Cuny, Father F. Christophe, Charenton, Louisiana, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1866 August 30

He hopes Odin will visit his churches as he did last year but if he has decided otherwise, Cuny sends a report for the year just past. There are 250 parishioners at Pattersonville and about 300 at Franklin . A pastor is very useful there but could not live on the little he could collect. In a year at Pattersonville he has had 30 piastres and 60 at Franklin, not enough to pay the two most capable men, Mr. Hefflé at Franklin and Edward Broussard at Pattersonville. Services are regularly attended and confessions and Communions are numerous. Things are better at Charenton. The pews rented for 500 piastres and with baptisms and marriages he counts on 600 to 650 piastres. He has 50 piastres in reserve as his jus cathedraticum. :: VI-2-l A.L.S. French 4pp. 12mo.