The last Report, of 1878. is full of encouragement, and most of the first officers still retain their positions. The Physician, Arch. M. Campbell, reports that "during the past year S9 patients have been under treatment."

Few institutions have been better managed. It is beautifully situated, in a very healthy locality, and easy of access.

Andrew Corsa, who was bom at Rose Hill in 1763, afterwards removed to a farm situated nearly opposite, where he died in 1352. The following obituar}' notice occurs in the Westchester Herald for tlut year : --

TIIE LAST OF THE WESTCHESTER GUIDES.

On the evening of Sunday the 21st of November at his residence in Fordham. AsDiiEw Cop.sA departed this life at the ago of nearly ninety-one. He was born on the 24th day of Januarj-, 17G2, where the Roman Catholic College of St. Jclin noM- stands, on the farm occupied by his paternal ancestor, a native of Gcrmaiiy. who .settled on the Manor of Fordham about tho year 1(590. Both his father anii grand-father were uatives of the same spot witli himself. The latter was born i;: 1G02, about the time of Governor Fletcher's arrival in the colony, after whons he was named Beujamia Fletcher. When the revolutionary troubles coim^enced. Captain Isaac Corsa,'^ the father of the subject of this notice, held a commis;'io:i under the crown, and like most persons similarly situated, espoused the my.il side throughout the great controversy. But parental authority was not sulFici'-ii' to keep the young Andrev.-, long within the limits of the ancient allegiance : ami about the middle of the war, his strong incliuatious in favor of American Ini'.f-