New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-03-16
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Il luC piViuiuiu vi OOiu tChuo oN'ouhy uV"h
ward with tho prospects and hopes of the Slave
holders Rebellion, and our markets for rood,
Fabrics and almost everything else, sympatlxo
Herewith by an irresistible law. OF course
speculative holders resist this tendency with
desperate, frantic energy; but, while they post
|pone, they cannot prevent the inevitable con-
summation. You may say, as you choose,
either that the bushe of wheat or yard Of cloth
lis worth less than it was, or that the greenback
dollar is worth more the difference is only that
between six and half dozen. Were the Re.
belion dead to-day, it would not be possible
to keep for month the premium on Gold up to
50, and we doubt whether it would range above
30. And Flour, Coal, Meat, Tea, Sugar, COT
fee, Shirtings, Cashmere. Calico, Flannels,
&C., &C., are bound TO come down in price as
the Currency approaches the Specie standard.
There may be partial, local, temporary contra
ventons Of this law, but they are only the ex-
ceptons which prove the rule. Gold is the
worlds standard of value, to which all prices
are constrained, sooner or later, to conform.
Yet at this moment, when Currency is worth
twenty five per cent more than II was few
months since, and likely to be still further and
more considerably appreciated very soon-when
the great spectators in Grain, Beet, Flour
Pork, Butter, Cheese, &c, &c, are shivcring
on the brink Of insolvency as they pace
in agony the floors of their vast, over
filled warehouses-the Landlords of our City
have struck for an addition of fifteen to forty
per cent to their annual charges for the use OF
buildings and apartments, and The Journcymen
Carpenters are striking for an augmentation OF
their wages from 50 TO ga per day.
| These two strikes are the complement Of each
other. The Journeymen say they must have
! higher wages because rents, Ac, are 20 high;
the Landlords insist on higher rents because
mere houses are wanted, and the cost of build
ing new ones is so great. The circle, though
vicious, is complete: Man can hardly fight
against it. though events may. So long as the
Landlords refrain from breaking the heads OF
those who refuse TO take houses rooms AZ
their e1orbitant rates and so long rs Carpenters
evince like forbearance toward those who
choose TO work for lower wages than the strike "
lusl5ir Ou, my Ihfc bH' va N"Nh eiN's ~
You don't want Mr.. Astor's house or Mr.. JACK.
planes labor on the terms he proposes, you are
welcome TO 90 without: there is the Park to
sleep in TIL the police rout you out, and there
are good many trees in John Browns tract
or on the rugged Pike County hills, under which
you may sleep undisturbed by aught more an
moving than tempests or wolves. Such are the
inestimable privileges attached to living in a
free country.
These strikes are godsends to pr0perty-hold.
ers in our suburban villages. Thousands are
being elected from our City by the moral i'm
possibility of longer living in it OF the gains OF
+ a laborer or small shop-keeper; raising wages
scarcely mitigotes the urgency of the decree.
Yet little while, aud everything that can be
done out of the City will be: all wearing APP
parei will be made there; all books will be
printed there; even ship-building and the manu-
facture of steam aud all other machinery will
have to go. Already, Bridgeport Paterson.
Norwolk, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, and scores
of minor villages, are growing rapidly-as New
ark did long ago, and New-Haven at later
day--on business virtually expelled from New.
{ York by the large cost of living here.
This tendency is not, in the larger view, to
be deprecated, though it must interfere with
the sanguine calculations of lot-owncrs who
fancy that the whole area of our City will be
f compactly built up within very few years.
If the urban industry stimulated BY the trade
of our City were all prosecuted within her
r limits. she would have a population this day Of
Two to Three Millions. But it is preferable
that the artisans and artificcrs who keep our
traders supplied with their infinity of home
made wares and fabrics should be scattered over
an area of ten thousand square miles rather than
huddled within one Of hundred only. The
married mechanic or artisan may better live In
one Of the adjacent cities or villages, where a
walk of ten minutes will take him into the open
country, and one Of ten more into quiet wood
or grove, than TO rear his children whore they
can scarcely see brook or forest from Jan
uary to December. Hence, We do not regret
; the diffusion of population which our house
owners and house builders seem conspiring to
accelerate.
| And yet We cannot resist the conviction that
they are rushing matters faster than is natural
or wholesome-that they might wisely and pru-
IDENTITY have been more moderate. Let us briefly
say why we think the Journeylnen have outrun
the scent in their keen quest Of what they deem