Purcell congratulates Lefevere for his $2000 sent him for Pope Pius IX. He is glad that the Bishop of Sandwich P.A. Pinsonneault has resigned buy what will he do at St. Vincent's? Bishop George Aloysius Carrell, S.J., according to Father David Whelan suffered a sick spell on the Epiphany. The Telegraph gives Bishop John B. Lamy's account of his nice time at sea, and of his first interview with the Holy Father. Rev. Dr. William George McCloskey wrote Purcell that the Cardinal Alexander Barnabo? asked about the "scandals" in the Council but used a milder word when he met him a second time. The pacific, wise bishop of New Mexico was just the man to give a calm, true account of the incidents, for there was no scandal - only a little temper on the part of his Grace of St. Louis Peter Richard Kenrick . Purcell invites Lefevere to go to Rome with him and Bishop James F. Wood of Philadelphia in May or June. :: III-2-l A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.