Unless all signs fail, the ensuing year will bring to our doors a greatly increased throng of eager and earnest students. The public schools of New Orleans, and of Louisiana, are threatened with the evils of indefinite suspension. The doors will be closed June 30th, and the wisest friends of education cannot predict the time of their re-opening. So far as adequate support is concerned, the public school system in this State has been an uncertain quantity for many months. Its fate trembles in the balance today. A subscription list is now in circulation among the merchants and bankers to raise money to pay the public school teachers the monthly salaries long since due. The most plaintive appeals are made to public sympathy in their behalf. It is a time to press forward our work. Applicable to the impoverished State of Louisiana, so far as her public schools are concerned, are the words: “The fields are white already to the harvest,” and “The laborers are few.” * * * * * TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY. More than a Thousand Visitors. Promise of the Coming Year. The commencement exercises of this growing and popular University were held on Thursday, June 3d, and drew together an unusually large company of visitors within its wide grove of moss-draped oaks. Many parents were present on this day, and also at the annual examinations, which continued from Monday till Wednesday evening. Two old men came from the northeastern corner of the State, a distance of 200 miles or more, to see their sons graduate. The pains and thoroughness with which the examinations were conducted, aiming to exhibit the pupil’s real knowledge of his studies, the evidence throughout all of great care and constant drill in the use of clear, simple and correct English, and the plain indication of independence on the part of the students in their studying and in their own thinking, made these class exercises of unusual interest. The Senior Class passed creditable examinations in Natural History, Science of Government, The Theory and Practice of Teaching, and Natural Philosophy. There followed on Wednesday evening the exhibition of the Primary and Intermediate Departments, combined with that of the strong Temperance Society—an organization extending through the whole school, and representing a work of great importance yet to be done in this State, where nearly all people are in the habit of drinking, and that to excess.