The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-08-07

: PErERSHrRG, August G, 1850.
: The project OF "A Merchants Exchange
has been so favorahly considered by neatl,
all the commission merchants OF the city
that q call has been issued for lis early or
ganization. Under the auspices OF so IN
fuential q body it is believed that II can
not fail of being 4 success. .,
At 4 meeting or The common '""!'"
on Friday evening there were interesting
reports from the iru>tccSoi the ttiree Sow
raj free schools Of the city, giving Sla'S''-
cal and other information OF their opera
tons during the past year.
In IN, CITY Free School, located "h
GA street. there were admitted during tue
wear iwo hundred and thirty chiIa'eh ~
bot sexes average ~attcndah''' one nun
Srra and fourteen. The greatest numhcr
in attendance al any one Tune was one
hundred and dirty tour. y NUMBER oil the
children moved from the city after enter
ing the school, and others left TO engage in
business and till positions i'll society for
which the education obtained in the school
qualified them. At the close of the scS-
sion several of the trustees attended, and
conducted the examination 81 some OF the
classes, and were pleased al the manner III
which the children acquitted themselves,
and also with what they learned from the
principal OF their general department and
diligence. The school is under the manage
m,mt or Mrs. Jane Madeira, 10 whoSc
fidelity in the discharge of her duties the
board bear willing testimony.
The " Eas, Ward Free School is loca-
ted in Blaudford, and is under the super
vision Of Is. ". Evans, assisted by MrS.J.
@. Stacia. There are registered on its lists
one hundred and nineteen scholars, of
whom ciglty-SiX are boys aud thlrty-thrcc
girls with an average attendance during
the session OF S~cvcnty-two. Their gene
raj d]cpnrtmcut is also represented 10 have
been good. The building and cnclosurc
were much damaged by >hclilng during the
war, and have only been partially repaired,
but will bc put in complete condition as last
aS the means are obtained. Tie monthly
expenditure does not exceed one hundred
dollars. and special attention i gwen L"
the admission and education OF orphans
and soldiers children.
The anderson Seminary is situated
ON Washington street, and Charles camp
bell. widely known - u scholar and writer,
and a gentleman "i high character, has
been the principal for Il number 81 years.
This Institution lad Il rich be-
fore Tie Wal, IUadc by the person from
whom il derives lis maine, Il portion OF
which wa, vested in bank stock and a part
loaned 10 the city. Ii also received Il
handsome annual appropriation from Tie
Literary Fund. None at this isn"w avail
able except what j. owing from the city.
Tie exhibit made in the trustees reports
less i~ay"rNhlr, comparatively speaking,
than that Of the other schools and there
port is justly denounced IL rejecting, by
Implication, on tie accomplished principal
81 the seminary, whom every hoiy c>tctlli>
tor lis exalted worth and >c~runulouS into
uit>. Ia the cast ot the other schools,
III, trustees nave been active III securing
the ATTENDANCE" 81 pupils, while III regard
I" the Anderson Summary the board only
"pr"p">r /" iItu-uratc measures 1" pro-
ducc Il better result. .Ani yet, wit! tins
confession, they ~rcr"1mntciIb the dl>c"il-
tiuuaucc al thr school aai placing The
children III private >~rI""iN, II IT. opera