REPORT 
OF 
THE BOARD OF ADMINISTRATORS 
OF THE 
LOUISIANA INSTITUTION 
FOE THE 
DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND 
TO THE 
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. 
.J A IV TJ AB Y, 1 e '7' . 
NEW OELEANS: 
J. O. NT r X O 1ST. STATE PRINTER 
1807. REPORT. 
To the Honorable the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana: 
The Board of Administrators of the Louisiana Institution for the Deaf, 
Dumb and Blind, in obedience to law and custom, submit to your honor- 
able bodies a report of their proceedings during the past year. 
The present Board organized about the first of April, 1866. The con- 
dition of affairs was truly discouraging. The buildings dilapidated, the 
furniture destroyed or ruined; creditors who had waited long and patiently 
pressing for their claims, with no present means and no credit, the task 
of reorganizing and sustaining the institution seemed almost hopeless. 
At our first meeting we notified the members of the former Board of 
the time and place of our next meeting, and requested them to turn over 
any property or records in their hands. No response has ever been made 
to this communication, and, notwithstanding our repeated efforts, we 
have never succeeded in finding any record of the proceedings of the 
Board which immediately preceded us. Their treasurer, after some delay, 
presented an unsigned statement of account, showing a balance in his 
hands of ($10 77) ten dollars and seventy-seven cents. A copy of this 
account is hereto annexed, marked (A). We also annex account of John 
O’Connor, who was for some time Treasurer of this Board, showing the 
disposition of the funds in his hands, marked (B). 
By reference to the report of our Treasurer and Secretary, it will be 
seen that we have received form all sources during the year ($20,032 10) 
twenty thousand thirty-two dollars and sixteen cents. This sum is made 
up of old appropriation, ($9,000) nine thousand dollars, appropriation for 
the current year, ($10,000) ten thousand dollars, and amount paid by the 
State of Mississippi, ($1,482 39) one thousand four hundred and eiglity- 
two dollars and thirty-nine cents. From these receipts are to be deducted 
the sums paid for discount and interest, to which we have been com- 
pelled to submit from the depreciation of the currency of the State, 
and the absolute necessity of anticipating our means. These items are 
set out in detail in the report of the Treasurer hereto annexed, and 
marked (C); we also refer to the report of the Secretary, marked (D). 
From these two reports it will be seen that there is on hand: 
Cash $335 92 
Balance on warrant due January 1st 18G7 500 00 
Total $835 92 
That there are accounts unpaid amounting to $1,619 98, 
leaving a deficiency of .« 784 06 
Besides this there is a balance due oh debts contracted by 
our predecessors, of 2,725 00 
Amount estimated for subsistence and salaries for 1867 20,000 00 
.For necessary repairs and furniture 10,000 00 
Total $33,509 06 4 
Out of the amount expended by us ($2,807 17) two thousand eight hun- 
dred and sixty-seven dollars and seventeen cents was paid for debts con- 
tracted by our predecessors. 
We are aware of the impoverished condition of the State Treasury, and 
have therefore asked for nothing more than we believe to be absolutely 
necessary. On this subject, as well as many other interesting details con- 
nected with the past history, present condition and future prospects of 
the Institution, we respectfully refer your honorable bodies to the report 
of the General Superintendent, marked (E). 
We ask the attention of the Legislature to the sixth section of the act, 
“ To provide for the better management of the Institution for the Deaf, 
Dumb and Blind, at Baton Rouge, in this State, ” approved March 8, 1866. 
By the terms of this section the administrators are required to receive 
all persons who are in indigent circumstances and unable to pay, &c. 
Notwithstanding the clearness of the language, some doubt has been 
expressed whether the Legislature intended that such persons as are 
clearly too far advanced in life to be capable of profiting by the instruc- 
tions here imparted, should bo received as inmates of this institution; 
legislation, fixing the ages at which applicants may be received, or declar- 
ing that they shall be received without reference to age, would settle this 
question. 
The same section authorizes us to receive and instruct free of charge 
only those who are in indigent circumstances, and imposes upon us the 
duty of requiring that those who are able shall pay the expense of their 
support and tuition. This division into paying and non-paying has been 
found to work badly, particularly among those in attendance upon the 
schools. It is too apt to cause an assumption of superiority on the one side, 
and jealousy, heart-burning and envy, on the other; for it must be remem- 
bered that these unfortunate people are peculiarly sensitive. And there 
can be but little pecuniary benefit to compensate these evils; so few are 
able to pay that the sum realized from this source would probably never 
amount to more than a few hundred dollars. 
We have been much embarrassed by the difficulty of determining in 
some instances, whether the applicant was really a resident of the State, 
and suggest that we be authorized to require in all cases the certificate 
of the Clerk of the District Court, or President of the Police Jury for tho 
parish from which the applicant claims to come, or from the Recorder, or 
some other competent authority, if from New Orleans, that the applicant 
is a resident of the State; and should the Legislature adhere to the policy 
of requiring pay from those who are able, that he or she is in indigent cir- 
cumstances. 
It would be presumptuous in us to urge the claims of this asylum upon 
you; the institution is yours; it was founded, and has been sustained by 
you. It is a monument to your generosity, bearing eloquent testimony 
that in the day of her pride and prosperity Louisiana did not forget the 
unfortunate and the helpless, and we cannot doubt that whatever may be 
your present embarrassments and difficulties, you will continue to extend 
to it your fostering care and generous aid. 
Respectfully submitted, 
JAMES O. EUQUA, 
President pro tern, of the Board of Administrators. 
Raton Rouge, January 1st, 1867, GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS REPORT. 
Gentlemen of the Hoard of Administrators for Louisiana Institution for Ike 
Deaf, Dumb and Blind : 
No report haring been published from our Institution to such an extent 
as to reach the great mass of those most interested, since the beginning 
of the war, I feel it my duty to present a brief epitome of the history of 
.the Institution from the commencement of the war. At that time the 
number of our pupils was seventy-seven (77), and our yearly appropria- 
tion $25,000 00. We had teachers of finished education in the scholastic 
department, and men of first rate abilities in the broom shop and painting 
room, where trades were taught our blind and mutes. 
As soon as the actual scenes of war began to close around us, our num- 
bers rapidly diminished, until those only who had no homes to which they 
could go were left—their number varying from twenty-five to thirty. 
For several months we were left to our own resources, and were sup- 
ported some time by the proceeds of cakes, etc., made, in part, by our 
girls, and sold by our little boys, and by the sale of vegetables from our 
garden, and by means advanced by benevolent individuals. When these 
resources failed, we applied for and received rations from the Federal 
authorities, which were continued until last year, when they evacuated 
our buildings, the larger portion of which they had been using since Jan- 
uary, 1863, for hospital purposes. The Legislature of 1865 made an 
appropriation of $18,000 for the benefit of the Institute, but owing to the 
depleted condition of the treasury, very little of it could be drawn, and 
the Institution continued in a crippled, discouraging state. In the suc- 
ceeding year, upon the accession of your Board, more life and spirit was 
breathed into our affairs, and since that period the Institution has been 
steadily going forward in its benevolent mission. 
Placed as I am in daily contact with the two unfortunate classes com- 
mitted to your care, and witnessing every moment the benefits, physical, 
intellectual and moral, which such institutions ought to and do confer on 
them, I cannot but deplore that our limited means still prevent us from 
making the Institution as useful to them as it is capable of being. While 
some institutions have from six to twenty pianos, we have but two, and 
they are old and worn out; and while the whole time and energies of 
teachers in the mechanical departments were devoted exclusively, at a 
former period and still in other institutions, to the instruction of pupils 
in the mechanical arts, these branches have been taught by teachers in 
the literary department. 
From the force of circumstances, the advantages which the blind have 
enjoyed for learning music, and both mutes and blind for learning trades, 
have been less than they should have been; and we trust that before 
DIFFICULTIES YET BEFOEE US. another year has expired, that such provisions will be made as to make 
their advantages equal to those of any State in the North or South. 
I am satisfied that your Board has done all it could do, with the means 
placed at its disposal, towards restoring the Institution to a sound and 
efficient condition. The regularity of your meetings, your rigid investi- 
gations of its accounts, the methods you have adopted of acquainting 
yourselves with its workings in all its departments, the requirement of 
monthly reports producing on the minds of the employees the impression 
that their faithfulness was appreciated, or their want of it marked, has 
silently but steadily impressed on them a sense of responsibility. There 
has been felt to be a kindly but firm supervision of its affairs. In a ten 
years’ connection with institutions in three Sftitcs, I have never met a 
more disinterested or laborious Board. 
OUB BUILDINGS. 
So far as I can judge, I believe Louisiana has built as fine, if not a 
finer, edifice for her mutes and blind than any in the world. The men 
who conceived and executed the design of making such generous provi- 
sions for the unfortunate of their day, and of the distant future, were 
men of large and liberal views, and we believe that Louisiana has less 
means but not less heart now than in former years. 
The building has been examined a few weeks ago by two of our most 
experienced and competent architects, Messrs. Young & McVay, who are 
of the opinion that the building, if allowed to remain unrepaired, will 
suffer immense injury. Though some repairs have been made on the roof, 
still large quantities of water get into the house during every rain, causing 
the plastering to drop off and the timbers to decay. In the Chapel, where 
the ceiling is very high, there is great danger of injury to the lives and 
limbs of the pupils from the unsound state of the plastering. The tin 
covering on the galleries all around the house is broken and corroded, and 
the wood-work and floors are rotting, and the paint is worn off the beau- 
tiful iron railings which surround the whole main buildings, and they are 
rapidly corroding. Added to this, our Venetian blinds are, in a great 
measure, ruined, and most of our chairs are without backs, and we have 
but the wreck of the splendid set of furniture which was here before the 
war. To replace these, repair our building and make our fences and out- 
houses, I think will require $10,000. 
The annual appropriation for the support of the Institution before the 
war was $25,000; and though the altered condition of the State calls for 
economy, yet it is to be hoped that every advantage that mutes and blind 
enjoy in other States will be extended to those of our State, and that those 
States which have no institutions of their own, in looking around for a 
suitable place to send their beneficiaries, will find our Institution in no 
sense inferior to any. To accomplish this object will not require less than 
$15,000. A conviction that the State will heartily and liberally support 
the Institution, would inspire all interested in it with new life and energy, 
while any other impression would paralyze their interest and efforts. 
ANNUAL APPKOPBIATION. 
As stated in the report to the last Legislature, I was sent by the Board 
which preceded you to Mississippi to effect an arrangement with the Board 
MISSISSIPPI PUPILS. of Trustees of the Deaf and Dumb, and the Legislature of that State, for 
the education of her mutes in the Louisiana Institution. I succeeded in 
making an arrangement with them—they, on their part, agreeing to pay 
8250 a year per pupil, and I, on the part of our Board, agreeing to gather 
them in and give them all the advantages that the circumstances of our 
State and Institute permitted. 
After a thorough canvass of the whole matter, the engagement was 
renewed for this year, and most of the same pupils returned with me to 
school. This arrangement, by combining the interests and efforts of two 
States in a benevolent enterprise, and by bringing together a large number 
of sprightly and interesting pupils who mutually stimulate and encourage 
each other, I look upon with great gratification. 
The three gentlemen who constitute the Board of Trustees in Missis- 
sippi, Drs. Poindexter and Cabaniss and Judge Potter, are men who have 
long since familiarized themselves with benevolent schemes of this kind, 
and in whose hands the interests of the mute children of that State are 
not likely to suffer, and who will cooperate, in an enlightened and liberal 
spirit, with the members of your Board in any plan which they believe to 
be for the real interests of the deaf and dumb. 
Before the commencement of the war, our mutes were engaged in learn- 
ing the printing business. We then had complete sets of type, not only 
for printing a paper, but also for printing books in raised letters for the 
blind. During the war, it came into the hands of the military authorities, 
and a great number of printers were detailed to print official documents, 
who, when they used the type, threw them into pi, and in that way, and 
other ways, have nearly ruined all the type. As printing is calculated to 
cultivate and keep up the acquaintance of the mutes with written lan- 
guage, it is perhaps the very best business for them to learn. In printing 
he finds the same advantages which a speaking person receives from the 
conversation of educated people. At present, the more advanced mutes 
are learning the photographic art, for which the practiced sharpness of 
their perceptions qualify them. Ours is the first institution in which this 
art has been taught, and some of them have made sufficient progress in it 
as to be able already to make a living by pursuing it. The blind are 
learning to bottom chairs with cane and to make brooms. They are 
inclined to rely principally upon the last business for a support. Some of 
them will probably acquire a sufficient knowledge of music to be able to 
earn a living by teaching it. As they have a most praiseworthy desire to 
make themselves independent of the State and of their friends, I would 
recommend that after they shall have acquired a sufficient knowledge of 
these trades, they should be presented by the State with the requisite ma- 
chinery and some material to work up, or, as is done in some institutions, 
they should remain as journeymen workmen and be paid in proportion to 
their work until an amount is put down to their credit sufficient to start 
them in business. In this way we encourage a laudable ambition and 
relieve the State from what might be a permanent burden. 
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENTS. 
OUR DISCIPLINE. 
In our management of the pupils, we have sought to encourage a feel- 
ing of cheerfulness and happiness, and our appeals are constantly to their 
principles and honor, and to the best feelings of their natures, and not 8 
their fears alone. In the main, these appeals have been successful, and 
our pupils will compare favorably with those of any school in regard to 
the harmony and good feeling existing between themselves and between 
them and those placed over them, and also in their cheerful devotion to 
their studies, and in their polite and inoffensive course toward those out- 
side of the Institute. 
The practice I have adopted this year of devoting the whole of every 
Friday to examination of the different classes of the mutes and blind, as 
well as the musical and the mechanical departments, enable me to testify 
intelligently to a very general zeal and heartiness on the part of the 
teachers, and a corresponding interest and improvement on the part of 
the pupils. We have especially endeavored to break up the habit of 
learning by rote, and of cultivating the memory at the expense of much 
higher faculties. We want the teachers to think and make their pupils 
think. 
THEIR STUDIES. 
LEGAL PUPILS. 
According to tlie By-Laws, no pupils are admitted above the age of 
twenty-five, yet during and since the war several blind persons have been 
sent to us who were between thirty and fifty. As no other provision had 
been made for some of them, we could not refuse them admittance. As 
the number of this class may increase, and the Institution may be diverted 
from its appropriate object as an educational establishment to an asylum 
for the helpless, some steps should be taken by the Legislature to make 
provisions for the aged and helpless blind and mutes. An exception 
might be made in favor of those who design to learn a trade, and to go 
as soon as they can earn a living for themselves. Nearly all the more 
populous States have found special legislation on this subject necessary. of tfa few ;Um?. 
BOARD OF ADMINISTRATORS: 
Dit. T. J. BUFFINGTON, President. 
Col. J. O. FUQUA. 
T. B. R. HATCH, Esq. 
F. YOUNG. Esq. 
JOHN O’CONNOR, Esq. 
C. D. FAVROT Secretary. 
D. C. MONTAN 1 reasurer'. 
O. BRATZ, M. D Physician. 
A. K. MARTIN Superintendent. 
Rev. R. B. RICKETTS Steward. 
Mbs. M. C. RICKETTS Matron. 
Mbs, MARY DUFROCQ Assistant Matron. 
i 
TEACHERS IN THE MUTE DEPARTMENT. 
Peofessob JAMES GOODWIN. 
Miss MARTHA M. BRADFORD. 
TEACHER IN BEIND DEPARTMENT. 
JOSEPH L. HARRIS. 
TEACHERS OF MUSIC. 
Pkofessob. JOHN BENING. 
Pbofesso® AUG- ANDREWS. De. 
Ck. 
January 24, 18G6—Received from J. D. O’Con- 
Warrant 1—F. Otto, supplies 
$53 75 
ner 
$4,500 00 
do. 
2—R. Williams, servant 
14 00 
January 27, 1866—Received from A. R. Mar- 
do. 
3—M. J. Williams, tinner 
9 95 
.tin 
1,700 00 
do. 
4—John Dahon, blacksmith 
3 85 
do. 
5—R. Maurin. washing 
17 00 
do. 
6—H. Y. Babin, medicine 
112 00 
do. 
7—P. A. Kugler, salary 
123 24 
do. 
8—P. A. Kugler, horse and prov’n 
141 00 
do. 
9—F. Otto, provisions 
508 12 
do. 
10—Meyer, baker, bread 
49 00 
do. 
11—G. W. Brown, teacher 
12 00 
do. 
12—M. Detial, servant 
30 00 
do. 
13—J. Beal, stationery 
24 50 
do. 
14—J. Beal, stationery 
63 45 
do. 
15—J. Beal, stationery 
63 45 
do. 
16—R. Williams, servant 
7 00 
do. 
17—F. Otto, supplies 
273 45 
do. 
18—F. Otto, supplies 
198 37 
do. 
19—F. Otto, broom corn 
500 00 
do. 
20—R. W. Knickerbocker, services 
213 00 
do. 
21—T. A. Nephler, rent, gas, stationery 
50 00 
do. 
22—R. Noddler, bread 
36 00 
do. 
23—J. D. O’Connell, coal 
95 25 
do. 
24—D. O’Connell, salary 
150 00 
do. 
25—J. D. O’Connell 
3 80 
do. 
26—M. Bradford, salary 
150 00 
do. 
27—J. Carl, gardener 
100 00 
.a. : 
P. A. KUGLER, IN ACCOUNT 
With thel Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind.  
Warr’t 28—Meyer, bread 
42 50 
do. 
29—M. Meyer, bread 
42 00 
do. 
30—M. Meyer, bread 
81 50 
do. 
31—H. Brown, servant 
28 OO 
do. 
32—C. Carl, servant 
40 00 
do. 
33—Mrs. Gaston, salary 
24 00 
do. 
34—A. B. Martin, salary 
500 00 
do. 
35—B. Laycock, servant 
36 00 
do. 
36—Mrs. Dufrocq, salary 
500 00 
do. 
37—Mrs. Dufrocq, for servant 
4 OO 
do. 
38—J. D. O’Connell, attorney and sec’y. 
675 00 
do, 
39—U. S. P. O. stamps 
40 OO 
do. 
40—F. Otto, supplies 
30 20 
do. 
41—F. Otto, supplies 
27 75 
do. 
42—F. Otto, supplies 
850 65 
do. 
43- 
289 00 
Balance on hand 
10 77 
Total $6,200 00 
Total 
$6,200 00 
A true copy of the original, on record at my office. (Not signed.) 
C. D. FAVROT, Secretary. 
ACCOUNT—Continued. DR. 
•Tan. 13.180(3—To bala~.ce on warrants unpaid... 
?0,500 00 
CR. 
By warrants acknowledged to have been received in cash by 
former Board, and placed in the hands of P. A. Kugler, 
Esq 
May 12, 1866—By warrants turned over to D. C. Montan, Esq., 
present Treasurer 
$4,500 oo 
5,000 00 
Total 
$9,500 00 
Total 
$9,500 00 
A true copy. C. D. 
FAVROT, 
Secretary 
(Signed,) JOHN O’CONNOR, Treasurer. 
Baton Rouge, May 12, I860. 
( ±3 ) 
JOHN O’CONNOR, TREASURER, 
In Account with the Louisiana Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind. f O 1 
Baton Rouge, La., January 1, 1867. 
To the Honorable the President and Board of Directors of the Asylum for the 
Deaf Dumb and the Blind of the State of Louisiana, at Baton Itouge: 
Gents:—Since my appointment to the office of Treasurer, April 13, 
1866,1 have received and placed to the credit of the Asylum the follow- 
ing amounts: 
Balance of old appropriation yet undrawn at that date $ 4,000 00 
Received from P. A. Kugler, Treasurer of the previous Board.. 10 77 
Amount collected on warrants for old appropriation, which 
were delivered to me by John O’Connor, former Treasurer of 
the previous Board 5,000 00 
Amount of warrant for first quarter of appropriation for 1866.. 2,500 00 
Amount of warrant for second quarter of appropriation for ’66. 2,500 00 
Amount of warrant for third quarter of appropriation for 1866. 2,500 00 
Received from Finance Committee unexpended balance of an 
appropriation made by the Board 39 00 
Received of A. K. Martin amount paid by the State of Missis- 
sippi 1,482 39 
Amount advanced by Hart & Hebert on warrant for fourth 
quarter, due January 1st, 1867 2,000 00 
Making the total amount received by me $20,032 16 
I have paid the following amounts by order of the Board: 
Fifty-eight warrants of the President, amounting to 9,858 45 
Thirty-seven warrants of the President, amounting to 6,024 14 
Thirty-five warrants of the President, amounting to 3,495 93 
Discount paid Pike, Lapeyre & Brother on the amount paid by 
the State in State issue and City notes of the warrant for the 
second quarter 121 87 
Discount paid Pike, Lapeyre & Brother to reduce the amount 
paid by the State in State issue of the warrant for the third 
quarter to current money 181 25 
Amount paid Hart & Hebert for advance of two thousand dol- 
lars on warrant for fourth quarter, twenty-three days before 
it was due 14 60 
Total amount paid out 19,696 24 
Amount cash on hand to balance 335 82 
$20,032 16 
There yet remains unpaid by the State the warrant for the fourth quarter, 
due January 1st, 1867, of which five hundred dollars is due the Asylum; the 
balance of two thousand dollars will be due Messrs. Hart & Hebert, who 
have advanced that amount upon it. 
The warrants paid were numbered from 1 to 131, No. 40 of which was 
canceled by the Auditor and never presented. 
Yours respectfully, 
(Signed) D. C. MONTAN, Treasurer. 
A true copy of original filed in my office. 
C. D. Favkot, Secretary. [ ID 1 
To the Honorable the Members of the Board of Administrators of the Insti- 
tute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind: 
Gents—Since my appointment as Secretary, on tlie 13tli of April, 18GG, 
I have drawn 131 warrants on the Treasurer, amounting to $19,378 4G, of 
which the sum of $2,867 17 was to defray expenses incurred previous to 
May 1st, 1866—the balance to defray expenses incurred since that period. 
The amount of indebtedness of the institution for current expenses, as 
far as we can judge by the accounts that have been presented for pay- 
ment, is $1,619 98, of which $284 00 have been ordered to be paid. The 
outstanding old indebtedness amounts to $2,725, viz: $2,100 to A. It. 
Martin, $550 to Mrs. Dufrocq, and a claim of $75 to Dr. Enders. 
Respectfully, 
C. D. FAVROT, Secretary. ZB 
CATALOGUE 
Of Pupils in the Institution during the past year. 
Names of Pupils. 
Place of Residence. 
Date of 
Admission 
Amelia Anselm — 
St. Landry. 
1852 
Clias. P. Himes — 
East Baton Rouge. 
1852 
Joseph Lobrano 
Orleans. 
1853 
John E. Newell 
Ascension. 
1833 
Catharine Jaquess 
Orleans. 
1853 
Albert Both 
Iberville. 
1854 
Elvira C. Clark - 
Pointe Coupee. 
1854 
Marcel Landry 
Assumption. 
1855 
Terrence McVay 
East Baton Rouge. 
1855 
Felicie' LeBlanc 
Assumption. 
1857 
Weston Clark - 
Pointe Coupee. 
1857 
Samuel Ford 
Rapides. 
1858 
Arthur Martin 
Plaquemines. 
1S58 
Sarah W. Easterly 
East Baton Rouge. 
1858 
Lycurgus Wooten 
Caldwell. 
1858 
Uranie Landry 
Assumption. 
1858 
Lorena Morris 
Washington. 
1859 
L. H. Morris 
1859 
Joseph A. Roth 
Iberville. 
1859 
Leontinc Cupel 
Assumption. 
1859 
Fannie Tottenham 
Orleans. 
1859 
James Meham 
< i 
1859 
Susan Deville 
Catahoula. 
1859 
Johnnot Rutherford 
Rapides. 
1860 
James Molaum 
Lafourche. 
1860 
Hunter Clark 
Pointe Coupee. 
1860 
Oscar Bondieaux 
Lafourche. 
1861 
Amelia Leroy 
West Baton Rouge. 
1861 
Annie Coupel 
Lafourche. 
1861 
Annie Terrace 
Orleans. 
1861 
Thomas Hoggarth 
1861 
Ellen Morbley 
“ 
1861 
Fannie Molaum 
Lafourche. 
1866 
William Hanlen 
Orleans. 
1866 
Jean Dugas.. 
Assumption. 
1866 
Emile Betol 
Orleans. 
1866 
Duncan Clark 
Pointe Coupee. 
1866 CATALOGUE OF PUPILS—Continued. 
FEOM MIISISSIPPI. 
Names of Pupils. 
Place of Residence. 
. 
Date of 
Admission 
William Cabaniss . 
Jackson. 
1805 
Brookec Cockran 
6 i 
1805 
Charles Willis 
Grenada. 
1805 
L. W. Saunders 
Jackson. 
1805 
James W. Delbridgc 
Oxford. 
1805 
Walter B. Delbridge 
66 
1805 
Mattie Slate ' 
1805 
Flora Slate 
“ 
1805 
James Blaker 
Paris. 
1805 
Andrew Gilbert 
Newton. 
1805 
Mary Matthews — 
Lafayette. 
1805 
M. S. Harry.. 
Holmesvillc. 
1805 
James M. Alexander 
Holly Springs. 
1805 
Hamilton Jones 
Lexington. 
1800 
Annie McFarland 
Georgetown. 
1860 
Ellen Burke 
Jackson. 
1860 
Buena Y. Allen 
Canton. 
1860 
BLIND PUPILS. 
E. F. Spann 
Mississippi. 
1866 
James McGary 
Orleans Parish. 
1859 
John Dempsy 
“ 
1858 
ltobert E. Harris 
Bienville. 
1856 
Robert Kelly 
Orleans. 
1858 
Samuel Huntley 
1855 
James Riley 
“ “ 
1861 
Tobias E. Totman 
St. Landry. 
1860 
John Morrow 
Orleans. 
1866 
Peter Cosgrove 
1866 
Aramintha Gaston 
D. and D. Institute. 
1857 
Harriet Elliott 
Orleans. 
1859 
Lena Oahley 
“ 
1859 
Bridget Danny 
1861 
Alice Barville 
Baton Kongo. 
1866 
A. K. MARTIN, 
General Superintendent.