McCloskey, Father William, American College, Rome, Italy, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1861 April 20

He was laboring under a mistake when he wrote that Bishop Thaddeus Amat was appointed to New Orleans. He took what Father Stanislaus Buteux spoke of as a rumor from the States as a declaration of the Cardinal. Today one of the Lazarist Fathers informed him that the Bulls had already been sent to Bishop John M. Odin. The Holy Father consecrated a bishop for the newly converted Bulgarians. Father Francis J. Pabisch is pressing forward his studies preparatory to his departure in the fall. All speak well of the new secretary of the Propaganda, Monsignor Cappalti. The new bishop of Viterbo anticipates an uncomfortable berth of it, so near the Sardinian lines. McCloskey thinks reunion of the Southern Confederacy is impossible. What a miserable knot to tie just as the States might have been the arbiters of Europe. They are looking for the new American minister who is to succeed Mr. John P. Stockton. McCloskey has been told that his mother or his wife is a Catholic. Mr. Richter is studying hard and enjoys good health. Young Mr. Robert Seton leaves tomorrow to visit his Father. :: II-5-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.