New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-27

power, embraces an area OF 466 square miles
and a nopulation of something over 7OOOo.
The marriage is not particularly brilliant one
for the English Court, but as the Princess Is said
to be endowed with beauty and amiaDillty IL
may tend to increase the popularity OF frlhce
Leopold, which is already well marked.
These are not easy times in the tenement
houses Life is never very Joyous IN those
crowded and narrow homes, but now 1t seems
eloomier than usual, for the general advance IN
rents began earlier and has gone further IN the
tenement districts than elsewhere The most
crowded wards seem more crowded than ever
before. for the great tide of immigration that
has been pouring over the land for the last two
years has left and is leaving tens of thousands
of the poor of other countries stranded in our
city. These newcomers must have roofs 10
sleep under aud they flock to the squalid tene-
ment houses. The owners of this kind OF prop
erty. already enormously profitable, are thus
enabled to exact still more exorbltant rents
More bridges over the Harlem, elevated roads
above the river and the completion OF the
Brooklyn Bridge are all needed to give relief.
The Indian outbreak in Arizona is very
serious one. The earliest reports stated thaV
not fewer than forty persons had been Killed.
and that a force of 800 Indians was devasta'-
ing the valley contiguous to the NeW-MeAlco
line and sweeping down toward Mexico. Inc
attack upon Stevenss sheep camp was one Oh
the most atrOclOus crimes III the annals OF saw
agery, and the latest dispatches describe COM
panion-piece in boodcurdling horror-the
burning of settlement and the massacre OF
thirty-fve white settlers. The military forces
as usual, are clumsily handled, as the savages
after beng completely surrounded have been
allowed to escape, and having doubled the num-
Der of their victims are now breaking up INC
small bands and taking refuge III the noun
tains Our Amy officers never have any luck
at the opening Of an Indian campaign. III
may he that they seldom deserve 1t.
The progress Of the Yates will contest III the
Surrogates Court was diversified yesterday by
an attempt to blacken the reputation of one oil
the leading lawyers in the case who has been
CONSPICUOUS for years for his interest III city
LEGISLATION at Albany. An effort was made to
show that he had been indicted convicted and
outlawed in Scotland nearly twenty years ago.
The peculiarly painful feature of the matter is
send, one of the most devoted adherents of
I ammany Hall, and was directed against Mr..
John II. Strahan, who has been laboring III
season and out of season for charters and other
measures intended to aid the FOurtecnth-st.
Wigwam. Both gentlemen are generally sup
posed to be very near Mr.. Kelly's heart. MI
Townsend has narrowly escaped several noml-
nations for District Attorney. while Mr.. Strahan
has been Mr.. Kelly's most trusted adviser.
This is not the way for brethren to dwell to-
gether in unity. 1t is only fair to say that Mr..
St1ahan claims that if he was indicted it was
wholly without his knowledge, and that he was
panopled with innocence all the time. But it
must be admitted that such disclosures will
tend to impair his usefulness at the State Capt.
tol.