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ROCHESTER, MAY 12, 1855. 
News from Europe. 
The foreign news by the Atlantic, which 
reached New York on the 4th instant, is of a 
very interesting and stirring character. The 
allied army in the Crimea were bombarding 
Sebastopol, and had continued the discharge 
of heavy shot and shell from the 9th to the 
17th of April, the date of last accounts. Con¬ 
siderable impression was made upon the walls, 
and one or two outposts had been taken by 
the French, but no practicable breach had yet 
been made in the main works, and it is doubt¬ 
ful if the besiegers will be able to capture the 
place by storm. Latest dates say the bom¬ 
bardment was to continue for a week longer, 
and then an assault was to be made by the 
combined forces ’of the English, French and 
Turks; but this is a matter of much doubt. 
A decisive engagement has been promised so 
often and so long, that rumors of this charac¬ 
ter are entirely unworthy of credit; and the 
chances are that the Crimean expedition will 
prove a failure, if not an utter rout. 
In the Baltic two thousand laborers were 
employed in strengthening the fortifications of 
Riga. Cronstadt, Swoaborg, Helsingfors, Re¬ 
vel, Wiborg, and other Russian fortresses, 
have been provisioned for eighteen months, 
and ships laden with rocks have been sunk at 
the entrances of the harbors. 120,000 is the 
present nominal strength of the army concen¬ 
trated in the Russo-Baltic provinces. The 
advance detachment of the allied fleet, con¬ 
sisting of 12 sliips-of-the-line and 4 steamers, 
under Admiral Dundas, have anchored in the 
harbor of Kiel, and are awaiting the clearing 
of ice from the 6ea and harbors. Admiral 
Napier did nothing last year with one of the 
best appointed fleets that ever floated on the 
sea; and it is to be seen what his successor 
will he able to effect, after the enemy have 
had a whole year longer to strengthen h?s*de¬ 
fences and prepare for the struggle. The 
British public certainly expect something will 
he done, but it is worthy of note, as a mark of 
declining confidence in their own invincibility, 
that the present fleet departed without those 
public ceremonials and impudent boasts which 
marked the sailing of last year’s bootless ex¬ 
pedition. 
The Vienna Conference has broken up, and 
the envoys taken their departure. No hope 
of peace seems to be left, hut, on the other 
hand, uncompromising hostilities are likely to 
he continued. Russia stands firm on the posi¬ 
tion she planted herself in the outset, and 
dares the allies to do their worst. She has at 
least this advantage over her opponents, that 
she is fighting on her own soil. 
The Emperor and Empress of the French 
have been on a visit to England, where they 
were feted by the Queen and nation at large, 
and any amount of fulsome flatteries poured 
into their ears. Napoleon the Emperor, is 
quite another person from Napoleon the exile ; 
and English nobility now kneel to kiss the 
hem of a robe, which, only a few years ago, 
they deemed too plebian to wipe the dust 
from their feet. 
The war works oppressively on the English 
revenues. The estimated expenses of the 
government for the coming year is £86,339,000, 
of which £63,339,000 is expected to be raised 
by taxes, leaving a deficiency of £23,000,000, 
or over one hundred million dollars ! The Roths¬ 
childs have taken the government loan of 
£16,000,000. 
Under the present aspect of affairs in Europe, 
the next arrival will be looked for in this 
country with great interest, for it does seem 
that a crisis is at hand, and that, if the allies 
do .not strike some successful blow, their an¬ 
tagonist will drive them into the sea. The 
hordes of Russia will pour into the Crimea 
from all her plains, and conquer their enemy 
by sheer strength of numbers. What boots it 
to the Czar if thousands of bis soldiers are 
slain ? Two armed men will spring up where 
each has fallen, while every soldier of the al¬ 
lies killed or disabled, reduces their strength 
so much. One other such victory as the Alma 
or Inkermann, would be their ruin. 
Since the above was written, the Asia has 
arrived at Halifax with two days later news 
from the East and four from Western Europe: 
There is nothing in the Asia’s advices that 
varies or adds anything of importance to the 
news brought by the Atlantic. It is stated 
the general impression in England was that a 
long and bloody struggle was likely to ensue. 
Hymeneal Contract. 
The somewhat celebrated woman’s rights 
champion, Miss Lucy Stone, was married on 
May-day at West Brookfield, Mass., to Henry 
B. Blackwell, one of the leaders of the abo¬ 
lition movement at the West. At the time a 
kind of written agreement and protest was 
drawn up and signed by the parties, contain¬ 
ing among other things the following :—“We 
protest especially against the laws which give 
to the husband—1st, the custody of his wife’s 
person ; 2d, the exclusive control and guard¬ 
ianship of their children ; 3d, the sole owner¬ 
ship of her personal, and use of her real estate, 
unless previously settled upon her, or placed 
in the hands of trustees, as in the case of mi¬ 
nors, lunatics and idiots ; 4th, the absolute 
right to the product of her industry ; 5th, also 
against laws which give to the widower so 
much larger and more permanent an interest 
in the property of his deceased wife, than they 
give to the widow in that of her deceased hus¬ 
band ; 6th, finally, against the whole system 
by which ‘ the legal existence of the wife is 
suspended during marriage,’ so that in most 
States she neither has a legal part in the 
choice of her residence, nor can she make a 
will, nor sue or be sued in her own name, nor 
inherit property. ’ ’ 
The Rev. T. W. Higginson performed the 
marriage ceremony. 
The Weather. —During the past week the 
atmosphere was very chilly, although the sun 
shone most of the time through the day. Dry, 
cold winds prevailed, which felt as if they 
came to us over fields of ice, and as they swept 
along raised clouds of dust in our streets. On 
Monday, however, it clouded up with a cold 
North-east wind, and in the evening it began 
to snow, which shifted from snow to rain 
alternately through the night and most of 
Tuesday, the date of the present writing. A 
telegraph despatch from Buffalo on Monday 
evening, announces a snow storm there and at 
Cleveland, and we noticed this (Tuesday) 
morning as the Western train came in, that 
the roofs and platforms of the cars were cov¬ 
ered with snow two or three inches deep.— 
This shows that the snow was still falling in 
that direction, although it was raining fast at 
that time in this locality. 
Fall of a Suspension Bridge. —The new 
Suspension Bridge, recently erected at Patter¬ 
son, N. J., above the falls of the Passaic, fell 
on the morning of May third. The builders 
were testing the structure at the time, with a 
weight of twenty tons, and about thirty per¬ 
sons were very foolishly npon the bridge at the 
time it gave way. They were all precipitated 
into the water, and two of them seriously if 
not fatally injured. This is the second bridge 
that has been put over the river at this point 
within a year. Whatever may be said of Sus¬ 
pension Bridges on the score of elegance and 
economy, it cannot be denied that they are 
much more liable to disaster than any other 
form. Several,^liave fallen in Europe and in 
this country within a few years, and compared 
to the limited number built, the accidents are 
truly alarming. 
The Grand Trunk Railway. —This stupen¬ 
dous railroad company is before the Canadian 
Parliament for another loan of £900,000, hav¬ 
ing already received and used a loan of £2,- 
000,000. 
Our Canadian neighbors will learn to their 
cost, that more than one such call will be 
made before the Victoria bridge, at an expense 
of $10,000,000, and a track from Quebec to 
Sarnia on Lake Huron, is completed. 
Next to the Pacific railroad, this Grand 
Trunk is the most gigantic scheme yet broach¬ 
ed, and it will be found quite equal to, if not 
beyond, the pecuniary abilities of the Provin¬ 
ces through which it passes. 
Eupiionics. —A Rhode Island paper crowds 
the euphonies into a brief paragraph, after the 
following fashion :—‘ ‘ The survey of a route 
for a railroad through the Woonasquetucket 
valley was commenced last week. Beginning 
at Providence, the route passes westward 
through Allendale, Allentown, Allenville, 
Georgiaville, Greenville, Chepachet, or Maple- 
ville, to Pascoag, where it intersects with the 
New York and Boston Air-line, via. Woon¬ 
socket. ’' 
A nephew of Kossuth was recently killed in 
one of the coal mines of Pennsylvania by the 
falling of a mass of rubbish from the roof. 
He was engaged in the Hungarian revolution, 
and became one of the political refugees from 
that ill-fated country. 
J.tfei’nirlj ^eco 
Patent Office and Patent Laws - or. a Guide to Inventors 
and a Book of Reference for Judges, Lawyers, Magis¬ 
trates and others. With Appendices. ByJ.G. Moore, 
author of “ China and the Indies,” etc. Philadelphia: 
Parry & McMillan.—1855. 
A much needed work, particularly valuable 
to Inventors and all interested in Patent Rights 
as a matter of traffic. The substance of the 
Laws bearing upon the subject, the forms of 
procedure for procuring Patents, and for re¬ 
straining infringements upon them, &c., &c., 
are here given or described. It is got up in 
good style and arranged so that any subject 
can be readily referred to. Such a work has 
long been a desideratum, and we commend it 
to all interested. 
Grace Lee. By Juma Kayanagh, author of “ Daisy 
Burns,” “Nathalie,” “Women of Christianity,” etc. 
New York : D. Appleton & Co. 
This is a handsome volume, and is one of 
the most characteristic of Miss Kavanagh’s 
productions. The contest between Love and 
Pride is depicted with a skillful hand, and the 
interest of the story well sustained to the last. 
Sold at Dewey’s, Arcade Bookstore. 
History of Turkey. By A. Dk Lamartine. Translated 
from the French. In Three Volumes. New York: D. 
Appleton & Co. 
The first volume of this translation has just 
been issued by Appleton, and from the inte¬ 
rest of the subject, and the well known abili¬ 
ty of the writer, will find many readers. The 
style is well adapted to oriental history, which 
has many points in common with the roman¬ 
tic and poetical. For sale at D. M. Dewey’s. 
Emma : or, the Three Misfortunes of a Belle. By Jacob 
Abbott. New York : Harper & Brothers. 
This is the sixth number of “ Harper’s Sto¬ 
ry Books,” and concludes the second volume 
of the series. The story is one which will in¬ 
terest and instruct the class to which “Em¬ 
ma” belonged, and the young as well as the 
more sedate and less ambitious people, will 
read it with pleasure. Sold by E. Darrow & 
Brother. 
Fatal Accident to a Clergyman. —The Rev. 
Charles H. Halsey, rector of Christ’s Church 
(Episcopal) New York city, waB killed a few 
days since in the following melancholy man¬ 
ner. He was inspecting a new house in pro¬ 
cess of erection, with the intention of obtain¬ 
ing a plan for a parsonage, and was standing 
at a large window on the fourth floor, when 
by some misstep he was precipitated to the 
ground, a distance of sixty feet. He never 
spoke after the fall and lived but half an hour. 
Deceased was forty-six years old, and a man of 
great worth and erudition. 
Temperance Bill in Canada. —The Temper¬ 
ance Bill has been thrown out of the Canadian 
Parliament on the ground of informality.— 
Objection was taken that the bill affected the 
revenue, and should, therefore, according to 
the forty-fifth rule of the House, have origi¬ 
nated in committee of the whole ; and that, 
in consequence of this omission, the whole 
proceeding upon it was void. The Speaker 
thus ruled, and the decision, which was ap¬ 
pealed from, was sustained by a vote of 59 to 
46. It is said great excitement prevailed in 
the House when the vote was taken. 
A Drinking People.— Messrs. J. C. Downs 
& Co., in a communication to one of the San 
Francisco papers, state that five thousand 
gallons of distilled liquors have been consumed 
each day in California for the last four years, 
of which they at present furnish one thousand. 
The total amount of liquor consumed for four 
years past is, according to the calculations, 
about 122,600 hogsheads. 
Vestiges of Winter. —Buffalo harbor has 
closed again with ice. After being driven 
back so as to admit the ingress and egress of 
a few vessels, a change in the direction of the 
winds again blocked up the entrance, which 
may remain closed for several days yet. In 
New Hampshire, the snow in some places, 
Franconia for instance, is still a conple of feet 
deep. 
Madeira Wine. —The following extract of a 
letter from an old resident of Madeira con¬ 
firms the previous advices as to almost the 
cessation of the production of Madeira wine 
for a number of years, and those who fortu¬ 
nately have a supply of this wine here will 
have the more reason to congratulate them¬ 
selves : 
1 ‘ The stocks of old wine on this island are 
diminishing, without any prospect of more 
being produced to supply their place, after the 
total loss of the last vintage and the destruc¬ 
tion of at least three-fourths of the vines.— 
The remaining fourth has little or no strength 
to produce more for many years, even in the 
unexpected event of the wine disease disap¬ 
pearing. The best vine lands are being turn¬ 
ed to the cultivation of sugar, cotton and 
green crops.”— National Intel. 
_____ 
Pine Lumber. —The first raft of pine lumber 
from the Upper Mississippi this season, was re¬ 
ceived last week. It comprised 300,000 feet, 
and was purchased by Mr. H. C. Sweetser, at 
$15 per thousand in the water. A large por¬ 
tion of the lot was immediately re-sold to a 
St. Louis dealer at an advance. The article 
bids fair to rate much lower than it did last 
season ; although the sale is not a fair crite¬ 
rion, as the market has not yet fairly opened. 
•—Alton Telegraph. 
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There is a Swedish Lutheran church edifice 
in Wilmington, Del., which, from its antiqui¬ 
ty, is much venerated by the inhabitants. The 
house was built in 1698, by the Swedes, and is 
one of the oldest meeting houses in the 
country. 
Circular to Census Marshals. 
Secretary’s Office, > 
Albany, April 27, 1855. ] 
The commissions, and pamphlet copies of 
the instructions, are now being sent by mail to 
the marshals appointed in the different towns 
and wards of the State for taking the State 
Census under the act recently passed by the 
Legislature. 
Notwithstanding the particular request con¬ 
tained in the printed circular accompanying 
each commission, requesting an acknowledg¬ 
ment by return of mail of the receipt of the 
commission and instructions, the persons re¬ 
ceiving them, in their answers, too often ne¬ 
glect to mention specifically that both the 
commissions and the instructions are received. 
This continually occasions the necessity of 
writing a second time to ascertain with cer¬ 
tainty that each marshal has duly received 
both documents. 
The attention of those concerned is invited 
to this subject, and an observance of the request 
contained in the circular enclosed with the 
commission is particularly requested. 
E. W. Leavenworth, Sec’y of State. 
Fearful Position. —The Montreal Gazette of 
Friday week, says the ice was broken up and 
rapidly moving away, but the river was not 
yet clear. On Monday last twenty-three per¬ 
sons, including thirteen ladies and gentlemen, 
who wished to take the cars for Boston, and 
ten ferrymen, undertook to cross the river on 
foot. When about four hundred yards from 
the Montreal shore, a loud shouting from the 
land which they had quitted, and a sharp hiss¬ 
ing round, caused by the rapid upturning of 
the ice above them, warned them that a 
‘ * shove ’ ’ had commenced, and that the ice 
was moving down. They were in a very 
dangerous position, and immediately com¬ 
menced making for the shore. Around them 
was a moving mass of jagged, rotten ice, and 
they were obliged to jump from one cake to 
another. Finally, all reached a place of safety 
with the exception of one gentleman, Mr. 
Sandeson, who was brought ashore by the 
current upon a cake of ice, dead. Whether he 
was stunned or crushed by the concussion of 
the ice, or whether he was frightened to death, 
is not known. 
The U. S. Exploring Expedition to the 
North Pacific. — The Boston Atlas learns 
through private sources that at the last ac¬ 
counts the U. S. ship Vincennes was at Hong 
Kong, preparing for the exploration of Bher- 
ing Straits and the northwest American coast. 
Several of the officers attached to this expe¬ 
dition have died during the winter, of diseases 
contracted during the long stay of the vessel 
at Hong Kong last summer. Another letter, 
under date of February 1st, refers to a “ terri¬ 
ble suspicion that has long been held by all, 
and now amounts almost to a certainty,” that 
the Porpoise has been totally lost at sea, with 
all on board. She has not been seen or heard 
of by any vessel since she parted from the Vin¬ 
cennes, in the gale of the 21st of September 
last. That gale, it will be remenbered, was 
very severe in the China Sea, in which nearly 
one hundred small craft were lost, even in the 
sheltered harbor of Hong Kong. 
Gold Mines in the Neighborhood of the 
Rhine. —The success of the explorers for gold 
in California and Australia has led to the min¬ 
ute examination of the geological formations 
in other countries, with a view of discovering 
auriferous veins. One of these examinations 
is reported to have been very successful. Pro¬ 
fessor Frederick Walchner, Bergrath of the 
Duchey of Baden, and brother A. Walchner, 
a professional philologist in this city, is re¬ 
ported to have found a very rich gold mine a 
few miles from Heidelberg, in the mountain¬ 
ous country which, in that region, overlooks 
the plains bordering the Rhine. It is expect¬ 
ed that it will make the fortune of the finder. 
The intelligence is received here in a letter 
from Prof. Zell, an eminent botanist of Carls- 
ruhe.— N. Y. Post. 
Abandoned Slaver. —Letters from Key West 
mention that the Brigantine Horatio, of 
Thomastin, Me., was picked up, abandoned 
and stripped of nearly all of her valuables and 
taken into Kingston on the 23d. The ar¬ 
rangements of her deck, a large number of 
water casks on board and the stench from her 
hold, indicated that she had been successfully 
engaged in the slave trade, and probably was 
cast adrift after landing her living cargo in 
Cuba. Her name had been painted over, but 
discovered from the portions of an old log¬ 
book found on hoard. She cleared from New 
York on the 1st of November under Captain 
Martin, for the coast of Africa, where she was 
spoken about two months after. 
A Venomous Reptile.— We were shown yes¬ 
terday, by Mr. Harris, engineer of the steamer 
Welaka, the rattles taken from a rattlesnake 
recently killed by Mr. Hayne, of Mayport, 
Florida, on an island near the mouth of St. 
John’s River. The bunch or cluster was eight 
and a half inches in length, and the number 
of rattles thirty-five, besides the button on 
the end of the tail. As the first rattle does 
not appear till the fourth year, his snakeship 
must have been thirty-nine years old. Who 
would like to encounter such a monster in a 
cane-brake ?— Savannah Rep. 
Santa Anna. —A correspondent of the New 
Orleans Bee, Avriting from Mexico, states that 
Santa Anna Avas so seriously ill that he was 
not expected to live. His malady is an affec¬ 
tion of the head and throat, causing a state of 
stupor. There Avas a rumor to the effect that 
Santa Anna and his Cabinet are disposed to 
sell Lower California, for which they are wil¬ 
ling to accept the modest sum of $40,000,000. 
The Gadsden purchase money is exhausted, 
and another slice of territory must be sold in 
order to supply an empty treasury. 
An Aged Man. —Intelligence has been re¬ 
ceived at the Pension Office at Washington, of 
the death of Hugh Harris, a soldier of the 
revolution. He died at Janesboro, Tennessee, 
on the 12th of February, at the extraordinary 
age of one hundred and ten years. He Avas 
married to his last wife, who is now in receipt 
of a pension as his Avidow, in the ninetieth 
year of his age ! 
Some freight airs Avere recently burned on 
the Boston and Maine Railroad, and about 260 
bales of cotton, valued at $10,000, belonging 
to one of tbe Lawrence Cotton Mills, were 
consumed. 
01 ippiiqgs. 
A despatch from Buffalo, May 2d, says the 
the straits of Mackinac are open. 
The rate of interest established by the Ne¬ 
braska Legislature is ten per cent. 
The annual appropriations for the expenses 
of the city of Philadelphia, for the year 1855, 
amounts to $3,710,564. 
The propeller Forest City arrived at Mil- 
Avaukee May 2d, being the first boat of the sea¬ 
son from the loAver lakes. 
Work on the Hydraulic Canal at Niagara 
Falls, is to be resumed immediately. So says 
the Gazette of the 2d inst. 
A youth in Mason village, N. 1L, while re¬ 
cently sliding on Sunday, broke his leg and 
the Sabbath at the same time. 
The ship Franklin Pierce cleared from 
Charleston, May 3d, for Liverpool, with a car¬ 
go of cotton valued at $208,000. 
The Astor, St. Nicholas, New York and 
Clarendon Hotels, in New York city, have ad¬ 
vanced their prices to $3 per day. 
The House of Representatives of Wisconsin, 
by a vote of 44 to 27, have passed a bill to re¬ 
store the death penalty in that State. 
Secretary Guthrie decides that milk cannot 
lie imported from Canada without paying duty. 
The Buffalonians are in deep affliction. 
The Alexandria Gazette states that 80,000 
herring were lately caught at a single haul, at 
the Arkendale landing on the Potomac. 
Ihe Saratoga and Washington Railroad was 
sold out by the Sheriff on the 18th ult. It 
will be a total loss to the stockholders. 
The propellor Fintry reached Buffalo, May 
3d—the first arrival this season. She got 
through the ice without much difficulty. 
TnK Mt. Moms Union of May 2d says, the 
Valley Canal is in good working order, but 
there is not much stir for the want of freight. 
In May, 1864, Ohio had within a fraction of 
five millions of sheep. The counties of Colum¬ 
biana, Licking and Harrison have about 130 - 
000 each. 
The Vermont jails are empty, two havo but 
one inmate each, one has 6ix and another 
seven. The average is but three to a iail thro’ 
the State. 
Hon. Iiiomas I. Marshall, the well-known 
Orator of Kentucky, has once more joined the 
Order of the Sons of Temperance. Hope he 
will stick. 
Lighteen dollars a gallon was the price 
which the Otard pale brandy of 1820 brought 
at the recent auction sale of Mr. Hope’s liquors 
in New York. 
The additions to the library of Congress 
during the past year, amount to 15,000 vol¬ 
umes. The whole number of volumes is noAy 
about 50,000. 
Mu. Swain, the agent of the line of steamers 
OAvned by the Michigan Central Railroad Co., 
has entirely excluded the sale of liquors on 
board the boats. 
A bill has been introduced in the Massachu¬ 
setts Legislature which provides that in all 
State trials the prisoner’s counsel shall have 
the closing plea. 
The Gazette says there is now upwards of 
600 suits pending in the several Courts in 
Hamilton County, in Avhich the city of Cin¬ 
cinnati is a party. 
A furious Avar is Avaging between the news¬ 
papers of St. Peter and St. Paul, as to which of 
these places shall be the seat of Government of 
Minnesota territory. 
A firm of produce dealers in New York city 
has imported from France, within a day or 
two, one thousand dozen hen’s eggs, for do¬ 
mestic consumption. 
The Norfolk Herald says that $20,000 worth 
of pea nuts have, the last year, been shipped 
from that city to the North, through the 
agency of a single house. 
Nearly $200,000 have been secured, in sub¬ 
scriptions, to endow a University in Troy.— 
The Budget says the necessary buildings will 
be immediately commenced. 
Four policemen in Quebec are under arrest 
for robbery. Among the goods found in their 
possession wero a number of sets of coffin 
mountings and several revolvers. 
The Buffalo Courier says the liquor dealers 
on the other (Canada) side of the river are an¬ 
ticipating a rich harvest the present season, 
and rents have greatly advanced. 
New England rum is selling at Constantino¬ 
ple at 80 cents a gallon. Quite an impetus has 
been given to the distilleries, by the general 
failure of the grape, and by the war. 
They have tAvo rival gas companies in Nor- 
Avhich, Ct., and Avhen one goes to putting 
doAvn pipes, the other resists and gets up a mob. 
Actual violence has already occurred. 
The estimated revenue of Canada for the 
year 1856, is $4,266,000, and the anticipated 
expenditure is $4,252,000. It is believed that 
the customs will furnish $3,400,000. 
A man called John J. Jones, Avas recently 
arrested at Lockport, Ohio, on a charge of 
murdering a person named McCardle, at West 
Point, Mo., about fourteen years ago. 
There are, it appears, in round numbers, 
3,000,000 of dogs in France, which cost in food 
eighty millions of francs, and communicate 
hydrophobia to 200 persons annually. 
At Fort des Moines, Iowa, there is a scarcity 
of Avomen. In one house were nineteen bach¬ 
elors and only one married couple. The editor 
entreats the ladies to come out there. 
More than two thousand patents will bear 
the date of 1855, as already five hundred have 
been issued during the first quarter. Over 
12,000 patents have appeared since 1836. 
The receipts from the Schuylkill coal region 
last Aveek are the largest ever known. The 
Reading Railroad carried 65,093 tons, and tho 
Schuylkill Canal 34,228—in all nearly 90,000. 
All the electric telegraphs throughout the 
Pontifical States are now open to tho public. 
A dispatch of twenty-five Avords or less, trans¬ 
mitted, not exceeding forty miles, cost2f. 60c., 
(forty-five cents.) 
There are iioav in the United States thirty- 
tAvo insane hospitals in active operation, and 
nine others in construction. Twenty-eight are 
State institutions, and the number of tho in¬ 
sane is nearly 20,000. 
