City,
Barnegat, Sandy Hook, New York, New
Haven, New London, Newport, Woods
Hole, Boston, Thatcher's Island. Portland,
and EaStport
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a SUSrestfOra.

HESRICO COUNTY, January 18th.
Editors Dispatch: At the intersection OF
Venable and Eighteenth streets is tagging
which is perfect disgrace to any city, as
we'll rs a great dread to owners OF vehicles
who have to travel over it. [ would sug-
gest that the tagging be removed from its
present position and put across Venable as
a continuation of the brick pavement which
extends along the northern side of Eigh-
teenth. This will place pedestrians on the
north side OF Venable, which is 4 better
walkway than the south side.
GEORGE WATT, Jr.
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Miss ASDERsoN's ENGAGENENT.-Miss
Mary Anderson's engagement at the Thea
tire commences tonight, end IS she IS an
actress OF distinction and her company an
excellent one she will no doubt have full
house. \ cotemporary, in referring to Miss
Anderson in I" Evadne,' which will be pre-
sented tonight, says:
Without doubt Mary Anderson is
destined to become great actress. Young
and necessarily inexperienced as sheis, she
possesses thoso qualifications which. are
sometimes recognized rs hstrionic genius,
but more truthfully to be described as the
inevitable consequences OF well-drected,
carefully-trained artistic instinct, governed
by a capable brain and great earnestness OF
purpose. The word intelligent does not
adequately describe her facile expression
nor her reading OF the text. Both indicate
originality and hard study. The word beall-
tful does not adequately convey her voice,
face, and form. Her voice is powerful, and
powerfully strs the emotions. Her face is
both classic and mobile, and hcr form,
though slight, is commanding. Hiss An
derson's 'Evadne' is q noble presence"
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SUPREME COURT OF APPEALs.-MarXhau
sen Us. Commonwealth Helfrick as. same:
Fully argued by John B. Young, Esq, and
submitted.
Mol Us. Guigon, Judge; Hagan Us. same.
Answers of defendant filed, and partly
argued by J. B: Young for plaintiffs.
Grifin's administrator US. Griffin, DC.
Appeal allowed from decree Of the Cir
cult Court Of Henrico.
Massie Us. Commonwealth. Writ Of error
awarded to Judgment OF the Circuit Court
of Franklin.
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DIR. CURRY ON THE MORAL OBLIGATIONS OF
INDIVIDUALS AND DSTATES.-Elsewherc in this
mornings Dispatch will be found CORE
spondence between Rev. NJ. D. Hoge, Gen
eral joseph L. Johnston, and others. with
Rev. J. L. M. Curry in reference to the de-
livery of Dr.. Curry's address on the moral
obligations, both OF individuals and OF
States, to pay their debts. It will be seen
that Dr.. Curry has consented to deliver an
address on the subject referred to, and Mo.
zurt Hall has been selected as the place and
Tuesday night next as the time for the de-
liyery OF the lecture.
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COLLISION IN THE MERsEY.-London, jan
uary 23.--The American ship Barring Bro
theirs, Captain Thondike, from Norfolk for
Liverpool, came in collision with the Span
ish steamship Pouce in the Mersey off Liv-
erpool to-day. The steamship sunk and
two OF the crew were drowned. The Ba-
ring Brothers is muchinjured and is making
water rapidly. She has been towed up the
river and anchored. She was entering the
river in tow when struck by the Ponce. a
heavy fog prevailed.
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AUCTION SALES Tmss DAY.

EI5- on all safes gf iedi EstGts made bsttsstz
The lst of JoAaGry ard last n June the tdces fp,
the present year foue tn bel1Gia bYthe ppTch1scr
On Oh sales made bettcGen the LIST or akH and a&i
or the rear the tGrs8 haze to be paid 6y the seller
This custom adopted about fifteen years ago
by all the real estate agents In Richmond, and az
plicsts Richmond and yicinlty.1
j. THOMPSON BROWN,4 P. NJ, two new bfici
stores and large brick house cn Brook avenue
near Broad street.
JNO. F. LAUGHTON, JR! 10 A. NJ, at the store
Of Bernicchi Il Co, on Main street between
Eighth and Ninth, confcciiOncrics, showcases,
Sc: and at IL O'Clock the store building.
FRANK D. HILL, z. b., building lot on the east
side OF Fourth street between Byrd and Canal
streets, Candles Hill.
FRANK j. SAMPSON, =. nj, house and lot on
Fourteenth street between Decatur and Stock
ton. Manchester.
T. L. WHITING, Il. G. C.. r., IL 4. NJ, ut No. 5
south Twelfth street, one office iron safe.
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NEW FIRM.

HAyING PURCHASED THE GOOD.
WILL and INTEREST Off. BURG Ess o. CO
we are now prepared TO furnish at nil times the lncs
MEATS al lowest market prices. Fine BEEF, NUT
TON, VEAL, PORK, DRIED and sPICED BEEF
C0RNEH BEEF, DRIED BEEF-TOSGUEs sAU.
SAGE of ali kinds; The finest tPoRK-sAUsAGE ia
be had In the ei,y. WOODS q LINosE
tal5-1,n Stall No. 8, Second Market.