Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1840-07-09
NEWS, POLITICS. &c.
From the Madisonian.
WAGES OF LABOR.

friend handed US the following statistics Of la.
Dor, &c, in the kingdom Of Bavaria belonging 10
the German Confederation. II WIS furnished him
at his request by highly intelligent Bavarian gem
ternan, who has taken up his residence in this coun-
Try IL will be perceived thar the wages of labor
in Bavaria, are quite as high as in other parts of
Europe, to which MIR, Van Barren refers the two
Houses OF Congress, examples Of the blessings
which flow from hard money Sub Treasury sys-
tenn
We can now see and understand what Mr. Buc-
hanan and hispolitical friends mean. by bris qinr
dorm rages and prices, By means of the sub Tred-
surg system, 70 tered wstk he prices Of the
acor1d; BY which our country is to be covered
frth blessings" We think the farmers, mechan.
les aud aborers Of every class, in this country will
not covet such /" blessings" II is not to be won.
dered at that the indignation the producing class
es, throughout the Union, has been excited 10
high degree, by this atroeious projec: Of reducing
them to the condition Of the laborug classes of mo
narchical Europe, by means Of the anti State-bank
snti-eredit, hard money, Sub Treasury Government
Bank scheme Of Mr. Van Buren,.
KINGDOM OF BAVARIA, GERMANY.
Wages Of common iasorers Men from is to "a
dollars, women from 8 TO 90 dollars per annum,
and found, except clothing Their food consists,
generally of bread and vegetables meat is given
only on holidays.
Wages Of day la5orers.-Men from 10 10
cents per day; women 8 cents. In the harvest
season, men receive from Is to,20 cents per day !;
women from IL to Is cents. The day laborers find
themselves.
Wages Of Mechanics Carpenters, 25 cents
day bricklayers, 20 to 25 cents, and find them.
selves.
Farmers, farm servants, laborers and the country
mechanics, dress in their national costume, which
never undergoes change of fashion. Every article
OF clothing is made of durable MATERIAL as wool fax
or hemp. Silk cotton is seldom used Their
clothing lasts for long time 1t is not uncommon
TO see dresses worn. which have been worn by and
handed down from their ancestors Their shoes
have good inch soles filled with nails, which last
for year or two. They seldom allow themselves
to wear shoes in the summer
Their furniture is very cheap and plain Their
crockery consists of the common potter's brown
ware; their plates are wood spoons iron, &c
The common people can seldom afford to use any
thing of foreign growth; but confne themselves to
their own productions. Coffee tea, and sugar are
little known to the laboring classes. The rich no.
bility, and the office holders indulge in uxures
In Bavaria, where the banking and credit system
is discountenanced and kept down, by the wealthy
capitalists, the man who is born poor, always re-
mains poor, while the rich capitalist takes all the
profits of his labor.
Bavaria has specie currency. The largest sill
yer coin is nearly equivalent to the American dollar
The next largest is the gulden which is divided in
to half quarter eighth, &C.. as far as the Goth part
which is called the ltreutzer, the smallest silver
coin.
The largest copper coin is equivalent TO 2-3ds of
an American cent. The smallest is the haller the
430th part of gulden.
The lawful interest Of money is 5 per cent 4
per centis the general rate of interest; but there
are institutions which loan their capital for g. and
even per cent. per annum. The profits of bu.
siness generally correspond with the low rate of in.
terest.