The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-01-01
prrEnspUne, December 81, 1856,

PETERSBURG, December 81, 1858.
This being the day for gathering up cul
monthly and other statistics, lam able Il
make the following report in part:
The total number Of inspections Of to-
bacco Of the several warehouses since the
1st Of October Is 63S hogsheads; stock on
hare for inspection, 266 hogsheads; and
stock on hand inspected, SCI hogshesds.
From this poor exhibit your readers may
form an idea Of the great depression Of this
important trade.
The guano inspections since last May,
embracing oil that has been used in the
fall trade, show wonderful falling of in
che use Of this fertilizer as compared with
the years Immediately preceding the war.
Our returns show that since the 9th Of
: May the inspections Of Peruvian amount to
6,764 bags, equivalent to sos tons and Of
Aodondo Island to 446 bags, equivalent to
about 80 tons.
The fines collected by the Mayer for the
month Of December are $72. -
The marriages for the month are twenty
nine, Of which twelve were among the
7 whites, and seventeen among the blacks.
The total marriages for the year are eighty
nine Of whites, and hundred and twenty
of blacks. SSH. IT,
The number of prisoners in jail at this
Time Is twenty-fye--all men-four Of whom
are whites.
Thsinmates in the poor house are ninety
three-forty three whites and fifty blacks.
During the month the Mayor has tried
eighty.fve criminals and forty-three civil
cases--making total since the first Of
April last, when he came into office, Of
l,048 criminals and 324 civil cases.
There are some few returns relstiar. TO
other matters which haE,S bat sagE.tahSSg to
handed in. Frssne Of 1vh4e not yet been
s sssnti guhst g4vm these, however, pretty
.air idea may be formed Of the stste Of our
internal affairs. ss-S'"siST
We hear Of the following depredations
committed last night in Prince George,
within few miles Of the city Mr.. Frank
Wills was robbed of two fine hogs and lot
Of chickens, and MIR. Joseph Parker had
trunk stolen from him containing clothing
and other yaluables, worth about 300.
=, We hear to-day-though without sur
prise, as We had been led to anticipate it
of the removal Of Captain &. G.. Pegram,
Commonwealth's attorney for tho city.
MIR. Pegram was unanimously elected to
this position after the war-a place which
he had formerly most acceptably filled. He
was indeed an officer of which any city
might be proud. OF fine abilities, we'll
learned in the law firm in the discharge
of his duty, and yet never harsh or
unkind; enjoying withal the confidence
Of all classes of the community; he was,
according to our ideas of q faithful officer,
without blemish. He is succeeded by
Mr.. George F. Dogget, at present q MEM
Der Of the Common Council by appoint
ment Of General Scho6eld. He has been
living here since the war-frst in the Ca
npaciiJ Of cotton inspector, and latterly as
practitioner Of the law.
1t is to be presumed that the removal of
our efficient clerks of the Circuit and Rust-
ings Courts will speedily follow that of
Captain Pegram, together with all other
officers whose political antecedents are OBJ
noxious to the commanding General. 8.