ably compare with any in the United States; while in cost they will amount to scarcely more than one third what has been paid for several of the older structures.

In conclusion, gentlemen of the Board of Trustees, permit me to return to you a tribute of the sincere gratitude, felt by the officers and pupils for the kind interest which you have manifested in them, and in the prosperity of the Institution. Though your gratuitous labors for the Asylum may often encroach on the time due other avocations, still it must be a pleasing reflection, that your names will thus be enshrined in the grateful recollections of our pupils; and, finally, that actions such as these, shall meet the approbation of Him who hath said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, ye have done it unto me."

Institution for the Deaf and Dumb,

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 4, 1848.

Respectfully submitted,

JAMES S. BROWN.

N. B. Our grateful acknowledgments are tendered to the Editors of the following Journals, for the copies which they have gratuitously furnished our pupils. They have derived much pleasure from their perusal, as there is scarcely one of these papers printed far from the homes of some of our scholars :

Western Sun and General Advertiser.
Indiana State Journal, (Tri-Weekly.)
Richmond Palladium.
Tippecanoe Journal.

Vincennes Gazette.

Indiana American.

Indiana State Sentinel, (Semi-Weekly.)
Weekly Republican Banner.
Decatur Clarion.

Logansport Telegraph.

Madison Weekly Courier.
Wayne County Whig.
Fort Wayne Times.
Wabash Express.
People's Friend.
People's Press.

St. Joseph Valley Register.

Lafayette Courier.

Washington Democrat.

(Muncie Journal,) Indiana Signal. (Indiana Blade) Indiana Whig.

Christian Record.

Indiana Telegraph.

Danville Weekly Advertiser.

Wabash Atlas.

Mishawaka Bee.

Indiana Tribune.

Columbus Gazette.

Western Universalist.
Independent Universalist.

The following have been sent us from without the State, for which their Editors will please accept our thanks :

Louisville Democrat, (Louisville.)

Masonic Review, (Cincinnati.)

To no class of our citizens more than Editors of the public Journals of the State, is this Institution indebted for the degree of popular favor which it enjoys. Their repeated favorable notices of its operations have also diffused a knowledge of its benevolent objects, more extensive than could otherwise have been given.

J. S. BROWN.

CATALOGUE OF PUPILS IN ATTENDANCE, DEC. 1848.