In the issue of Nov. 28, 1863, the New York Freeman's Journal requested information regarding the Pointe Coupée Louisiana Sacrilege. Scollard sends him the little he knows of the affair. Although his mission is Bayou Sara, it is just opposite Pointe Coupée, each on the banks of the Mississippi. Although he has been unable to see Father Francis Mittlebron, a Catholic federal soldier who was present at the time, says that no offence was offered to Mittlebron. The Federals were sent to Pointe Coupée to capture a number of Confederate soldiers stationed there. Mittlebron was with them at the time and had to come along, but was released and returned as soon as the commanding officer learned who and what he was. As to what your correspondent L _____ states about forwarding the inventory of his losses to the French Minister in Washington, Scollard doesn't see how that could be, for under the circumstances, the United States government is the only one to whom application must be made, if any is to be made at all. The Catholic Priests, Nuns, and Christian Brothers have been treated well by the Federal forces. Even special privileges have been granted to the Sisters of Charity by General Benjamin Butler who exchanged their Confederate money for Federal dollars, when he had prohibited its use in New Orleans. Also, when Baton Rouge was attacked and burned, the officer in command saw that the church was in danger of being damaged, and did not fire the houses near it. The priest, Father F Larnaudie, went to General Butler and asked for provisions for the homeless and orphans and Butler permitted him to bring what he liked. The Christian Brothers had only to hold out a flag and a gun boat would take them to the city from their school in Biloxi, for supplies. When General Franklin was in command of Baton Rouge he asked the parish priest to take charge of the supply of rations so as to relieve the wants of many. No man could be more kind and generous to the priests than Major General Nathaniel Banks, as testified by a letter he sent Scollard during the siege of Port Hudson, assuring him that they did not make war on institutions or religious, any more than upon women and children. Scollard never received any insult from the Yankees within their lines, even from Grierson and his men who did not appear to be afraid of God or man. He does not think it right to raise unfounded prejudices against either party. He, too, longs for peace and hoped that Archbishop John Hughes of New York and Archbishop John M. Odin of New Orleans would be able to present to their respective governments agreed-upon terms of peace. Those in the North can have no idea of the horrors of the war, but to those of the South it is appalling. He had no idea that Americans could ever bring their minds to persecute each other so. They must present a sad spectacle to other countries. It is as though prophecies were to be fulfilled and the end of the world to come soon. The duty of the Catholic priests is to pray earnestly that God will remove this scourge. :: I-1-m A.L.S. 16pp. 12mo.