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Clover Hill Railroad is a feeder of Richmond and Potomac

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(There is a continuous line of railroad from Bristol at the
Tennessee line, to the juncture of the South Side Road
with the Richmond and Danville, and thence to Rich-
mond. The length of these may, therefore, be properly
added to the above as centering here.)

Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, including Saltville branch
South-Side Railroad from Lynchburg to junction... . ..

Total.......

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These radiate from Richmond in almost every direction, and the communication is prolonged by other roads to the remotest sections, placing this city in connection with all points of the Union. The canal is finished within forty-four miles of Covington. All the railroads are finished except the Central, which, at 195 miles, is within eleven miles of its completion, and the York River, which is nearly ready for the rails.

SHIPPING.

The number of seagoing vessels owned in Richmond is 21, with a tonnage of 8,065.* These vessels belong to regular lines between this port and Rio, New York, and Boston, five of them are in the Rio line, nine in the New York, and seven in the Boston. Besides these, there are many transient American and foreign vessels engaged in the coasting and foreign trade. The arrivals and departures into and from the dock numbered, in twelve months, 1,752 inward, and 1,891 outward. The inward entered in ballast are not counted-hence this difference.

There are four regular lines of steamers. The one to New York, composed of two steamers, constructed especially for sea service, with side wheels and double marine engines, to which the company intend to add another ship. This line makes regular semi-weekly trips, will full freights both ways, and is deservedly popular as a passenger line. The tonnage of the two ships is about 2,300.

The line to Baltimore consist of three steamers of about 2,500 tons in the aggregate, but of much greater actual capacity for carrying freight. The line to Philadelphia consists of three steamers of 1,500 tons, but also of greater actual capacity. These two lines make semi-weekly trips, with full freights generally.

The line to Norfolk consists of two steamers-a daily line for freight and passengers, stopping at twenty or more intermediate wharves on both sides of the river. Another boat is to be added to this line.

Besides these, there are several small steamers and many small sailing vessels engaged in the trade of the river, its tributaries and inlets.

STEAM TOWING AND NAVIGATION COMPANY,

Under this title a company has been formed, who have put a propeller and two barges upon the river for the purpose of carrying freight between

* Messrs. Currie have added a vessel of 1,800 tons, and have just launched another of 850 tons.

this city and Norfolk. The propeller will carry freight herself, and tow the barges. This line is intended to facilitate the transit of produce and merchandise to and from Norfolk and different points on the canal.

FOREIGN IMPORTS AND EXPORTS FOR THE LAST FISCAL YEAR.

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We have been unable to ascertain the value of foreign importations, by our merchants, through New York, but know it to be large. Of these goods the amount only of $75,570 was brought here under warehouse bonds, and the duties paid in Richmond; the remaining paid duties in New York.

Our direct foreign importations to this port consisted chiefly of coffee, sugar, molasses, plaster, and guano.

Our foreign exports consisted of a great variety of articles, but those of chief value were tobacco and flour.

Reserving for a future article a more detailed account of our import and export trade, foreign and domestic, and also of the manufactures and export of tobacco and flour, we conclude by stating that nearly all our manufactured tobacco is exported, but mostly coastwise; that 27,129 hhds. of leaf tobacco and stems were exported to foreign countries, and about 5,500 coastwise, and that the larger part of our own manufactures of flour, which amounted to nearly 535,000 bbls., was exported to foreign countries, during the past year, and that the average value of tobacco, per hogshead, as entered at the Custom-house during the last fiscal year, ending June 30th, is $157, and of flour is $8 25.

POPULATION AND PROPERTY OF RICHMOND,

The population at this time is estimated to be:

Whites
Blacks..

Total, which includes the suburbs.......

Assessed value of real estate within the corporate limits......
Assessed value of personal property within the corporate limits..
Estimated value of real estate outside the corporate limits
Estimated value of personal property outside the corporate limits...
Estimated value of negroes..

The custom-house, governor's mansion, State-house and grounds, ar-
mory, penitentiary, county court-house and jail, the "city property"
enumerated elsewhere, male and female orphan asylums, medical
college, churches, &c., are exempt from taxation

30,000

15,000

45,000

$18,423,348

9,876,371

4,000,000

1,000,000

7,644,000

3,859,000

Real property of the James River and Kanawha Canal Company ... State and city stocks are not available—the amount of these held in this city, at a very low estimate, say......

Showing the total value of real and personal prop'y of Richmond to be

500,000

8,000,000

$47,802,719

A sum, amounting to several millions, is invested by citizens of Richmond in Western lands, cotton and sugar plantations in the South, tobacco factories in the West, in cotton speculations, and in various other securities out of the city, which, added to the above, would swell the amount to probably fifty-five millions; and showing a wealth, in proportion to the white population, greater, probably, than any city of its size, or larger, in the United States.

CORPORATION FINANCES.

The receipts and disbursements for the last fiscal year were as follows:

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Since the above report by the "Committee of Finance," the water works have made a report to a late date, making an exhibit from which we take the following:

The water is raised from the river by six force pumps into a reservoir holding nearly eleven million gallons, and distributed to every part of the city by pipes 27 miles long.

These works were commenced in 1830-the whole sum expended

upon them to the present time is..

Total amount of receipts in same time..

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$624,717 71

458,269 68

$166,448 03

No credit has been given them for the water supplied to the Fire Department, and for city uses generally, and the quantity gratuitously dispensed.

Receipts last fiscal year

Disbursements other than for construction..

Difference

To which add value of gratuitous distribution.

Balance in favor of the works for the fiscal year..... . . .

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$32,278 44 19 528 28

$12,750 16

1,575 00

$14,325 16

Construction.

Expenses.

The value of these works cannot be estimated by this exhibit of profits, but by the low rates of insurance, and the safety secured to property from conflagration.

GAS WORKS.

The pipes to convey gas traverse the streets to the length of thirty miles. These works were commenced in 1850, and cost for construction $229,143 99.

The whole amount expended to the present time is.....
Total amount of receipts in same time..

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$617,236 81

412,843 76

$204,393 05

176,612 60

$27,780 45

$81,625 57

25,459 45

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Unproductive-City-hall, jail, engine-houses, public squares and lots, poor-house, hospital, and powder-magazine....

Total......

$858,000 00

229,000 00

$1,087,000 00

We have been comparing the statistics of Richmond, with those of several other cities, as we find them in recent numbers of "Hunts Merchants' Magazine."

In Philadelphia, in 1850, the population amounted to 408,762, the value of manufactures $60,494,575, or equal to $148 to each inhabitant.

In New York, in 1850, the population amounted to 515,547, the value of manufactures $104,219,308, or equal to $204 09. to each inhabitant.

In Boston, in 1855, the population amounted to 162,629, the value of manufactures $51,935,028, or equal to $319 40 to each inhabitant.

In Buffalo. N. Y., in 1855, the population amounted to 74,214, the value of manufactures $10,169,329, or equal to $137 03 to each inhabitant.

In Chicago, in 1857, the population amounted to 130,000, the value of manufactures $15,515,063, or equal to $119 34 to each inhabitant.

In Richmond, in 1858, the population amounted to 45,000, the value of manufactures $19,488,896, or equal to $433 08 to each inhabitant.

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We have given the latest dates in the above exhibit which we have at hand. It is seen that the product of our manufacturing establishments gives to our population an average of nearly three times as much as the average of Philadelphia, more than twice as much as New York, onethird more than Boston, more than three times as much as Buffalo, and nearly four times as much as Chicago. Taking the figures as they stand above, the comparison must be gratifying to every citizen of Richmond, as well as to every Virginian. In making the comparison, it will be more favorable still to Richmond, when we remember that all the statements above are for periods of prosperity, except in the single case of Chicago, for the last four months of the year, and that in our case it is for the present year, in which we are just emerging from the effects of a terrible financial revulsion.

The number of hands employed in producing the above amounts are in

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Here is shown another great difference in favor of Richmond. By a comparison of the list of our manufactures with any of the above cities, the difference in the average to each hand will be seen chiefly to be in our milling business, in which 375 hands turn out over four-and-a-half million dollars; and this illustrates another great advantage we enjoy in our great water power, and still another in being at the outlet of an interior which produces the only wheat, the flour from which has always been shipped to extreme southern latitudes without spoiling.

The advantages of Richmond over the cities named above, as a manufacturing locality, is without question. She has them in her immense water power, in her immediate vicinity to an almost illimitable field of the best coal, and in her great convenience to the very best iron ore, leaf tobacco, wheat, cotton, and almost every other kind of raw material.

Of the commerce of Richmond, and its comparison with other commercial places, we shall have something to show in a subsequent article. The following will exhibit the population and amount of real and personal property in some of our principal cities:

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Here, again, Richmond compares most favorably with these principal

cities of the Union.

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