The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-07-22
Local Matters.

PUBLIC SCHOOL ExAMISATIoNs.-There were ex-
amined yesterday afternoon
Primary No. 4, second district; Mrs. Ogden,
principal; Mics. E. Billing, assistant. The school
is held in the basement of the Methodist Episcopal
church South, in Eighth street.
Male primary, fourth district Rev w. T. Eva,
teacher. The school is on the leland street,
between Sixth and Seventh streets.
These schools are conducted with credit to the
respective teachers and with profit TO the pupils,
the examinations have demonstrated.
The course of instruction, prescribed by the
rules for government, is intended TO accustom the
pupils to habits of observation and reasoning upon
the things which they see and hear, with such
other physical, intellectual, and moral exercises as
shall tend to give them we'll developed and healthy
bodies, clear and quick perceptions, cultivated
minds, pleasant dispositions, kind feelings. and
habits of obedience, truth, and virtue.
We have heard some surprise and regret
pressed that the members of the City Councils
generally could not find it convenient to be pre-
sent at the examinations in the primaries; and
that but one member of the Councils (hr Wan
naID was in attendance at the schools in the second
district. The City Fathers have been somewhat
neglected. in this respect of their younger children.
The progress of the pupils in the primaries,
have heretofore remarked, has been, in the main,
satisfactory to all who attended the examinations.
The trustees have exhibited great deal Of energy
in furthering the of education and ares timu-
lated by @ audable ambition TO promote the bodily
comfort of the scholars in the public schools. With
this view, it gratifying to be informed that they
design to devote their abors hereafter more to the
improvement of the school house accommodations
than the increase of the present number of schools
The friends of youth who have noticed the poor ar
trict and primary will be pleased with this in
telligence.
To- day (thc primaries having all been attended
to) the examinations in the District Schools will be
commenced, beginning at two o'clock in the after
noon, with the Male Department ofthe First District
School, Con the corner of Fourteenth and sreets;)
Samuel Kelly, teacher. The public will be well
como on the occasion.
ACCIDENT yesterday spirited horse, attached
to buggy, started at his utmost speed, near the
Centre market; and, after running several hun
dred yards, DR.. VIM. b. Magruder, who in
the vehicle, suddenly turned the animal round a
corner, to avoid coming in contact with cart and
building materials. However, the buggy was
overturned and shattered and the Doctor thrown
to the ground, injuring the outside of his
right eye, and bruising OF his hips by striking
against cngine-bolsr.
| A NAVAL Court OF INQUIRY was convened at the
Navy Yard yesterday, at the request of Lieutenant
Rhodes, to investigate charge against him. which,
it is said, was recently bar to his promotion.
The court consists Of Captain Mayo, president; and
Commanders Buchanan and Ringgold. Several
witnesses examined. Walter Jones' esq.,, is
the Judge advocate, and Richard S. Coke, esq. .,
counsel for Lieutenant Rhodes.
Mr.. u. w. DENHAM. of this city, was yesterday
appointed clerk to Mr.. Thomas U. Walter, the
architect of the addition to the Capitol at salary
of S 200.
THE NATIONAL GREvs, in uniform and with
music, visited the National Hall last night, having
accepted Of the invitation of the proprctors OF the
Model of Mount Vernon to view that beautiful spe-
cimen of art.
THE CRY Councils yesterday passed several
bills for grading and gravelling streets. Beyond
this nothing of especial public Importance de-
finitvely acted upon.
THE OFFICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE AND ONO CA
NAL COMPANY has been removed from Frederick,
Maryland, to this city. The rooms in the City
Hall.
WHITLow.-The disease of whitlow prevails, it
seems, like an epidemic. Within the last three
months hundreds of persons afflicted with it have
been operated upon with the lancet, and yesterday
we saw several Of the Medical Faculty who are
suffering with the disease.
DIED,
At the residence of her son in law, w. d. PoR-