Department of Publiq Instruction. STATE CERTIFICATES.-The following certificates have been issued by the State Board of Examination : State Diplomas. Mrs. C. L. Atwood, San Francisco High School Certificate. First Grade Certificates. Miss L. W. Derby, Bridgewater S. N. S. Diploma. STATE TEACHERS' Institute.—A State Institute will be held in the City of San Francisco the first week in May, 1867. It will be held during the session of the city schools to afford the teachers from other parts of the State an opportunity to see the practical working of the school system in San Francisco. The exercises will consist mainly of debates and discussions on important school topics. Appearances indicate that the Institute will be the largest ever held in the State. STATE DIPLOMAS OF 1863.-At the State examination held in May, 1863, in the city of San Francisco, at the session of the State Institute nine State diplomas were issued and nearly one hundred teachers were examined. We make the following record of the whereabouts of the nine teachers who received the diplomas. Thomas C. Barker went east during the war, entered the army, and is now in the State of Massachusetts engaged in business. Stephen G. Nye left the profession of teaching for that of law, was elected District Attorney of Alameda County, and is now practicing law and editing the San Leandro Gazette. Bernhard Marks is Principal of a Grammar School in San Francisco. C. Cummings is County Superintendent of Mendocino County, and Principal of a school at Ukiah City. T..W. J. Holbrook is Sub-master of the Lincoln Grammar School. J. W. Josselyn is in the County Treasurer's office, Alameda County. Thomas Ewing is dead. Wm. K. Rowell is a teacher in the San Francisco Latin High School. Edward P. Bachelor is a lawyer in this city. They have all proved themselves worthy of the State diplomas which they then received. C. TABULAR STATEMENT, BY COUNTIES, SHOWING THE RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR, OF TEN MONTHS, FROM SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1865, TO JUNE 30TH, 1866. ESTIMATED POPULATION, BY COUNTIES, OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ON THE BASIS THAT THE SCHOOL CHILDREN UNDER FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE CONSTITUTE THIRTY PER CENT. OF THE POPULATION. ESTIMATED POPULATION OF THE CITIES AND TOWNS OF CALIFORNIA. The Census of 1860 shows that the number of children under fifteen years of age in the Pacific States and Territories constituted twenty-eight per cent. of the whole population. As the number of children has increased, during the last five years, faster than the adult population, it is safe to estimate that they now constitute thirty per cent. of the population. In the New England States and New York, the children of this age constituted, in 1860, thirty-four per cent. of the population. Taking thirty per cent. as an estimate for this State, the population of the cities and towns will stand as follows: Resident Editors' Department. A VISIT TO THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. - We recently passed a very pleasant half-day at this institution. On account of its distance from the city, it is visited by few except members of the Board of Trustees, and few teachers or citizens seem to be aware of the great importance which it is assuming. The school-room is large, well furnished with desks of the most approved pattern, and quite as pleasant and convenient as the best rooms of the city public schools. The boys' department numbers 161 pupils, of various grades, sizes, and ages, from the primary boy of 6 to the young lad of 18, well advanced in his studies. The advanced, or grammar department, numbers about 60 pupils, and is under the instruction of Mr. John A. Moore, formerly a pupil of the California State Normal School. The intermediate and primary grades are taught by Mr. Thomas G. Tracy, son of the late Judge Tracy. Mr. Tracy was formerly a pupil of the Rincon Grammar School, afterwards of the City High School, then a cadet at West Point two years. From West Point he entered the army as a private, served under Banks in the Red River expedition, and was promoted for good conduct to the rank of first lieutenant in the New York Zouaves. He served under Sheridan in the Valley of the Shenandoah, and was wounded in the battle of Cedar Creek. On the disastrous retreat of the morning, he was struck by a ball in the leg, and the whole line of yelling and pursuing rebels passed over him as he lay senseless on the ground. An hour afterwards, coming to his senses, he was hobbling off to the cover of some trees, when a rebel cavalryman, mounted, pursued him, and cut off his knapsack with a sabre-stroke meant for his head. The rebel received in return a pistol shot which tumbled him from his saddle, and Tracy, mounting the dead rebel's horse, flanked the rebel line in the rear, and rejoined the Union troops, just forming into line under Sheridan, for the glorious victory which followed. Both departments of the school appeared as orderly, attentive, and studious as the boys of the best city public schools. A piano is much needed by the school, and Gen. H. A. Cobb has volunteered to secure one by subscriptions from liberally disposed citizens. The girls' department numbers 25 scholars, taught by Miss Hutchinson; but we did not have time to visit it. The whole number of inmates in the institution is now over 200, and in consequence of the great increase, the appropriation from the city, of $2,000 per month, is less than the current monthly expenses, in spite of the rigid economy to which everything is reduced. The appropriation ought to have been $3,000 a month. The annual appropriation for the State Reform School is $10,000, and the average number of boys in that School is only about thirty. Col. Wood is |