Scope and Contents Schulte congratulates Brownson on the courage and manliness manifested by him in compiling and publishing "The Religion of Ancient Craft Masonry". He has read the works of Leo Taxil and asks if Brownson has read "Satan Compagnie, Association universelle pour la destruction de l'ordre social", written by Paul Rosen, a high French Mason, and dedicated to Pope Leo XIII. It seems mysterious how priests and even bishops can entertain such mild opinions of masonry in the face of all the...

Scope and Contents The writer, from the offices of Katholische Volks-Zictung, accuses McMaster of wronging them in his November 22 issue. The Volks-Zietung printed an article entitled. "The Irish Catholic Union," which McMaster is supposed to have misquoted by saying that German Catholics could not unite with Irish Societies because the Irish did not care for their children. They made no such statement but did say that the remarks made by Father David Phelan regarding in general, the public school system...

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He has meant to write to McMaster for four months to send the amount due for the Freeman Journal for the past year; now he must write empty-handed. He thanks McMaster for sending the Journal to him during this time. He expects to receive some money due him last December, but does not know when. With this he will pay McMaster that owed for the Journal, and cannot ask him for more favors. :: I-1-o A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Father Remigius Van Der Heyden called at Schutjes' residence yesterday and left a note and Lefevere's letter of the 13th to Van Der Heyden. By this letter Schutjes sees that the ostensorium, etc. must be given to the church of East Saginaw. Schutjes claims these articles for Bay City, the others are in Flint, and Father Charles De Ceuninck gave Schutjes those he had before. Mr. Dallas was never the owner. At that time Saginaw Valley was but one mission, and no church in East Saginaw. Dallas...

Scope and Contents He sends $1000.71, as a bill of deposit, also a draft of $115 as part of money Lefevere gave Father Remigius Van Der Heyden. The difficulty is settled. Schutjes thinks he can pay $350 for which Lefevere was to give a mortgage. He also has money enough for fences and other improvements. His stay has been too short to get the other $100 which Lefevere advanced. He hopes Lefevere will donate that amount or wait until a priest is stationed at East Saginaw who can collect and pay it to him; it...

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He has obtained a quit claim of Mr. Taylor's property. He has secured $75 but expected more, but it is such a mixed-up affair; some subscribers denied any promise, others say they have paid their subscription, but Father Remigius Van Der Heyden denies any payment. A $275 mortgage is suggested. :: III-2-k A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Father Schwarz, writing from St. Mary's College, Encloses $4. to pay for the subscription fee for F. Williams of St. Thomas, Ta., and asks that a receipt be sent him. He asks about the whereabouts of Alphonsus McMaster and sends his regards to Gertrude McMaster. :: I-2-e A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Schwarz thanks McMaster for the check for $56.22. McMaster has already given him $5. for Masses since he remembers the occasion of the donation very clearly. The Masses were said on the five days following McMaster's visit, at which time McMaster also left $5. for any extra things which his son Alphonsus McMaster might need. Schwarz is certain that the donation has been made because an entry for it has been entered on the books of the institution. He will see McMaster in New York on the...

Scope and Contents Schwarz is pleased to send Lefevere's benevolent feelings for him. Many youthful recollections fill Schwarz's mind for the Detroit Diocese where as a stranger and youth from his native country he enjoyed consolation from his holy religion. As long as Schwarz is a member of the Direction of the Leopoldine Association in Vienna, all his influence will be directed to the American College in Louvain. Father John DeNeve's letter to him states that Lefevere intends to come to Europe, and asks if...

Scope and Contents Schwarz, through Father John DeNeve, has heard Lefevere is in Europe, and regrets he is not returning home by way of Vienna. DeNeve also told him of the immense progress in the Detroit Diocese. He regrets that his relations in Schwarzburg and in Toronto are not Catholics; any information sent him about them would be appreciated. Aware of Lefevere's patronage to the American College at Louvain, it has been his constant endeavor to procure for it every year some support, although their...

Scope and Contents Schwarz received Lefevere's letter of July 25, 1844. He asks Lefevere to give all the information he can in his letters about Catholics, particularly the German ones. The complaints of German Catholics have obliged the Leopoldine Association to change their former resolutions of indiscriminate relief by means of the Bishops and to make donations also to German missionaries. Schwarz was not quite sure of this opinion and was the sole cause at the meeting on April 26 of determining that only...

Scope and Contents Schwarz thanks Lefevere for his letter of January 16, 1846. Fortunately last year Schwarz succeeded in obtaining 1900 florins for Lefevere's diocese. The 1100 florins for Fathers Francis Pierz, Frederick Baraga, and Andrew Viszoczky were special donations. He fears it will not be possible to obtain anything this year as there are so many applications. Father Joseph Melcher, Vicar-General of St. Louis, is there at present urgently asking for support. It is hard to judge to whom to send relief...

Scope and Contents Schwarz has had no answer to his letter of January 15 but trusts that Lefevere has received the 120 pounds remitted through D. Appleton and company in New York. At a meeting of the Leopoldine Association on April 17, it was resolved, because of the many Germans in Lefevere's diocese, to grant 2000 florins or 200 pounds to which Schwarz gave his support. Schwarz thanks Lefevere for delivering the letter himself to Louis Gruber ; his wife's relatives in Vienna are too poor to help him. Schwarz...

Scope and Contents At the last meeting of the Leopoldine Association on February 15, it was resolved to forward to Lefevere 2000 florins of which 1000 fls. is for Father Frederic Baraga also for the publication of his dictionary and grammar and 33 fls. to Father Andrew Viszoczky with little remaining for Lefevere. He is to consider that their supplies have fallen off and that not only indifference but hatred for all religious establishments has sprung up with the Revolution. Schwarz thanks Lefevere for signing...

Scope and Contents Although the funds of the Leopoldine Association have decreased nearly one half since 1848, the directors are so penetrated with the necessities of Lefevere's diocese that they have again allotted 4000 florins to his diocese. Lefevere's attention is called to the condition of German Catholics in his diocese and a report on them is desired. Schwarz hopes that his brother P.C. Schwarz had delivered to Lefevere the metal cross sent by Schwarz for the use of the Bishop of Detroit and his letter...

Scope and Contents Mr. Schwarz complains because he had received no answer to his letter of February 6. He will not send any money or anything else, until he has received the receipts for the earlier shipments of money and objects. It may be quite flattering that the Papal Nuncio and others intrust him with all the money and other objects, but it is not very pleasant if he cannot exchange his receipts for those of Rese. Schwarz is a business man and insists on order even among friends. He wants a receipt for...

Scope and Contents Schwerz received Lefevere's letter of August 11 through his brother. He is much gratified at hearing that a Catholic church for Germans is flourishing in Detroit. He sends through his brother a cross destined for the use of the Bishop of Detroit and prays God that it may be borne before him in pontifical procession for many years. Lefevere is right as to the Joffroy Foundation ; its periods will soon commence for his diocese but he wishes Lefevere would send him a letter for the Nuncio at...

Scope and Contents In the only northern newspapers that he has seen that advocate peace, there are no platforms. Conjecturing them, it must either be a recognition of the Confederacy or a return of the seceded states to the Union. He supposes McMaster advocates the first method, but he does not believe northern sentiment will ever permit it, and it is clear from reading the Constitution that its authors meant the union to be perpetual. It is the duty of every patriotic citizen to do all he can to enforce...

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Scott asks McMaster to decide an important question she has been debating continually. She states that, since the Catholic Church condemns the public school system of education as being Godless and prohibits attendance under pain of sin, —is it not therefore a worse sin for a Catholic to teach in a public school? She asks him to publish his answer in the paper. :: I-2-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents He read McMaster's review of the book of "Maria Monk's Daughter" and also the card in the "Sun" newspaper. He thinks that an hour and a half is too short a time for McMaster to form any judgment on the book and he asks McMaster to read the book again and form a definite opinion that will carry more weight. He writes not to criticise, but only to call his attention to the fact that his judgment was too hasty. He thinks a great deal of the Journal and recommends it to all he can. :: I-2-a...

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Mr. Johnson has handed Scott the slip sent him as to electro of the picture of "Fra Junipero Serra." It belongs to a series of cuts illustrating Helen Hunt's articles on the Indian Mission in Southern California. Would Father Daniel E. Hudson pay $15.50 for the electro? Scott signs as treasurer of The Century Company. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents She adopts the view proposed by Hudson in his letter regarding the publication of her story. The fear that her nieces would grow impatient was the only reason for wanting the publication of the story hastened. Now she would be perfectly content to have it published toward the end of Lent. She leaves her Easter story in Hudson's hands asking only that he notify her before its publication. After the first of September she wants her Ave Maria sent to a new address. :: X-2-d A.L.S. 2 pp....

Scope and Contents The accompanying story she arranged while down at the sea shore. It is dedicated to some children she has promised one to for a long time. She thought the most attractive form to introduce it would be in the children's department of the Ave Maria. She hopes it will bring new subscribers to the Ave Maria. The children are being educated at the Sacred Heart Convent at Rochester and their mother is a wealthy Boston lady, a widow and convert to the faith. She would like it published as...

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Mrs. Scravendyke reminds that she sent him a story, called an "Easter Story", in July to be printed in the Ave Maria around Easter time. She wants Hudson to let her know if he can manage to publish it the Sunday preceding Easter. She hopes her suggestion will meet with his approval. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Mrs. Scravendyke is very happy that her "Easter Story" appeared in the Ave Maria and thanks Hudson for the extra copies he sent to her. She asks Hudson's advice on her stories, and she is sending another one which she would like to have published, as it has been written to gratify, entertain, and instruct, the same family who are looking for its appearance in the Ave Maria. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. crown 8vo.

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The books have been forwarded to Hudson. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents The Indians of the Owatoway tribe, represented by the signed chiefs say that they have seen their Bishop Edward Dominic Fenwick there and at Arbre Croche and that their Bishop has given them Father Pierre Dejean to reside with them permanently and he will bring some good women to instruct their children. They have a temporary school and ask Bord to help them get better ones from the President of the United States. They are determined to sell no lands whatever to the government. Some of their...

Scope and Contents The author of the letter is a Staunch, though not a bigoted Protestant. He hopes McMaster will answer his questions since his Catholic friends have been unable to do so. He believes he has detected an inconsistency between the published laws of the clerical authorities and the actions of these authorities. The Church is supposed to solennly Condemn mixed marriages and to detest and forbid them except for very grave reasons. When this happens the Church gives no nuptual blessings, no...

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Several subscriptions are sent to the Ave Maria. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Charity urges her to write Lefevere in behalf of a destitute and friendless child, 12 years old. Her dead Catholic mother raised her children in the same religion, but the two oldest, like their Father, are now Protestants. Despite her tender age and persecution by her Father, brother and sister has persevered in the Catholic religion. She asks Lefevere to place her in an orphan asylum in Detroit for her health and instruction in her Faith. Her Father is willing to give a dollar a week for...