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Physician, who is the chief executive officer, and an Assistant Physician, each of whom holds his office for the term of four years.

The law establishing the Insane Asylum, provides that any person laboring under mental derangement, may be brought before the County Judge of the county in which he resides, who shall immediately cause an examination to be made by two physicians; and if the charge be sustained, the person so afflicted shall be conveyed to and placed in the asylum, and the expense incurred therefor shall be charged to the State.

The asylum is pleasantly situated in the city of Stockton. The grounds attached thereto cover an extent of one hundred acres, handsomely ornamented and inclosed. The buildings are commodious, comfortable and well arranged. The main structure is ninety feet square, three stories high. The erection of two additional buildings was authorized by the Legislature of 1858, and an appropriation of forty thousand dollars made for the expense thereof. There is a commodious reading room attached to the institution, containing a library and a number of the newspapers of the day—a great accession to the means adopted to render the condition of the unfortunate inmates as comfortable and pleasant as possible.

This institution is most liberally sustained by the State, and the yearly appropriations made for its support, evince a commendable interest on the part of the members of the Legislature, and a desire to place within the reach of an unfortunate class of the community the means best calculated to ameliorate their condition and restore them to the world.

STATEMENT OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE INSANE ASYLUM FROM AUG. 1, 1857, TO JULY 31, 1858.

Number of patients remaining Aug. 1, 1857, 162; admitted from that date to July 31, 1858, 254; total, 416. Number discharged, died, etc. 156; number remaining Aug. 1, 1858, 260.

ber 31, 1857, 86; of which 70

The number of patients remaining August 1, 1857, was 162; of which 132 were males and 30 females. The number received from that date to Decemwere males and 16 females; of these 17 males and 12 females were married. During this period there were discharged, 27 males and 11 females; died, 14 males and three females, and 5 males escaped. Total, 60.

The number of patients admitted from January 1, 1858, to August 31, 1858, 168.

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FORM OF INSANITY.

Simple Dementia... 63 | Partial Dementia... 34 | Melancholy 33 Partial Insanity..

Acute Insanity..

6 Idiotic...

8 Periodical Insanity.. 5

Total.

Chronic Insanity..
Suicidal tendency... 2 Religious Mania....

13

3

....168

From the above it will be seen that about two-fifths of the present inmates of the asylum have become patients there since the 1st of January, 1858.

3. UNITED STATES MARINE HOSPITAL, SAN FRANCISCO.* Organized March 16, 1852. Cost of building, $224,000. Expenditures fiscal year ending June 30, 1857, $48,112 56. Hospital money received at the port of San Francisco for the same period, $8,630 52.

TABLE

Exhibiting the number of Patients Received, Discharged, and the Deaths at the United States Marine Hospital, San Francisco, from Mirch 16th, 1852, to December 31st, 1857.

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99 79 7 137 119 6 137 120 6 101
57 2 127 114 1 129 108 6
55 2 156 103 5 125 113 7
50 3 133 134 3 146

90 3 112 109 3

99

98

98 4 73 85 2 88 5 101 102 2

142 6

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92 89 2 151 110 8 62 1 148 148 4 137 107 119 6 100 78 6 76 8 114 133 4 169 156 5 110 102 4 95 104 8 74 5 148 134 8 150 146 9 127 125 5 135 115 3 77 2 163 160 5 195 152 7 128 131 3 129 125 3 84 2 165 142 5 183 190 8 133 122 5 107 113 5 108 6 163 189 10 209 175 8 111 105 3 103 99 5 107 8 139 116 4 124 171 5 155 129 4 112 96 4 125 3 129 131 3 110 122 7 125 117 4 114 104 5

Totals...

733 663 35 1060 954 49 1722 1623 58 1814 1726 761386 1315 48 1332 1240 54

Discharged same period

Died.....

RECAPITULATION.

Total admitted from March, 1852, to December 31, 1857......

Remaining under treatment, January 1, 1858 ...

8,047

7,521

320

7,841

206

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1. SACRAMENTO VALLEY RAILROAD.

Organized August 4th, 1852. Reorganized November 9th, 1854. Capital $1,000,000. Length of road, twenty-two and a half miles. Cost of construction, $1,200,000.

*For list of Officers, see p. 54.

The Sacramento Valley Railroad extends from Sacramento to Folsom, a distance of twenty-two and a half miles. Operations commenced February 22d, 1856; since which time the transactions of the company have been eminently successful. It is proposed to extend this road to several of the interior cities of the State, and operations have been already commenced for the extension of the road to the Yuba River, a distance of forty-two miles. The following extract from the Report of the company for 1857, will exhibit the business of the road:

Number of passengers transported..
Tuns of freight transported....

Total receipts from passengers and freight.
Total cost of opening road and maintenance
Net earnings....

82,450 34,430 .$177,842

86,503

91,339

2. SAN FRANCISCO AND MARYSVILLE RAILROAD. Organized 1858. Length of road, (Vallejo to Marysville,) eighty-six miles; distance from San Francisco to Vallejo by water, twenty-two miles. In the course of construction.

The road will, when completed, afford a shorter and more direct communication between the cities of San Francisco and Marysville, and be of incalculable advantage to the district of country through which it passes.

3. SURVEYED ROUTES

For a Railroad from the Mississippi or its Tributaries to the Pacific Ocean. [Prepared at the office of the War Department.]

DESCRIPTION OF ROUTE.

Distance Dist. by Sum of

Thro'

in straig't proposed ascent & Estimated Cost. arable line. route. descent.

Route near 47th and 49th paral-
lels, from St. Paul to Vancouver
Extension thence to Seattle....
Near the 41st and 42d parallels,
via South Pass, from Council
Bluffs to Benicia.
Near the 38th and 39th parallels,
from Westport to San Francisco
by the Coo-che-to-pah and Tah-
ee-chay-pah Passes
Same from Westport to San Fran-
cisco by the Coo-che-to-pah and
Madelin Passes.

Near the 35th parallel, from Fort
Smith to San Pedro..
Near the 35th parallel, from Fort
Smith to San Francisco..
Near the 32d parallel, from Fulton
to San Pedro..
Extension to San Francisco

lands.

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XVIII.-WAGON ROADS.

A LIST

Of the Principal Wagon Roads, leading from California to the East, with the distances to Carson Valley, Salt Lake, Humboldt River, etc.*

NOBLE'S PASS.-The distance from the Sacramento Valley through this pass to the Humboldt, is about two hundred and fifty miles. Hight of pass, four thousand feet.

BECKWORTH'S ROUTE.-From Marysville, by way of Bidwell, American Valley, Beckworth's and Truckee River, to Humboldt River, is two hundred and seventy-four miles. Or,

From Marysville, by way of Gibsonville, Jameson's Creek, Mohawk River, Beckworth's to Humboldt River, two hundred miles.

JOHNSON'S CUT-OFF.-From Sacramento, by way of Placerville, South Fork American River and Hope Valley, to Carson Valley, (Genoa,) one hundred and twenty-eight miles.

CARSON ROUTE.-From Sacramento, by way of Diamond Springs, Sly Park, to Carson Valley, (Genoa,) one hundred and forty-six miles.

BIG TREE, OR CALAVERAS ROUTE.-From Sacramento, by way of Mokelumne Hill, or Volcano, and Big Tree Road, to Carson Valley, one hundred and twenty-five miles.

TEJON ROUTE.-From Stockton, by way of King's River, Tejon Pass, to Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and by the Military Road to Salt Lake City, eleven hundred miles.

XIX. TELEGRAPH LINES.

There are three lines in operation in this State, organized by act of the Legislature, with an aggregate communication of eight hundred and eighty miles. In addition to these principal lines, there are three branch lines with a total communication of sixty-seven miles. Total, nine hundred and fortyseven miles.

1. STATE TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

Organized 1852; number of miles of communication, two hundred and ten; connecting San Francisco with San José, Stockton, Sacramento and Marysville. This line connects with the Alta line at Sacramento, and with the Northern line at Marysville.

2. ALTA TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

Organized 1853; number of miles of communication, four hundred and fifty, exclusive of branch lines sixty-seven miles in length; total communication, five hundred and seventeen miles. This line connects San Francisco with

* Compiled from Surveyor-General's Reports for 1855-6.

San José, Oakland, Benicia, Sacramento, Folsom, Diamond Springs, Placerville, Coloma, Auburn, Grass Valley, Nevada, Forest City, Downieville, and from Placerville to Volcano, Jackson, Mokelumne Hill, San Andreas, Murphy's, Columbia, Sonora, and the intermediate towns and mining camps.

3. NORTHERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

Organized 1857; number of miles of communication, two hundred and twenty, connecting Marysville with Oroville, Chico, Tehama, Red Bluffs, Shasta, Weaver and Yreka.

4. HUMBOLDT TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

Organized 1858. This line, now in the course of construction, will connect Placerville with Salt Lake, via Carson Valley, and from this point it is proposed to extend the line to St. Louis, Missouri.

5. PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Organized by act of the Legislature, 1858. This company propose to construct a line of communication from San Francisco to San Antonio, Texas, via Los Angeles and the line of the Great Overland Mail Route from San Francisco to Memphis, Tenn.

XX.-FRATERNITY OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS.

1. THE MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE OF CALIFORNIA. The M. W. Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of California was organized on the 18th day of April, 1850; when there were represented three chartered lodges viz.: California Lodge, No. 13, holding under the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia—now California Lodge, No. 1; Western Star Lodge, No. 98, holding under the Grand Lodge of Missourinow Western Star Lodge, No. 2; and Connecticut Lodge, No. 75, holding under the Grand Lodge of Connecticut-now Tehama Lodge, No. 3. Since that time to this date, (Sept. 7, 1858,) one hundred and twenty-seven lodges have received charters from the Grand Lodge of California, one hundred and seventeen of which are now in prosperous existence, besides five lodges under dispensation, having an aggregate membership, in all, of about five thousand. The officers of the Grand Lodge for the present year, are:

N. Greene Curtis, M. W. Grand Master, Sacramento; P. W. Shepheard, R. W. Deputy Grand Master, San Francisco; William McCormick, R. W. Senior Grand Warden, Grass Valley; James W. Bicknell, R. W. Junior Grand Warden, Volcano; Addison Martin, R. W. Grand Treasurer, San Francisco; Alexander G. Abell, R. W. Grand Secretary, San Francisco; William H. Hill, Rev. and W. Grand Chaplain, Sacramento; James L. English, W. Grand Orator, Sacramento; Lawrence C. Owen, W. Assistant Grand Secretary, San Francisco; Thomas P. Hawley, W. Grand Marshal, Nevada: John M. Ting

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