The city markets.
--The exorbitant prices which have prevailed in the Richmond markets for the past three or four weeks has caused a great deal of suffering among a large class of our worthy citizens, who have to buy from day to day what little they get to eat. Free negroes and unrefined foreigners occupy most of the stands, and, like the leech, which is never satisfied till-it gorges itself to death, they continue to add to their prices each successive day. Cannot the Council take some steps towards purging our markets of these characters, who have no other interest among us than that of making money, and put in their places honest and reasonable citizens, who will be satisfied with liberal profits, and do all they can to keep prices down.
