New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-14
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRus.
TIES % TIE SERHiHs lSSpiTUr T A An
Cambridge Meicalf Go.
The state Of this Institution, as presented IN the
Annual Report for 1910, exhibits several interest
ing features. The amount of sales in the Work
Department during that period was sl5,sel 40, the
number Of blind persons employed being IS, and
the amount paid to them in wages 1854 49, For
the future the adult workmen, who have completed
their education in the Institution, will be required
to provide themselves with beard in private fami-
lies in the neghbOrhood. The reasons for this plan
are stated at length, and with good deal OF force
in the Report. The case OF Laura Bidgman, the
blind deaf mute, whose situation has called forth
world wide interest and sympathy, is described IN
detail, bringing down her history TO the present
time and giving many facts which have not before
been in possession Of the public. Our readers will
be glad to be posted up in regard to the condition
Of this remarkable young woman, and we viii ac-
cordingly make some copious extracts from Dr.
Howe's able and Instructive Report
PROGRESS OF LAURA BRIDGAAE.
Her progress has been a curious and an interest
ing spectacle. She has come into human society
with sort OF triumphal march her course has
been a perpetual ovation. Thousands have been
watching her with eager eyes, aud apPiauding
each successful step while She all unconscious Of
their gaze, holding on 10 the slender thread, and
feeling her way along, has advanced with faith
and courage towards those who awaited her with
trembling hope. Nothing shows more than her
case the importance which. despite their useless
waste of human life and human capacity, men
really attach To human soul. They owe 10 her
something for furnishing opportunity Of sho wing
how much OF goodness there is ia them; Tor
surely the way in which she had been regarded
is creditable to humanity. Perhaps there are not
three living women Whose names are more widely
known than hers; and there is lot one who has
excited SO much sympathy AID interest There
ares thousands OF women IA the world who are
striving to attract its notice and gain its ad-
rniralion, by the natural magic OF beauty
and grace, some by tie high nobility Of talent,
some by the lower nobility drank and title, some
BY the vulgar show CT wealth bat none of them
has done il 90 efectuaLy as tds poor blind, deal,
and dumb girl, by the silent show Of her mis-
fortunes, and her successful efforts to surmount
them.
The treatment she has received shows some
thing Of Human Progress TOO for the time was
when a child tereaved OF senses s. she is, would
have been regarded as a monster, and treated as
burden and a curse, even among the most civilized
people Of the world she would, perhaps, have
been thrown into the river. or exposed upon the
mountain to wild beasts. Bat now there are mil.
lions Of people by whom it is recognized az duty.
and esteemed as privilege, TO protect and cherish
her or any one in the ike situation
There Is something, perhaps, In the rarity Of
such cases Of manifold bereavement - something
in the fact that she is the first person who ever
came out OF such dark aud silent prison 10 tell
Us plainly Of its condition, - something Of pride
in the proof which she gives of the native power
Of the human soul bat still, batting all tins,
tie amount Of tender sympathy in her misior-
tunes, and Of real interest in the attempt TO
tighten them, which has been shown BY thoa-