The New Hampshire Gazette

We are not in the habit of copying from the Concord Courier with approbation, but touching the subject of the Asylum, we think the Courier leaves the Patriot and Statesman far in the rear on the score of high-mindedness. We believe the Courier is mistaken, however, in saying the " Van Buren press in this State "desire to have the charter of the N. H. Asylum for the Insane, repealed. We have seen no such disposition manifested, except in the Patriot.- That paper has, indeed, said with much emphasis, that the first act of the Legislature will be to repeal the charter ; but how it can speak with so much assurance, beforehand, as to what the legislature will do, is somewhat surprising. We do not doubt,the editor of the Patriot wishes some such action, and would rather see the Hospital located on top of the White Mountains, than in this town ; but we have yet to learn, that either his interest or prejudice, or his neighbor's of the Statesman, who has manifested a similar feeling on the subject, is to govern the action of the Legislature.

The Asylum for The Insane.-It is very evident from the tone of the Van Buren press in this State, that if the subject of the Hospital for the Insane shall be brought before the Legislature of this State next month, in any shape, its charter will be immediately repealed. Such will be the fate, ultimately, we doubt not, of a project that once enlisted the best feelings of a large number of the philanthropic citizens of this State. It will be a reproach to the State that local prejudice were stronger with many than sympathy for the suffering Insane. At all times it has been our opinion that Concord was the best place for its location on account of its central position;-- yet if it could not come here, we have been and are decidedly of the opinion that it should go to Portsmouth, as the advantages for such an institution in that town are neither few nor small. Besides the citizens of that place begin to see that their true interest lies in opening immediately communications, new and easy, with the interior of the State. In five years we hope to see a Railroad from Portsmouth through Dover, Somersworth, Rochester, &c. to Alton Bay--thus opening the way for a heavy business between the many towns bordering on and within 20 miles of the beautiful Winnipisseogee and the only seaport in New Hampshire, situated on the safest and best harbor on our whole Atlantic coast. Nor do we despair of seeing the commercial town and political Capital of the Granite State united by a Railroad. With such improvements from Portsmouth into the interior of the State, its local situation will not be bad for the Asylum; and rather than have a blow-up of this benevolent enterprise we trust our interior friends will act a disinterestedness honorable to themselves and beneficial to the cause of suffering humanity. It is worse. than useless to keep up an unending war about its location, but let the work go forward and leave it to a few years to almost annihilate space between even the "Upper Coos" and the mouth of the "Great Piscataqua."-Concord Courier.