Dubuis, Claude Marie, Bishop of, Galveston, Texas, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1867 March 2

He has just returned from a one-month tour on the coast of San Diego where the population has grown a thousand to one; one part of Mier, Guerrero, Agua Legua has 200 families; around San Diego at Los Precenos, Las Conchas and Trinidad, at Concepcion on the Roma road more than 80 families. These poor people, fleeing from the Liberals and the Mexican heresy of the Liberal priests and apostates, have taken refuge on this side of the Rio Grande. Dubuis gave them two priests. These good Mexicans have not forgotten Odin; the numerous family of Garcia especially ask to be remembered. Dubuis is grateful for the advice Odin gave to Father Peter Berthet ; his little attack on Father Louis C.M. Chambodut is unworthy of a priest. As for Mr.Bastien, Odin is to do as he thinks best with this independent young man who acts even against the advice given him by Father Charles Padey . Dubuis is afraid Bastien will give Odin trouble but he may be mistaken. Dubuis hopes to finish all the important business of the diocese before Easter. He feels obliged to respond to the Holy Father's wish. Moreover he wants to visit Dublin to obtain subjects who will continue to be trained at Beaujeu or in their houses in Texas. Demands for schools are constant; with 20 subjects more they will be entirely the masters of the place. The Sisters Hospitaliéres have been in their new house a week and have already begun their works of charity toward the sick and the orphans. Dubuis is writing to the Ursulines of New Orleans to give Odin $160 to pay the customs in New York on the four boxes. :: VI-2-m A.L.S. French 4pp. 12mo.