The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851

The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851

INSTITUTIONS FOR SAILORS, IN NEW-YORK. RURAL LIFE IN VIRGINIA: THE "SWALLOW BARN." GEORGE H. BOKER. HERR FLEISCHMANN IN THE HAREM. TO THE CICADA. TRICKS ON TRAVELLERS AT WATERLOO. STUDIES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, A PHANTASY. THE TIMES OF CHARLEMAGNE. THE DECORATIVE ARTS IN AMERICA. A VISIT TO THE LATE DR. JOHN LINGARD. PRIVATE LIFE OF JOHN C. CALHOUN. STYLES OF PHILOSOPHIES. REMINISCENCES OF PARIS, FROM 1817 TO 1848. THE LAST JOSEPH IN EGYPT. THE ENGLISH IN AMERICA: BY THE AUTHOR OF "SAM SLICK." A FEW QUESTIONS FROM A WORN-OUT LORGNETTE. FRAGMENTS. A STORY WITHOUT A NAME. NEWSPAPER POETS: CHARLES WELDON. THE COUNT MONTE-LEONE: OR, THE SPY IN SOCIETY. POULAILLER, THE ROBBER. THE LATE D. M. MOIR. THE DESERTED MANSION. ILLUSTRATIONS OF MOTIVES. THE LAST DAYS OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER. FALLEN GENIUS. COPENHAGEN. THE SHADOW OF LUCY HUTCHINSON. THE WIVES OF SOUTHEY, COLERIDGE, AND LOVELL. MY NOVEL: OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE. EGYPT UNDER ABBAS PASHA. THE JEWS IN CHINA. AUTHORS AND BOOKS. THE FINE ARTS. HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE MONTH. RECENT DEATHS. LADIES' MIDSUMMER FASHIONS. The maritime commerce of New-York has increased so rapidly that it has continually outgrown the space appropriated for its accommodation, so that the docks, wharves, warehouses, and landings, have been found wholly inadequate to the reception of the business which has poured in upon them. But the benevolent institutions of the "Empire City," designed to meliorate the condition of sea-faring men, have been fully equal to the exigencies of this improvident class of laborers, and are among the noblest and best conducted of the many charitable institutions in this great and growing metropolis of the New World. Commerce is the life and soul of New-York, and the most selfish motives should lead to the establishment of suitable retreats and hospitals for the benefit of the class of men without whose labors its wheels could not revolve; but it is not to those who are most benefited by the labors of seamen that they are indebted for the existence of safe havens of retreat, where they may cast anchor in [Pg 146]repose, where they can no longer follow their dangerous and storm-tost business. Seamen are the only class who have asylums provided expressly for their use, either in sickness or old age. The nation provides no hospital like that of Greenwich, where the tars who are disabled in the public service find a home and an honorable support, but it lays a capitation tax on all the seamen in the navy for the creation of a fund, out of which the Naval Asylum, the Wallabout Hospital, &c., for the disabled, invalid, and superannuated of the navy have, at their own cost, not altogether disagreeable homes. New-York, however, from the munificence of private individuals and the creation of a fund from a tax on seamen, can boast of excellent institutions for the ample and comfortable accommodation of all the sick and infirm sailors who have earned a right of admission by sailing from this port. In this respect there is no other city in the world that can equal New-York. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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