New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-02-17

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cy, provided the outstanding Treasury Notes not
on interest be made to draw interest, as proposed
by the Secretary.
| City Rents.
We must inform several city correspondents that
,heyw- US very unwise articles the subject of
| Rents. They talk about what Landlords ought to
do, ead how Rents ought to be reduced, as though
Tenants were beggars, and lived by the sufferance
Of Landlords This is absurd and pernieious.
Landlords ought to take just what their houses will
let for if they undertake to get more, they will be
apt to 20 awhile without tenants. Rents are too
high when nobody will undertake to pay them |;
and if tenants went be too eager to catch houses,
some Rents must come down; others will not /;
and the fact that Landlords paid more or less for
! the property, will amount to nothing either way
We presume all the Real Estate in the city dees
! not new average fue per cent. income on its cost
to the holders, but what of that They must take
what rent it will bring, be the more or less,
and the Taxes are abominably heavy. Many
fine property will not now pay the Interest on the
| Mortgages and the Taxes. But that is the land
| lords affair, not the tenants.
| Is there no way to get rid of the ridiculous,
pernicious May-Day moving, right in the hight
of the business season, and when it is an even
chance that it rains Nothing could be so ncon-
venient and evil. Why can't we have general
agreement to have leases run to the 1st of August
| when people have leisure, and those who may do
it with light heart can 60 out of town? That
would do more for tenants-who now submit to
| exactions because they cannot move in May-than
| any thing else that has yet been proposed.
The DISPATCH Posr.-Within day or two
past past we have been completely overwhelmed
with complaints of 8 lack of efficiency and safety
| in the arrangements of the City Despatch Post.
Every one who writes has some special grievance
relate, some detention or entire loss Of let,ers;
but as they not accompanied by responsible
names, we cannot make them public. Several
state that paid letters, in their experience, fail
much more frequently than those that are uapaid;
and all unite in stating that the department il
accsptably and properly managed. Weknow moth
ING of the matter ourselves; but it certainly seems
tina, when complaints general they cannot
be wholly groundless. We trust that abuses, if
| SUCH eAlsL, may Dc promptly IeHeoleo
| 20 The DEBATE on CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
will be closed this evening: Mr.. O'SuLLlvAN
| speaking for its Abolition, and Rev. Mr.. CHEEvER
for its continuance 1t is expected that the sense
of the audience will be taken at its close. We
trust, therefore, that there will be general at
tendance, especially of these who believe that Mo
rality as well as Humanity would be subserved by
removing the stains of blood from our statute book
p Capt. Powell, of the schooner Empire, left
Norfolk, Va, fer this city, on the 9th inst. He
had been out but short time when he discovered
that two slaves, mother and child, were secreted
on board the vessel. He returned and delivered
the slaves to tho Mayor of Norfolk, who likewise
caused the arrest of the steward of the schooner
he having been persuaded by the husband of the
woman to aid her escape. Capt. Powell, fearful
that his zeal In returning the slaves would not be
deemed sufficiently manifest procured certificate
from his passengers that he determined to return
as soon he made the discovery. This, twill be
remembered, was the vessel in which Mr.. and Mrs.
Miller took passage for this city.
! &C. The american contradicts the statement of
the Union that the Court Martial wes ordered in
the case of Capt. MACKENZIE because the Secre-
| tary of the Navy disapproved of the decision of
the Court of Inquiry. 1t adds that the Court Mar
sial was asked by and promised to Mr.. Mackenzie
before the Court of Inquiry had terminated its la
bsrs and wholly irrespective of them.
% ILLINOIS is trying to sell out her Canal and
Canal Lands for its valuation in State Stocks. We
hope she may succeed. A bill has passed the
House by 70 to %.
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