New York State Inebriate Asylum.
Up to 1864, there had been 7,245 applications for places in this excellent institution at Binghamton, from every state in the Union, and from Europe, Mexico, and the British Provinces, 520 of whom were opium-eaters. There were 39 clergymen, 8 judges, 197 lawyers, 256 physicians, 340 merchants, 680 mechanics, 466 farmers, 240 gentlemen, and 805 women. One of the opium-eaters, a lawyer, who had filled a highly responsible office, in one year drank 3,200 bottles of McMunn's preparation of opium. In one day he drank twenty bottles, equal to ten thousand drops of laudanum. Patients at this asylum are received for not less than a year, are watched, controlled, and medically treated. The expectation is that at least seventy per cent. will be radically cured. The astounding fact was stated at the recent Temperance Convention at Saratoga, that the names of thirteen hundred rich men's daughters are on the list of applicants for admission to this asylum.—Am. Mes.