Putting Neale forward as about to get up a ship-church was a mistake. He was rapped over the knuckles by his superior when J. J. McCormick of Boston started a collection for it years ago. Ben Butler was to lecture for it and Denis Kearney, the sandlot orator, was to help. The Archbishop of Baltimore James Gibbons wrote and approval of the idea. The boat is to be used all around the lower shores of the Chesapeake and Potomac. Father W. H. Carroll is in Loyola College, Baltimore. Neale has with him Father David B. Walker . Walker goes to the public schools every day when they are let out and catechises the children, black and white, for an hour or so. They live a little above the confluence of the Potomac and Chesapeake. The two of them have about 3000 under their care for which the blacks form in some places three-fifths. The mixture of whites and blacks together is a great annoyance and obstacle to doing good. Their churches are badly out of repair. The chapel the Archbishop wants to build ought to be served by the floating church. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.