He has received two letters from Brute without finding time to replay. He has only daily happenings to report except for Father Martial. One if that Father Anthony Garnier has been named vicar general of Paris in the absence of the Archbishop. Also he and Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget have received a letter from Monsignor Benedict Fenwick announcing has nomination to the bishop of Boston. He says nothing about New York. Martiel received this news with pleasure as a friend of religion and a Frenchman. Most of the American there were pleased. At St. Joseph's Seminary the great building is up to the fourth storey. The basement is above ground and is their first floor. Perhaps it is vanity that suggests that Brute make a trip to visit them. The secretary pro temps of the United States has written to the Bishop asking an account of the literary establishment and the Bishop has outlined to him the great progress of the Church in the fourteen years for the public in answer to those in Washington who say that Catholic is the enemy of republican governments. The College goes well. They have 90 boarders, as many as they can lodge. Fifteen have made their first Communion the first Sunday of October. The Bishop said the Mass and preached a sermon in French at 7 o'clock. Every Sunday they have at least 50 communions. The number of externs is nearly a 100. The school of the Sisters also grows. They have 52 boarders. They need a building. Father Derigauds is finished his college which can hold 150 students. It is 70 feet by thirty, a continuation of the seminary which is thirty square. That makes a hundred feet of building at two stages without counting the cellars which contain the large refectory, the offices, a kitchen, laundry and so on. And it is all paid for. They are going to print at Bardstown a catechism for the diocese larger than the little one. When it is ready he will send a copy to Brute. It will contain 150 pages and sell for a quarter dollar. It will have a preface by the Bishop and contain morning and evening prayer and some hymns and a cathechism of the feasts of the year. He has at hand the controversies of St. Francis de Sales. He will return the book at the first opportunity. He is much displeased with the Miscellany with its public dinners held and toasts Bishop John England changes the nature of the journal from a religious to a secular one. David has written to him but received no reply. David speaks of his health. His attacks of asthma care light but there is irritation in his speech which is almost continual because of his many duties, at times he has haze before his eyes for a half hour or three quarters. He has consulted doctors and they may be no remedy but to cease speaking public. He asks Brute which he should give up. He does not fear death but does not want to survive the Bishop. He asks prayers for the two afflicted bishops since Flaget is not well either. :: II-3-o - A.L.S. - French - 3pp. 4to. 5