The following are in the Asylum:

catching a mouse.

I wish to study at the asylum. That cat is The boy is cutting and working at the wood. I have seen men play driving the horse and drawing the sleigh. The man stole in in the night in the barn and run away. This man went on the wild horses and run them fast. I must not muddy or wet the boys. I hate a snake. There is now much snow. This nose is very cold. That bird is very active and very good to the emperor. That dog is very afraid a boy. The dog is cross to him and the cat is very afraid of him and runs away. The girl is very afraid of a snake. That fox is catching the goose and quick is away. That owl preys on the hens which fear it. He is very proud. He wants a new knife. I like very much to study and improve. They man is driving in the wagon at the drawing of wood. That ox is in yoke and drawing at the plough.

HENRY LANSING.

This boy has been 9 months at the Asylum.

The legislature is sitting at the seat of government. I first went to the capitol at Albany and was very happy to see the legislature who are the representatives of the people. I think that some gentlemen and ladies are very smart in going to the Hall of the legislature government and they admire it very much. A legislature is part of the republican government which governs the people of the United States. Some directors will ask the legislature for support to pay the indigent pupils some money because they are very ignorant but they shall come to school to learn. The city of Albany is the seat of government of the state of N. Y. We are very happy to live in America for we are free from England. We gave thanks to Gen. Washington that he commanded the soldiers to fight the English because the kings owe us money. We are very easy in living in America indpendent from England. GERRIT I. VANDENBERGH.

31 years.

I gathered some clothes in the bundle. When I left home with it. I wanted to go in the stage. I did not wait on the stage coming in the evening. I had rather walked on a foot. I told my mother that I wished to spread the sheet on my back. When the wind carried me fast up along for the school. It was a joke. I journeyed about 18 miles. I was very tired. I was very tired. I stopped at the stage tavern. I waited for the stage to come till I went to bed. I slept till 11 o'clock in the night. The tavern keeper called me for the stage had come. I was in a hurry that I might go in the stage. I did not know that I forgot something. I was going about 1 or 2 miles when I recollected that I left my bundle in the tavern. I did not mind about it. I would send for it from the school. The weather was very cold. When I rode in the stage with the passengers. I got to the other tavern past 2 o'clock in the morning. When they trembled with the cold. The weather was very severely. The tavern keeper rose up and made a fire in a small franklin stove that was very slow. They were very cold. The were waiting for the stage to go at 4 o'clock. They sat on the chairs around the stove. They looked very awkwardly. The tavern keeper called the passengers up and the stage started at 4 o'clock. A wife was sleeping too late. She was young. Her husband waited on her. Then he went to call her again to rise up immediately. He dressed with his box coat and mantle very He was angry at her because she was lazy. She started to come to the stove and warm when he scolded her. LEVERETT SPENCER.

warm.

4 years at the Asylum.

A STORY.

A skilful physician lived in Chenango county New-York. He had a very faithful dog named Bent. Bent always followed the physician in his medical visits around the neighboring Villages. When the Doctor stopped at a house and alighted from his carriage; Bent went up to the carriage to sit and protect his property. When Bent was at home, his mistress had been washing and left her clothes in the yard over night to dry. She called Bent to come and keep guard in that yard faithfully till morning. The. health of the Doctor had been declining. He went to Europe for the benefit of his health. Several days after he departed, Bent became very uneasy and discontented and went to the Village in search of his master. When he could not find the Doctor, he wandered about the country to the distance of fifty or sixty miles and stopped at every house where his master had ever been, to find him. Bent was gone three weeks, but at length came home and abandoned the search. On the return of the Doctor from Europe, the dog immediately knew him and was very much rejoiced to see him. He threw his fore legs around the Doctor's neck and embraced him very affectionately. Bent could not leave the Doctor until he had retired to bed. Soon the Doctor died, the dog was sensible and very much afflicted at the loss.

4 years.

ANNA R. BACKUS.

IN SENATE,

March 7, 1833.

MEMORIAL

Of sundry citizens of Utica, remonstrating against the incorporation of any more banks.

To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of New-York, in Senate and Assembly convened:

The memorial of the undersigned, citizens of this State, respectfully represent to your honorable body: that,

Whereas, there are now established among the people of this State between seventy and eighty incorporated banks, all in successful operation, wielding, unitedly, a capital stock of about twenty-eight millions of dollars, issuing, at pleasure, more than twice that amount in bank notes, and holding of the people's property, as indemnity for loans of those notes, nearly sixty millions of dollars; all of which is now drawing from the avails of the produce of the soil and the sweat of manual labor an oppressive and usurious interest, without adding, in any respect, to the actual wealth of community, or contributing to the equal prosperity or the equal happiness of the whole body of the people: and,

Whereas, it appears, by the public prints, that application has been made to your honorable body, praying for the passage of certain laws authorising the applicants, and their friends to establish among the people some forty or fifty additional banks, and to issue a further amount of paper money, the obvious effects of which will be, as your memorialists apprehend, to increase the amount of interest now paid by the hand of patient labor, and consequently the burden now pressing upon the people: to facilitate the concentration of property in the hands of the privileged few, while the many are left in poverty and want; to slacken the bonds [Senate, No. 72:]

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