Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-20
BALTIMORE CORRESPONDENCE.

BALTIMORE, March 19-10PM
There is much complaint in our city at
present, among tenants in regard to high rents.
The recent exorbitant taxation of over two ner
cent, has caused landlords to advance their
prices. Houses, which, twelve months ago,
could have been had at $500 to $500 per an
mum, now command $500 to 81, 900. The same
may be said of stores, Offices and every other
description of rentable property. Dwellings
stores, &c, are in active request, even at the
advance. The cry comes up from all quarters
of oppression from high rents The landlord
first begins the doleful song of oppression, be-
cause of an increase of taxes. He, however,
uses it as good excuse, and soon shufies the
burthen from his shoulders to the Door tenant
upon whom he not only puts The extra taxa
tion-'but probably one or two per cent. more.
enough, indeed, to pay the whole of his taxes
fer year. Stern necessity is q beast of awful
burthen. He never goes without a most cum
berous load. Frequently, when saddled and
packed to the fuilest extreme, another and
another extra luggage is placed upon him, until
his limbs, bones, muscles and sinews, un-
willingly give way, and be sinks oppressed to
the earth. He Is, withall, dociie, goo ma
tured animal-will plod onward and onw ard,
hoping for relief. until back bone bonds and
breaks. He is taught to believe in the honel Y
adage-" root hog or die 1t is a fact, too
true, that those least able are often COMPEL ed
to carry the heaviest load. The savage Indian
who roams the forest, and stands erect amid
It's wildness, strong, symetrical, athletic war
nor puts the pappoose, provender, impe.
ments OF husbandry and other onerous bur
thens, upon the weaker sex Thus his suuaw
bends, like an old withered hemlock, to the
earth, and he stands as the wind whistline pine
or giant oak, proudly defying storm and tenn
pest tbs fact too true that tho poor-those
leas. able-are, in nine cases out Of ten made
to pay In the end for almost every extraya-
ganee. They are the real producers. Their
brawny and sinewy arms extracts subs ance
and nutriment directly from its original source.
and upon this Others exist. Those who have
power study their condition. measure their
strength, and where an ounce more can be
carried it is put upon them. Every evil.
however, has its eventual corrective cad I
should not be surprised if q time were ap-
preaching when this oppression will recoil
upon the oppressors Equalization is q law
of nasure Ws,e-, all liquids, and other
things must find level. When the tide rises
high at one position ii sinks at another An
earthquake may occur, and its place be
deluged, Dut mountain springs up In the sea
Volcanoes open and the crater upon another
mountain Is closed. One extreme begets
another. Rents may be raised until the renter
can no longer command means TO pay, when
landlords will find their premises vacated and
their relt-rolls curtailed. These are decidedly
hard times for the poor. know not that
have ever heard 50 much complaint. Every
necessary of life-I mean substances indis-
pensibie to existence-bave advanced in price.
A barrel of -four now costs nearly one halt
more than it did year age; sc Is it with
meats, vegetables, &c. Those who could
scarcely live On salaries Of moderate amour,
in 1852, are now getting NO more, and they
are ground to the very dregs. Where q
dollar once served to 60 to market it now takes
two Many who lnxurated in -four, are
obliged to feast upon meal Potatoes, which
were common upon the poor mans table az AZ
cents per bushei, are now luxnries at one dol
lar and fifty cents. Turkeys, chickens, butter
and eggs. are beyond the reach OF ordin
means. Under such circumstances, to have
with all an exorbitapt increase of rent added,
is more than medium circumstances car
possibly endure. The consequences will be
that those who raise their rents may probably
find their premises, in time, vacated. willis,
others, disposed to divide or eqnallize ths