THE "BOARD" AND THE RINCON SCHOOL. - Last week the Board of Education, in secret session, while some members of the Board were absent, revoked the certificate of Mr. Pelton of the Rincon School, having refused to give any reason for the act, although demanded by some of the members present. But the Board did not declare his place vacant, although they appointed a gentleman his successor. The revoking his certificate did not annul the contract which the Board had forced him, in common with all other teachers, to sign. They did not order him officially informed of the annulling of his certificate, nor that they had made his place vacant. Consequently, having taken legal advice, yesterday morning he appeared at the Rincon School, and opened and conducted it as Principal, although the person designated by the Board to succeed and supersede him was present, and claimed at first his position as Principal. Meanwhile, Mr. Pelton addressed the Board a [illegible] but firm note stating that he had been unofficially informed that his certificate had been revoked, and demanded a reconsideration of their action, and the rights conferred by his certificate. That being done, if any charges of an immoral or unprofessional character were made against him by any person or persons, he demanded the privilege of appearing before the Board, the charges and specifications, and by whom made, and a sufficient time to prepare his defence. During yesterday afternoon the Board had a meeting, and passed an order to close the Rincon School. As this matter has now reached a point from which it will be decided legally, and we hope justly, we refrain from offering any comments.
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MAYHEM. - A house on Broadway, near the County Jail, was the scene of a desperate assault on Sunday afternoon. A lodger named John R. Pate came home and found a German named Wilhelm Greisky on too familiar terms with his (Pate's) mistress, who is the discarded wife of a soldier on service at Benicia. Pate battered Greisky's head almost to a pulp with a club, and inflicted dangerous wounds in his cheek and temple with a small, sharp instrument -- an ice pick, probably. He then confined the insensible victim's legs with a pail, and proceeded to inflict upon him a species of mayhem which it is not necessary to particularize; but before he had entirely accomplished his design, he was interrupted and arrested by officers Park, Thomas and Barker. The wounded man was removed to the County Hospital, where he now lies in a very critical condition, and his recovery is regarded as extremely doubtful. Pate acknowledge that he committed the assault, and said he meant to kill the man. After being locked up in the City Prison, he made such a noise by cursing and swearing that he had to be transferred to the dark cell. His case was continued for one week, in the Police Court yesterday; to await the result of the wounds inflicted on Grusky [sic].
At a late hour last night Greisky was doing well. His physician says he will recover. He is a butcher, from San Mateo.
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CAMANCHE MATTERS. - The work at the Camanche is progressing. The inside tier of heavy wood armor is now all on, and the outside tier so far done as to permit the putting on of the iron armor, of which a dozen of those ponderous plates have been hoisted up and put in their places; the hull has been thoroughly caulked, and the painters have commenced their work; the main shaft has been put in place, and preparations are made for hoisting the monstrous propeller, which will be raised and attached to the shaft on Monday. The following figures showing the size and weight of the vessel, when completed, will be found interesting: Length of keel, 160 feet; length on deck, 200 feet; breadth of beam, 45 feet; depth of hold, 13 feet; thickness of side armor, wood, 41 inches, and of iron, 5 inches; two guns, 13 feet long, 15 inch bore, weight each, 42,000 pounds; weight of solid shot, 460 pounds; diameter of turret, in the clear, 21 feet; weight of guns and turret, 160 tons; weight of pilot-house, 50,000 pounds; total weight of ship when in commission, 1,550 tons. The receipts to the Sanitary Fund, up to this date, are over $1,800.
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THE CHINESE BANQUET. - The grand banquet of the chiefs of the Ning Yong Company came off yesterday afternoon at the new temple, and was characterized by a lavish display of barbarian magnificence. The dinner cost six or eight hundred dollars, and was honored by the presence of many of our principal citizens, and the wealthiest merchants and highest dignitaries, both civil and ecclesiastic, of the Ning Yong organization. The Chinese have a princely way of getting up and conducting these affairs, that rather throw us Republicans into the shade.
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