New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-04-26

lingo Hesse ESQ Prussan Charge d'Affares to Central
America he leaves the next steamer for NewYork.
II is rumored that two Prussian vessels Of will
shortly visit this port.
The Accessory Transit Company have presented Gen
Chamorra the newly elected President of Nicaraguawth
splendid sword said to have cost $500 Some seem to
think that he will use it Ia Alexandra, and the
knotty charter of his Government Taien Sabe The
San Juan river is in good navgable oraerthe route
tinues usual very healthy. Yours, H.
Communicated.
Annual Examination and Exhibitions OF Public
Schools, Second District.
The annual examination which commenced on Mon
dav 18th in the old First Municipality continued from
day to day during the week, and was concluded on
Saturday, by grand exhibition of all the schools
We have already given account of examination
in some of the intermediate schools and we learn from
visitors who attended all the examinations that all the
schools showed the proficiency and progress the
ones we visited The schools have been in such
prosperous condition they are, and the examina
tons have satisfactory to every Much credit
is due to Mr. Bss the able and popular superintendent
for his successful exerons in making the schools what
they now are They credit not only to the Second
District but to the whole city Our neighbors below
Canal may well be proud of the present superiority
of their schools and the perfection of the system intro
Mr. Bsse and the present able Board OF Drcc
tors Of that District.
We were much pleased to notice G. B. Duncan, ESQ., the
President Of the School Board Charles De Blanc, r
Colonel Emerson and Mr. Gordon members Of the Board
at all the examinations faithful at their post guardians
of public education They have had much to contend With
in conducting the schools the allowance by the Coun
Gil has not sufficient to meet the current expenses
The Second District Board have to pay rent for nearly all
their school houses and half of the day in all the
schools devoted to the study of the French language in
its various branches the expense for books very heavy
The School Board have however reduced the expenses of
the schools twenty-five thousand dollars the last
wear there being that saving all previous years.
This striking fact is good evidence that the Directors of
the District have done their duty.
In our account of the Bienvle School last week we
neglected mention the boys department of the school
and when we say it equalled the girls department
consider we pay Duohiron the principal of that
school a higher compliment for most truly say
there never was school conducted with better
than the girls department under the charge of Mrs Du
bo,s NJ Duchron has superior a disciplinarian
We were much pleased with the examination of the
Girls High School Friday The large hall Of the Ma
sons on Rampant street, crowded with visitors and
large number had to find accommodations in the garden
and take peep in at the doors windows The school
is under the charge of Madame Bgo principal French
teacher assisted by Madame Carnats and Miss Lochrey
principal English teacher We listened with much plea
sure for four the rectatons of the young ladies
in Natural Philosophy Chemistry, Rhetoric Arithmetic
Astronomy and Algebra They passed very thorough
and perfect examination in all these branches and every
one present loud in their praises of Miss Lochrey
the teacher of those studies She must have abored hard
to bring scholars to such perfection Several the
young ladies reced speeches and dialogue in French
English and also read well written original conf
positions.
The hall was decorated with beautiful speci-
mems Of drawing all drawn by the young ladies of the
NJ
time examination of the various pictures and could
scarcely realize that they drawn by young ladies
some Of the specimens equal to those of the best
tiers of the art satisfied that many of the
mothers of country have obtained better education
in the Girls High School, of the Second District than
| they could have acquired in any private school.
The exhibition Saturday took place in the large ball
ROOM St. Phillip street We were politely favored with a
seat where could witness the entire per-
fornance The hall tastefuly decorated with The
Flag of our Union,n and numerous pictures and maps
drawn BY the pupils of the Girls and Boys High Schools
The attendance very large, and hundreds had to
leave unable to obtain admission The exercises
sisted of defamation and reading original compositions
BY the young gentlemen and ladies' The programme is
too long for publication consisting. it did of serenity
seren pieces of composition and decamaticn. The CON-
noson of Miss Sarah Dolbear of the Girls High School,
which we publish below, read by her in beautiful
| and distinct voice and loudly appiauded:
must write a composition. and above all, for the
Examination to be read before the public to be heard
aud criticised by refined and elegant assembage of
ladies and gentlemen What task for poor child to
undertake and one too whose head is in such confu-
sion such chaos tormented daily aud haunted nightly
by gbosty fragments of Anayse Gramaticale, Anayse
Logque Mythology, Roman History in French, with all
sorts of studies with long in English bars OF
musical music and dreadful attempts in crayon to mi-
the human face divine to say nothing of pencil
as large as which overshadow them And with
this chaos tasks always TO be performed and
compshed ever fitting through my mind, expec-
be original and sensible perhaps, even witty and
entertaining And what shall do for subject! Unfor-
tunatey have read than have thought, and find
, memory far more active than inauguration And only
to think nf the huge army of books in the world
say that has not already been said thousands of
times What subject that is not long ago worn thread
bare even in school girls compositions All have it
tho Mseries of Childhood All my life have heard and
Of the rosy hours of childhood sweet sunny gleeu
hood have been spent in trying to discover them. You
open volume of poems that does not gory that
state of existence something to this effect,
| "lIow beautiful is childhood,
| n.s clean +. n.1 = laugh, .hs! peak.
Well there may be of sugarplums, and pcttng
and paythngs that pleasant have no very distinct
recolecons Of mine but to judge from the etting and
screaming Of all the little Juveniles know, they to
than their share of the ills of life but let the
little wight pass this and lessons fairly commenced
get up five in the morning and spend two hours ham
meug the piano perhaps with frozen fingers then hurry
through breakfast land by the way will just remark ali
the nice eatabes said be unhealthy for children
go confined for eight hours with ones
eyes fixed upon Of little black characters which
you nothing you for understand while your
mind is perhaps wandering to green fields and violet
banks the hour for dismissal comes you carry home
ponderous weight OF learning and hurry dinner to get
through the tasks for tomorrow before the drawing
music This is the work Of day to be
tnued years be there CLEANS Of sunshine
blessed vacations holidays, etc but speak Of the
tenor of ehids life then again tbs difficult to know
what child is II girl gives way to the natural spirit
children romps climbs little the remark is Oh
my dear who young lady act in that -
Again just let act little bit of young lady peep
little in the glass try to paper out few curls etc. and
What child Children should think of their studies
But these peculiarly girl mseries. l used &c
think boys had nice time they have much liberty IN
the open air fewer tasks they have longer time
obtain education. But last winter / had a slight
glimpse of boy miseries. My brother came in Sister
said he, wonder what boys made for think 1t il
pity there any they to be much in the way
they go into store to buy book and look
them they do Get out Of there boys hos,
books slone If anything happens and they sec
the matter, Get out of the way boys If they wish
pay little tho pavement it is the p but that
is not the worst After little inquiry, elected the fol
lowing story That day passing along the he
peculiar looking dog out OF store, where they
beating it, looking wild and tired it up the
! moment after he passed lady who exclaimed Oh
dear little boy have you my dog Poor it'll,
fellow he's lost Oh do help ud him, aud I'll give
Ave dosrsr He said I'll help but do not