rooms. The edifice is crowned with a handsome cupo. la, from which you have a fine view of the city, the harbor and the Hudson. The state allows the Hospital the Sum of $12,500 annually, chargeable upon the duties on salos at public auction, in the city of New-York. The greatest number of patients at any one time on record, in the Hospital, is 2,000! As high as 1,725 have been admitted in one year, (including U. S. seamen ;) of this number 1,185 were paupers! Out of the whole, 1,320 were cured: 527 of the patients were Irish. There is a library to the Hospital of 4,800 volumes; containing some of the most rare and most valuable works in medical science in the world. 1754 great t twelve Chape tory, a volume it has numbe but the dent, w Elgin i D. Ho. convey it cont 2,000 Med clay-st: legislat this, gr prospe. and a : lege. ed to which Physic CON **. By a law of the United States, every senman in the merchant service pays 20 cents per month (deducted out of their wages,) for their support, if sick or disabled. This not being sufficient for the support of all who applied for hospital relief, the governers have admitted 1,649 more than what has been yearly paid for by the United States; the cost of which amounts to $15,141 28, which Congress as yet refuses to pay: so says report. The Asylum for the Insane stands near the Hospital, and is included in the institution, and both are kept equal to those of Baltimore and Philadelphia, excepting only the lying in ward. Clinical lectures, both medical and surgical, are delivered here by the professors of both colleges, viz: Columbia college, and the medical college; Being physicians of the Hospital, they use the Surgical medica. Theatre for this purpose. There are usually an hun-y, the dred students, medical and surgical, who attend those practic lectures; they were first introduced by Dr. Bard. Be medica sides this hospital, there is one on Staten Island, three miles below the city, where quarantine laws are enforced at certain seasons of the year. This hospital receives all that are afflicted with epidemic discases; it is one of the finest buildings in the United States. A board of health sits at this place. Columbia College.-Columbia college was founded in The annual expence of the Hospital is $40,000. No domestic or officer of the Hospital is allowed to receive any present or bequest from any patient. disease Bei York, of the ty, of bute t throug! emies, tem of legisla academ upo. har l the es on The rd, in nad 1754; it stands near Park place, and consists of one great building of gray stone, three stories, and contains twelve apartments in each story. It also contains a Chapel, Hall, Museum, Anatomical Theatre, a Laboratory, a Philosophical apparatus, and a library of 5,000 volumes. The annual revenue is upwards of $4,000; it has a President, and five Professors. The average number of students is 200. It is governed by Trustees, but their number I was not able to ascertain; the Presi dent, when I called, being very much indisposed. The ining Elgin Botanical Garden, formerly the property of Dr. D. Hosack, was purchased from him by the state, and conveyed to this college, (under very rigid restrictions ;) it contains twenty 20 acres of ground, and upwards of 2,000 valuable plants. this 1,320 e is a nedi the cted bled. ppli 1,and Medical College. The medical college stands in Barclay-street; it was incorporated finally in 1813, by the 1,649 legislature; the regents of the university, previous to nited this, granted them a charter, but the institution did not hich prosper until 1813: it is now in a flourishing condition, and a number of young men have graduated at this college. The medical department, which formerly belonged to Columbia college, has been transferred to this, which is better known by the name of "the College of sur- Physicians and Surgeons." The course of lectures embraColle- ces "the theory and practice of physic, obstetrics, and ege; diseases of women and children, chemistry, and materia gical medica, anatomy, physiology and surgery, natural history, the clinical practice of medicine, the principles and chose practice of surgery, and the institutes of medicine, and Be- medical jurisprudence." al to y the hun re it is oard . hree Being insensibly led to mention the university of N. nfor- York, it becomes necessary to explain, that the regents of the university are nothing more than a literary society, of twenty-one gentlemen, whose duty it is to distribute the money designed for all literary institutions throughout the state; also to visit all the colleges, acad emies, and schools, within the same; to inspect the system of education in each, and make report thereof to the legislature. They appoint presidents and principals of academies; incorporate colleges and academies, &c. and ed in cic or from confer degrees by diplomas of a higher order than master of arts and medical degrees. The governor and lieut. governor are members ex officio; the regents are appoint ed by the legislature, and choose a chancellor and vice chancellor of the university from their own body. They are prohibited from requiring any religious test of any president or principal of an academy or college, and no regent can be a president, trustee, or principal, of any seminary or college in this state. after ts in the they w of dru ter, the fortabl these w looking ing ov observ... looks of the A senti bayone stances ond, th put in life, a house ties, an they re preme ulate th Stute Prison. The state prison of New-York, stands on the Hudson river, in Greenwich-street. It is built of free stone, in the Doric style; it has two stories, each 15 feet in height, besides the basement, and is 204 feet in length; it has four wings extending back; the buildings and yard cover four acres of ground; the whole is enclosed with a stone wall, 23 feet next the river and 14 in front. It contains 54 rooms for the prisoners, rooms for the keeper and agents, a chapel, an hospital, a din ing hall for the prisoners, with kitchens, and celts for solitary confinement. In the yard are the work-shops of the prisoners, and the whole is well supplied with water. These prisoners do not work out of doors as at Philadelphia; the most of them are kept at weaving; the first stocking-loom I ever saw was in this prison, but such was the intricacy of the thing that I ani unable to describe it. Besides weavers, there are turners, brushmakers, coopers, blacksmiths, tailors, painters, shoemakers, carpenters, and many card and spin; they eat threc times a day, mush and molasses for supper, cocoa sweet-ing, wit ened with molasses, with bread, for breakfast, beef shins, made into soup, thickened with beans or rice, for din ner, and once a week they have a pork dinner, and always plenty of potatoes; some instances of industry are rewarded by a pint of beer. Good behaviour generally shortens the term of confinement; the young and the old, who are illiterate, are carefully instructed. The prison is warmed by stoves; they have pumps and fireengines in the yard. No convict, sentenced for a less term than three years, can be put in this prison: when a convict arrives, he is stripped, washed clean, and dressed in new clothes, and to them in the one of Alm: two mi the city ing the connec dollars. house: visited alms-l looks 1 The pa fortabl I conve the kec master They f any nd no f any lieut. after taking a description of his person, which is entered point in the prison book, he is put to work. In the summer, ivice they work from 6 o'clock A. M. till 6 P. M.: on beat of drum, at 9 o'clock, in the summer, and 8 in the winter, they retire to their beds, which are neat and comfortable. There were 500 in when I called; amongst. these were very few women; many of them were fine looking men, one of them in particular, (as I was leanstands ing over the loom to examine his work.) in reply to an uilt of observation I dropped, that people of their inoffensive each looks should be guilty of crimes, "ah," said he, “many eet in of the people you sec here are put in for very little."A sentinel parades on the wall during the day with fixed bayonet, but at night fifty men stand guard. Many instances occur of the same person being put in the second, third, fourth, and even the fifth time! a number are a din put in for life; the crimes which subject a convict for is for life, are, rape, robbery, burglary, sodomy, maiming, shops house-breaking, forging proof of deeds, or public securiIwith ties, and counterfeiting gold or silver. Until very lately as at they received no compensation for their labor! The su ; the preme judges and the attorney general of the state, reg1, but ulate the laws of the institution, which, with all deference ble to to them, are very rigid. A physician and surgeon reside brush in the prison, and others visit there daily from the city, mak none of which receive compensation. Idings is cnand 14 rooms three ry arc erally Alms-House. The alms house is a plain stone buildweeting, with a cupola, situated on the bank of East river, shins, two miles from the city hall; it is the largest building in or din the city, being 320 feet long and 50 feet wide. Includ d aling the penitentiary, work-house, and other buildings connected with this institution, the expense was 418,791 dollars. As many as 1,487 paupers were in the almsthe house at one time; there were upwards of 600 when I The visited it, a great number of whom were children. The fire- alms-house is well regulated, and no gentleman's parlour looks neater, the floor being scrubbed with sand daily. The paupers looked plump and hearty, and were comfortably clothed; most of their beds were of feathers. conversed with several of them (not in the presence of the keeper,) on the subject of their treatment; they cager years, he is and 250 ly replied that they never lived better, nor had a wish any one has made the remark which I have, viz. that a Work House. The work-house stands in rear of the alins-house, and is used for the employment of the poor. It is built of brick, 200 feet by 25; it contains a hos pital for males, and one for females. Penitentiary. The penitentiary, likewise, stands in the rear of the alins-house; it is a stone building, 150 feet long, and 50 in width. In this prison, all convicts are confined, whose sentence to be imprisoned falls under the degree which subjects to confinement in the state prison, and those only can be confined in the penitentiary whose offences have been committed within the city or county of New-York. The average number of convicts in the penitentiary, is 250; these are kept at work. The whole of those buildings are enclosed, together with six acres of ground, with a wall of 7 feet high; on the outside is a school for the poor children, called a free school: also a garden, where those of the paupers who are able, cultivate culinary plants. A physician, surgeon, and apothecary reside in the almshouse, and attend to the sick of the whole establishment; for which they receive a salary; it has, also, a visiting physician, and surgeon, whose attention is hon orary; they receive no compensation. |