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Moruing Ser and Catholic Messenn r. -v5MSa, D TVlST SU1DAT MO3XiNS. EWW O@LEAZU, SUNDAt. AUGIST 4 151. sessman OP wa wslL SIaayl..o.Aug. 4--igetb madly after PiateesetL bs. Denlas Dueader ef the Order of Domlateas Prles"rs SIMeay....Aug. 5-DedlasensU oef tnhe Mle s It. otay...Aux. o -Traed us teaI of Our Lelao USt e emmy..Aul o--. Oisoeeh. liaty..Aua. 8-it. Oyrus andee OOml eleu, /~ d-.o..Au. s-as. _rm,'. Martyr. ,ig..al Io-lae Lwetro , Deae- a a.w Mar. " Dring the month of Jly the United States paid off 1C6.306 of it. debt. It had in lhe . Treasury on the 1st inst. the handsome little Ssum of I0n7,007 85 in gold. What Beaomfield said of Gladstone at the Carlton OClnb banquet Iat week: "He Ie a ophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the Semuberanee of his own verbosity and egotiati" 0al Imagination." Bisbop Dblois, of Galveaton, pasuted through Hew Orleans last week on his way home from urope. His health is excellent. His Lord skip .wa saccompanied by Mgr. Duvral, who was a few months ago appointed Coadjutr B ishop of Galveeton. We are pleaseed to see that, our new Post a mstar, Gen. Badger, has retained Mr. J. J. Maguire as his ohblef assistant. Mr. Magnire S -won gollden opinlonsii-In thbs commnoitj by his efficient adminitration during the past t slght years, and his reappointment is received t with great satisfaotion in mercantile circles. t Daring the four months ending August let, a the Government sold $39,839.950 of its new beedr paying only 4 per cent intreet. A great proportion of these were taken by people in mederate uiroumatances, who, from the terrible d Sexperience of the past three years, have lost * all faith in savings' banks. 11 Preach five per cent bonds of 100 france par a valaue, have advanced in London to 115 frane SI and 50 centimes, the highest point ever n reaehed, and ire per cent ahead of the e eve per cent United , tate bonds. A This is a most emphatic expression of the a world'e high opinion of French honesty sad of ranoes's lasoarees, espelally when we con. eider that her debt ise over $4,000,000,000, or t twice as large as that of the United States. to Among the interesting art!oles on our inside w pages will be found the following : Book uc oetlees, Letter from Natohes, and a beautiful yt 11ttle epeech by Father Ryan, on page three; ; The Irish Language to be taught in the N- tb Ional Bahools of Irelandnd ad lSgns of disoon teot in Italy, on page six; and, on page seven, a an interesting sketch of The Little Giant, Ste- t phen A. Douglas, the seventeenth anniversary ra Of whose death coourred a few days ago. m Our patrones outside the city, who receive pestal card bills, will greatly oblige us by an wqnrlag at the earliest practical moment. The In yellow fever fright here has depresed bas eaws to nobh an extent that it is very diinult to make oollections, hence we;are compelled to to look for help, Just now, to those of our friends Bt who reelde in looalities more favored than this. cc Let eaoh one who is in arrears remit by Post so Office Money Order, Registered Letter or Draft, of -t one. tfo In an article on the eclipse, published last of uanday, the following setences occurred: cc "In fact it may be truly said that the an- tb elents knew Juet as much aboat the sun as we de. Tbey assumed, of ooorse, that, if it was a vast fire, it burned like our fir e and consumed al substances like those we know so well; and spectram analysis and the telescope and so beth enable us to say suenbstantially the same CI Dhing." b Immediately after the eclipse, we find the th following among the press telegrams: "The strange- and unexpected results of as Monddy's eclipse agitated the astronomers. tb gathered here, to a high degree. Not a few ra pet theories have been utterly demolished, and already signs of diametrically opposite vlewi are becoming visible. It revealed many b wonders unthought of, and promised mach Cl grater results when the details are worked out. " * " That the corona is compoeed of th oething material is cocepted by astronomers." b3 Now what will the next eclipse do Re- to verse these new views, or what b leath of Mr. Michael IlUy, scholastie. s J. a cl It is with feelings of deep regret that we Uanounne to his numerous friends and acquain- re :toases the death of Mr. Michael Kelly, Soho- us lastlo, 8. J., which took place July 5th, at a in beese of the Order in Paris. Born in Georgia, P' of pious and devoted parents, he was sent ca young to 8pring Hill College, where he re- fa ainoed four or five years, and during that dt time he won, both by his brilliant talents as a well as by his frank, generous open-hearted- de mess, the affection and esteem of his teachers and fellow.-oholars. At the yet tender age of fifteen, turning his eyes towards "the imper ishable goods of heaven," with all the ardor D of a loving beart, he clasped the "CrosN" to hle bosom, and enrolled himself as one of its ol labtful soldiers in the Company of Jesus. h SHaving satisfactorily undergone the neoessary th trials previous to his becoming a teacher, he 0o retrned to America, his native land, where Sb he spent six years in the laborious duty of h teaching. In the twenty-sixth year of his age e he was sent to France, in order to prepare for i the priesthood, the cherished goal of his most ardent wishes. Great wer the hopes founded ph upon him, and doubtless he would have en- lej swered to the good opinion many bhad of his lntelleetual endowments. But God, whese designs are ever veiled to mortal eyes, had etherleisordaied, and likeakind and loving bl dsather, called him from this vale of tears, after having fortifed him with all thesaoraments of the ChfrLh. We sinoerely condole with on hie aged parents in their great los; but to Christian parents, who have already oftered a Sheir beloved son to the service of God on the let a ltar of religion, what more fittling consol- th ,ton oan we offer their abchnlog hearts than that on ' hiLh the Apostle gives: "To serve God ie to an zuiga with Him.* tbs Syrlia. The new British proteotorate over Asia Minor has been the soaps of many "great *xpectations," prinelpally of the mission ary kind. From the "Established Churoh" down to the newest phbse of Evangelism they are all on tip-toe with eagernees for the gospel fray. Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptlsts, Congregationalists, Universalists, Unitarians, Trinitarians, Sabbatarians, Swedenborgisas, 8piritualists, Huxzeyites, Darwinites, etc., ete., all are mightily moved with seal for proselyting. Some of their newspaper organs remark that never before was so glorious an opportu nlty presented to the missionary and that the scenes of the Apostolic days of the Church may be expected to renew them selves. The most uninterested looker-on could hardly faill to wonder,Just here, where the new apostles were going to be found. Shall it be Sankey and Moody I But the Asia Minorites and Persians and Tartars will hardly figure up well as contributing Christians, and so the above named Ipart nership cannot be expected to extend its operations in that direction. No, no ! Our friends will have to fall back on the same spavined Bishop, thee same consumptive young ministers without ongregationsbut-with enterprising wives,; the same two-bit colportears or evangelic tramps, who have been heretofore carrying | the war into heathendom. And with the 4 same result. That is, when they fall upon a lot of pure savages as in the Sandwich f Islands, they manage pretty well, under ' cover of a man of war ina the offing, to bull- ° dose some of them into a kind of servile subjection, but whenever they bring their 0 Impertinence among astute Asiatics and in s contact with the remnants of an old civili- c sation, they are coolly snubbed into insig- g nificance. In Asia Minor, in Persia and a even among the Tartar hordes, these new P Apostles will go just as far as their money ti will carry them no farther. iMat or all that, the apostles did leave successors-successors in all ages, even in r the present age-to all of whom, those of to-day as well as those of Peter's day, it was said : "Do not possess gold, nor silver, nor money in your purses: No scrip for I your Journey, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor a staff." These men are commissioned by the master of this vineyard to go without money and where money could not carry them, and to penetrate far beyond the range of floating artillery and beyond the march of pioneer armies. Still it is not to be denied that, in the mysterious workings of Providence, the -prowess of Christian arms is often an agent in opening the way to Christian faith. The ChOburch is not dependent on ench support, for in the first ages of Christianity every government was its enemy and it had to conquer the great Roman empire without a soldier. On our own continent a number of French Jesuits invaded the Northern forests and successfully planted the cross of Christ in wilds where the flag of France could not save them from the stake. On the other hand Spanish missionaries ad vanced into Mexico and South America along roads cut by the swords of Cortes and Pizarro. For though at first the Church had nothing to rely on but the blood of her martyrs, it does not follow that she should always be left in the same extremity and never permitted to prcfit by the iflinences which success weu'd natu rally bring to her aid. And so we concur with our dissenting brethren in expecting much of good to the Church from recent political changes in the East, though not in the way intended by them. The gate will truly be opene. to a vast region hitherto jealously guarded by the Evil One. The flag of civilization a partially Christian civilization-will now claim respectful consideration in that whole region of death, and the powers of dark ness however they may gnash their teeth in rage, must bow before it. Burning priests and converts in one common holo caust will hereafter be the subject of un favorable comment and will probably pro duce disagreeable complications. Even in Asiatic Turkey, where persecution unto death has not latterly prevailed, the pros pect will be found greatly brightened, for the persecution of unlimited rapine is nearly as repressive as that of blood. It takes no prophet to say that the Cath olic Church will be theactual reaper of the harvest thus opened up. She will build the convents, erect the schools, form the communities and Christianize the people. She is as young to-day as she was one hundred, five hundred, fifteen hundred years ago. Protestantism-Protestantism is resolving itself into a political philoso phy of which the two great types are Hux ley and Bismarck. D'Israeli's Plan. Some correspondent has ascertained to his own satisfaction that the busy brain of Beaconsfield has originated the stup.d ous scheme of transferring the See o" Peter from Rome to Jerusalem. This statement may not rest on very good authority ; but let us take it for grante... Christendom then immediately divi'ee into two parties on the question wh'-.her it shall be classed as the plan of D'Iraell, the romancer, or as the asheme of Beaoonsalld the statesman. .. TeAS e =law agm oen of romane about it. Jernesalem was the holy city of si old, It was the seat of religious authority Suoder the old Testament. It became - doubly holy to all Christians as the seene of Christ's agony and the witness of his death. It is the central point of attraction o n all that great panorama of sacred placee known as the Holy Land, a land towards ' which the heart of every Christian has a1 t' ways turned more fondly than to his own I natal place, a land towards which during '°' hundreds of years all the chivalry of Chris ly tendom brought its banners and its arms se and its blood that it might be redeemed from desecration. W bat is D'Israell's a dreamh but an added episode on the Cru at sades a grander romance in action than the , brain of man ever conceived in fiction. And then the adjuncts. Palestine is to be made a Papal State and its independence - perpetually guaranteed by all the great e powers ; England is to renounce her sep saration and come back to the unity; Russia gtoo must acknowledge the primacy andI Ssupremacy of the Pope, while the German a Empire will wipe off the sham of Luther anism left and say to the Pope : "Thou art Peter and thou alone." Dizzy treats the e minor Protestant powers with utter con- . | tempt in this arrangement, not as much i -even as-saying, by your-leave, knowing full well that they would follow suit precipit- t -tely. And what about this country of I ours I The architect of the plan knows that American Protestants follow British 8 fashions in religion and philosophy as ser- 8 vilely as they do French fashions in bon- a nets. If British prestige were withdrawn 0 from Protestantism, it would be deserted - over here as spontaneously as a sinking ship with the small pox on board. Ameri- t cans would then feel themselves at liberty q to choose between the Pope and Voltaire, 1 and would act promptly, as becomes a great b people who do not like to be behind the h times. And how does the sharp old party of He- R braic descent expeotto work all this? Why, pI just like the plot of a story. The Angliocan w Archbishop ofCanterbury is persuaded that to the present Pope is failing and that he would come in next best himself, all the old prejudices in favor of Italians being us done away with by the removal of the see. pn Russia is told that all her Patriarchs shall at be made Cardinals and must naturally St ran the Church as it will have again be- ul come an Eastern Church. Prussia is told that a combination of all the forces of to Christianity under one compact organizs tion is absolutely necessary to check the do rapid growth of Atheism and its consequent no Socialism among the German races. so Wild and visionary as all this may seem, there appears to be as much foundation for it, at least, as this, that Prussia is feeling b the force of the suggestion above made in g her regard. The progress of lawless pas- loc sion is opening her eyes to the necessity of b. encouraging, instead of destroying, all allies in the cause of order and morality, to and negotiatons withl Hme are evidently on foot. And strange to say, Bismarck's readiness in this line has materially in- Fi creased since Beaconsfield's advent to Ber- Co lin, and we know that the brains of great rot poets and authors originate many grand for and sublime combinations which, to ordi- tw nary humanity, seem at first wild and .vis- Oc ionary. In On the other hand, what possibility is there of consent on the part of the Papal orn Court ? We must remember that although °00 Jerusalem was, and is yet called, the Holy City, it never was the See of Peter. The first Pope instead of fixing the Pontifical t See at Jerusalem fixed it at Antioch, when Th the choice was before him. Then we must da consider that the bead of the Christian world has necessarily an immense amount of business to transact with its many i members. Not only is this business mani fold but much of it is-resslng and cannot i be delayed. Its seat of operations must, He therefore, be at a convenient point for this 53 work. When Jerusalem was the seat of on the true faith all empire lay in the East. bob Babylon, Persia, Jades, Egypt, Greece formed the area of civilization and the Gi eastern shores of the Mediterranean, with ne their mighty cities, their Troy, their Tyre Or and Sidon, their ports where men "went no down to the sea in ships," formed the tr commercial centre of the world. Jerusalem Th was conveniently located for communica tion with all civilized countries. ve But sueach is not now the case. The Ne march of empire is Westward, and is pro bably going to remain so, unless the Brit- t, ish Lion can take the banner of progress be- n tween his teeth and deliberately carry it Li back to the Euphrates on a railroad. Until Ch some such event as that, bowever, the n Pontifical See in Jerusalenr would be more t a matter of sentiment than of business, and on in point of convenience it might be held c injudicious to put a live Church away in dignified retirement in a land of fossils. The Rev. (?) Dr. J. C. Hartzell Psstorof the Es ames Methodist Episoopal Churoh (a Southern Ch limb of the Northern branch,) Editor of the ni South-Western Christian Adeosts, and, during Ga Radiocal tlmes, a direotor in the publo sohools ho of this olty, le fa Tuesday last "for an extensive res teour North in the interests of his paper and ro his Church." As, like Sheridan, "he is not na afraid and never was" to villiy the people of ash the Boath and partionlarly those of Loutsiaar, o it is not to be presumed that sar of oar Mn, sakes vistoer lspinrei hit mid.. -rg . º ot LOCAL IOT2B. rity tne St. Mlobael's Total Abstinenee Bociety meets ens this evening. hisb ion The donkey engise aboard the Henry Tete exploded Thursday, demolishing one side of rds the bo. Nobody hurt. Loss $2500. ml- Premium Bonds seem to be tumbling. Ten wn days ago they were worth from 33 to 35 cents log on the dollar, now they command from 30 to 31 l es ntse. me The rest of the report is confined to other led Catholic institutions and to the few under the Ii's oontrol of the sects, allof them being in good 0- uondition. he The inoarnate fiend of selfihbnoe is the fel low who stands on the platform with the to driver, or right in the doorway, and monopo lises the breese while the inside passengers are ] ,at gasping for a breath of fresh air. P- The eclipse here last Monday was a fizsle. la Tens of thousands of people were ready with ad their smoked glasses to see old Sol extinguish. to ed by the moon, but immense Clouds covered s r- the heavens during the whole time of the 3 rt eclipse. e The Board of Health recommend that all d - citizeons disinfect their premises. This can be :b done bestiwith Carbolio sold and oopperss. A 11 quart bottle of the former and three pounds of t. the latter can be bought of Frederiokson & o Harts for 60 cents. w * By a notice elsewhere it will be seen that a 0 b Solemn Requiem Service will be celebrated in es St. Patrick's Church next Wednesday morning, b at 8 o'olock, for Cardinal Franohi,lste Pontifi- b n cal 8eoretary of State. Very Rev. P. F. Allen, i d Pastor, invites the Clergy to attend. CI g The electines last Thursday for delegates ri i- to the Baton Rouge Convention passed of w y quietly excepting in the Fifth Ward, where several shots were fired, a non-combattant a , bystander, as usual, being the only person w , hurt. He received a shot in the leg. Mr. C. A. Millback, his wife, a stepson, C. F. 't Roe, aged nineteen, and a qplored woman, were G1 poisoned last Tuesday by eating a oustard in a which Mrs. Millback had mixed arsenic, mis- A, taking it for corn starch. Mr. M. died the Di same day ; the others are reo reoveriug. The members of St. Alphonsus Total Absti- of nence Sooiety will celebrate the Feast of their Cc patron Saint by approaching Holy Communion tau at the 7 o'clook Muas this (Sunday) morning, in on St. Alphonsus Churoh. They will hold their reg- toe ular meeting this evening at 4 o'clook. Po Friday the Mayor sent the following letter to the Chief of Police : Sir-You are hereby requested to nupprees during the prevalence of te fever, in looali ties known to be infected, all unnecessary d. noises, such as bells on ice cream Cart., soie- th sors grinding. peddlars, organ grinders, eta. an Yours, respectfully, ED PILSBURY, Mayor. of do The City Surveyor think that the oity ooald teI be properly drained by expending about fro $250.000 for the necessary machinery, canals, me looks, etc. He does not tSink "the city will be able to do this (spare the money) soon." C Of course not, if one-fonath ite receipts are lea to be swallowed up annually in oarrying out mu Lthe Ae onulum z u, d Plan. 5n A distinguished lawyer of this city, Mr. John too Finney, has entered suit in the Fifth D'striot th Court. against the St. Louis and Chicago Rail- poe road (old Jackson) claiming $10,000 damages ou for injury to bis property on St. Joseph be- He tween Carondelet and St. Charles streets, wh caused by the running of heavy freight trains be in front of his residence. 5o 1 gee Administrator Edwards has introduced an eac ordinanoe giving the necessary approval and is 1 consent of the Counnil to a proposed issue of ha mortgage bonds by the Waterworks company to enable it to extend its works. The bonds. tfe amounting to $600,000, will bear 6 per cent in- not terest, and cannot be sold at leec than par. rig The ordinance will be considered next Tues- son day. the to' Yellow fever has not made the progress dr- rig ing the week that was feared at one time. From July 12th, the day the first case was re ported, up to noon, Friday, August 2nd, only 195 cases had been reported at the Board of wet Health offie, and during the same period only no 53 of the persons attacked had died. About ten one-half the persons attacked are children Th born here. ter Mobile, Galvestan, Houma, Franklin, Port eig Gibson and any number of small towns in this pre neighborhood have quarantined against New Orleans. Mobile lead off and went so far as t not to allow through freight or passenger th trains to pases within the limits of the county. The Company bce therefore been compelled to e step running its trains beyond Biloxi. Gal- son veston will not even allow the mails from New Orleans to be received. The Timnrs appears to be very mooh puzzled it to know why an opposition journal told its qui readers that the levee, at the foot of Lower ten Line, was the best place to see the eclipse. deL Charming innocenoe! Why,old boy, don't you tbil know your contemporary sent ssveral of its may attaches to the top of the Baboock observatory nig on Julia street to see the might I And don't seq you know that it knows, by experience, that mo' these gents can't be five minutes in a place and without unfolding their ears ? That's why. for A most lamentable affair occurred at the T residenoe of Mr. C. Hernandes, corner of StD. i Charles and Josephine streets, last Thursday Don night. A youth, seventeen years old, J. E. Snd Gauntier, who was staying at Hernandes's Bob house, arriving from the ocontry, entered the T residence and tried to make his way to him cit, room without disturbing the family. Mr. Her- i nandez awoke, and hearing mins one moving, asked three times who was there. Gauotier, for some reseon not known, did not reply, and I Mr. Heneandes, taklag him for a berglar, Wie.hila he qmrsetemh tas .,a At balf-pest 6 o'clock Thursday evening, Levy's Palas Royal, 137 Canal street, in the Tooro row of buildings, was destroyed by fre. The damage to the building ie estimated at $12000; and the stock, whieh the manager *te for Levy claims to have been worth from of $75,000 to $100,000 we either burned or entire. ly ruined by water. Levy is said to be Insured for $40,000 In foreign companles. The roots of t the adjoining buildings, ocopied by P. Wer 31 ein as a piano store, sad by Frederkeheon & Harts, Druggists, also caught are which was, however, soon extinguished. The damage to or the goods in these two stores is said to be very be great. Sanzampana O.u n.-Last Friday this organ- l isation entertained their iends with the el- presentation of "The Wife; a Tale of Mantua." s* The play is an excellent one, possessing a 0- strong plot, ezoellentsituations, and charming re language. The cast embraced thefinest talent of the club, thereby ensuring the beet possible Sinterpretation. We consider it the best per ih formance given by the Shbakpeares for many a day. The audience was not solarge as is usual d at "complimentarles"-the weather and' the 1 yellow fever scare no doubt deterring many t from attending. The Committee of Arrange. ments of which Mr. F. H. Wilson is Chairman, h 1I deserve the thanks of all present. New Orleans is partly built on the 'high a ,i ridge bordering the Mississippi river, and is w l almost entirely encircled by natural levees, t which renders its proper drainage all the easier. These ridges are the Met aire and ' Gentilly ridges. The Metairie ridge was form. h ed by the allnvion deposited on each side of a R bayou called the Metairie Bayou, which was a b branch of the Missisippi river, starting from Kennerville. The Mississippi river partly die. al charged itself through these bayous, and de. -o poseting its sediment on both sides, formed bh ridges. In the case of the Metairle bayou, the tr waters, after crossing many miles, sae in contact with the waters of the Bayou 8t. John of and crossing them formed a sort of connection 12 with the Bayou Road stream, which commenced th about Toolouse street. These two streams, w uniting, continued eastward and formed the be Gentilly ridge, extending to Chef Menteur. Fe The Committee, oonasiting of the Mayor, ha Administrators MoCafrey and Rengetorff and ti Dr. Choppin, appointed to investigate the thi obhrges against the management of the House Th of Refuge, reported at the last meeting of the M Conncil. They concur in many of the atrio trers of the Grand Jury, but say that a thor. G ough investigation reveals facts which will ex temper the harsher features of that body's re. on port. They believe that in some ases the wil punishment has been too severe, though, for J, certain crimes not to be mentioned publicly, c. and of which a few of the boys were guilty, by very severe punishment had to be administer. ter ad. They state that there will be a reform in those points of discipline and management, and conclude by recommending the discharge Ju, of James Riley for treating the boys with un. wb due severity, and by condemning the Superin- pa tendent, Mr. Thos. Deveresaux, for being absent its from his post and leaving the boys at the nal mercy of his subordinates. fog Captain J. A. Aiken and a number of other SiN leading citizens endorsed the following com- 560 munioation, which appeared in the Democrat, Go' an een s o ona which, however, he took no action In reference to it : of a It is conceded that carbolio acid is a good tho thing to fight off yellow fever with, and I pro- tico pose that we try it on a grand scale, and at once drive the plague from among us; and, for ber that purpose, I suggest that our Board of gO Health and city authorities adopt a plan by which every household and premises in the city qus be disinfected with it daily and continuously, the so long as it may be deemed necessary. I rlg- til gest that a suofficient number of oitiaens of dit each blook throughout the entire city be p- Ho pointed, with fall power to see that the thing is thoroughly and well done. I would also have the entire police force to aid them. The lre city carts could, as now, sprinkle the streets. e There should be no child's play about it. A o few headaches here and there should count as has nothing as against an epidemic. If we have a Jur right to say that no child shall attond the pub-. nto lie schools unless vaccinated, or to take a per- l son siok with tie small-pox from his home t ber the pest house, or to invade any man's premises Ch. to arrest a conflagration, we certainly have the this right and It is our duty to do everything poe sible to ward of the greet calamity that now mci threatens our city. AcTrONt. S0 tioc THu TsaepnMUn-.-The records of the tub weather for July, at the local signal office, are Ion now complete, and it is found that the maximum pril temperature for the month was 93 degrees. sib] The monthly mean of the maximum daily the temperatures is 90 degrees, which is three and B eight-tenthe below the average for the five t preceding years. This would seem to indiscat tha as announced by us last week, that this July ounl was very much cooler than ordinary. There are ase other circumstanoes, however, which ought to the be taken into consideration; but the facts on were not available, nor the following compari- D sons possible before the end of the month. obil The fact is, that although the temperature brij didinot rise near so ligh in the JulyJust past, La as it does usually in that month, neither did chil it fall so low during the nights, and conse- this quently the average of the minimum daily sa temperatures, which averaged as low as 73 to degrees for the five preceding years, does not L this year fall below 775 degrees: that is to two say, the days were 3.8 degrees cooler, and the e nights 4:5 degrsees warmer. The natural con- and sequence is that the mean tempersture for the A month is half a degree higher than last year, r and one and s halt degrees above the average ne for the five preceding years. s The City Counoll hau aoepted the bid of J. is a 8. Christie for the bunilding of the new Mo of Donough School House (No. 11.) corner Priear msp and Palmyra streets, in place of the Madlison is School whihob was burned on the 17th of July. tr The new sohool houose will be the finest in the c city and will cost $17.493. of In connection with this subject we take this w extract from the preamble and resolutions adepted by the School Board at its last meet- Sisti he In the disbe r iGhe tser Ia tg t sd t a i w with the eg fatil, a l rm pupal oa toe Kadisoe Bashl most beo lne lk with the rmeeembra eof the es e fate oft who pslehed Ithe a..-ha .e' ed of the ballding tbsebra elt f aoled, Thai the Qomemitte oo 8ehod.e oI hoons be authorised nd requested t ha, '- pl i d m soma -uitabe pet of the l SsIooolhouase to be oroted o the sits of "Madison" a tablet, upo Wdhieb dshal be oe Oorded the nems and etie eireumeataw eCho. to death of J. W. Haetnett d and M D. L the end that the olaime of daty in arl. S.n in life, may be honored aud held e . Inthrevenoe b the youth of eau u Boaep or Hnu-Lo.-Last Wednesdy eigrht the Boardof He jthmet. Present: Dr.C hop. a pin, President, Drs. Austin, Albreoht, Tane r an·d Jones and Messrs. Hardee, Nott and Boyd. t The.Sanitary Inspector of the Secod Dire. triot in his report for July says : The palr " len of yellow fever and the all-absorbing in a terest in its progress felt by the entirepop il lation, have withdrawn publio attention fro a the eneral health of the distriot which, as y the few ase of yellow fever alreaody repored, Shb been very fair. But this sourge, which Shitherto has prinoipally oonfned its ravages to the first district, is now slowly creeping acoross Canal street, and it is to be feared that l within -foritnlgh&t -terewill-bs -oas-uover the districot from Canal to Esplanade. The Sanitary Inspeotor of the Third District, reports that during the month that locality hua been entirely free from yellow fever. Malarial fevers have prevailed to some extent,. but there have been but s oven deaths. The Fifth District (Algiers) is healthy, as also is the Seventh. In the Sixth there has been only oneease of fever. No reports wore made I by the inspector of the First and Fourth Dia trict. Dr. Choppin in a brief address gave a sketoh of the disease from its firt inception, on the 12th of July, and the remedies taken to show the efficacy of disinfection. The first point i which the diseas existed was that foea bounded by Magazine, Chippewa, ThaTia and Felioity streetes ' free use of ouarbolio aid had resulted in the suppression of any new asoues. The second nfected locality was the ec tion bounded by Magazine, Poydras, Julia and the river, this, too, yielding to ditmnsetnts The third fose an y between St. Joseph, iarod, Magazlne and Treme rstreete. Another ~bes occurred in the section bounded by WBabdpb, Girod, Liberty and Trmes and Conti sreets, extnding as far heok as Gelves. A sixth is on Customhouse, between Royal end Bourbon, with a few se in the section bounded by Josephine. Coliseum and Philip streets. Every case outside of these was recent, and he hoped, by the use of carbolic id, to eventually ex- terminate the disease, THu Gnu.re JuRY's epowr. - The Grand Jury, of whloh Mr. S. .M Todd is foreman, and which is composed of some of our most res pected and influential citizens, has presented its report to the Judge of the Superior Crimi nal Court. The subjoined synopsis will be found interesting : Charity Horpital.-Excellently managed by s steriAgenmad twenty.ove Sisters of sarity. 560 patients. Sisr Agne stated that sines Gov. Nloholls oame into power everythingneed. known; previously there had not been a change of ehseee for the beds. The building has been thoroughly repaired and is in a splendid condi tion. Parish Priaos -290 prisoners, a smaler num ber than usual. They have a sufficienocy of good food and many seem to enjoy living in what is called the "Paradiseof Thieves "o Too quarters and nothing to do. The Jury t ink the labor of so large a number Ihould be utilized on the public streets and in digging ditches for drainagein the rear of the Boys Hones of Refuge. Public Pounds -The expenses for w75 were $5490; for "6 $5296; for '77 $4619 and for the Blt five mouthe of 7t 61962. The receipts were : '75 871; '76 $69; for the firt six months " of '77 $489. Since Jaly let, 1877, not a dollar has been paid into the Clit Treasury, and the Jury think the matter should, be enquired into. Louisiana Retreat for te Iuase.-They fouend here 96 patients unaer charge of ten 8ister. of Charity. They have nothing buot praise for this institution, and having but recently visit ed the City Insane Asylum the ootrast was most marked. The air of comfort, leasnliness and refinement so characoteristico of this institu tion gives it the appearane of a house up~te intended by thonughtful end loving friends. All - 'those features of a well-oonducted insane asy lum ast once elicited their admiration. Tie prime object of such retreat, to restore to aniety those for whom such restortion is pos sibie, is evidently the ofnstant thought of these Sisters of Charity. Bt Me ser s A udse.-Chartraesstreet, between Masant and France in charge of Sister Dese ret, Superioress, and eleven sisters, who report that there are 276 boys in the Asylum and only one of the number on the sick list There are three young men who were raised in the asylum who now assist in the government of the bors. All the inmate appeared oheerfol, outented end well pleesed with their tresa mesnat. It wu evlidentl that the rule of ister Derret Wa a lgetle andkindly one, for the children, from the youngest to the oldest, brightened up aend wore their pleasntmt smle upoin her reappearenoe among them, L.t year some one had kindl treated the children to an excursdon to Bay Bt Louis, and this proved to be one of the events of their lives, where they bad the rare opportunity of salt,-water bathing, evidently looking forward to another similar excursion. LiBle 81r. ters of the Poo--Laharpo street, be tween Prieur andJohnson, Sistr Mary Clare Superioree, with fourteen Sisters Li charge. There are oared for at this asylum 150 aed and Infirm inmate, 80 males and 70 females. A very large addition has lItely been made to this building, doubling its capapity of shel tering old and helples human beings. The new portion will be ready for occupancy and use in shout five or six weeks, when they will bs able to provide room for 300 inmates This ie a most excellent institution and desorvin5 of the aid and oounoteanen of our whole o.s munity, and has many friends. Is is mainy supported by their daily oontrihutibo of Pc vislons, et. They have a roodesupply ol wa tsr, and sltogether it was fiend to be a bapli ocmmnuity, where everyone was oheerful an1 contented, withont aesooofelekneoo. In view of the enhlaged .apecit? of this institution, we advise the enternlg Into of arrlaements to have the ged ad infrm now in the Clt -sylum transferred to the ogr of the ]ittle itere. "For asses.w~ 4dr'lmAd