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[July,A Review of “Considerations upon the Insane, by Ferrus,” published in 1837, in a Philadelphia MediJournal. 3. Statistics of’ the Bloomingdale Asylum, published in the N. Y. Journal of Medicine and Surgery, 1839. 4. Letter to the Trustees of the N. Y. State Lunatic Asylum, proposing a plan for organizing said Asylum, published in their Report, 1842. 5. A Dissertation on Puerperal Insanity, published in the American Journal of insanity. 6. Several Reports on the condition of Blackwell’s Island Lunatic Asylum. Dr. M. was an active member of the N. Y. Medical and Surgical Society, and several cases of mental aberration reported by him to said Society, have been published in the N. Y. Journal of Medicine. G. cal iollo-i-iTHOUSAND RECOVERED INGA EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS DAMAGES,IN APERSON,KiLL-EXCITEMENT.SUNDAY AFTERNOON, May 28th, 1848, a stranger was noticed in Albany, apparently highly excited, brandishing a pistol and bowie knife. His conduct attracted the attention of some mnen and boys sitting in the park, who followed him through several streets. He told them not to come near him, as he was armed; but they continued to pursue him, and hurled stones at him, until lie turned and fired a pistol at the