The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-08-27
DErAnTN.sr OF STATE, I

WAsHlNoToN, August ~, 1850 \
Information has been received at this De.
partment from Mr.. E. W. sartori, the Act.
ing Consul Of the United States at Callao,
Peru, of the death, on the 18th of April, aud
the LIST, 81, $50, and Both Of May, 1869, at
sea, Of JOHN KELLY, CHARLES RoBEBrs,
MANUEL GOMEZ, CHARLES HANSON, and
CHARLES ANDERSON, scamen of the ship
Brewster.
The Maryland IusbrIate Asylum
Movement by tho women OF she
State.
We have, on various occasions, called at
tention TO the efforts Of the board of trustees
Of the Maryland Inebriate Asylum to erect
suitable buildings and accommodations for
the Inauguration and management OF this
benevolent enterprise. As has been hereto
fore stated, this Institution was Incorporated
by the Legislature nine years ago, the State
more latterly giving for Its use thirty acres
OF the hundred and thirty set apart for the
J 'rsane Asylum at Catonsvlllc. The board
OF trustees has appealed to the public for as
sistancc In their object, and from twenty-five
to twenty-thrcc thousand dollars were sub
stribcd some months ago for the erection Of
i a suitable building. But q much larger sum
is, OF course, needed. By authority OF an &c.
OF the Legislature, II is proposed TO give the
use OF the north wing OF the Insane Asylum,
wh!:@,- the only finished part Of II, tenn
porarily to the Inebriate Asylum, for which,
perhaps, some ten thousand dollars will be
at once needed. In about two years, how
ever, the Insane Hospital will be completed,
and will need the whole building for It's own
purposes. building must by that time be
specially erected for the exclusive use of the
lnebriatc Asylum, and the trustees have
earnestly Invoked the assistance Of all
philanthropists-all considerate persons they
might properly have said-for this purpose.
In other States institutions Of this kind
have been reared by practical and intelll-
| gent philanthroplsts, aud have met with
signal success. In the smallest OF all the
states, Rhode Island, s3lS,000 have been
| subscribed. Rhode Island was the only COM
p,titor Of Maryland among the American
4 colonies for the honor Of first giving FREQ
dom of conscience, though we may with
truth claim precedence Of time even over
Rhode Island 10 that great boon to mankind,
and II Is to DO hoped that we will not permit
her to surpass US in this enterprise for the
| liberation Of mon from O vassalage more
calling and destructive than religious or any
Other bondage. UnhapPily, our State pre-
sents wide field for the exercise of this
philanthropy. That drunkenness Is disease
which can be as successfully cured as other
diseases seems to be fact settled by the ex-
pcrlence of inebriate Institutions. Sixty per
at. at least Of these cases have been per-
manently relieved under treatment. In the
| washingtonlan home, Of Boston, 1t appears
/ from the report ending December 81, 1866,
/ that of the $40 admitted during the year, 2i5
were doing well and regarded as reformed;
| Gj greatly Improved, with hope OF ultimate
cure 90 not heard from since they left the
institution, and only mine regarded as in-
curable."
Under these circumstances We are gratiaed
to learn that a large number Of the ladies Of
the city have become Interested In tho Mary
land Inebriate Asylum, and, after consulta-
ton with persons Of experience, have deter
mined to hold mammoth fair for the pur-
pose Of raising the necessary funds for open
Ing II Immediately. They have not as yet
organized on account Of the absence Of some
who had desired TO aid In this commendable
work. Feeling assured that the ladies In
tho counties will cooperate In this rs
promptly as In every other charitable object
presented to them, they arc sangulne Of sue
cess. This Is State institution, and COM
mends itself to all our people, of every
name and order. Ladies' oil all classes have
promptly subscribed their names, and are
already engaged In this enterprise. The list
comprises the energetic and noble women Of
our city who have already LEFT their impress
upon the history of the times, and are
coming forward again with renewed vigor
aud II large experience to lend their potent
/ hand In establishing home for the unfor-
iunate victims Of that moral and physical
malGdy which has produced so much misery,
crime and unhapplness In the world.-Bdlt.
SuU,