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SCHOOL EXAMINATION.

The examinations of the Gold Hill public schools concluded to-day with that of the higher department, under the tuition of Mr. H. H. Howe. A goodly number of parents and friends were present, including also A. N. Fisher, State Superintendent of Public Instruction; J. W. Whitcher, County Superintendent of the Public Schools; Colonel C. C. Batterman, and others. The exercises of the school and examination of the various studies were of the most pleasing, interesting and satisfactory character. In arithmetic and grammar, especially, this Department showed most surprising proficiency, answering with the utmost promptness and very correctly a vast number of difficult questions proposed at random. We certainly must give Mr. Howe the credit of showing better efficiency as a teacher in those branches than we ever saw evinced before the evidence being the very palpable improvement and high degree of intellectual culture exhibited so readily by his scholars. There were about forty present, of the ages of from twelve to sixteen, of both sexes, and it was rather difficult on so short an acquaintance to decide which was the smartest, the girls or the boys. The exercises in Calisthenics could not well be excelled. The "wand" exercise certainly was the most perfect and beautiful we ever saw, the girls all in white dresses with red trimmings, and the boys with red stripes adorning their shirts and pants, and all bearing very pretty little red-striped wands in their hands, with which they went through various maneuvers and marches, forming a scene of beauty and interest not easily described. All kept the most perfect time to the music furnished by Mr. Howe, on the violin, and Miss Harris, on the melodeon.