The expatriated Spaniards from Mexico | have considerably increased the number of Catholics in this region. 2,000 arrived in the city of New Orleans.-Bishop Rosati has been administrator of New Orleans, since that see became vacant by the translation of Dr. Dubourg to France. The vacancy has just been filled by the appointment of Dr. De Neckirie, a gentleman of Flemish origin, who has been for several years, zealously engaged in extending the dominion of the Pope at the west. His consecration is to take place in a few weeks. Bishop Rosati is also a foreigner, by birth an Italian. Besides the superintendence of these two extensive Dioceses, this active Prelate during the last summer, conferred ordination upon a great number of young gentlemen from Mexico, there being no one in that country at present authorized to perform that ceremony. While at New Orleans a few months since, this Rt. Rev. gentleman, "consecrated a sufficiency of holy oils for the ten Dioceses of Mexico, in which there are 7,000 Churches and about six millions of Catholics."

BISHOPRIC OF BARDSTOWN.

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Miscellany, "there are not less than three different female establishments, in which there are more than 200 religious, fervently serving their God."

Here are 21 priests, 6 of whom are constantly employed as missionaries, each one having about 4 Churches under his care. 7 are engaged at the College and Seminary at Bardstown, others are at the different schools and convents. There are nearly thirty Congregations in Kentucky, besides many families scattered in different parts. In Tennessee, is a small Church at Nashville and a station among the Indians.The Jesuits formerly had a missionary station at Vincennes, Ind. At present there is a large Congregation of French Catholics; this is the principal Catholic establishment in this State; there are some other smaller stations, and a school among the Indians. In Illinois, at Kaskaskias, and at Cahokia the Catholics have Churches.

Rt. Rev. Dr. David, Bishop of Mauricastro, is coadjutor to the Bishop of Bardstown; his presence not being required in his own Diocess.

BISHOPRIC OF CINCINNATI.

This Bishopric was erected four or five years since, and the Rt. Rev. Dr. E. Fenwick, a native of Maryland, appointed Bishop. This gentleman was at first a missionary in Kentucky. In that character he commenced his labours in Ohio 10 or 12 years ago. There was then only one small unfinished Chapel in the State; his Congregation consisted of 3 or 4 Irish families and 6 or 7 Germans. He was consecrated Bishop and removed to Cincinnati; had at first only 5 communicants; but in 1827, there were 300. Until this time he had only one priest to assist him in his arduous labours; at present there are ten or twelve. Their funds are principally derived from Europe. Dr. Fenwick did not at first receive as much from his Chapel as would pay for the support of his horse or the postage of his letters; still he determined to build a Cathedral; which he accomplished by the assistance of friends from abroad; and consecrated it in 1826. The Catholics say that their numbers are rapidly increasing in Cincinnati and the State at large, by frequent conversions. not only from the arrival of foreigners, but

This Episcopal See was erected in 1808, and a French gentleman, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Benedict Flaget appointed Bishop. did not arrive in the Diocess till the summer of 1811, since which the Catholic religion in this section of the Union has been constantly advancing. This Diocess at present comprehends Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana and Illinois. As an account of the state of the Catholic religion in this Diocess has recently been published,* it will be unnecessary for us to be very particular. In the State of Kentucky at Bardstown is an ecclesiastical Seminary with 20 or 30 students and a College of 200. Another College at St. Thomas, and a convent of the Dominican order, near Springfield, at which young men are trained up for the sacred office. At Nazareth a short distance from Bardstown, the "Sisters of Charity," a branch of the institution at Emmetsburg have a large school. They have established several other schools in different parts of the State. The Dominican nuns have a convent near Springfield and a school connected with it. The Sisters of Loretto 100 in number have an establishment near Bardstown, and many other inferior schools in the villages around. "The Brothers of St. Benedict," have lately been established about 4 miles from Bardstown. They have A nunnery has been established, consis"adopted the rule of St. Benedict mitiga- ting of converted Protestant ladies. A Dited. Their time is divided between prayer, ocesan Theological Seminary has just comreligious exercises, and manual labour.-menced operations, the number of students The rule imposes no remarkable austerities. “In Kentucky alone," says the Catholic

* See the last Quar. Register, p. 180.

The Sisters of Charity have just commenced operations in that City. They have already 6 orphans and nearly 100

scholars.

not stated. At Zanesville, where a short time since was not a single Catholic, there is now a Chapel, priest, and a respectable Congregation. At Somerset, Lancaster,

and several other places, are considerable numbers of Catholics. The following is an extract of a letter from a gentleman who left New England, last fall, and is now a missionary in Ohio.

At Mackinaw they have a Chapel and a small congregation.

At L'Arbre Croche, 45 miles from Mackinaw, are about 300 Catholic Indians of the Ottawa tribe. 120 of these Indians "have formed a sodality to discountenance the use of ardent spirit." "They have erected," says the Miscellany, two very comfortable buildings of hewed timber for the Rev. Mr. Dejean and for two pious ladies, who have courageously sacrificed comfort and convenience to promote the glory of God, by instructing the female Indians belonging to the Congregation." One of these female missionaries has translated the Catholic prayer book into the Ottawa lan

guage.

"I rode one day in this State with a Catholic Bishop and priest from Ky. on their return from the great Catholic meeting at Baltimore. They stated that there were about 15,000 Catholics and 10 or 12 priests in Ohio. They contradicted the statement so often made, that the Pope had appropriated $100,000 to the valley of the Mississippi and that 21 priests had arrived; but said that his Holiness had actually made a donation of $20,000 to the Bishop of Mobile, Alabama, and the priests were continually arriving in the U. S. from EuAt Chicago, Fort Wayne, and St. Joseph, rope. The whole number of Catholics in are several Catholic families. North and the Union, they stated as the estimate made N. W. of the Territory are a few Congreat Baltimore, was 500,000, and the number gations. At Green Bay perhaps 300 of the of priests about 200. Their denomination, faithful;" at Prairie du Chien on the Misthey said, was increasing, in some instances sissippi, at the Mouth of the Wisconsin is by conversion from the Protestant faith, another settlement; and one of about 200 but the more, the Bishop remarked with a smile, by the increase of Catholic families; Lake Superior. These are in all six housCatholics at the Falls of St. Mary, below for where there was one family 30 years aes for worship in this Diocess, and accorgo, there are of course six now: because all the children are almost invariably Cath-ding to the estimate of protestants 4000 Paolics. In this State they say their numbers are increasing, in the counties of Perry and Stark, and in the towns of Cincinnati and Zanesville. In the latter, I think this is unquestionably the case from what I can hear."

The Territory of Michigan has been under the administration of Bp. Fenwick, till very recently a new See has been created, styled the Bishopric of Detroit, and it is said that the Rev. Mr. Richard has been appointed Bishop. It includes Michigan proper and the N. W. regions. The principal facts respecting this Diocess, we have received from a gentleman in that section of the Union.

This country was settled 150 years ago by Catholics from France and Canada. The Catholic was the only religion known in this region until about the close of the late

war.

"At Detroit," says our correspondent, they have a Cathedral and a Bishop (Richard) lately a delegate from that Territory to Congress. He is a man of great influence in the Territory. The Protestants have settled so fast among them, the three last years, that his political power is now at an end, and he will probably pay greater attention to his Diocess hereafter. Richard is a decided Catholic, and exerts an influence to an extent little known elsewhere in this part of the Union. He is a man of a strong mind."

In Detroit is a Sunday school of between 100 and 200 scholars in which the use of the Bible is prohibited.

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pists. The Catholics, however, estimate their numbers, including the fur traders, at 7000.

"There are, says a correspondent," three priests at, and near Detroit; one was established at Mackinaw last summer-One of the Detroit priests generally visits most of the above places, each summer-remains long enough to marry, baptise, &c. as occasion may offer, and then visits the next settlement. Their influence among them is great, although not so unbounded as in Catholic countries.

"Their numbers," he says, "" are not increasing; a few have been converted to the Protestant faith at Mackinaw. They have within the last few months made application to Government for part of the $10,000 appropriated by Congress for Christianizing the Indians, and have succeeded."

SUMMARY.

From the preceding view of Catholicism in the United States we have the following results, viz. The Popish Hierarchy is composed of one Archbishop and eleven Bishops; the number of priests is not far from 230. They have seven ecclesiastical Seminaries, ten Colleges and collegiate Institutions, several Academies for boys, twenty nunneries, to which are attached female Academics, besides numerous other primary and Charity schools under the instruction of priests and nuns, and according to the estimate of the late Council at Baltimore a population of 500,000.

Note. As truth is our only object, we hold ourselves responsible to make any corrections in the preceding statements, if they shall be found to be erroneous.

FOR 1830.

Containing Statistical views of the Common Schools, Academies, and the principal Public Schools, in New England, and New York; and of the Colleges, and Professional Schools throughout the United States.

MAINE.

COMMON SCHOOLS.

By a law of the state, every town is oblig. ed to raise annually for the support of schools, a sum equal at least to forty cents for each person in the town, and to distribute this sum among the several schools or districts in proportion to the number of scholars in each. From reports made in 1826, it appears that there were in the State :

School Districts, 2,499; No. of children between 4 and 21, 137,931, No. who usually attend schools 101,325; amount required by law to be raised annually $119,334; annual expenditure $137,878,57.

Boston Schools.

[From Report of School Committee, Nov. 27, 1829.] The whole number of Public Schools is 80, viz. 1. Boston Latin School, instituted 1635. No. of scholars 141. This has long been a distinguished school. 2. Eliot instituted in 1713. No. of schools 2, scholars 379. 3 Adams inst. 1717, 2 schools, Scholars 488. 4. Franklin inst. 1785, 2 schools, 580 scholars. 5.Mayhew inst.1803, 2 schools, 407 scholars. 6. Hawes 1811, 2 schools, 159 scholars. 7. African, 1812, 2 schools, 40 scholars. 8. Primary, 1818, 57 schools, 3513 scholars. 9. Boylston, 1818, 2 schools, 378 scholars. 10. Bowdoin, 1821, 2 schools, 597 scholars. 11. High School, 1821, 134 scholFrom 1803 to 1818, $70,000 were raised scholars. 13. H. of Indust. 2 schools 180 12. Hancock, 1822, 2 schools, 391 annually for the support of common schools, scholars. 14. H. of Reformation, 102 scholby a separate tax. Since 1818 $90,000 yearly. Each town appropriates according pense of tuition, fuel, &c. $52,500, which Whole number of Pupils 7430. Exto its own discretion. The State has a Lit-with the estimated rent of the school houerary fund of $64,000, formed by a tax of one half per cent on the capital of the banks. The proceeds of this fund are now divided among the towns in the ratio of representation. There is also an annual income of $9,000 from a tax on banks divided in the

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

same manner.

VERMONT.

The money raised by the general law for the support of schools, at 3 per cent on the Grand List would amount to $51,119,42. Perhaps as much more is raised by District taxes, and a considerable sum is raised for the support of private schools. The Literary fund of this State, derived principally from a tax of 6 per ct. on the annual profits of the banks, is to accumulate till there shall be sufficient to support a common free school, for every District in the State, for two months in the year. There is now loaned about $24,000.

MASSACHUSETTS.

ars.

ars.

Private Schools in the city is 155; whole ses (10,000) is $65,500. Whole number of No. of Pupils 4,018. Expense of tuition, $107,702. Total schools Pub. and Priv. 235. Pupils 11,448. Tuition, fuel, books, &c. $196,829 25.

RHODE ISLAND.

In 1828 the Legislature appropriated $10,000 annually for the support of Public Schools, with authority to each town to raise by tax double the amount of its proportion of the $10,000. All the towns have availed themselves of its provisions. The whole No. of schools probably exceeds 650.

CONNECTICUT.

The Connecticut school Fund, derived from the sale of lands in Ohio, amounted in Ap. 1829 to $1,882,261 68. The revenue from it in 1828 was $80,243 29. The state is divided into 208 School Societies, which contained in August last 84,899 chilIn 1827 there were according to imper-dividend made to Schools amounted to 85 dren between the ages of 4 and 16. The fect returns made to the Secretary of State, cents to each child. 972 Pub. Sch. Dist.; 708 Pri. Sch. and Acad.; 18,143 pupils in private Schools; 71,006 in Public Schools; $163,929 76 paid for public instruction: $158,809 00 for Private.

NEW YORK.

By the Governor's message, Jan. 1830, it appears that the Literary Fund amounts

Shows that the Institution has received a tract of land in Maine, from the Legislature, 6 m. square.