New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-04-29

Next Thursday will be the First Of May. For most
persons the dreadful questiOn-To move, or not to
move has already been settled To some it is still
open. To all there will now appear both wisdom
and beauty in the ris inertia. One old saw tells lis
to "let well alone" and another intimates that
~ rolling stone gathers no moss" Strange to say
the highest poetic philosophy and the humblest
everyday sense are agreed on this point. Shake
speares Hamlet is plainly of opinion that it is better
to bear those ills have than fly to others that
we know not of !" and popular experience distinctly
declares against jumping ont of the frylng-pan
into the fire" We are strongly opposed TO all undue
encouragement of the rapacity of landlords If the
tenant sees his path clear to the lettering of his
condition. by all means let him take the instant
way" Those house-letters in particular it seems
especially desirable to discourage, who annually in
crease the rent of a residence by about the sum of
money they know it would cost the tenant to get his
goods transported to new sanctuary in case he
should determine to fit. They are of the penuriOus
and tricky kind, and it is always a comfort to dis
comft them and TO see them discounted. Neverthe-
less to persons who find themselves even tOlerably
well situated, it is not bad counsel which recon-
mends them to stay as they are. Once settled in a
decent neighborhood, the NewYorker makes mis-
take if he ever moves out of it, providing he can
stay where he is on cndurable conditions There is
no civic region without its disadvantages; and in
the matter Of disadvantages there is a sameness
quite metropolitan all over the city. The cockroach
of West Twenty third-st may be shade lighter
than his brother of East Broadway, descended from
a travelled progenitpr or semi-nautical sire on the
contiguous docks but, dirty brown or sable, he is
cockroach STILL AS for movers to the country, who
intend TO continue working in New-York, they have
an experience in store to which Macbeths "curses
l,,A 10 ND IN
those, accordingly, they are referred.
About a year ago the Emigration Commissioners
reduced the head tax on immigrants from 81 50 to
81 So Their expenses have since completely used
I'D the small fund thus collected, and they now urge
the Legislature to restore the tax to the original
amount. There are no reasons why this head
money should be increased which did not exist be-
fore the reduction. The steamship companies of
course charge this increase to Storage passengers
and il thus becomes q tax upon immigration. Any
increase as contemplated, will be almost certain to
reduce rather than increase the fund. The present
tax drives steamship companies to land passengers
where there is no head money charged. AS proof
of this. the two Cunarders due last week landed
their steerage passengers, to the number of $780, at
Boston where they admitted free. and the Cuba,
which landed at this port brought only $50 steerage
passengers. The proposed increase will possibly
induce other steamship companies to touch at Bos-
ton as the head money OH each trip will average
from $4,000 to $4,000.
II is chiefly in country villages that the old
substantial belief in good strong doses of medicine
and many of them holds force In the cities there
are woak-minded trihings with tiny homeopathic
globules with all sorts Of baths, and " Health
Lifts" and changings of air and the metropolitan
mother generally thinks twice before she inicts the
bitterness of rhubarb hedespar of castoroi upon
her infants Not so is it in rural shades. There the
traditions of stern and allopathc ancestors are still
honored touching instance of this feeling was
lately revealod in distant village. The excellent