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

tears, its born and it's dead-is gone
"The blossoms will bloom into life again
At the call Of the summer sun,
But time nor tide can ne'er undo
What siEgle year has done.''
RETROSPECTIVE.
It is we'll before we turn over the first
leaf in the new volume Of Time before us
to consider what we have learned in the
perusal of the one whose pages We have
Just scanned, and whose lids have now been
sealed never again to be opened until the
last great day, when all shall be laid bare
before the eye of an omnipresent and omnis-
cient Deity. To this personal duty we but
call the readers attention, but it is ours to
note the changes of public interest that
1868 has wrought among US, and to exhibit
the present state Of our local field, making
our paper in this department, as it ever
aims to be in all, "a map of busy life"
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.
The changes in the city government
during the year just drawn to close have
been so numerous, owing to the interference
of the military, that few persons know who
are now filling all the Offices. The follow
ing is a correct list Of the principal officers ::
Mayor.-George Chahoon.
Recorder.-George Gillian.
Senior AldermGn.-A. T. PEBBLES.
City Coalncil.-William H. Macfarland
(president), Thomas P. August, George K.
Crutchfeld, E. A. J. Clopton, H. P. Clinton,
E. H. Gregory, Horace L. Kent, John E..
Mulford, Henry Miller, H. L. Pelouze,
David J. Saunders, George ". Smith, Alex
ander Sharp, William Taylor, John N. Van
Lew, Andrew Washburne, c. y. Yale.
City Auditor.-P. Il. O:,g;s,
Clerk to -1uditor.--F H. 40. rdice.
Chamberlain, E. W. taZ2. :'Eire, Clerk OF
HustinqS Court, Robert i%E:Iesrd; City At
torney, L. H. Chandler; City Engineer, w.
Gill; High Constable, W. R. Tall City Ser
geant, G. S. Mills; Surveyor, w. Gill
Assessor, E. NJ. schofeld Inspector of
Guaro and Plaster, DR.. E. H. Smith; IN
spector Of Fish, Charles Thompson; Inspec-
tor of Lumber, A. Millspaugh; Collector,
Edmund Winnie; Superintendent Water
Works, James Hayes Assistant Superin-
tendent Water Works., A. A. Abbott; Su-
perintendent Pump-house, G. Cook Super
;ntendent Gas Works, B. Bragg; Gas In
Spector, N. Sweetman; Grain MeaSurer,
Henry Davis; Guager, R. L. Fox, Superin-
tendent Aims house, John Pearce; Sealer
Weights and Measures, John Talman; Har-
Dor Master, G. W. Allen; Coroner, DR.. J.
P. Little. ..-..,.. ....---
Sheriff, John Wright; Deputy Sherifs,
Temple Elicit, P. P. Winston, H. G. Tyree,
J. II. Beegleston, J. F. Keesee.
Commissioners of the Revenue.-First
Word po,t-an onJ w n,,,sb
Second, G. G. Johnson Third, T. B. Starke
Fourth, Thomas Kimbrough; Fifth, J. F.
Saunders and Richard Reins.
THE POLICE FORCE.
The police force of Richmond, as at pre-
sent constituted, consists of one hundred
and eight men, under the control Of Major
John Poe, Chief. There are seven captains,
ten sergeants, seven detectives, and eighty
si2 privates.
Gaptains.-Reuben T. Seal, E. H. Chalk
ley, q. II. Eppes, W. T. Bibb, William N
Kelly, Denis Callahan, and W. W. Put
nala.
NerqeantS.-J. B. Peasants, Arthur
Rooney, J. D. Perrin, Dudley Gilman, W
D. Pemberton, Joseph M. Gum, John Ran,
kin, W. 7. Kendrick, P. H. Woods, and Ed,
ward Powers.
Detective 0ficrs.-J. NJ. Tyler, Kendall
O'Dwyer, E. p. Murphy, Chenny Parker
W. F. Knox, r. B. Craddock, and II. S.
Merrill. "'
During the year 1868 there were 4,52s
persons arrested and S46 persons reported
for violations of city ordinances. Seven
hundred destitute individuals, male and
female, were taken care of at the police
stations. Under the judicious system ol
fines introduced by the present Mayor. fines
were imposed to the amount Of s2,4S8.85
and an amount nearly equal was collected
from petty offenders.
THE CITY JAIL.
i The hospitable doors of the Valley 1n1
have been opened during the last twelve
months to receive SS4 prisoners. There
s.re new ninety inmates, who are thus class.
flied: ~,
/ Colored maless. ....s: .....'....'..... 4
Golored females. ..ss.i., s.i.,..............
! Whit ssaIes II
white females. 49,. -. !. = = -.
United States prtse,1
| Tn no 10y II the Union is the number o,
nnIte criminals and female criminals Of
either color as proportionately small as in
Richmond. And no city of its population
can, at the close of the year 1868, show d
more healthful state of public morals. The
iail is under the management of John E
Brooke and William O. Black, two worthy
and efficient officers.
THE FIEE DEPARTMENT.
Our present efficient Fire Department il
organized under chief engineer and four
commanders Chief Engineer, Captain W
A. Charters First Commander, G. A. Aims.
lie; Second Commander, S. H. Herndon
Third Commander, John E. Shepherd
Fourth Commander, NJ. T. Phillips Clerk,
f. Warren
From January l., 1868, to January l,
1869, there were seventy-seven alarms Of
fre.-of which seven proved to be false,
nineteen were the work of incendiaries,
twenty-eight accidental, sixteen chimneys,
and seven were out Of the city.
The total loss by fire was $lO9,907, and
the total amount Of insurance on the pro-
perty destroyed was S1s4,l30. =
CITY ALMs-HoUsE. n
On the 1st of January, 1868, the were
one hundred and fifteen persor.Sreceivln
the charity Of the city at tb institution.
To-day there are one huEeea, ana SIXTY
an increase of forty-f2" There were re,
ceiyed during the var one hundred and
sixty-seven persesS and thirty seven were
discharged. Oeshe inmates at this date
ninety-two y< white males, ninety-fve Co
lored nal<s, thirty-four white and fifty
seven e.dored females. and thirty -four white
and fourteen colored children. There
go siE births during the year, fourteen