The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-01-02
MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2. 1871. :

!: MONDAY MORNING,
,1,227 tons old railroad iron, valued at
IS35.141; new bar iron, I42.O59 pounds, val
ned at 81, ,377 oil cloth, 80 yards. valued at
iS34; 1900 cigars, valued ut S35; 393
! pounds sugar, valued ut S36 !; barrel mo-
lasses, valued at S12 i: 252 cans liquorice,
valued at 81, ,43G; 10 barrels bottled beer.
valued at SS3 "a gallons cod liver oil, val
ued at S96 3G8 dozen pine apples, valued
at $1T3; cases china, valued at 1898
cases earthenware, valued at $500.
Total value of duty imports, Sl5.953.
! Free Imports. s.-On furniture. 1904 on
3,283 tons plaster, valued at 81, ,056; on 8
bales empty bags, sl1.
| Grand total value Of free and duty I'M
ports for the year, S82,328.
Total value Of exports and imports for
1 the year, 81 ,34, 1888.
Foreign Vessels Entered from Foreign
Countries.-17 vessels, 4,700 tons, 151 men.
american Vessels Entered from Foreign
Oountr1es.-12 vessels, 2,225 tons, 10 men.
Foreign Vessels Cleared for Foreign coun-
trles.-25 vessels, 6.402 tens, 22T men.
american Vessels Cleared for Foreign
Countrles-11 vessels, 1850 tons; SO men.
Duties collected during the year, 81, 1893.
Disbursements during the year for or
dinary expenses of custom office, 20, 701.64;;
enrollments, Il licenses issued to vessels
during the year, SO. ~. -" "
1t is evident that this is one of the most
economical custom-houses in the United
States. The receipts are much smaller this
year than last owing to the disastrous food
(which was visited upon our State in OctO'
ber last. The collections made from steam,
boat inspections, marine hospital, &C.,
cover all the expenses of the Custom-H House
Office. y
EXPORTS FROM JANUARY l, 1870, TO JAN
| UARY, l, 1871.
By american Vessels.-Flour, IL, ,29S bar
rels, valued at s91 ,o4e; rosin, 16o barrels
valued at $446,5OO.
By Foreign Vessels.-Flour, 51,14l bar
rels, valued at 1862, 2,662; tobacco, l,51;
hogsheads, valued at $3O6,O42; 80 iror
car trucks, complete, valued at S24,237
1 box vegetable Sicilian hair renewer
valued at $40; 3S5 bags of bark, valued al
$500; 9l,07l bushels red wheat, valued al
$11, $3.50. 49,. .--
Iotals.-Total amount of -four exported
63, ,4S9 barrels, valued at S453, III; t; tota
amount of tobacco exported, 1858 hogs
heads, valued at S752,542. Grand tota
value of exports for the year, 81 "a, ,662.
MANUFACTURES.
Richmond has made great progress as
manufacturing city during the year Jus,
closed. At this date there are no less thar
543 manufacturing establishments in the
city. These figures include manufactures
of iron, tobacco, -four, refined sugar, agri
cultural implements, railroad and mill ma
chinery and cars, steam-engines, nails
saws and files, nuts and bolts, stoves, hol
loW-Ware, iron fronts and architectural iron
Of all kinds, gas and water pipe and fix.
lures, steam fire-engires, axles, tobacco
presses, bedsteads, chairs, and every varie,
ty of furniture brooms, buckets, brushes
and other Woodenware; upholstery car.
riages, harness, wagons; boots and shoes
saddlery, betting, fertilizers, sumac, dye
stut1s; soap, cotton yarns, cotton goods
and cloths; printers type and printers ma
terlals; barrels and kegs; glue, glass,
clothing; whiskey and lager beer; candy,
photographs, Autographs, trunks, paper
boxes, pumps, metallic blrial-cases; guns
ship-rigging. rope. tinware, children's car.
riages, marble and stone cutting, and Others
that cannot now be called to mind.
| The value Of these manufactures to Rich.
mond exceeds by far the usual estimate
Last year their value was about seuen mil.
lion dollars. This year it. will not ts!i G,I
short Of Iti7se Htttt0R tre hNndreG thousand
dollars. Many new branches have been
entered upon, and the old manufacture.
have increased their capital, enlarged Their
facilities, and in many instances more than
doubled the amount of their products.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The public schools of Richmond are con
troled by Board Of Education, of which
his Honor, Mayor Kelley is eJ-oTicto Presi
dent. MIR. James Fl. Binford is the Super
intendent. His office is in the Davis man
sion, corner Of 18th and Clay streets Presi
dent HllD: There are at present 50 white
and SO colored schools, with 61 white and
u colored teachers. The total number o.
schools at this date is 72, whereas on the
1st Of January, 1870, there were only 81
Of the new schools IL are for white and :
for colored pupils, as the cnlored schools
! before largely outnumbered the white
The schools are thus divided Grammar
10; intermediate, %; primary, 80. Theii
capacity is 5000 scholars the number o
scholars enrolled is 3,3l6; the average at
tendance 2,9 O.. The number of colored s2ho
lars now enrolled is 1863; average attend
ance. |, ,4S5; white scholars enrolled, 1857
average attendance, 1,475. Last year there
were Lao oolored scholars enrolled, and
the average attendance was only l,422
while only ! 1,0OS white scholars were ell
rolled, with an average attendance Of ONLY
790. The primary and intermediate schools
average % scholars each, and the grammar
schools 40. The teachers are enabled tc
manage this comparatively large number OF
pupils by having each school divided into
but two classes.
The public schools may be said with
truth to be in O most flourishing condition
and growing rapidly in popularity. A large
increase in the number of scholars is an.
ticlpated with the commencement of the
new year. The Davis mansion having been
restored to the city, will probably be fitted
up for the accommodation Of eight or ter
schools. New buildings tor public schoo
purposes may also be erected, as necessity
demands, in Marshall Ward and in Monroe
or Clay Ward. In course of time normal
and high schools must also be established
as a part of our system of public instruc.
ton. a teachers institute is already in
operation with q gratifying result, and the
with modern improvements, will see that
the public schools Of Richmond are behind
none in the country.
| COLLEGES AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
According to the statistics obtained by
the United States census-takers, there are
three colleges in Richmond, VIZ: One clas-
sical, &C., with male teachers, I60 male
pupils, and an income Of S14,000 one med.
and one commercial, with male teachers
and 40 pupils. The same returns show thai
we have 56 private schools for day scholars
with Sc teachers and 2,0S2 pupils, and three
(eYidenlly incorrect) boardlng-schools, with
80 teachers and 260 DuDils There are a sab