He is spending the hot season on his brother's farm and asks that the Journal be sent there. He commends McMaster upon the fearless character of the Journal but writes to send him an article from the Enquirer of Aug. 21 which deal with his Admiral Polo articles and the dispatches which he published. The article, like all the rest of the godless presses sympathizes with the despot Bismarck. The intrigues of Disraeli and Bismarck are being developed rapidly. He thinks that the best article he has seen recently by McMaster was the one on the "Cardinalate and the Lay Legate of the Holy See", which was in reply to the Catholic Telegraph. He thinks it would be most desirable that the legate should not only be an ecclesiastic but an archbishop. The Purcells in Cincinnati are enemies of McMaster as well as of himself, so also to Brownson . He thinks that the Irish are good in their proper place but out of that place they are abominable and narrow. He cites Cincinnati as not having one outstanding Catholic leader among the laity. After the death of his wife he went to Lincoln, Nebraska where he bought three thousand acres of land for his sons. He remembers Bishop George Carroll of Covington, Ky. and recalls that there is hardly a bishop in the province that is a friend of the Purcells. There is some reason for this. P.S.— He commends McMaster on his articles on Beecher. :: I-2-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.