For our archiepiscopal city we make these special arrangements: On the 12th, at half-past 7 o'clock P. M., the cathedral will be open to the public; the clergy of the city is invited to assemble at 7 o'clock, at the archbishopric, to march in procession to the cathedral, where short sermons of ten minutes each will be preached in five different languages--Spanish, French, English, German, and Italian. The ceremony will close with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and the solemn singing of the _Te Deum_. In order to celebrate the civil solemnity of the 21st, we desire that a preliminary meeting be held at St. Alphonsus' Hall, on Monday evening, the 22d of August, at 8 o'clock. The meeting will be composed of the pastors of the city, of two members of each congregation--to be appointed by them--and of the presidents of the various Catholic societies. This body shall arrange the plan how to celebrate the 21st of October. May God, who has been kind and merciful to our people in the past, continue his favors in the future and lead us unto life everlasting. The pastors will read this letter to their congregations. Given from our archiepiscopal residence, Feast of St. Dominic, August the 4th, 1892. FRANCIS JANSSENS, _Archbishop of New Orleans_. By order of His Grace: J. BOGAERTS, _Vicar-general_. THE COLUMBUS STATUE IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK Stands at the Eighth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street entrance to Central Park, and was erected October 12, 1892, by subscription among the Italian citizens of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America. From a base forty-six feet square springs a beautiful shaft of great height, the severity of outline being broken by alternating lines of figures, in relief, of the prows, or rostra, of the three ships of Columbus, and medallions composed of an anchor and a coil of rope. In July, 1889, Chevalier Charles Barsotti, proprietor of the _Progresso Italo-Americano_, published in New York City, started a subscription to defray the cost, which was liberally added to by the Italian government. On December 10, 1890, a number of models were placed on exhibition at the rooms of the Palace of the Exposition of Arts in Rome, and the commission finally chose that of Prof. Gaetano Russo.