The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-02-01
Public Schools of the Second Municipality.

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closed yesterday by the examination of the higher
classes in the respective schools. In the course
| of the morning, we dropped in the Marshall School
| under the management of Mr.. Allis. The accuracy
which marked the answers of the pupils, it is use
less to say, were most gratifying to the friends
youth the school spoke most favorably of the sue.
cessful management and auxiliary efforts of both
Principal and Assistants. In the whole bearing
of the High School for boys, to which we nex
directed visit, we found every thing that could
be expected. The pupils, in their exercises, re.
vealed degree Of firmness, in accounting for the
lessons of the term, which testified alike to the
fidelity of the teachers and application of the pu
pills. The young gentlemen evidently appeared tc
have been carried, in safe advances, through the
programme studies, and consequently to have at.
tanned that precision which well graduated course
will seldom fail to secure
AT the female High School the examination was
attended by quite large gathering of pleased Wis
tiers, both ladies and gentlemen Among the latter
whom we had already met at the various schools
we noticed Recorder Baldwin, Doctors Picton and
Carey, Mr.. Superintendent Shaw, Messrs Maybin,
Rawie and Jennings, and other friends of education,
enjoying the truly refreshing sight of bevy OF
young, smiling and hopeful girls, going through the
Intrcacies of really rigorous examination, which,
while it would have done credit to any class of the
same grade, told of the zeal and conscientiousnes
which had trained the pupils over that rugged road
which acknowledges no royal privilege. We also
noticed again Mr., Dmitry, the State Superintend-
ent MIR. ID. appears TO take remarkable degree
OF interest in the progress and success of our public
schools Before leaving the room yesterday, he
made very appropriate address to the scholars in
the course of which he held out announcement to
those who remain, and extended his congratuIa-
tons to those who had graduated after having fin
ished the course.
10 the primary and Intermediate schools we can
not but award our cordial support. They are the
real nurseries of republican virtue and social use
funess. There is a tribute of thanks-one in which
we are but the echo of an approving community
due 10 the public-spired citizens, who, it is now
some seven years, rescued our public schools from
their AFFECT condition, and, through circumstances
not altogether propltious, sustained them to their
present standard of usefulness and efficiency. On
these schools we have ever looked with an eye of
CIVIC pride. But we were not fully aware, until
made SO by actual examination, how far the proper
tons of public education had been so beneficiaIly
enlarged as to extend the blessings of sound and
higher knowledge to the children in our midst
those of the humble and the proud, the wealthy
and the poor-under the single condition of personal
merit. Indeed, it was a scene Sc to make age smile
and dream itself to YOUTH
Could the mass of our citizens have shared as
we did, in the pure delight which we derived from
the performances of the alumni of our High Schools
we are certain, as we have faith in the nobler in
stlncts of man, that not one but would have cor
daily ratified system of instruction, which is
marked by every thing that can define soundness
and usefulness
1t Is no easy matter to calculate the amount of
good which an institution like the female High
School is destined to bring to the welfare of the
republic. Like the yer sacruna of the Romans, it
turns from IFS precinct those who will one day be
called to shape the desnies of the generations that
shall be our posterity In the nature of things, in
the law of nature, under the control of circum-
stances, the mother is bound to be the first educator
OF the child, and where early education has been
shaped by competent laws, there is little danger of
the wholesome developments of after life. We would
therefore bespeak for all our institutions, the off
springs of public contributions the property of the
whole community, the safeguards of its welfare and
prosperity the regard which they so eminently de-
serve Give them the patronage which they Justly
claim at our hands-exend their influences by every
lawful means; and we may put it in the power of
generations to realize the empty boast
of the Meonian bard: We pray the Gods and
thank them, that we are better than our Stress
Mr.. CLAY IN THE SENATE.-A further dispatch
from Frankfort, KY. says, in relation to the Wing
legislative nomination just made of Mr. Clay for the
u. S. Senate:
g A letter has been received from Mr. CLAY, in
which he expresses his willingness to accept the
nomination. 1t is understood here that Mr. Clay
will accompany Gen. Taylor on his route to the |
Seat of Government taking this city in their pro-
gress thither."
FLoGGING IN THE NAvY.-The House of Rep |
resenatives have, by vote of two to one adopted