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The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Opinions of foreign powers. (search)
City Council.
--A called meeting of the council was held last evening.
Present--Messrs. Saunders, Grattan, Denoon, Wynne, Haskins, Eppes, Stokes, Crutchfield, Scott, Griffin, Glazebrook, and Hill.
The President read a report which he had prepared, setting forth the action of the Council authorizing and providing for the issue of $300,000 of small notes, &c., calling attention of the fact that the grand jury of the Circuit Court had presented the city, and also each person engaged in signing them, wherefore he had stopped the issue, and convened the Council in order that action might be taken on the matter.
The report recommends the appointment of a committee to prepare a memorial to be presented to the State Convention for the passage of an act legalizing what the city has issued.
The notes thus far issued have been applied as follows: $100,000 for equipping the volunteers in the service of the Confederate States, from this city; $15,000 for defences around the city $500
An election took place on Monday last, in the 18th Mississippi regiment, for a successor to the late lamented Col. Burt.
The choice fell upon Lt. Colonel Griffin.
London covers now 78,029 acres. The London of 1861 is equal to three Londons of 1801.
City Council.
--A called meeting of the City Council was held last evening for the purpose of considering what steps are necessary towards obtaining the passage of a law to legalize the small notes issued by the Corporation.
Present; Messrs. Saunders, Crutchfield, Grattan, Burr, Griffin, Wynne, Stokes, Eppes, and Scott.
Mr. Grattan presented the following, which was adopted:
The Convention having declined to act on the memorial of the Council, asking that body to legalize the action of the Council in issuing notes under the denomination of five dollars, and that they may be authorized to issue such notes, not because the Convention was opposed to the prayer of the petition, out because they had determined not to consider any subject which may be acted on by the General Assembly, which is about to be in session: Therefore,
Resolved, That the said memorial be presented to the General Assembly.
Mr. Grattan presented an Ordinance to enforce the payment of taxe
City Council.
--The monthly meeting of the City Council was held last evening.
The following members were in attendance; Messrs. Saunders, Grattan, Denoon, Haskins, Crutchfield, Wynne, Epps, Griffin, Hill, and Glazebrook.
Sundry petitions were presented and referred to the appropriate committees.
A communication from Col. Charles Dimmock to Mr. Thos. H. Wynne, urging the necessity of arming the batteries, was referred to the Committee on Defences.
A letter from Thomas Lawson, Esq. Clerk and Chamberlain of the Council for six years past, tendering his resignation, in consequence of declining health, was read.
Mr. Lawson says:
"When an officer knows that he is physically unable to discharge the duties of his office, and when he believes, as I do in my case, that he will never again be able to do so satisfactorily to himself, I think that it is his duty to resign at once, and accordingly I do now resign said office, the resignation to take effect from this da
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Reported capture of a whale. (search)
City Council.
--A special meeting of the City Council was held yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of considering two ordinances previously reported from the Committee on Police, Messrs. Saunders, Grattan, Denoon, Glazebrook, Wynne, Crutchfield, Epps, Scott, Griffin, Hill, and Burr were in attendance.
The ordinance providing for increasing the number of the day police from eight to eleven, and for making pay of the force $800 to each officer, was taken up.
Mr. Scott suggested the propriety of a section in reference to providing a badge, by which the police officers might be readily recognized by strangers and others, but none was offered.
Mr. Epps moved to lay the ordinance upon the table, and demanded the yeas and nays upon his motion.
An informal discussion took place, in which Mr. Crutchfield emphatically opposed the proposed increase of police, inasmuch as it would increase the expenditures of the city $2,400, with no equivalent benefit, and no request h
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], A British Contraband. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], Calumnies of Liberated prisoners. (search)
City Council.
--The Council held a special meeting last evening, the following members being in attendance: Messrs. Saunders, Grattan, Denoon, Stokes, Haskins, Wynne, Crutchfield, Glazebrook, Burr, Griffin, Hill, and Scott.
Death of Ex-President Tyler.
Mr. Grattan submitted the following preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:
The Council of the city of Richmond have heard with deep regret of the death of Hon John Tyler. The positions which he has occupied, and the services he has rendered to the country, have ensured to him an eminent and honored name and place in her history, whilst his virtues as a man, and his qualities as a gentleman, have won for him the respect and affection of all who knew him. The Council feel that, though he has fallen full of years and of honors, he has left us too soon, and the country may well lament the loss of his enlarged experience, his practical wisdom; and his unselfish patriotism, in this day of her trial.
Yankee prisoners.
--Capt. Griffin, of the Sixth Georgia Regiment, brought to this city yesterday, and lodged in the military prison, three Yankee soldiers captured by our scouts on the Peninsula.
The parties profess to have been out foraging, which is another name for stealing all they could lay hands on.