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# Richmond Dispatch.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1873.
# Petersburg.
[Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.]
PETERSBURG, October 3, 1873.
There is no more financial news to com-
municate, no change having been made in
the status quo. There seems to have been
a revival of confidence among the people,
and trade has resumed its usual placid flow.
Money is still tight, but a limited and safe
credit business is being done, and everybody
looks for an early restoration of the pros-
perity that lately prevailed.
A meeting of the Executive Committee of
the Agricultural Society was held to-day, at
which, after considering the question care-
fully and maturely, it was determined not to
hold any Fair this fall. The committee was
induced to come to this conclusion by the
fact that the money already placed to their
credit, and amounting to some $1,500, has
become locked up by the recent suspensions
of the banks here, so that it cannot be re-
covered for several months. The contribu-
tions made by merchants and other
private citizens to the Fair cannot readily be
collected while the money market is so strin-
gent, and some of them would not be got at
all. The committee were not unmindful
of the advantages to the community that
would have probably attended the holding
of the regular exhibition; but it occurred to
them that the risk necessary to be incurred
was too great, and hence their determination
to postpone. Mr. D. R. Ruffin, the presi-
dent, will publish a card in a few days setting
forth officially the reasons of the committee
for its conclusion.
The following is a statement of the move-
ment of cotton at this port for the week
ending to-day: Receipts, 220 bales; corres-
ponding week last year, 267 bales; total
since September 1, 1873, 494 bales; corres-
ponding time last year, 570 bales; exports,
15 bales; stock, 155 bales; stock same time
last year, 247 bales; receipts at this port for
year ending September 1, 1873, 41,504
bales; receipts at all the ports ending Sep-
tember 1, 1873, 3,930,508 bales, being an in-
crease of 926,007 as compared with the year
1871-72.
The Radicals are in a fever of excitement
about the great speaking they are to have at
the court-house to-night. Chandler, Gra-
ves, Sener, and Beckley are all to speak,
and Pitt is in the city, though he has not
been announced to orate. A brass band is
wandering the streets as I write
for the purpose of collecting a crowd of the
hood sovereigns.
It is officially given out that the People's
Bank resumes business to-morrow, paying
back depositors who want their money, and
otherwise meeting all demands made upon
it.
As an instance of the renewed confidence
prevailing in commercial circles, it may be
mentioned that a prominent merchant de-
posited $6,000 to-day in the Citizens Bank,
which is still suspended.
The sales of tobacco at Oaks wherehouse
during the year which ended on the 30th of
September amounted to 4,953 hogsheads.
The Radical Nominating Convention at
Prince George Courthouse yesterday was a
disorderly and noisy body, and the nomina-
tion of the present delegate, an ignorant ne-
gro named Gilliam, gave great offence to the
white Radicals, who wanted the place
for one of themselves. There were two
white Radical aspirants for the nominations,
but Gilliam got a rousing majority on the
first regular ballot. The white Radicals are
very much disgusted, as they assert that Gil-
liam received the nomination last year with
the distinct understanding that he was to
give way this time for a white delegate. A
number of them avow their intention to vote
for General Kemper.
It was hoped to-day that Mr. W. W. Ber-
ry, who was in the city, could be induced to
remain and to reply to Hughes to-night. The
arrangement was not perfected and Mr.
Berry did not stay. Perhaps it could not
have been done, as Mr. Hughes has no great
inclination to meet such a master of debate
before the people.
Rev. A. L. Archer, who is cashier of the
Merchants National Bank, is quite ill.
Colonel Wyatt, crier of the Tobacco Ex-
change, is recovering.
There is a large revival of religion in pro-
gress at the Ettricks Methodist Episcopal
chapel under the ministration of Rev. Mr.
Bailey.
Through the active exertions of Mr. Ke-
van, president of the School Board, the
teachers employed in the public schools
have been paid off for the month just ended.
The inspectors of tobacco in the ware-
houses in the city have been recommissioned
by Governor Walker as follows: Oaks, Bain
and Jones; Centre, Martin and Lewis; West
Hill, Hinton and Vaughan; Moore's, Branch
and Robertson.
The preachers have generally returned to
the city after their late summer holiday, and
the announcements for to-morrow are mostly
for the regular incumbents.
ROBIN ADAIR.
