New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-07-04
THURSDAY MORNING. JULY 4, 1861.

employed according to any prescribed theory
Subjected to the tests Of rigorous private and pub
lie examination, the pupils Of our schools show
steady improvement in the eXactness AMI pract-
clbility of their studies. Universal success has not
been expected, nor Can we hope to attain stand
ard Of uniform excellence, either in the instrumen-
talities used in the re1dlts accomplished. Many
Of our pupi8, in common With those in other pub
lie schools, labor under serious disadvantage and
are exposed to rCtarding Influences from other as
sociatiOns. Too often their good impulses are
checked, the efforts Of the teachers are thwarted
and the work Of improvement is slow and lahOrI-
Gus. Bt it is gratifying to notice how often these
adverse influences are overcome, until the school
room begins to throw its refining and eleratng
protection over the daily duties, and gi7es the
proper bent to the cAangeful impulses Of youth.
The school-houses, with but few exceptions, are
i'll good condition. The needtul repairs will doabt-
less be made, during the vacation, by the proper
committee.
Should our schools be rcopended at the usual
time, in September next, after the needhI rest has
!nvjGorated the health and renewed the energies
of both teachers and pupils, we may confidently
look forward to the next annual examinations for
favorable results. 1t is the subject Of grateful re-
fecon to those most interested that, while so
many enterprises public and private have bent to
the storm now sweeping over the and-whic in
many other places the public schools have been
entirely closed their organization seriously dis
turbed-our schools, thus far, have been permitted
to enjoy uninterrupted peace and prosperity,
All Of which is respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM 0 ROGERS,
Superintendent Public School, First Dist1i-t.
FIRST DISTRICT CorRT Jttdge Colens. - The
slavehoidng tribunal yesterday tried the slave
Cornelius for the murder Of the slave woman
Sally, in the Fourth District. The tribunal falling
to agree were discharged, and Cornelius remanded
to await another trial.
RECORDER EMERsOS's COURT.-W Washington a
slave of Mr. MCGUIRE was yesterday arraigned on
the charge of having attempted to poison Podro
Miro Mascara, a member. of the New Lusitan0s
Benevolent Association. DR.. e. Devron, physician
Of the said Association, made the affidavit, charg-
ing that the negro, pretending to be DOCTOR gave
to Mascara, who was SICK certain poisonous doses
which would have caused his death, had not he
(Devron) saved him by his own medical services
and added, that he had in his possession some Of
the poisonous preparations. The negro was sent
to prison. to be examined on the 18th inst.
The following other cases were fixed; Joseph
Leahy, Henry Roulke, and Fred Leland, charged
with violently beating and kicking Wm. Houlihan,
and threatening him with a knife on Tuesday, on
Camp street. near Thalia. Bail given.
j. J. Mitchell and Mrs. Mcclure, charged with
keeping disordery brothel at No. 1872 Basin
street. Bail given.
James Kent, charged with knocking down J.
Blenman at the corner Of New Levee and Gaienne
streets. Bail given.
The Court was occupied from IL to g. and from
5 to Q, in the examination of old man Weaver
charged with violating the person of Catherine La
heny-the plaintiff being the only witness on the
stand the whole time. The testimony is unfit for
publication. The Court was greatly crowded all
the time, and there was much discussion on points
of law between Col Field for the defence, and
District Attorney Reynolds and Mr. Blocker, FOR
the prosecution. The audience several times dis
played mobocratic spirit against the prisoner,
which was properly checked. The case was con-
tinued to next Friday evening.
RECORDER GAsTlNELs CorRT.-L Lizzie Moore
as principal, and Kate Holmes, as accessory, were
yesterday sent before the First District Court for
stabbng and otherwise mutatng Louisa Schmidt
on the night Of the 10th ult, at the of Gus
IDn1bDuSp n ~
peared went to kill Louisa Schmidt because she had
estranged the affections of Pierre Loizelle, the
redoubtable animacatcher and ex-police officer,
who is always in row, but always comes out in
nocent and against whom Lizzie Moore and the
State pententiary have divers and sundry unsettled
claims.