Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1861-06-21
Examination of Public School No. z,
June 10, 1861.

Exercises at the Examination Of the fubhc
Schools, June 1871, ls6l.-SoHooL No. T.
Room No. was composed of children aver
aging from o to years. The exercises were
addition, reading in the testament, and prayer.
The reading was excellent for children OF their
age. There were Ga children in this ROOM
Miss Lowell, Teacher.
Room No. 2.-llere the children are rather
farther advanced than in No. L. Spelling,
reading and addition were the exercises all
of which were well executed. Mental arith-
metic was very well performed by children so
small. Addition by the same class very good.
There were Ga children in this room. MISS
NJ. Stevenson, Teacher.
We were ushered into Room No. 3, amid the
songs OF over sixty voices. Here the exercises
were reading, definitions aud subtraction.
The pupils were one stage farther advanced
than the previous one. Miss Conner, Teacher.
Room No. Owe entered No as No. 8,
amid the fairy voices singing " The Last Rose
of Summer No one but the pupils took any
part in the singing, and the execution was eX-
rellent. The exercises were spelling, reading,
and geography. Here the progress in read
ing and spelling was quite perceptble, The
facility with which the pupils repeated their
lessons in geography goes far to prove that
great care had been taken in the geographical
branch of this room. Song The Dearest
Spot on Earth. Miss Newlin, Teacher.
Room NO. 0.-Apntlftu 10 nc Uiuut VI aAtE-
ner stuff than any Of the former rooms Mem
tai arithmetic, grammar and geography In
mental arithmetic the boys asked the girls
questions and the girls did the same OF the
boys which were answered with an accuracy
only euualled by the rapidity of the answers.
The reading in this room was excellent Song
"Fary Bell" was very well executed by the
girls Reading from Vanity Fair, by pupil,
was very good, The exercises in geography
q .t,n nfo nrt tho r4uf1s
pointing out the locations on the map while
the others named them. An illustration OF a
sum in the Single Rule of Three, us il was cal
| led when we were Il boy, by +, p. Aiken, was
| ii credit to both the pupil and school. Song,
HUpcle True" by the little girls, and the
chorus by the school, was hard to excel. Miss
Hates, Teacher.
Room No. s.-Was composed Of q still larger
| class and the exercises of u higher order.
Song, "The Union Forever" was sung with
vim TINT would be a credit TO older heads
The reading in the room was excellent. "Win
| the New Year come to Night? was cxcellenty
read by Esther Allen and Anna Wells Anato-
my of the bones was well executed, and formed
quite an interesting part in the exercises, and
| we think calculated to form an impression on
the mind that will last life time.
Song, "The Farmers Girl" by Il class, was
| well executed.
an exercise on fractions, and solving different
| questions propouRded by the principal,
"Aunt Keziah,n by Ella Disher and Lucy
| Eccleston, was well recited piece, and worthy
OF any trouble that might have been expended
on the pupils.
"The Child's Dream, by Lucy Eccleston
and Mary Weldin, was happy affair
Bishop Lee and Rev. A. Manship mSde some
interesting remarks on the exercises, and the
whole school struck up "Ellsworth's Dirge.
This is a very pretty piece of compos,iOn by oui
talented contributor Thomas Barry, and pnb-
lished in the INQUIRER. II did us no little good
to find that the productions of the lNQuREI
should find their way into the Free Schools
We are convinced that no paper in this coun-
try is taking such hold Of the hearts of thu
people as the INoUIhEH is. When we hcar'
Ellsworth's Dirge raised on the voices OF tn
children of this school, it awakened new lii
I in us, and made a thrill of pleasure peryad
, every nerve in our body. We intend that GU
paper shall be worthy of place in oar publ
Institutions, and the children of the presen
generation, when they grow old, will reeite on
composition to their children.
On the wall were many drawings worthy o
the best master. Among them was one OF tn
HGoddess OF Liberty" in her hand is Il staff OIL
which IS placed Liberty Cap at her side i
Cornucopia, representing the Union, out o
which come several mice, with the names o
the seeding States written upon them Ga
representing the Government has her paw
upon Virginia. There were many dsawng
OF plants and flowers which were really bean
tiiul.
Ellsworth's monument was beautiful thin
drawn and colored, The following appropriat
inscription was upon it.
ain memory OF Col. f. E. Ellsworth, OF til
0 New York Fire zouaves.
Our country mourns the loss of oner so no
BILE and so brave, who fell by the nd OF u
assassin at Alexandria, Va, May "a, lsGl.'
As the audience left the school, the pupil
sang the Star Spangled Banner and other AZ
uropriate airs. Take the exercises all In al
they were Of the most interesting kind, an
reflected great credit on the principal and tl
Q teachers generally. We had not been ut th
school for two years, which gave us au' OF
y p0rtunity to observe the great improyemcI
which has taken place, not only in the etlucf
o ton, but in the appearance the children ais
u AaRs OF THE GRSERALs.-Lieut Gen. Scott
= 10 years old; Gen Wool is 70; Harvey G.
e Mansfield GO; Totten, (head of the Engine
corps,) 80: Thayer, (Engineers,) so; Cra
fheah of tho Ordnance Department az KiDle