They arrived safe in port on the 16th. They found Bishop Leo Raymond De Neckere, C.M. in tolerable health; he administered Confirmation to several children in the Church of St. Mary on the 17th. Tucker finds New Orleans very tiresome but does not expect that they will be able to embark before May 1. They will board the General Hand, bound for Marseilles. Tucker fears much from the present convulsed state of Europe; they have just received news that there is a revolution in Paris against religion and her clergy. Several priests escaped from the hands of an enraged populace but only with their lives; the sacred vessels and ornaments have been sacrilegiously profaned. Some priests have even been dragged to the gallows, but fortunately they were rescued by the National Guard. He sends his respects to the members of their Society, to his sister, and to all the other Sisters of Loretto. :: IV-3-i A.L.S. 4pp. 4to.