[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] abolished, and the convicts prevented from learning valuable trades, and earning enough to pay the cost of their maintenance. The prison for female State convicts was built and ready for occupancy in the year 1840. It is an im-posing marble structure, after the model of a Greek temple, with massive columns, and stands in a con-spicuous place behind, but above all the other prison buildings. The number of female convicts seldom amounted to more than two hundred. They were re-moved in two companies, May 21, and December 16, 1877, from Sing Sing to the Crow Hill Penitentiary, which is back of the city of Brooklyn. Sing Sing Authors and their Works. — This place is not specially noted for its literary produc-tions. The Rev. Mr. J. Luckey, formerly re 'dent Chap-lain of the State Prisons, wrote and published a book on prison-life at Sing Sing. The Rev. Alexander Watson, one of our oldest and most highly esteemed citizens, is the author of "The American Home Gar-den; being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruit, flowers and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes of farm crops, with a table of their average products and chemical constituents." New York, Harper & Brothers, 1859, pp. 531, 8vo. three hundred and sixteen figures.