Bismarck

city, capital of the State of North Dakota, and_county seat of Burleigh co.; on the Mi ouri river, and the Northern Pacific railroad; 194 miles W. of Fargo. It contains the State Capitol (which cost over $500,000), the State Penitentiary, court-house, city hall, opera house, a State Hospital for the Insane, St. Paul Seminary, and an immense river warehouse. The river is here spanned by a bridge that cost. $1,000,000. Pop.