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DIocESE OF Ne• ORLZAs.-Ordinuaionis.-On Saturday, June 28th in the chapel attachedto St. Mary-Jefferson College, St. James' Par-iab, His Grace the Most Rev. Archbishlbop ofNew Orleans, conferred the Order of But-Deacon on Mr. Al. Claffey and the Holy Or-der of Priesthood on Messrs. Patrick Blake andMichael McG;ath. These gentlemen all be-long to the Marist Order.

On the 1st inst, is aGrace returned to theCity and, omficiating pontifically at the Cathe-dral, conferred on the gentlemen named Ordersas follows :

Tonsaue.-Peter Pensier, John Chabrioer, Se-bastian a'oyrouselle, Michael Blatteror, Pat-rick R. Glendon, Michael Coughlan, ThomasGolden and Joseph LeBreton.

MinHor Orders.-Peter Pensier, John Char-brier, John Mary Geffroy, John Baptist Andre,S. Peyrousselle, Augustin Jobart, M. Blatter-er, P. R. GOloendon and M. Coughlan.

Sob-Deacon.-Wm. Viollier, P. Pensier, J.Chabrier, J. M. Geffroy, J. B. Andro and S.Peyronaselle.

Deacon.-Blaiso Branche, Prosper J. Laporte,Peter V. Brudard, Eugene .Fraering, and Jo-seph Jaxel.

DIocsa orr NEW OltLEANS.-CO, irnhef;,iur -

On Sunday, June 22, the most Rev. Archbishopconfirmed twenty-two persons in the churchof St. Cecella (Jesuits' Bend, Plaquemines)-on Tuesday, 24, fifteen pupils at St. Mary (Jef-ferson College, St. James,-on Thursday 26,nineteen at the Convent of the Sacred Heartla the same parish, and on Sunday 29, thirty-two in the neighboring church of St. Michael.

Iu the afternoon Ilsa Grace crossed over tothe church of St. James, where he confirmedone hundred and seventy-two persons, most ofwhom were adultsrwho since the close of thewar had been estranged from the Church.

On Friday, July 4th, Ils Grace confirmedeleven boys, eight white and three black, atthe House of Refuge, Metairle Ridge. Thoseboys were instructed for the reception of thisSacrament by one of the Jesuit Fathers.

Tnu CONCERT Tilts Evxr-rxo.-Oer cityreaders will remtember that this evening, at 7to'clock, there will be a concert at Odd-Fellows'Hall for the benefit of the BIstera of Mercy.The programme, an excellent one by the way,promising a rare musical feast, will be foundon the fifth page of this paper. We have al-ready spoken of the many important works ofcharity in which the Sisters of St. Patrick'sparish are engaged and, consequently, foolingthat all our cltizena appreciate them fully, andhave resolved to aid to their utmost the goodSisters, only mention the concert now by wayof reminder. The gentlemen of the Total Abstineice Associatkn uho were appointed toact as a reception committee, are requested tobe at the Hall at 61 o'clock.

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Tax TOTAL ABSTINENCE ASSOCIATIONS.-

The first anniversary of the organization ofthe first Total Abstinence Association will becelebrated to-day by a general communionof its members, at the Jesuit's Church, at7 o'clock mass. They will be joined by themembers of the S. Joseph, St. Alphonuss andSt. Aloysins (Cadet) Associations, and someof the members of the 8ooiety of St. Vincentde Paul. It ia asiacerely to be hoped thatevery member will be present to participate inthis eminently Catholic celebration, and thatthose among the faithful who favor the objectfor which these Associations are formed, wiljalso on that day add their prayers to those ofthe members, for the success of the goodworTk.Notices in our advertising columni announce

the time and place of meeting of the severalAssociations. We are reqllst.td to state tbharbadges for theCadela will be ready for distrib-ution at the chubrch before the mass.

le B•llaeae. has sent a rich and beautifullychasedepespal rin, as a token of his admli-ratios, to the Arn and courageonus Bishop ofZrmea .

general Beauregard's Address.As we have eeasured the action, without

pretending to question the motives ofGeneral Beauregard and his honorable as-sociates, in endorsing the resolutions ofthe Unifteation Movement,-and as we aredetermined to oppose that movement to

the last and to take public stand in rankshostile to the men who-have originated it,those who endorse it without joining itand those who join it without endorsingit,-it is but fair and honorable to publishthe address of the General to the Peopleof Louisiana. That address will be foundin another column. It speaks for itselfand for General Beansegard. We haveformed our opinion of it. Here it is.

That address is argumentative,-ex-planatory and apologetic.

As an argnment-it is very lame.As an explanation it is more lame.As an apology it is most lame.The end of the movement is the moral,

soelal and political salvation of Louisiana.Those gentlemen of the new movementhave come to the conclusion that Louisianais sick unto death morally, socially, mat-erially, politically. They constitute themselves the physicians of the dying patient.They are sure of their own skill and power.They have a patent medicine, which ULadministered in huge doses will revive thethe dying state. Their intentions arecharitable. They themselves are absolute-ly free from this general moral, social andpolitical disease of Tleir own people. Theend they have in view does them honor,-the quick and total care of sick Louisiana.Their prescription is as desperate as thedisease. It is called Unification. To curethis widespread moral and political maladythey wish to bring together all who areaffected by it! "The means to attain thisend," the General argues,-"consist in acandid and frank acknowledgment ofconstitutional and legal facts which nonecan deny and the conformity of or con-duet'' to these facts.

So GeneriilBeauregard and his new-found associates accept all the accomplish-ed facts which pretend to be constitutionaland legal-and endorses these facts by con-forming to them. As a Catholic, GeneralBeauregard cannot do that without deny-

ing an article in the Syllabus of Pius theIX. As a Southern gentleman lie canut

do that save at the cost of Principle. His

argument is, when the state says anythingis legal and constitutional, the General, inspite of his conscience as a Catholic anoin spite of his legitimate tentiments as aSouthern man,-and in spite of his princi-ples as a freeman,-shouts Amen. But notonly he shouts Amen,-but he conformshis conduct to everything that is madelegal and constitutional,-no matter howfalse and wrong and oppressive thesethings may be. ft is false philosophy,-false theology, and false politics. Accord-ing to the General's logic whatever is madeby the state legal and constitutional nomatter how wrong, must be accepted asa rule of condugt for all. That is theargument of despotism and the logic of

Sela'se. Is not wrong legalized in Louisiana,-- moral wrong and political wrong t Isnot oppression constitutionalized in Lou-siana I Has not this ruined Louisiana IBut it is legal and constitutional. There-fore General Beauregard accepts and eOp-forms his conduct to the very facts thhave ruined Louisiana in order that b•may save Louisiana ! The principle OfLouisiana's death he regards as the princi-ple of Louisiana's life ! The General blamesthe people of Louisiana as being them-selves the cause of the bitter hostility ofthe Colored People. We thought thatNorthern adventurers were the cause ofthat. So thought the General once. Hehas changed his opinion. But facts arenot so easyily changed. The Address, as anexplanation of his connection with the newmovement, is creditable, to say the least,to the General's disinterestedness. Heexpects no emolument and desires no offlce. As the New Party has, as yet, nooffice to give, it is the part of a wise mannot to set his desires on any office. If theNew Party should, in the coprse of time,have any emoluments to dispose of wehope that the desire of the General will behonored and that none will be offered tohim. "I surrender no principle,"-he says.We are right glad of that. We hope that it isa mere political play, in which as an actor,on a stage, the General assumes a char-acter for the entertainment of his friendsin order to amuse himself and by personalexamnle illustrate the old adage,-"all theworld's a stage."

"Nor do I separate from any friends"-lie says. True,--but his friends miay sep-arate from him.

When a man of illustrious fame, in orderto defend a step which he has taken, findsit nccessa.y to issue an address which is,at the same time, a long argument,-anexplination and an apology, he must, cer-tainly, somehow, and for some reason bestknown to himself, feel very uncomfortable.Becauseo what is true and right cneeds little

argument,--what is clear and straightfor-ward needs no explanation,-and what ishigh and Ihonorable needs no apology

On the Feast of thi Visitation of the Bli3esssdVirgin, Qd inst., bliss Mary Meyler receivedthe lHabit from Rev. J. B. Daffy, C.8S.R., inthes cbapel of St. Alphousus' Convent of Mercy.

Unillfcation Movement.

Agalnst it we are far from standing alone.Did we, against it, stand alone,, we wouldnone the less openly protest. The trueSouthern Press 'whblch does not barter in-dependence for a bribe, nor sacrifices prin-ciple to polioy, speaks out solidly againstit. They deprecate or they denounce.And the true people of the South shrinkin abhorrence from the resolutions and re-

commendations of the Unification Meeting.

We do notgo one ich beyond these publish-ed resolutions. The intentions and motivesof the men of the movement we care not

to investigate. Those men themselveswe do not wish to malign, such is not ourhabit. Their motives are beyond ourken and criticism. Their intentions maybe the best and most sincere. But men,

motives and intentions apart, we regard

the political movement alone, and in its re-solutions we read the last surrender ofSouthern sentiment, idea and tradition.

At the close of the war General Lee, in

face of overwhelming opposition surrender-

ed-what ? Honor -- No. Manhood t

never--Principlese By no means? Right?

No. Southern ideas ?-never. He simplysurrendered the military forces under his

command. .All the implements of physicalforce which General Lee bad used against

the United States in defence of a cause,which on battle-field had become hopelessof success, he yielded, to General Grant.Muskets, swords, war-torn banners, artil

lery and all the other material appliances

of war he yielded to the enemy. Nothingelse. It was simply a physical surrender.The physical power and policy of resist-ance,-not the principle of resiatance wasgiven up. When Lee's unstained swordwas sheathed the flag of the Great Causewas furled;-and the Rights, the Ideas,the Sentiments and the Traditions of theSouth retired in honor from the field ofbattle,-but, with all their supremacypreserved, re-entered the souls and con-

sciences of the defeated, to hold their mas-

tery there beyond the'reach and range of

Force. At Appomattox Court-House theSouthern sword surrendered to the North-ern sword,-Southern physical weakness

yielded to- -Northern superior strength,-but Southern Idea did not surrender to

Northern Idea. The men that wore theGray gave up their muskets but kepttheir manhood,-flung down their swordsbut guarded still and nobly preservedtheir sentiments,-gave up their arms butkept their souls,-lowered and folded theirbanners but held unsurrendered in theirhearts their traditions;-bent to might,

bui betruayed not one single .right. Afterthe surrender came oppression. We sub-mitted because we could nor resist. Hereand there men began to yield their con-victions. Weary of waiting for bettertimes they began to accept the NorthernIdea. Self-interest triumphed in manyhearts over patriotism. Love of place insome quarters, began to triumph over loveof country. Many fell off from SouthernFaith. Seldom they fell without hearing-w e of indignant rebuke.-Their policywas to better the material, and politicalcondition of their oppressed people bymaking concessions to their enemies. Thoseenemies they did not know. The moreour people gave, the more was exacted.Concession did not better their conditionwhile it strengthened the power and posi-ion of the oppressor.-That oppressorwanted our souls,-our consciences. Hewanted the universal triumph of his politi-cal Idea. By fraud and force he tookpossession of our state Governments. Hearrayed the colored race in bitter hostilityagainst the whites of the South. But theoppressor could not degrade us until hehad followed the Southern Idea, into theSouthern soul and made it surrender,without condition to the Northern Idea.

The test Presidential election came off.The Southern politicians selected as theirStandard-Bearer, Horace Greeley, who, ofall men, represented and advocated theNorthern Idea.-It was a fearful blunder.They gave their votes to Greeley-andwereagain in the political field, conqueredby Grant.-But beaten as we were physi-cally on the battle-plain,-beaten as wewere again politically,-it was not enough.

Our oppressors wanted more. Theywanted and still want to conquer us in the

very sanctuary of conscience; and to forceas to surrender the very last Idea and sen-timent and tradition which makes us a dies

tinct people. This is the last surrenderand thebo lowest degradation. Some of ushave reached it. Eight years ago GeneralLee surrendered his muskets to GeneralGrant. To-day, General Beauregard, in sofar as hie can, surrenders Southern man-hood to Northern Policy.

The Resolutions passed at the Unifica-tion Meeting mean and can mean nothingelse. The RadiabNorthern Idea rulee inthose resolutios. And General Beaure-

gard stands sponsor for that Idea. TheSouth repudiates it. Politicians may advocato it. But the tricks of politicianswill reboundl from tl,, 1ild of Principl-that covers the HIa:' -,' :1.e ,lu)thtrn o-

pie.--

There will be a solemn lh: q'•n.mi Mass for t

repose of the soul of Mrs. G. McCloskey at St.Patrick's Church, on Friday, 11th inst., at 8o'lock. The friends of the family are inritedto attend.

Position of Our Holy Church.As if they knew that their time was

abort Prussia and Italy are vienlg withone another in their furious hurry to sweepaway the divinely-ordained privileges ofthe Catholic Church and the inviolablerights of Catholic consciences. And FreeSwitzerland gives proof of her love ofliberty by trampling under the feet of lawthe liberties of the descendants of the Ca-tholic William Tell.

In France the Radical Republicans aremuttering their curses against altars andthrones and waiting for the day when theymay have another communistic Carnival ofblood. In Spain the freedom-shouters aredoing what they can to dig a grave for Ca-tholicity.-And so the war against theAnointed church continues. When will it

end -- No man knoweth. How will it end tThe lips of Prophecy have told it.-

The Church is never so much like her

divine Founder as when she is suffering.These days she is in one bf her Agonies.

But her prayer is like her Lords: " Not mywill but thine be done." In this countrythe church is singularly free from persecu-tion. Perhaps too free. In her days ofprosperity and in lands where she has notsuffered the fidelity of her children doesnot reach that intensity of her religiousIdea to be found when and where she wearsthe crown of sharpest thorns and bears theheaviest Cross. Mark the effects of her.persecution in Europe on her true children

there. Every week we receive news ofpilgrimages of immense numbers flockingto neglected shrines and in the very sim-plicity of their fearless faith manifestingto an unbelieving world the glory ottheir religion. So much so that

e Italian Government strives to for-bid those peaceful but powerful pilgrim-

ages. The faith of some of her children iswaning,--bt the faith of more is aroused.

In times like ours when the Supernaturalis mocked true Catholic Hearts shouldmanifest their Faith. Times of great suf-'erings are times of great graces. Out of

the darkness of the Crucifixion came thelight of salvation. And the story of Cal-vary is-the History of the Church of theCrucified.

The Governments of men, in our days,-these Vesper-times of the world, have con-spired against tle Church. They wish todestroy her power from the face of theearth. No longer by the sword,-but by

law. But they will fail and fall. Theyrule to-day-they go down to graves to-morrow ;-and the Everlasting churchholds in her ritual the De Profundis ofevery power that ever will oppuose her.-

CiuncluEs OPRN IN bUMMER.--We desire topublish a list of the churches in the city ofNew York which will be kept open during thesummer, together with the hours of service,etc. The clergy will oblige us, and especiallymany country readers who may visit the city,by sending such information to this office.

The above is from the New York ChurchJournal and Gospel Messenger, an organ ofthe Paotestant Episcopal Church. We arehappy to oblige the Editors of that Jour-nal by informing them that every one ofthe Roman Catholic churches in the city ofNew York will be kept open during theentire summer-not merely on Sundays butduring every day of the week. We hope.that he will publish the list of those ever-open churches. And we will return thecompliment by publishing the list of thosechurches which are closed in summer time,if he will be so kind as to send us suchlist.

We can understand the philosophy ofclosing first- class Theatres or Opera-housesduring the hot weather. But we cannotunderstand the theology of closing Chris-tian churches in like manner-unless, in-deed, those churches are ruled by likefashion. 0 The Roman Cathd religiontakes no vacation. The God of the Cath-olic is God in summer as well as in winter.And his temples are open in all seasons,-in fashionAble as well as in unfashionablehours. We cannot understand that minis-try which, every summer, takes baggage,bible, band-box and baby, and hurries offto some fashionable watering place leavingits flack at the mercy of any stray shep-herd who may come along.

Truly that is a religion of physical com-fort which closes its churches and aban•,on•its ministrations--just because the daysare too hot,-but it does not look like thereligion of the Cross.

In the London Lancet, we find the fol-lowing very clear statement of the illnessof Pius the 9th :

Cerebro-spinal exhaustion, the result of alife-long liability to epileptoid seizures, ismanifest; while the paroxysms of coughing,due to subacute bronchitis, suffice of them-selves to induce the congestion which bringson one of those seizures. Locomotor ataxy isalso indicated; indeed, the medical prognosiswould be grave, even if hia Holiness were nota much-tried ootogenarian.

We reckon so!

Rev. F. Gautherin, 8. M., left here on the26 nlt., for Lyons, France, where his parentsreside. The arduous labors of this good priestduring the many years he has been stationedin Algiers, have so much impaired his health,that the Rev. Father Belle was obliged to ac-company him in the voyage. Father Sellewillonly be absent about eight weeks, alto-gether,during which time the Rev. FatherH-ellseger, pastor, will be assisted by FitherFloury of Texas.

The reason for the existence of the greatnumber of mntton-heads is that so many cbhtl-dien are ' perfect little lambs."

Prince Bismarek has promised ProfssmorVon 8obalte that the eplsbopaL e of the OldCatholics shall reeive an apportionment fromthe Government budget for public worship.The " Old Catholies, n who compose the

New Sect lately arisen in Germany, havecome to the eoneluslon that they connotget along much longer without a Bishop,-and of course the Bishop cannot get alongwithout money :-and Bismarck, who ispersecuting the Mother-Church of whom

these Old Catholics are the faithless chil-dren, steps forward and promises that theBishop of the New Sect shall not die ofstarvation. He will be fed from the tableof the Govrernment,-and of course afterenjoying such hospitality he will be a fastfriend of the host who so generously enter-tains him.-

It has been the story of Heresy always.It is the Pet of the unchristian State. Whowill wear the mitre for those Old Catholicswe do not yetknow. But before the firstmitre is worn out,-the new sect will beginto change,-and Prussia may follow theexample of England ;-first an Episcopatebacked by the State power. But someGerman John Wesley will arise and preachagainaf. the mitre and found a GernmanMethodist Church.-We shall see.-

St. Mary's Dominican Academy, DryadesStreet.

ANNUAL COMMENCEMrNT.

A "laboratory of light" and a centre of wo-manly graces and virtues, at once and indis-putably is the school presided over by the 81a-ter of Charity or the Nun-that other virginvowed to a life of chastity, poverty and obe-dience. The Dominican Nuns have reared inour midst two such institutions whose irradia-tion has reached the remotest sections of thisand adjoining States, dispelling the interve-ning shades and eliminating extraneous ele-ments.

In connection with their Academy on Dry-ades street, the Nuns have established a selectschool for small boys under the invocation ofSt. Stanislans. The examination of thesechildren constituted an agreeable preliminaryto the regular commencement exercises, on theevening of the 26th ult.

Among those who specially signalized them-selves, we note the names of Masters Wheels-han, Johnson, Ratelle, Riely, McGrath, Foley,Pleasants, McCormack and Macoo.

The young lady pupils were very numerous,very orderly, and looked very beautiful, at-tired in their robes of state.

Among the visitors crowding the hall, wenoticed several teachers from other institu-tions in the city.

It was found that the examination of thedifferent classes as set forth in the programmewould have protracted the entertainment to aninconvenient length; hence the omission ofsome of the studies enumerated.

The lessons brought forward, however, tolddistinctly in every particular of a masteryover the rest no less comprehensive in its graspthan that with which these were taken up andelucidated. -

We regret that our space will not admit ofdetails.

The music was left this year entirely to theexecution of pupils taught outside the conventwalls.

The accompanying songs were finely chant-ed.

The plays were short, pretty and deftly han-dled. Feelings found expression in plauditsand bouquets.

We take pleasure in naming the young la-dies who won histrionic distinctions, thoughwe are obliged to omit a reference to the partsin which they appeared: Misses Corine Mc-Grath, M. E. McGrath, Warren, Hayes, Thieze,Sisa, McShane, McManus, Ryan, Johnson,Gogarty, Rourke, O'Meagher, French, Connor,McEnany, Conway, Marlboro, Doyle, Vetter,Corkery, Byrne, Flood, Maroche and Barrett;and the Misses Ogden, Campbell, Ward andWaldo.

The distribution of premiums, always an in-teresting affair, told by way of negationwhether any young lady had been found inaught remiss during the session.

The crown contended for in the Senior De-partment was won by Miss B. Connors ; andthat in the Junior Department by Miss M" Mc-Enany.

In the Senior Department a Silver Medalwas awarded to Miss E. Waldo for excellence;and in the Junior a richly-wrought badge wasborne away by Miss 8. French.

But the principal event of the evening wasthe graduating of Miss Rose DoVries, MissJulia Flood and Miss Emma Doyle. MissDoyle received a gold medal for elouontion.

These, young ladies, like all Dominicancandidates for graduation, underwent pre-viously a thorough examination in the studiesof.several years omitting only the primarycourses. The subject of etudy most not onlybe known but understood; and to obtain adiploma the pupil has to apply herself until itis fairly earned so as to be an ornament insociety, a source of real benefit to herself andpardnta and no discredit to the Dominicanname.

Thus any young lady educated here who hascontended for a prize in the Normal or HighSchool, or at the State Fair, has always beenranked with the foremost and sometimes comeoff with first honors; and thoseof them whohave sought sitatious either in the Public orparochial Schools of our City have obtainedand filled them with distinguished ability.

The following clergymen attended the enter-tainment: Rev. Fathers C. Moynihan, J. Moy-nihan, Jr., Simon, Fann, Heslin, Mandine, Ken-nedy, Clarke and Foote.

The St. Joseph's Brass Band discoursed sweetmusic, and Father C. Moynihan closed the ex-ercises with a spirited address.

The Archbishop of Paris. the Archbishop ofRonen, the Bishop of Orleans and the Bisiiopof Angers, have been selected to form the Sn-perir Concil on the iamportant subject ofpublic education in France.

st. Jopeph's SchooLAgain we make n ueknowledgment to the

Christian Brothers, for a pleasant eveningspent at the last exhibition given by them, inthe Varieties Theat, on Monday, 30th ult. Itis rielly remasbable.-th energy, tot, expe -rience and kindness these men bring to bearupon everything teding to emaeete the hart,mind and soul of children. By tea iliam ingthemselves not only with the eatlines of itl-vidual character, but with the hiddsen a IeeWsof manner, they suceed In gaining a usn-limited mastery over the will and lntellee t oftheir pupils. And this power is alwa ys uedto further the respective interests of COh sehand State. The good thus secured to humali-ty and religion is proportionate. Each mem -her of the Brotherhood earnestly labor a forthe common end; but from the nature of theirappointments, Brothers Thorian and Cad oo,the representatives of the Order In this Gom-munity, are enabled to accomplish the largerportion of the good work. The exhibition inquestion is a proof of our assetion. The ex-ercises were very interesting-the gre. ter partconsisting of declamations and masic. Theyoung boys did very'well, considering theirage and the limited time gives them fo r pre-paration. Judging from the applause andloral gifts bestowed upon Masters drav en•

Rolle, MoQusen and Hagan, they were un-doubtedly the favorites of tle assemblage.The music by the band was very good-the .best being a "Duet from Luoreti, Borgia."The essays were in a style worthy the soholarsof Prof. Mader.

We cannot close this report without remark-ing upon the disorder prevalent during acertain part of the evening. A few youthsof a festive turn insisted upon applauding soloudly and continuously that persons atten.tively engaged were much disturbed. In fact,they carried things to such a pass that theywere requested to leave. They boldly refused,intinaating a resolu'tion to resist any attemptat expulsion. As there were no policemenaround, a fracks must have resulted had theBrothers gone any furth or in their action. Toprevent a public scandal, the nuisanoe wasendured. But we heard Brother Cadoo ex-press his determination to take such means inthe future as will prevent a repetition of asimilar offence. We have no doubt the audieneswas somewhat displeased; still they shouldbear in mind that occurrencos of this natureoften happen without the least neglect uponthe part of the management. They are as.sured that no subsequent exhibition will bemarred by the attendance of youths prone to"boisterous applause."

LETTER FROM VICESBURO.

e VICKSBURG, June 28th, 1873.To the Editor of the Star :

The closing exercises of the Young LadiesAcademy under the supervision of the goodSisters of Mercy, were of a highly interestingcharacter ;. and made the •arge audience tes-tify their marked appreciation of the artisticmusic, sweet sieging, and beautiful deliveryof.Lthe young ladies, with long and earnest ap-plause.

Miss Julia Quinn, read with admirable ef-fect, the salutatory, beautifully and ably writ.ten by herself. Miss H. Davison, her seso-ciate in class, delivered the valedictory, whichwas very touching and charming, andthe ap-plaudits she received were well merited. Her-self and Miss Julia, were awarded gold medalsas graduating honors, while Miss Quinn re-ceived a crown for her amiability, punctuality,and excellence in class. As these young ladieswere the first to receive graduating honorssince the opening of the academy, it renderedthe exhibition strikingly interesting, and alarge concourse of friends and relatives, cameto witness the two young and accomplishedladies bidding adieu to their fond alma maternot to forget, but to remember the sweet andmoral teaching, of those kind and gentle Sis-ters. Miss Wallin, a musical amateur, deservesmany compliments for her artistic performanceon the piano, and for her sweet and bcharmingsinging. For one so young, her musical tal-lents and culture are note-worthy, and shouldbe encouraged. Miss Annie Barobett, Kear-ney and others, likewise performed very beau-tifully, and in facet, everything was nearly perfeot. This worthy academy, under the di'reetkn of those good Sisters, is well attended,and the Christian Brothers, will soon open aschool for boys. So you may rest assured theCatholics of Vicksburg are proud of theirachievements, principally owing to the untir-ing efforts of our good pastor, and the Sisters ofMercy. We are likewise remindful of yourable and sterling journal which brings en-couragement to every Catholic heart in ourlittle city. A READER.

Father Cornelius Moynihan, pastor of St.Peter's church, left the city last Monday eve-ning for the North. He went by way of Mobilewhere he was to have been joined by the VeryRev. Father Pellicer, Vicar-General of the Di-ocese of Mobile. We understand that theRev. gentlemen will be absent till about thefirst of September. They will sneend thegreater part of their well-earned vacation inthe Soate of Michigan, but will visit Canadabefore their return.

Until recently it was supposed thatwater had little motion below Bfsy fathoms.It is now known, however that in certainlocalities there is motion in the water atthe depth of five hundred fathoms, andthis motion has proved a serious source ofinjury to submarine cables.

Dr. Johnson was seldom more.essential-ly Johnsonlan than when, in his life ofMilton, he thus soms up the daties of thefaltlhful schoolmaster :-"To recall vagrantinattention, to stimulate sloggish indifer-ence, and to rectify absurb misapprehen-sion."

The numerical addition to the strengthof the Northern States from immigration,inre the cenusa of 1800, is eetmsitntd at

17 500000; and the value in w,.also at*s,Ouo,00o00,oO.