Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-07-13

\ isoLoVS PRosKcurroN.-We attended
an examination at Justice Morselrs yesterday
h noon, where young gentleman was
| brought up charged with larceny, under the
following circumstances, "a appeared by the
ts1imony: The accuser and an elder brother
ot the accused occupied store jointly, the
accused being the tenant of the other, and
each ones part being only separated by Wis.
lonary line In the absence of either. the
one present would attend to the others bust.
ness, and things went on with Thorn without
difficulty, until the accuser in this case wished
to have the whole store to himself, for his
own business The young man, however. nre.
ferred remaining where he was, and did IN
according to the terms of the contract. The
| testimony went on to show that under thea
circumstances chickering's grew IN betvaan
the parties, resulting in this prosecution III.
| larceny charged was the taking. withont the
knowledge or consent Of the accuser. a n; ece
OF ciotn ana vest pattern The elder brother
sestines that he gave it to the younger to make
nun pants and waistcoat, and had charged
niusen Win IL In his account with the accuser,
prosecutor, Mr. Wharton, from Alexandria.
confended that 1t was an unlawful taking eff
tue goods, and that he should be held to bail
DANIEL Kadclif, Esq, on the other hand, de-
nounced 1t az malicious prosecution, ridiculed
IL az frivolous, most scsthingly handled the
prosecution, and, contended ths there was no
| larceny in the matter; that the act was one
OF comfy, thing done from time to time by
both parties, and that the attempt to inplicate
the respectable young man In crime 20 hid
eous, was infamous. He asked of the Justice
an Immediate discharge Of the accused, but
Justice Morsell did not feel at liberty to do 40
The law he said required him to send to court
| all cases of probable crime" and this case.
| coming under that head, he was bound, though
very reluctantly, to hold the accused to bail.
Accordingly bail in $500 was given, and the
case wiz 60 to court. If the magistrate does
not reconsider his decision and dismiss the
| charge. We never listened to testimony that
mad so little foundation, not part of it showing
even the suspicion of guilt, and yet such is the
erect or the law, and the young man has to
submit to it until q higher court shall deter
mime in the matter. It is hard case for him
and his family, on whose account under the
| circumstances, We omit the name.
PRIMARY SCHOOL No. 1, FIRST DISTRICT.
taught by Miss Wells, was examined on Tues.
day. This school was established in IS49, and
aas been successfully under the care of Misses
Waggaman, English and Wells, of whom the
latter was appointed to her present post about
three months since. The school uumbsrs 81
pupils-all girls; present at the examination
so; average attendance 4S. All the pupils
were examined in reading and spelling; 22 are
studying geography, Of whom the first class
only was examined. The answers were prompt,
and showed they had been well drilled. A
class of six was just commencing grammar;
another of FIVE, recited well in the history of
the United States; fourteen had studied the
elements Of philosophy, and nineteen had
made some progress in arithmetic, performing
with some facility simple exercises in tne fun
damental rules. We regretted that more at
tention had not been given to mental arithma.
tic. Children Of the age of pupils in this
school become wonderfully apt, when properly
drilled, in the solution Of difficult questions.
1t is study, too in which they become deeply
Interested, while 1t gives US an admirable men
tai discipline
The FIRST class in the Scholars COMPANION
appeared to good advantage. The exercises in
writing from dietation, were not SO good as we
have witnessed il other schools. We place
great importance on this exercise az, if tho.
roughly attended to, it imparts great facility
IN writing, spelling with correctness, and in
the proper use Of capitals, punctuation marks,
&c. Several pieces of composition were read
and the exercises closed with songs which
were well sung.
A large number Of useful and ornamental
articles were exhibited, showing that MANY of
tnose httie girls. under the instruction Of their
teacher, had become well acquainted with the
usc of the needle and the mysteries of crotekel
work.
We Win. that more of the parents of the
pupils would attend tn. carnations Of the
schools now in progress. 1t would imp..
much additional interest and they would find
by occasional visits to the schools that theft
children would take more pleasure in theiis
studies, and make greater improvement therein.
The schools Examined on Tuesday were Pr
mary schools corner Of Pennsylvania and 18th
streets, in 9th street Presb yterian Church. and
Primary No. 8, on Capitol hill.
The WAsHERwoEEs OF WAsH1NGros.-Tbe
correspondent who complains that he osnno.
get good washing done I'm Washington, must
be over fastidious indeed, for We venture to
say that there are none more capable, indus.
tr1eus and honest elsewhere in the country
Iaking in view the small supply of water, We
think they do wonders to reproduce our linen
and other clothing in such a neat and TASTY
manner. Our linens are as white as the driven
snow, and smooth as the glaciers of Switxer-
land, and therefore IRE cannot ioiu in any con.
demnation Of our hard working and resnecta.
Bile laundresses But he says members If
congress complain, not all Of them, however.
and seems to think almost that the seat of Gov.
eminent should be removed, because he can.
not have clean shirt to suit his fas.idious
fancy. The complaint is frivolous, and if there
is any reason in it, the best remedy is to give
the honest wssherwomen plenty of pure water
and then, We suppose, our friend will have his
washing done in all its purity. We return the
communication to the writer, with the recon
mendation that he frame it into a petition to
Congress, to make haste and have finished tie
w Washington water works.
SYapArHY.-We yesterday noticed an acci-
dent on the railroad, by whish Mr., Golf. the
engineer, had leg broken. When the pas
sengers were enquiring about the damages, a
young buck made the remark that he would
have been better pleased to hear that it was
the engineers neck instead of his leg. This
irritated the passengers, and they spoke seri-
ously Of ducking him, but young gentleman
proposed to show the sympathy of the passen.
gers fol the njured man, by presenting him a
sum OF money. About fifty dollars was soon
collected and slipped into bis pocket, to be
given his wife when he arrived at home. The
young "buck' looked like he had stolen
sheep.
INTERFERING WITH OFFIcERs.-Y esterday.
a case was tried before Justice Dom, in which
Mr.. Bell, of the Auxiliary Guard, was plain.
tiff, and Cranston Laurie defendant. Mr..
Laurie was accused of assaulting Mr.. Boil, on
the night Of the 4th inst, while in the dis.
charge Of his duties. The case was made un-
long by lawyer, who appeared
for the defence, and seemed to be making his
first effort Justice Dom ordered Mr. Laurie
to give bail, but finally discharged him at the
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