Western Missions And Missionaries a Series of Letters

nheit. I have not been able, thus far, to send you any interesting article. I have lately received a long and beautiful letter from Father A. Hoeken, in the Rocky Mountains. It appeared, on the llth instant, in the Freeman's Journal, which you receive regularly. I shall try and send you a translation. I inclose to-day a short notice of Father Eysvogels. If you give it a place in your Precis, it will give pleasure to the friends and acquaintances of that good Father in North Brabant. As you propose terminating a volume of my letters, you would do well, perhaps, to add, if there is time, a letter to the St. Louis Leader, dated June 19, 1855, which you can have translated. St. Louis, June 19,1855. Mr. Editor : From a letter received from the Rocky Mountains about two months ago, I learn that the Indians, in our different missions in Oregon, continue to give great satisfaction totheir missionaries, by their zeal and fervor in the holy practices of religion. "I hope," writes Father Joset, "that the holy Sacrament of Confirmation, which many have lately received, will add still more stability to their good resohi- tions. The arrival of Monseigneur Blanchet, of Nesqualy, had been announced only a few hours before, yet, notwithstanding that one half of the neophytes were absent on their hunting-grounds, the zealous prelate gave confirmation to over six hundred persons. He expressed the greatest satisfaction at the flourishing condition of the missions, a... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.