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this city, with a view to lowering the price of meat, has awakened a deep concern among our citizens, especially the poorer classes, to whom meat at 40 cents a pound would be indeed a mercy. Having published the first proposition of the butchers to the Commissary for the State, we now give the remainder of the correspondence. Since the last letter of the Commissary, proposing a personal interview, nothing further has been done in the matter. Office of Chief Commissary, Richmond, Sept. 26, 1863. Gentlemen --I am in due receipt of your communication of the 25th inst., and carefully note your several propositions having in view a reduction in the price of beef in this market. I raise no objection to your first and second propositions, but cannot assent to the third, which allows you to pay as high as 35 cents per pound for cattle in this market, when the Government is limited to the schedule price of from 16 to 20 cents; for the effect of such arrangement would be to d