The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1865., [Electronic resource]

Christmas at St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum.

These good ladies, whose presence in our hospitals during the war saved the lives of so many of our heroes, have under their care fifty-four orphans, and happier children did not yesterday sing lays of praise to the Infant Saviour. Though they have not the fostering hand of a father to care for them, nor the soothing tones of a mother's voice to cheer them in sadness or affliction, they seem to be perfectly happy, so well do their kind guardians fill the places of those that are gone, and so much do they devote themselves to the welfare and enjoyment of their wards.

It is customary with the Sisters to have for the orphans a Christmas tree. The one of yesterday was full of "Kriss Kringle's good things," and there was something there to bring joy to the hearts of each of these motherless little ones.