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SATURDAY HORNING JVWK 23, 187T. ODE NEW YORK LETTSS. EeftMUlODrrecponaeneeof IMPWinil Nkw York. Jane 19, 1877. A really prominent topic of the street to-day is the refusal to receive Mr.

Jos. Seiigman, the -wealthy banker, and his family as gnests for the season at the Orand Union Hotel, Saratoga. For ten years Mr. Seiigman and his family have been welcome there, bat this year he is informed that no Israelites are in future to be permitted to stop at the hotel." The only excuse offered by the proprietor. Judge Hilton, who also runs A.

T. Stewart's dry Roods establishment, is that business last year was not so good as iorrnerix, ana ne atLnouiieu xn uw presence of his Jewish guests Hence, an imperative order was issued to his manager to sunt them out. The excuse is an absurd one, as it is patent that scarcely one of the watering, places did well lass season, owing, no doubt, to the bard times, while in the nine years preceding, and daring every one of which Mr. Seiigman was a guest, no complaint whatever is made of dullness or loss of business through the presence of the Hebrew boarders. Now.

however, when Mr. Seiigman and family arrive at Saratoga they are told that they are not wanted. That this great banker Jelt, and still feels the mortification deeply, may well be immagined, but it is simply truth to say that he has the sympathy of almost the entire banking community. This has been shown to-day in the way of personal calls, and in the receipt of kindly letters from Christian households so that if an insult was intended it has been shorn of its purpose. It would be a pertinent question just here, if the Baron Bothschild and suite come this way and halt at the Grand Union, Saratoga, whether they would be ordered, as was Mr.

Seiigman, leave As a banking firm the Seligmans rank Among the richest in the world, and each member of the same, with their -Tannilioa kta rAino.rlra.hlA fnr thAir mn. Berratism, their extreme modesty and -liberality to those who are not of their rm -r people. iiio metmitj. ooaao ia James Seiigman spend the summer at Ijong Hi ranch, the former in the lata residence of ex-President Grant. There will be a mass meeting of the -'Hebrews at an early day to give expression to their feelings upon this strange conduct toward one so prominent in 'their circle, and in this meeting a good -sprinkling of Christian sympathy will also be found.

The dry goods palace, s. which has reaped a rich harvest for many years from our Hebrew popula-- lion, will be a severe loser (millions per annum) by this most remarkable and nn- expected act of proscription. The Gold Boom maintains its firm tone and is aided by the farther fall in consols to W. Large purchases were made JLW O'MTAW VA probably to cover short contracts. Exchange rules firm, but there is very little increase in the demand.

At the same time there are not many bills ofi'er- intr. Mid noma of the heavy hanuf) are picking up all the good sterling that is on ii i a The prime rate, direct, is 4.87V, less 4.90, less 1-16. Bills on Lyons are quoted at 5.1GV4, less 1-16. Paris rates are unchanged. i The new China loan is for 1.500.000 and, is to be brought out ia London next 1 month at 96.

The rate of interest is fixed at 7 per cent. The share and bond list to-day shows very limited transactions the extreme beat DromDtine everv one to remain as as possible. Usually the noisiest locality in the city is the Stock Ex- change, and, at times, the brokers seem 1 mad, but in the sweltering heat we jhave to-day, prudence, if nothing else, commands that they exercise their lungs and limbs as little as possible. bonds topped 79 $30,000 being laken at There were also sales felQfWl Tymiiiluiu a filial S1 nflf! i.U irfll I IT I II 1 I TTT CSV AVW new Georgia 7's 109; $3000 Central Pacifies llOMc; $14,000 Unions 108; $5000 Louisville and Nashvilles, 92V4-3 92Vk, and $9000 Great Western firsts of '88, at 103. Arkansas funded were held at 30.

with 25 bid." Kentucky 6's were wanted at 105. The bids for Pennsylvania Cool Company stock were reduced to 135, but no shares have been offered at the board 1 a. 4.1 ,1 Binoe lae im wnen mere were sellers at 180. Government bonds are generally firm, in sympathy with gold, and because of the sluggish condition of the money mar-feet. The export demand for gold is moderate, though there may be a small shipment to-morrow.

As a rule, however, more can be made in the way of loaning sold at one per cent, rates for use than shipping it. The Jnly interest in the Government bonds will probably com- mence to be paid about a week from today. The Cotton Exchange this evening "Voted to ctose business en the 4th, 5th, Eth and 7th of July, which might be termed a regular old English holiday. The market to-day has been mercurial, 2utthe close finds prices higher by 10 points than last evening July selling at 71.75, August at 11.85, and September at 31.S0. Tne rise is due to the short ac-aount and the fact that Liverpool- after opening worse, closed better.

The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Kail-. Cray's earnings the second week in June were almost indent ical with the corresponding week in 1876. A Constantinople dispatch says the Assembly, to-day, voted to issue a loan of 4,000,000, to ran twelve years, with interest at 10 per cen t. The Commercial, this evening, says the ejectment of Mr. Seiigman and family from the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga, has created down town an amount of talk, surprise, and indignation almost inconceivable.

It adds The action of Judge Hilton is generally condemned. Over fifty Jews, who have Jieretofore dealt with T. Stewart and whose patronage was worth not than $4,000,000 per annum, will cease "Jheir purchases. In addition to this, Tr. Hilton is amenable, under the civil I fights bilL to civil action and There is one thing that will cooie fot of "the affair, and that is an emphatic expression from the great body Of the American people against any attempt to draw the lino between Christians and Jews.

The day of caste and prejudice has passed." It ia probably known that Messrs. Se-ligman's house in London are the naval agents of the United States Government in Europe. Antklop. Agriculture and Its Interests. The Farm Work-Shop Factory Home School Church.

By Da: Dennett. COCOA GRASS. Several persons have expressed a desire that we write an article on the cocoa grass that has proved Buch a pest to crops in Southern Louisiana. From its nature this grass mnst have originated in Africa, for it seems to carry a curse with it wherever it is found. Or perhaps it grew in the Garden of Eden after the ground had been cursed.

Bat wherever cocoa grass originated, it is a standing, deeprooted, and our everlasting enrse. Cocoa grass never grows very high, from one to two feet in the richest ground, but it stands as elose together as the bristles on a hog's back, or quills on a porcupine. The blade is not board it grows up stiff, and almost bristling when young, but the ends of the leaves are more pliable as they approach maturity, and bend over and wave in tne breeze like half matured prairie grasses. The nuts or roots are many of them not much larger than a large marrowfat pea, especially when packed close together in poor ground. The roots extend down to such a depth that, when once well set, it is difficult to dig out and to destroy the bottom roots.

If a small fibre remains it soon throws out new blades from the surface and new roots deeper into the subsoil. It is usually more than a match for the spade and fire. It is said that when worked up in mortar and put in adobe chimneys, or chimneys made with sticks and mude, that after remaining dry for twenty years, when wet it will sprout and grow. We do not know whether this true or not. When a cocoa spot is discovered in the field or pasture, if blackberry vines are allowed to grow over it and cover it with a dense shade for several years it will die ont.

If the ground where it grows is highly manured and scraped with a hoe daily for some months, it will kill it. It is said that if a pen is thrown around the spot, and geese or turkeys are kept on it in a close incloeure to eat it closely as it shoots out from day to day, it will kill it. Successive and dense crops of cow peas raised on it yearly in the summer and oats in the winter, will nearly or quite destroy it. Bermuda grass, pastured, locks the cocoa np so closely that it never shows itself, and nearly becomes extinct. It is very troublesome to young cotton, but less troublesome to grow sugar cane and corn.

As the cane grows ranker its siade checks the cocoa, and it does but littla harm after the crop is laid by. Cocoa es not appear to impoverish the ground. On the contrary, some think it brings mineral fertilizers up from the sub-soli, and leaves them to enrich the surface soil. As the old roots die they leave the ground more porous and enrich the soil with the deoayed remains of the nuts and roots. Cane lands thoroughly set in cocoa, require two or three more plowings than land that is free from this pest but the yield of sugar cane is about the same as in other lands.

In gardens cocoa is very troublesome. Gardens set in this grass must be made very rich, and must be thoroughly worked. Cattle eat cocoa grass when they can get no better, but it is vastly inferior most other grasses. The roots may be carried in the hoofs of cattle in wet weather, or on wagon and buggy wheels, and a single root may in time poison a whole garden or a field. Cocoa is most troublesome in the coast, or sugar parishes of this State; but it has spread to some extent, by means of shrubbery and plants taken from New Orleans to the npper and middle parishes of the State, and to Mississippi, and Arkansas and other States.

In walks paved with bricks, and set in lime, this grass will crowd through at every joint. Concrete walks, made of coal tar and sand, or gravel, will keep it down. Small gardens, or small fields, under a high state of cultivation, inteili-' gence, and rare diligence may destroy ttiis grass. But on large plantations, or on poorly cultivated places, it must be an everlasting pest. Water will not drown it out, surface fires and burning droughts will not destroy it.

It will live in places where any other grass or plant on earth that we have any knowledge of would surely perish. 1NPCSTRIAL SCHOOLS. If our people could fully realize the vast importance of agricultural and polytechnic schools, millions of dollars would be subscribed to establish them all over the State. They are the one thing needful to the boys and young men in the State. Multitudes of boys are growing up in the South destitute of education, without any knowledge of any business or trade, many of them to become vagabonds, loafers and criminals, simply because parents and guardians do not provide a way of escape from a life of idleness and its terrible results.

Train up a child in the way he should go." How many in this State have any training of any kind? The Jews and Germans train their children to habits of business and industry, and we see but few idlers among them. Our boys are not so much to blame for idleness as the parents are who will not take the trouble to help establish industrial schools, and give the boys and young men a fair chance. If, in Scripture parlance, we say to. the boys and young men, "Why stand ye here all the day idle they can not only say Because no man hath hired us," but also, No man hath taught us how to work. TICK SHARE SYSTEM ON SUGAR PLANTATIONS.

It is highly gratifying to us, as it will be to many others, that our friend, Mr. Michael Sohlatre, has commenced a series of articles tor the Picayune on the share system in sugar culture. Mr. Schlatre is a Creole sugar planter, has always been successful, and seven overflows in 21 years and the war did not break him. He still has a fine sugar plantation and a goou home, is out of debt, and his sterling common sense and infinite good humor a ill always secure for him success friends NO.

I. Enterprise Plantation, Iberville parish. June 18, 1877. Mr. Dn'l Dennett, Agricultural Xditor New Orleans Picayune: The share system of working plantations was first brought about by necessity.

The almost universal ruin brought on men who owned sugar plantations by our late war, caused a great many of us who had been impoverished by that terrible visitation of God, to look around us for some means whereby we might again put our plantations in some kind of order. Even during the war some few adopted the share system, but it was only after having lost 3500 on one small crop, bv hiring the freedmen the first year after the war in paying them wages, that I knew we moat have a change. I remembered to have heard from an Italian who was in my employ that in his country they navigated their crafts on shares. The profits were divided into three parts, one of which paid the hire of the laborers, one to keep the craft in repair, and the other was for the owner of the boat. Having no other means to carry on the plantation, and being subject tooverllow every year, I determined to adopt the system of the Italians, and have never found any reason to regret it.

All on the plantation ran the same risk. All profited by the good crops and high prices. The same laborers that are here now have been here for years they have all the comforts of a home and desire no change. I have no need of an overseer, as the laborer. working on shares, vie with each other to see who can make the most.

M. Schlatre. THE NEW BUREAU OK IMMIGRATION. The new Louisiana Immigration Bureau is at work, and have made considerable headway since Monday last. The Board started without a dollar in the Treasury, but the liberality of some of our citizens, to whom the members have applied for subscriptions, have enabled them to put some money in bank, and to contract for a cheap map of the State for gratuitous circulation, and pamphlets containing such facts as inquirers usually call for in relation to lands, etc.

Before the first of July, and that is not far off, they will make considerable progress in the right direction. GOVERNMENT LANDS. A correspondent asks for information about cheap Government lands in Louisiana. The new Board of Education will soon work that question up, and will give the laws and information in pamphlet form for the benefit of inquirers. THE WILLIAMS BRIDGE SCHOOL.

Will our friends at Williams Bridge inform us what progress they are making in establishing iheir Bchool with an agricultural department We hope they will be vigilant and persistent in their enterprise. They should know no such word as fail in an enterprise of such vital importance to their children. here there is a will there is a way. COUNTRY JOURNALS AND IMMIGRATION. Will the country journals of this State please assist the Immigration Bureau in its efforts to stir up the land holders and people of the State to attract population in this direction? The journals of the State will do much good by publishing the articles and advertisements of the Board.

Stir np the police jurors and citizens. Have each of yeur parishes written up for the benefit of immigrants. Send descriptions of lands for sale to the office of the Immigration Borean, No. 8 Commercial Place, New Orleans. Send funds to help pay for' pamphlets and maps.

We have been told for years that as soon as we could get rid of the carpetbaggers, and secure a Democratic State Government, we could take hold of immigration, railroads, etc. We now have the Democratic Government, but how many have taken hold to do anything for the State. Plenty of our people are anxious to serve the State, but it is in a salaried office and a shady place. THE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION. We called on the Superintendent of Education a few days since, Robert M.

Lusher, Esq. His office is neatly and tastefully fitted up at the State-House, and he is at work with apostolic zeal in the good cause of education. He has had a thorny path to travel, but he has made the trip, and is doing a good work for the children and youth of Louisiana. ALL SORTS. Nails whose points have been dipped in grease can be driven easily into hard wood, which would otherwise bend or break.

Strauberries in Neio York. The New York Times, of June 1, says The quantity of strawberries sold in the markets of this city yesterday was the largest ever known. Upwards of 750,000 quarts were shipped to the markets, and all were disposed of. Thirty thousand quarts came from Charleston, S. while the steamer from Norfolk brought the enormous quantity of 300,000 quarts; 75,000 quarts of this shipment came from one grower, a former resident of Orange county in this State.

He has on his farm upward of 200 acres in strawberries, and gives employment to 1000 pickers. The freight bill for yesterday's shipment was over 81000, and the profit from the sale of the fruit will be about $.5000. About 300,000 quarts came from Delaware and Maryland, and a large quantity from New Jersey, and some bmall shipments were made from points along the Hudson. The prices realized on the fruit were from 5 to 12 cents per quart. President White, of Cornell University, admits that the lady pupils average ten per cent, better on the examination papers than the young men.

An old Scotch woman recommended a preacher who arrived at the kirk wet through, to get at once into the pulpit: rail be dry enough there." A doctor recently gave the following prescription to a sick lady: "A new bonnet, a cashmere shawl and a silk The lady, it is needless to say, entirely recovered. It is very difficult to live," said a widow with seven girls, all in genteel poverty. You must husband your resources." said a sage friend. I'd rather husband some of my daughters." answered the widow. FACTS AKD FANCIES.

THE SEEDSMAN. How doth the busy nurseryman Improve each shining hour. And peddle ciona, sprouts and seeds Of evei shrub and flower. How busily he wags his chin. How neat ho spreads his store.

And sells us things that never grew, And won't grow any more. who showed the little man the way To sell the women seed i "Who taught him how to blow and lie, And coax and beg and plead i He taught himself, the nurseryman, And when his day is done. e'll plant him where the lank, rank weeds Will nutter In the sun. Bnt oh although we plant him deep Beneath the buttercup, He's so much like the seed he sells. He never will come up.

Burlington Hawkeye. THE CHUFA. A correspondent of the Florida Agri culturist writes as follows about the cLufas: Lasts wring I procured one peck of chufas and planted them, one in a hill, every eighteen inches apart, and rows three feet apart, requiring about one acre of ground. The ground ordinary, unfertilized pine land, that bad been cleared about one year. Notwithstanding the very dry.

year, the chufas made about two-thirds of a crop, and eight head of grown hogs, good frames, but not fat, were turned into the inclosure. and became very fat in about 6ix weeks. We also gathered about one bushel for seed, and the patch is amply peeded for next eeason, and one dozen fresh hogs next fall. The meat and lard from the hogs was very sweet and palatable, and saved without the loss of a pound. With regard to getting rid of the chufa.

some five years ago I planted a quart for seed, and our yard fowls, having access to them, scratched up and ate every one. COLD IN THE HEAD. At last a cure is found for cold in the head. Dr. Poillon, a French 'physician, says it can be cured by inhaling hartshorn.

The inhalation bv the nose should be seven or eight times in five minutes. REMEDY FOR BURNS. An exchange says that by laying a piece of charcoal on a burn the pain will immediately subside. By leaving it on one hour the wound is healed, as has Iteen demonstrated on several occasions. It will not cost much to try it.

A HEALTH-rRODUCING VEGETABLE. The acid of the tomato stimulates the liver to work off the surplus bile of summer. It is a nutritious article of diet, and can be prepared in so many different ways that it never becomes monotonous to the palate, or never need to be so, if proper care and ingenuity are exercised. RELIEF FOR A TROUBLESOME COUGH. Gargling the throat with tepid water will often afford relief from a troublesome cough.

The ordinary cough mixtures troches, lozenges and other nostrums when injudiciously used, load the stomach and seriously interfere with digestion, thus indirectly increasing the evil which they were designed to cure. SALT AS A TOOTH POWDER. If, while examining under the niiccro-6cope, a drop of water containing infusoria, you introduce a grain of salt, the effect seen will be the instantaneous death of the creatures. The knowledge of this property of salt may be turned to Recount in several ways among the rest, it suggests an excellent tooth powder. If it be true, as asserted, that the matter which is formed on the teeth is the receptacle of animaicalas and that these are the real agents in produoing carious teeth, dip a moistened brush in common salt, and yon have at once the cheapest and most preservative of tooth powders.

Exohange Paper. A little fellow who wore striped stockings was asked why he made barber-poles of his Pegs. His pert reply was, Well, ain't I a little Bhaver Cookies. Two cupfuls sugar, one cup-f ul butter, one cupful sweet milk, one teaepoonful soda, two teaspoonfuls cream tartar, flour to roll rub butter and sugar in the dry flour, as if for pie crust, and then wet np. Skk Headache.

Two teaspoonfuls of finely powdered charooal drank in half a tumbler of water will often give relief from sick headache when caused, as in most cases it is, by a superabundance of acid in the stomach. It is very agreeable. Moths. A small piece of paper or linen moistened with spirits of turpentine and put into a bureau or wardrobe for a single day, two or three times, is said to be a sufficient preventative against moths. Frifd Cakes.

One- cupful sour milk, two-thirds cupful sugar, five tables poon-fuls melted lard, one teaspoonful soda dissolved in the milk flavor with nutmeg fry in hot lard when cold sift powdered susar on them. It only costs twelve cents per bushel to ship wheat from San Francisco to Liverpool, ten thousand miles. This is aoont the rate we have to pay for sending freight from this city out into the country ten or twenty miles by railroad but there is no opposition here, and that makes the difference. Country Gentleman. The Los Angeles Herald estimates that, at the present rate of increase, in four years three countries in Southern California will produce annually pounds of honey, valued at No calculation is made in the above estimate for losses by drouth or diseases, which are likely to occur at any time.

A Good Liniment. One of the very best liniments that was ever made for man or beast, is composed of equal parts of laudnum, alcohol and oil of wormwood. 2Tevralgia. It is said that the juice of one lemon a day, taken in water, will cure the most obstinate case of neuralgia. No sugar ihould be taken, as it has a tendency to counteract the effects of the lemon juice.

Caution often averts danger. An uptown man, who feared burglars in the house the other night, woke up his wife and sent her down stairs for a drink of water, and then crawled under the bed and wasn't injured in the least. Mats. Worsted mats can be washed without fading by using salt in the water. Ink Spots.

Cyannide of potassium will remove indelible ink marks. It is a deadly poison. Apply to a druggist as to the method of using it. A husband, finding a piece broken ont of his plate, and another out of his saucer, petulantly exclaimed to his wife "My dear, it seems to me that every tiling belonging to you is broken." Well, yes," responded the wife; even you seem to be little cracked." Sitnple and Perfect Cure for a Hum. Take essence of peppermint and whisky, in proportion of one part peppermint and three of spirits, and apply with cloths, and it gives perfect relief instantly.

Peppermint and sweot oil is equally good, put on with cotton. This should be always at hand, whenever there is danger irom such accidents, as it acts like a perfect charm, and does not fail to relieve. Parties desiring a delightful place to rent at Biloxi will do well to see card in lent column Call on Dr. J. II.

Maloney, Josephine street, corner of Camp, for the best and cheapest dental work in the city. All operations without pain. The ladies of the Canadian prairie city of Winnipeg have begun a whisky crusade against the saloons. Temperance is attracting much attention, showing itself in local option laws, societies, crusades and restrictions upon liquor production; but with all these cliorts the consumption is enormous, and undoubtedly the reason is because there is nothing strenuously advocated to relieve and destroy the craving for stimulants. But if the disease was treated rationally, by arousing the torpid liver with Simmons's Liver Regulator, the dispirited drunkard would find his cravings eoon dissipated, and with cleared head and active liver, he would not want liquor.

We don't care a straw what Shaks-pere says: "arose by any other name would not smell as wheat." Make an oat of this. Korristoxcn Herald. A correspondent says that at Lord Derby's last reception there were ladies present carrying jewels to the value of $150,000 on their heads. SCHOOL BOARD. An Inpartant Meetlnc, Which Brsaglit In tne Colr Line Anwi Other TUbci.

A called meeting of the School Board was held last night, Mr. Semmes ia the chair. Mr. Semmes stated that the meeting had been called qx the purpose of considering the report of the special committee appointed at the last regular meeting. A rifle requiring nay rolls to be signed by the President of the Board was adopted.

The visiting committee of the Fifth and Seventh Districts was increased to two members. The rules as reported by the Commit- tee on Kules were adopted. The report of the select or special committee was then called for. and was presented by Mr. Archibald Mitchell, chairman.

It was as follows Your committee, who, under a resolution adopted at the last meeting of the Board of Directors, were entrusted with important duties in regard to the discipline, expenses and general efficiency of the public schools, beg leave to offer the following report Personal observation and nniversal testimony concur to establish the fact that public education has greatly deteriorated since colored and white children were admitted indiscriminately into the same schools. It is not the province of tbis committee to investigate the cause which prevents the different races from receiving all the advantages of a public education under those circumstances, nor is it for ns to say whether the objection to -daily social intercourse in our schools which exists between the races is a prejudice or an instinct, but we recognize the fact, and that it has to a very considerable extent impaired the efficiency of our publio schools, which it is the primary duty of this board to promote. THE EVILS WHICH HAVE ARISEN from the ill-advised action of our predecessors in forcing the children of both races into the same schools are threefold. 1. From many of the schools the turbulent spirit of the white boys has partially and in some cases entirely excluded colored children, and of course from all the benefits of pnblio education.

2. A large number of the children of that class to which is most benefited by public education have been practically excluded from its advantages, in consequence of a -repugnance on the part of their parents to permit their children to mingle socially with another race. 3. The greatest drawback upon the efficiency of those of our public 'schools in which the two races are mingled, arises from the impossibility of maintaining discipline without exercising a degree of severity that would destroy or greatly impair their utility. Good discipline, manifested by subordination, obedience and good order, your committee regard so absolutely essential to the efficacy of any system of education; bnt discipline must be maintained without severity, else order is purchased at too high a price.

With undue severity school becomes a hateful prison, and study repulsive from association. Proper discipline can only be maintained by a wise and kind firmness. The constant antagonism exhibited in quarrels, bickerings, and dissensions between pnpils of the different races, both inside and outside of the schools, that ostracism attended with humiliation whioh one race inflicts upon the other, and which cannot be remedied by the best of teachers, convince yonr committee that the education of both races would be greatly promoted by conducting it in separate schools. WE RECOMMEND THIS COURSE with less reluctance as we are assured that at least nine-tenths of both races warmly approve it. Your committees, therefore, unhesitatingly recommend separate schools for the two races, in which each shall receive precisely the same opportunities of obtaining an equal education.

Besides the foregoing reasons, which your committee deem ample to warrant them in recommending that white and colored children be educated apart from each other, they are conlirmed in their belief of the wise policy of this plan by the examples of the great cities of New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati whose school reports are before ns in which it appears that separate schools for the two races form a part of their frystem of public education. Your committee, in dismissing this subject, would remark that if feelings exist which improperly alienate the two races, reasoning as well as all historical evidence have clearly proven that laws or coercive force of aDy kind, instead of eradicating them, will on the contrary strengthen and perpetuate sentiments which, if not founded on reason, would gradually fade away and be forgotten. Besides the question of separate schools for the two races, your committee haye the equal important duty of submitting their views in regard to the means by which our educational system may be fnciently conducted, so that our expenditures shall not exceed our income from all sources. In approaching this part of our subject, we think it is proper to advert to tho difficulties that lie in the way of this board conferring an education on the publio commensurate to that Which was given some years ago. WE HAVE NOW TO EDUCATE at least thirty per cent, more children than formerly, with the additional disadvantage of drawing the revenues which support the schools from property of much less than half its former value.

Our system of education was established when we were wealthy; reason and experience both prove that it is impossible to continue it on the same scale in our present impoverished condition. Bid government, manifested by exhorbitant taxation, has so impoverished the people and depreciated the value of property that it is, perhaps, impossible to devote a sufficient amount to defray the ex-henses of public education on it3 former Fcale without touching upon funds indispensable to the proper administration of public affairs. With the intention of defraying the increased expenses of education, legislatures and municipal governments may impose heavier taxes upon a depleted people, but the result would probably be hat the amounts eventually collected would be actually diminished, iu consequence of the effect of the tax in diminishing tho value of the property taxed. In entering upon their duties, this board fully appreciated the difficulties of their position. They resolved that cash payments should be made; and let Ihe appropriations of the city and State be what they might, their disbursements fchouhl not exceed their revenues, whilst the efficiency of te schools Bbould be kept up to their former standard as nearly as the means at their disposal would permit.

TO INCREASE THE EMBARRASSMENTS of the present board, their predecessDrs expended during the three first months of the year whilst they had control of the schools about S50.CO0 in excess of the estimated revenues of the schools. In addition to this lepacv of woe it. has since been ascertained that, in consequence of years of neglect, school houses, furniture, have become bo depleted that at least 30,000 would be Tequired to put them in passable order. With tbis statement we will now consider our expenditures in detail and the probable revenues we have to meet them. On the threshold of this subject we are met by the most perplexing difficulties in regard to the revenues we will eventually receive fromf the city and State.

An act of the Legislature this season fixed the city tax to defray the expense of public education at two mills on the dollar. After the ordinary deduction for new collections, tbis would yield a revenue of less than $100,000 per annum. Tbis amount be in deemed insufficient, nnnr, nt.it.inn 41i Ar1sln4nha view of increasing the revenues of tne publio schools, amended its act so that the. city should appropriate a definite Bum for the support of publio education not exceeding $275,000. The Council, in making np their budget of expenses, fixed this amount at $225,000 per annum; after deducting ten per cent, for non-colleotions.

We considered this a positive amount which we could rely upon and as subject to bo abatement; but in the City Hall we have been informed tbat in consequence of the inability of the people to pay their taxes it was quite probable that the amount to support the public schools appropriated by the city would not exceed $200,000. SINCE THIS INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED, a large savin has been made to the city by the adoption of the contract system in view of which, we feel justified in fixing the amount that will probably be received this season at $210,000. In regard to the amount received from the State, we are in the same perplexity. From the best authority it is more than probable that it will not exceed $10,000 per annum. We will therefore assume that a yearly revenue from all sources will be about $260,000, which, with the light now before us, is, we believe, in excess of the amounts that will be at our disposal.

After reducing salaries of teachers and other expenses 40 per our expenditures are about $2400 per month, or, in a session of ten months, $240,000 per annum. But our future disbursements mu6t include the expense of separate high schools for colored children, as it is our duty to provide an equal education for all. Our three high schools at present cost about 24,000 per annum. Two high schools for the colored pupils, one for each sex, could probably be run for $14,000 per annum. An additional expense of about $4000 would have to be incurred for the first year, to provide furniture, maps, books and, scientific apparatus.

An expenditure for the year 1877, for a session of ten months, will then be as follows Expended our predecessors for the monUs Of January, February ami March $120,000 Expenseo for the remainder of the year, sevsn months at $24,000 per month 168,000 Kstimated repaii 8 on school bouses, furniture etc 50.000 Cost of fitting up two high schools for colored pnpils 4,000 Cost of running two high schooln for the four la.it months 5,600 Total i347 OOO Revenue 250,000 Deficit for 1877... $97,000 In subsequent years, at this rate of expenditure, the current expenses of the schools would be as follows For ten months at $24,000 per month. New colored high schools Annual repairs on school-houses, about 10,000 Total It will be observed that this amount greatly exceeds our revenue from all sources. Under these circumstances it seems to us that the only means of keeping onr expenditures within onr income, without materially impairing the efficiency of the public schools, will be to abolish the high schools no other alternative presents itself to us, and therefore we suggest it to your honorable body. Our disbursements for the year 1877 will then be as follows, with a vacation of four months.

For the months of January, February anil March $120,000 For April, May and June, at $24,000 per month 72,000 For November and December, (without bighachoolo) 44,000 Rent lor the four months of 5,000 Repairs on school houses 6,000 Salaries ioi tresses, etc 4,000 Total $250,000 F.M'KXSK FOR 1878. Ten montba, at $22,000 per month, (no high schools) 220.000 Repairs on school houses 30,000 Total $250,000 In subsequent years, except, perhaps, 1S'i9. the yearly cost of repairs on school-bouses, renewal of maps, furniture, will not probably exceed $12,000 per annum, so with a revenue of $259,000 per annum the schools can be conducted with some degree of efficiency, if the high schools form no part of our educational system. Your committee are fully aware that the discontinuance of the high schools will be generally regarded with disfavor, but whilst recommending the measure as a financial necessity alone, we do not deem it improper to state that we do not regard our high schools as indispensably requisite to an efficient system of public education, and are inclined to believe that teaching advanced studies at the public expense is an abuse of our educatienal system. And if public education is to promote well-being of society by the education of the poor, the injury inflicted upon the community by the discontinuance of the high schools will be insignificant compared with their expense, and as we have reason to believe that the greater part of the pupils of the high schools were not the children of the poor, but those who could afford to educate them, had advanced education been desired.

archibald mrtcitell, Joseph Collins, Kobt. H. Bradley. Mr. Martinet asked that action on the report be postponed.

Rev. Mr. Gutheim moved that the mat-' ter be laid over until the next meeting. Mr. L.

Coleman thought that the State would not allow the abolition of the schools simply for the sake of a few dollars, and he seconded the motion. Mr. Martinet urged a lengthy delay. He objected to a change in the schools for he mere purpose of separation of color. He did not propose to continue the mixing, bnt he thought the schools thould remain as hey now are.

After some further discussion on the question of postponement, the matter as postponed until the 3d of Jaly, to which day the board adjourned. The Courts. United States Circuit Court. In the case of Rosalie Maenhaut vs. city of New Orleans, it was ordered thac $3000 be allowed Judge Collins for his services in the case.

A nolle prosequi was entered in the rase of the United States against Robert Desposito. Judgment in favor S. M. Todd and Adolpb Scbrieber, trustees, for $3130 61, was rendered in the case of Myra Clark Gaines vs. city of New Orleans.

In the same case the motion for a new trial, made by P. F. Henry, was overruled. In the case of Joseph D. Wolf et als.

vs. Wm. G. Coyle, judgment was rendered for plaintiffs for $4746. Judgment pro vonftiso was rendered in favor of Myra Clark Gaines against Widow B.

Durocher, Julia Dumont, Victor Demoruille, R. Devoe. Nicholas D'Armas, Pierre Lanaberre. Widow W. Zanrens, Widow Raymond Losel, J.

P. Morean. Bartholomew Masero, Margaret McLaughlin, L. J. Jhi.

Maco, Dufilho. La-fitte agents McDonogh school fund T. B. Muelke, Adele Mougin, Mrs. J.

I. Mainsont. John Mnller. In the case of Myra Clark' Gaines vs. P.

F. Awgetty et judgment pro con-fesso was taken against John Bonn van, Joseph Bompcrt. E. G. Douvillier, Gonzalles, John P.

Grandam, Jean Tub-lier, J. A. Launville, J. A. Douvillier, Mrs.

C. Carty. Jean Marie Journe, Wrfow Alex. Lanning, Alice Lacroix, S. Lacroix, J.

A. Launville. John Mc-Ginnis. Ieaac Magtiado, D. B.

McCarty, l.ouis Moore, Joseph M. Moore, Josehh Beers, Mrs. C. Bourgean. Marcliu" K.

Pecora. Mrs. E. Pigeon, Henry F. Paul and wife Joseph Swanero, W.

R. Slew-art, Widow J. Tought and Jean Tru-deau. Second Cbtfri and Franoes Clarke! Third District Court John Mathews, Jr yaJ warrant IorinA to parish. 1 1.1 3 r.

rreaencK Wintx. abeges that C. E. Girartley ret tU possession $120 of the rooXhu eale of certain nronArtv le1 of Tie paiB jrcot of State taxes, and vZiZVMniZ uvo iucd, juju prays for -'A tion restraining him (GiraxderiL1'1 ing the money to the Stwitlvi ing Auditor Jnmel and TreaaL clet from receiving it. Superior Criminal Court ttr diet of gidliy7 reaaetd.

The case of the State vs. Ja, ger. charged with sUbbmi Smith at the Poland StW ftt iirec1 trip jm 'bii obd' with State UT porti otbei oP mad jnuc' tbel Phil Lou tob 'its! "nica tod bay 3ref obw wit seq' iste tat eeri tbii Una ne ern dip the 16U wo an the ha. an the vai pre fax 1 brl an -s pri OU am sai tb V-T6 DDI i ha dc sh 5i' Hi la intent to murder, in April lasT TrV'U ip and submitted to the 10 o'clock, was locked us The case of the State vs! wl a police officer, under thread 5-false imprisonment, perjurr an: and battel was called. tV failed to appear when called him within one hour.

He finVniT1115) appearance, but "owing to tk. a of hin ittnrn th. a ka ied until Monday next that Woods was the officer detifc Ward, and in October last ba a2SU voter for insisting upon the rishtV gister. Mr. Gourdam.

aa old rit.v! terfered in his behalf, sod w2 fe? arrested and incarcerated, WT! prosecution. Butls county, has had 58 hL. since the war. The Providence Journal Uudtoth prevalence of glanders amoni that city as frightful. Mnei Meteorological Record, USE Cairo, ill mclnnati Davenpoit, la Lnbuque.

Iowa Gitlveston Imllanola Keokuk, Iowa Lacrosse, Wis P. H. 79 75 7a 75 90 89 79 77 1 Pittaborp Shreveport St. Paul. Mlna' YanktolTOlrS jwnsta, a Louisville 74 Key 5 H2 Nashville 77 New Orleans 90 1 Savannah Nelpon Gobom.

aergt si bctt. nTi." Mew Orleans, June 22, 1877, 6:40 P.1L Temperature. JUSK 22, 1877. C. DuhameL Optician, ill cualstnei 6a.m 12 88 si 3 P.

91 33 P. 85 A. B. Oriswold United State Standard Tim nana June 22J1877. 6 A.

77 1 3 P. 2 OB I r. Arrivals at the Principal Eottk CITY HOTJRZk Miss A Butler asd errant, Into West Feliciana. Pleraon, an I Jack and son, Natchltoehea, and child. Red River, Mltchel, cttf, Ou I Murrell.

Jr. Va. Prank Polk. Mlav UtSn ei (X a Bl a -a i i i and wife, Mcblle, John F. Burnett, Texai, il cOonald, New Albany, MoUr, citr Boyd, Wm Griffith, San Aatonlo, A sett, nz jouu, immmoni, gammon, Needbam.

Hovev. Chioaxo. Betaa Bocbeeter, WPlcKeriog, and family, A Campbell aid (amtly. Km MrsTruenart and family. Galveston.

Saaoa Jones and wife, Bevaa, La, LaaoMUr, 0 cinnati. Co wart. MLbs. Mis DaratU. 8t Mary, Blaylook, Gltn Wright, Tti nai jure una maa cuiia, uaivesioa.

-ST. JAMES Thos Grayron. Mia, Walter, titK uoore. ratreceonvuie, vaeei aw Heoert, cointe uoupee, waiter, rtuui Breath, Miss, Turner, St Bcmfil Broid, 8 Oast Surrey, HtllenMrt wife. Miss, Francisco de Mat Kiea, Kuh Maza, Campica, Antonla Granee, a Tnta Vera Ci uz, lirUM Hitman and BonaGraik; a Mein, Mass.

FIRE PROOF OIL' Under the above named'trade nark. KS PROOF OIL, the undersigned offet locals illuminating oil. water white In color, tub" unpleasant odor or smoke and that tom great brilliancy In any kind of a coal oil la These qualities, combined with tut at SAFETY, net found to a greater extent In any oil ptoiM" from Petroleum, enable the Fire Proof tt servedly classed as a PERFECT LAMP FLUID, In i comparison with ordinary coal oil, ntity of the Fire Proof, burns for onantitv lnrirai-iini id wTiIIa an UlnmiliafOC, be considered an article of luxury, tt will, out doubt, prove in its nee, one of TRUE COXOMT. Tn a.nnr1aTA with the oil inmeetM passed at the last session of our Btato Hire, and now In oneration. all tho pr0dMB)j Petroleum intended for fllnitilnatlng porff within lha RtttA if 1 nnittiana.

mult before Sf Cflta. nrtAfTvn nn fnanectinll DV th0 Inspector; Coal Oils, an official, duly appointed under tteUS by the State Board or Heaiin, ana ducte as upon careful examination, tMbV temperature less than 125 decrees FahtoBl are denominated "explosive and 6ngenj and these words are by the Inpeotor.pl upon the packages containinf tho arttoM designated. On inspection, in conformity wnn law, the Hashing point of the FIRE PROOF OIL a oortnlnail tn l.o 1 Af AcvTrf degrees in excess of the test named la to atd the igiition point above 17 degreoi renheit. Lji4 As is well known, the legal test United States Government for ic Mine; petro'eum is, flashing pol degrees. Ignition point 110 oegrees In view of the foregoing facts, tingly recommend the use of the FIRE PROOF OIL to all desirous of obtaining an iUamtoatftr.

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