Spalding must request that Lefevere invite someone else to give the retreat this year. They have had fearful riots in which their persons and churches have been in imminent danger. From fifty to one hundred have been "butchered," mostly Irish and Germans, and about 20 houses burned. One of the Jesuits of St. Louis or Cincinnati could no doubt do it if Lefevere would write to Father William Stack Murphy, Provincial at St. Louis. :: III-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.