Daily Gazette And Comet

Good Friday That. We have authority to announce to our young friends and fellow-citizens generally, that the ball has been started for a grand dance to inaugurate the completion of Academy Hall down town. With due and proper regard for the observance of Lent, the movers in this matter have concluded to fix the time beyond the 30th inst., in order that the pastors may attend the feast—for there is to be one, after the Ball. Besides all this the purpose is, to have an amateur concert in the Hall previous to the dance and supper, and a "small collection" will be taken at the door not for charity sake, but to aid our enterprising friends of the Public School Board to carry out some of their praiseworthy designs to inaugurate the High School Department with proper eclat. All feel an interest in this movement and we know all will rejoice in the measures now going forward to place the public schools on a par with the best. We hope yet, before much time elapses to be able to say that the public schools of the capital are equal to the public schools of the metropolis—a proud evidence of the munificence of the Crescent City people. Messrs. Fay, Hart and Burk are public benefactors. They have secured as principal of the High School the services of August B. Payne, Esq., a gentleman who comes well recommended, as every way worthy of the position. It will not be long, ere the High School opens. Admission can only be had to it through the primary departments.