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Mount Carmel Convent bsing among the most
devoted. P. j. GILBERT.
THlBODACX.

devoted. r. j. GILBERT.
THIBopAUX.
Oct. 5.-Total cases to dste 26l, total deaths
"a. The news from Brulees Choupic, in La
fourche, and Lsbadie in Assumption, is not
encouraging. The fever is spreading rapidly
and victims are dying dsily. The fever has
never. ct any previous tire, visited those de-
voted sections, heuce no ore knows how to
nurse the disease, ard all are liable to fal! be-
meath it's Influence.
Oct $50 new cases, death, child of Gov.
Nichols.
Oct Mayor Grseamore telegraphs: 81
have just learned that the priest of NAPOLEON
Vile Catholic Church, has died. He went to
assist the sick in Pailcourtville, where he was
stricken down and fell q mart tyr to his Chris
tiap devotion.
Oct. o-Total casee 35l total deaths 81 Of
which number 6 were colored. "The fever is
in every part of the parish of Assumption
that there were 10 burisls on Sunday at Platt-
awhile and Painooprtville that there had
been in Napoleouville 35 cases, with deaths.
DR.. Thomas Pugh is out of danger"
MIS- cELLANEoUs.
At Pstsersonvlle, La, to the 55h there were
IS cases and 20 desths. The fever is abatiug
at Calum ct, and has ceased at Lsgouda for the
want of material. IL deaths have occurred at
Ricohoc.
Faincourtril1e, Get -5-The prevailing disease
ia all over the pskis& I'VE have not less than
900 cssas we bavsSin onr little village sixty
cases.
All around Clinton, La, there is great deal
of fever.
In Jackson, Miss, there were so cases and 9
deaths to the 9th.
Meridian. Oct 9-s cases and deaths to day.
Four -fifths of the population are absent. All
stores closed. No trains are running and no
mails.
About 40 sick with fever in Decatur, A'a.
At Lagrange ard Grand Junction, Tenn,
there are a large number CT cases and several
deatbs daily.
During the past week there were about 10
deaths 10 Chattanooga.
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the first. There the number of illiterats per
sons is never more than 10 per cent. Again
many things strike me. Observe then, in the
southeast of France, this fine group of i've de-
partments-the Rhone, Isere, the Hautes Alpes
Haute Savoy, and Savoy. Here Is district
where education has made great progress
Well. two of these departments abound in
prit SITS, and in others, except Annecy, the fall
ing of is light. l say as much of the depart
ment of the Hautes Pyrenees, which alone in
the southwest of France with AveyroD, is tint
ed yellow. Education flourishes there and the
priesthood also In Rodez 10 parish is vacant;
in Tsrbts neither benefce nor vicariate. And,
on the contrary, observe that department. OF
Nievre, til ted red. towards the north; there is
little education there, and also few priests.
(3) come to the third class, that which on
the map is tinted rose The number OF illiterate
persons varies there fiom 10 to % per cent. II
your principle were correct, all the depart
ments tinted rose, being in the same state OF
primary education, ought to be in the same
state with regard to vocations. Nothing of the
kind. Thus Evreux, Besuvais, Orleaus Sois
sons, where there are 30 few priests, are tinted,
in your map, in the came manner as Augers,
Poitiers. LIE Mans, and Laval, where there are
many.
(4) But here is very curious thing. The
map marks black, it covers with ink, the De-
partments where primary education leaves
most to be desired, where there are from 33 to
SO per cent Of illiterats persons. Thank God,
these blots tf ink are disappearing. However,
there are still three on the map. Observe one
OF them, that large blot OF ink which covers
the Departments of Cher, Indre, Allier, Haute
vienne and Dordogne Fine country, is it not,
for the multiplication of vocationsf THE
Minister of State marks them black, the Abbe
Bougaud ought to tint them white" Just the
reverse. These Departments, where there is
80 little primary education, couut among those
W here the dimiuution of vocations makes itself
keenly felt. 1t is the same with that little
blot of ink which on your map is called Ariege.
Little education and, contrary to your princi-
pie, few priests.
1t is true that there is that bit of Brittany
ard those three Departments of Finitt ,re,
Cotes du Nord and Morbihan, which your map
covers with ink, and which, scknowlege,
supply Us with many priett,. Yes, brt there is
on the other side that beaui fIl Department
of the Loire Inferieure, which You tint white,
where education is most sdvanced, and which
gives us still more.
In fine, the argument will not bold. Yon
cannot say that "everywhere where education
makes progress the number of priest dimin
sbes" These are movements which have no
cor nection with each other, aud which are due
to different causes. Your fairness will not suf-
fer IN acknowledging this, aud this it is which
gives me confidence in addressing you this
letter. Receive, Sir. etc,
EN-. BoUGAUD, Vicar General of Orleans.
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TIE SCARCITY OF ECCLESIASTICAL
TOCATIONS IN FRANCE.

Last week we published a translation of q
great portion of the letter of the Bishop OF
Mines to the Able BougRud on the subject
treated in the Ahbe's book entitled Le Grand
Peril de rEgIise de France This book has at
tracted the notice of the Repub1ique Franoaise.
which journal has endeavoured to prove that
the diminution of ecclesiastical vocstions cor
responds to tie progress of primary educa-
ton.
The Able Bougaud replies to this insinua-
ti6n in letter addressed to the Republi4ue
FrGncdise, and published in that paper few
days ago. The Able says:
SRI do not write to complain Of the FIVE
articles which Won have devo ted to my work on
10 Grand Peril de lEglise de France. On the con-
trsry, 1 thank you. You have prolonged what
you have very well entitled my cry cf alarm" !"
and you have caused it to reach places whore,
without your aid, it would not have been
heard. 1 appreciate also, it 10 only just to say,
the generally moderate and grave tone with
which you have conducted this long discus-
sion. And tois it js which gives me confidence
to ask you to rttract statement in which
your good faith has been taken by surprise,
and which, as yon will see, is without founda-
tion.
You cay, in speaking of tie colored map
which 1 have annexed to my work-"When
one casts his eye this map, it is impossible
nc to form in The mind a comparison between
the diminution of ecclesiastical vocstions and
the progress of primary education. Every
where where education makes progress the
lumber of priests dfmi nishes."
Here is the argument which every one en-
hellishes as seems to him best This has given
me the idea of procuring the last map showing
the progress of public Instruction, and to com
pa'e it with the map displaying the dimtnu-
ton of ecclesiastical vocations. have done
so, and have been surprised-ss you, cir, will
be-to find there the exact opposite sf what
you believed to be the truth.
Thus %. On this msp the departments
where primary education is most advanced are
marked tuhite Alas! there are only eight, viz
Doubs, the Jurs, the Vosges, the Me1se,
Meurthe-eE. .Moselle, the HAute hsrne, the
Aube, and the Loire Inferieure. In these de-
pa1 tments the illiterate are at maximum OF
) per cent This is superb; and there is only
an effort ecessAry for them to reach perteo-
tion. But il H. were true, as you say, that The
more district is educated the Terer pTests does tf
furnish, those departments ought not, so to
speak, TO furnish any at all. Now 1t is jost the
com rSry. II we except the Aubes and the
Hauts Marne, those Department. are reckoned
smor get the most religious. There 10 there, |
without doubt, a falling eff which we are
bound to state, in order to be perfectly exact, |
but which is easily explained when we consi- |
der thai in those districts, more than anywhere |
else, the disasters of the war have driven away |
vocAtiOn8.
,Ckite, and which as yet includss-I repeat 1t
with regrst-but eight departments, there is
second, tinted yelIosVS little lesn favored then
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MISCELLANEOUS.
4 TINE SATISG ART.

This is the age of railways, telegraphs,
telephones and Photographs. Everything
must be done with despatch. The stage
has long since been to a great extent gu
perceded by the steam car, and in accord.
ance with the spirit of the age, the slow
and laborious system of long hand writing
must give place to rapid system more in
accordance with the activity of the hu-
man mind. What necessity for occupying
six hours in the writing of what can just
as correctly be written in one hour A
good short hand writer can write almost
with the speed of thought, taking down
rerbdtim the words of the most rapid
speaker. The value of such an art as an
acq quisition is incslculable. A good know
ledge of photography is an education in
itself. Judge Kane says that "Phono-
graphy is one of the great labor saving
devices of the age" In reporting lectures
or sermons, in making extracts, abstracts,
memoranda, in bookkeeping, in copying
letters, in keeping a diary, in correspond
ence, in competition and in a thousand
other ways can this art be brought into
use. Parents should give their children a
chance to learn it. 1t should, in our judg-
ment, be placed among the accomplish.
ments of education. 1t is much more
practical than either drawing or music,
and can be learned in less time.
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FKEEMAsoNEr.-The London correspondent
Of the liverpool Daily Post writes "A dis-
ruption In tie world wide Masonic brother.
hood is Impending, and the French section of
the mystic craft are pressing the dispute to
fnal iseue. The Grand Orient of France are
about to issue general 10 itstion to the bretb-
rem Of Great Britain aud America to take part
in what the Masonic craft term q convent
(secret meeting,) TO be held in Paris, 70 revise
the recent decision ofthe Anglo. Saxon Lodges,
which protested unanimously against the nom
recognition of the Deity by the French lodges.
1t appears that these French MasonS who re-
Gently reuounced the Deity in all Masonic rites
are much iucensed by the recent action OF
English ard American Masons In having re-
used all fellowship with the Mssons OF Paris,
and it is now proposed that II the Anglo;
Saxon Masons persist in their resolution or II
they refuse to sttend the present secret con-
ference in Paris the Grand Orient of France
SD all then declare themselves Independent, and
hall isaue warrants under thoir separate ssal,
constituting branch lodRss in England, AmeII.
ca. and any other country. sooh step would
precipitsts q permanent disroption in the
hitherto universal Brotherhood. The new
section would exclude from ts ceremonies AL
reference to the Deity. The old section would
maintain q religious element
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An English Joke-Inspector of schools
at strikes me that teacher Iof yours re-
tains little or no grasp upon the attention
of the children-not hold enough, you
know, not hold enough" Lancashire
mAGnate (whO takes great interest in the
educational movement:) "Eot hold enough.
Lor' bless yer-if che ever sees forty sgain,
I'll eat nv 'at!'
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A Joker challenged q sick man's vote at
q city election on the ground that he was
an i'll legal voter.
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President.
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T:cs President.
Very Rev. q. RAYMOND,
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GEW oRLEANs, JFDAY, OCTOBER l3 1873.
rELEeRAPHIc SUMMARY.
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authority OF the Diocese, 70 supply an
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politics except wherein they interfere
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Publication omce-No l1s POyda, street, Of Camp
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store But the great objection TO this story the
TACT that Graham declares the plan TO have been drawn
about six weeks before the murder which was before
the Davis matter became complicated Why should
Hunter draw plan OF the location OF Ford Davis house
had proposed tho murder TO Graham before he had
said WORD about numbering the man IN Camden
going over Co There ever was time or place
when hunter met Graham whore, even according
10 Grahams' story, there was time and opportunity
to coucoct n plan for The murder In no part OF
Graham's testimony docs Graham give any one Of
the thousand details to ho through TO perfect the
arrangements Tor the crime. Where were the men TO
me"tY Where they to gof What wore they TO
dor When they TO each other next? Why
did he not tell something Abous the complicated plan
necessary Tor such plot? Have not stated bis evi-
dcnce correctiyf challenge contradiction here and
now Then again. MT han.sr on the z,si s oay 2,
of Mr. Dsmars where Ford Davis lived, how could 10
have drawn plan OF The place i've weeks ooiorsf ~
iittic things like these which must test the truth
of Graham's carefully prepared story. There -
another thing Graham says that Hunter wrote nm
great many notes. Where arc those notesY where
Is one Of thcmy Is there of them 10 build up and
support this mans testimony
Granam tcstines that Hunter wanted him at first 10
do the m rder In Philadelphia, and that after
his return from Virginia be said to Graham that ne
mus. have had hard time waiting ior Arms'rong;
he still meant TO have tho murder done IN Phiiadol-
phia. Yet Graham says that when he gave him the
hammer month before the murder, u was markcd
with IF. W. d.. (" the initials Of Ford W. Davis How
ridiculous this was II he meant 10 have the murder
done miles away IRON Davis house.
Mr. Robson then described tho public manner In
which Hunter Is alleged 10 have accompanied Graham
TO Camden. ana asked, "Whoover heard oil hiring an
assassin, to keep out OF II yourself, and then gong
with aud dong the murder as eonspic uousy ~
possibeS" He spoke OF tho absurdities OF Hunters
going TO Grahams house so persistcnty OF his buying
u hat at place where no ~ known engaging
the girl IN conversation soahat she woula remember
him; 0; his waiting for Armstrong and taking his arm
lead him away right In the sight OF Carey and hi.
other OF Hunter being dressed IN AL unusual
disguise, walking down Chestnut street arm IN arm
with Armstrong in Hammer sure TO attract
attention; OF his riding IN puoic street
car Camden, sitting under tho light SO that the
conductor would DO suSe notice their faces; OF ms
finally having struck Armstrong down the public
street. in front Of houses, within three fcet OF help.
IN front OF lighted cellar, with express wagon
standing not fifty feet away in front OF house.
Mr. RoDeson's argument was then suspended until
Tomorrow.
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NARROWLY SAVED.

young man presented for payment Yesterday NJ
the Merchants National Bank, NO. AZ Wall street.
check Tor s1lO, purportIng to have been signed by
Moritz Meyer, broker, OF No. % Broai street. Tho
paying teller saw at glance that tho check was q
forgery, ana questioned the youth as 10 whore he
got H. The boy replied that ho had been with IL
by a man who ircquented u saloon on Broadway
whore he (tne UoyD vas employed. A detective was
scnt Tor who accompanied The lad 10 shc saloon The
PROPRIETOR pointed out the man who gave the check
TO tue boy, anu he was arrested by Detective
Dunn. lie taken 10 the bank and there identified
Jonn A.. Cummings, n oiork IN tho institution.
Upon this discovery hs discharge was requesed but
Detective Dunn held him Ia CUSTODY aud TOOK hinl 10
the Police Central Office, where nc explained the case
to Superintendent Wailing. messenger from the
bank also csiod Tue approximations and requested
10 have Cum ngs released AS no one would prefer
charge agaipst him. The superintendent declinod TO
lot him and instructed Detective Dunn TO proceed
20 court with his prisoner. Cummings Was accord
ingy taken the Tombs and arraigned before Judge
Morgan, by whom ne was discharged as there WAS no
otter a complaint Moritz Meyer, the broker,
name forged 10 tho check, was out OF town
van
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THE GRAVEoEND POISONING.

is TIE ACCUSED HUBBARD INSANE, on Is HE
ONLY sHAMMIAG?
Ex-Judge Samuel d. Norris. OF Kings county, has
been retained as counsel 10 defend Hubbard, who Us
nov in ,he custody OF the Brooklyn police sus-
melon OF having poisoned his wife, Maria l.. Hubbard
nj nd, /. L. Tho prisoner yesterday appeared
to be suffering mental dsprcssbpu and frequently
made use oil absurd expressions and failed 10 appre
eiate tho naturc oil the questions asked him. He
taken cell and placed Ia one vi Tue lodging
rooms up stairs IN the station house
Speaking oil Hubbard's condition to n HgRALD re-
porter yesterday afternoon superintendent Camp
bell ssid:-'Hc may DO Irrational now Indeed,
believe that Ind Is all upset At present He has
eaten ltIe nothing since his arrest, aud does not
appear 10 know relatives, who called ON him to-
day HIS tongue Is quite black, and no persists ia
calling himself Samuel Jones. had a conversation
VITA FRIDAY last. WHOM i asked him ~hy ne
purchased the strychnin He told me that ne mixed
IL witn Indian meal IN clam SMELL the contents Of
which lie led to rats that were ia the barn. Ho said
he then threw the clam shell away.
asked MIN what he wanted to XIII tho
corn Of any kind tho barn. and he replied that they
wero eating ais harness. asked him, then, where
he kept harness IN tho barn, and ho replied that
he mad 1t 'nung up ON peg 'Well,' said l, III It
was hanging u? on pog now could The rats
.brcecn OF the harness hung down near tho door
We'll but did IL occur TO you TO raise the brooch
and hang h,sher ~" , .as t"s rats At.
DID not; never thought OF doiug That
then asked uIm to lend assistance TO lind tho
clam sael IN which he had mixed the strychnine
II was aud next said that he threw tho shell into
manure heap; well said l. show me where tho
u was broken ano qucntiy he said the manure
pile had scattered tho 0cIds was scarcely
satisfied with ms answers; inquired whether he was
addicted to the Of spiruous liquors. and was told
that he crank but seid0n."
rhc inqacs, will be resumed by Coroucr simms nj
the Gravesend Court House At four O'Clock this alter
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MRS. WERTHEIMER'S FATE.

ACCIDENTALLY DRowNED--HER REMAINS DIS
COVERED AT YoExERs
Speculation concerning the disappearance Of Mra
Werthcimor from tho West End Hotel At Fort Wash-
ington has been set at rest The susptcisna Of the
unhappy husband prove bccn incorrect for tho
body Of the missing lady discovered floating in
the HUDSON River, near Yonkers. Yesterday morning
It was nrst noticed by two boys. John Reed and Will
lam Dillon who informed Officer Rev olds, OF the local
police iorce and succeeded drawing 1t ashore.
From the handbllls describing Mrs. WOrtheimers ap-
pearancs the remains Identified and the news
once aelegrapned to this city. None OF the clothing
missing and the Jcwelry worn by tho unfortunate
lady all Undsturbed, AS was usO tho money In her
pocket Tho husband WIN the brother OF the deceased
arrived 81 early hour, aud Coroner II. Hughes
summoned jury and held an Inquest verdict OF
ACCIDENTAL d. owning rendered without hesitation.
Upon suggestion oi the jury The 500 offered as
reward for Information OF the unhappy lady was d.
vidod into three equal sums and distributed among
the three persons concerned IN the discovery. The
placed ~ tho care OF an undertaken aud
will be brought 10 this city to day.
IL Is supposed that the lady was sitting upon .
shelving rock near the place IN which her INT and
parusol found. and that steamer passing up or
down the river made swel which flowed over the
rock aud swept her out INTO The stream. II IL said
that thros ladies' who were enjoying tho view froI
merged The same way and barely escaped with their
lives.
All tho residents OF tho vicinity ieel much relieved
10 hnd no foul play used and Captain Steers,
WITH his right bower. Detective Thuyor. breathe
easily Tor tbs nrst time since the DISAPPEARANCE
Tho funeral OF tho untorl lady takes place at
ten O'Clock A. ~ to-day from No lao East sixty hrst
steel, The residence OF her parents.
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VICTORY FOR BOTH SIDES.

Just alter the decision Of tho New Jersey supreme
Court last spring declaring the Newark Ward I'LL
constitutional, the democrats In the Legislature
whipped through Two other bills which sought tho
same objectvz tho obtaining Of political ascendancy
by the democrats oil Newark. The bills wore very
carefully drawn, to all the objections made
by the Court. Recently the new bills were argued
TO their ceDstitutonaIity aud tho Court has
Just rendered decision which really settles
little, which is reasonably claimed a rectory by
botn sides One act provided that the wards Of New
ark should conform with the lines Of the Assembly
districts IN Essex county THIS act ~ declared
Imperative at present, but the Assembly bill (the
other ac,) Is declared TO be CONSTITUTIONAL tn. con.
sttutiouaity OF tho nrst bill not passed upon.
Tue Court explained that u mad so much busi-
ness that could not give the latter bill
the attention II deserved, and II the reators
tho dcmocrats) were willing II would enter judgment
pro joryna In order that IN appeal might DO taken to
The Court Of Errors aud Appeals immediately Demo-
Gratis claim mat the courts have simply excused
themselves IRON passing upon the questions involved
because they disked TO virtually their
vious judgment on the old Ward bill.
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LOST AT SEA.

Tie Of the loss at OF the ship Mabel Clark
has been confirmed al Tho ONCE Of the owners f. II.
Smith Co., No So South st. appears she was lost OF
Tristan d'Acunha. midway between the Capo OF Good
Hope and Cape Horn, in latitude 80 Deg. south, lon
gituds IL dog west She loft Liverpool March with
u cargo OF coal for Hong Kong and WAS spoken ON
April 20 In latitude rs deg south, longitude rs deg
west. The Mabel Clark was built about year ago in
Waldoboro, Nc, and was rated Al In tho French
Loyds. She POI feet long ON the keel, 40
feet beam, "a iest depth OF hold and was owned
by +. II. smith l. Co., No SO South street, l.. ..
Clark and Captain Oscar D. Sheldon The latter acted
commander OF the vessel and Is reputea 10 be very
careful Besides the crow, the we and cnild OF
Captain sheldon we're on board They rcside al Bev-
ery, N. J. The lrst ana second mates hail from
Dsmariscolla Me-, and the crew. with two exceptions
VINO arc from Maine, were all shipped ~ Liverpool.
The owners have acnnit6 knowledge Of the safety
OF crew. but they believe that all escaped in The
ships boats
paPtialIv insured