Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1848-03-02

The report of tile Commissioner of Patents con-
tains extended tabular statement of the prices paid
to farm abOrers and to mechanics in the various
ties of the different States of the Union The facts
thus presented, must be interesting to our readers
generally, and give the substance of them in con-
densed form.
Farm LaJorers.-Maine, northern parts, Sl2 to
Sl5 per month";
New Hampshire and Vermont, Sl2 per month.
Massachusetts, eastern. Sl2 to Sl4 per month.
Massachusetts, western, gil per month";
New York, mostly SI0 per month, often Sl2 per
month, very few s. per month.
New Jersey, Sl5 per month, and not boarded.
Pennsylvania, mostly $40 to Sl2 per month.
Mary land, IS to 10 per month; 81 to 80 per day.
Virginia, southern, 50 per month /; northwestern,
Sl0 per month.
North Carolina, northern and central, 81 to SO per
month western, so to rs cents per day.
South Carolina, western, So per month northwes-
tern, SO to so per month northeastern y cents
per day; central 50 to $40 per month; white labor
ers, Sl5 per month.
Georgia, northwestern, SIS per month, or rs cents
per day.
Alabama, southern, 80 cents per day northern, %
cents a day; central, 80 cents day.
Mississippi. colored, 80 cents day; white, Sl2
to Sl5 per month, and found; newer parts 81 cents
= per day.
Tennessee, western, SO to Sl2 per month; east
ern. so to Sl2 per month.
Ohlo mostly $40 per month, rather higher In the
southern parts.
Indiana, 80 TO SO per month";
Illinois, CENTRAL and southern, 50 to $40 per
month northern, Sl5 to $50 per month
Michigan, variable, average about Sll per month.
Iowa, about $3.50 per month.
As general average, wages are higher IN more
newly settled regions, especially where emigration ls
rapid and enterprise considerable In older country
places the wages lower, except near large cities,
where they high. In the savehoding States
wages are generally considerably lower than else
where, with the exception Of the sugar region IN
Louisiana and the more southern, newer and cotton
producing portions. To these general remarks there
are Of course exceptions.
MechGnicS.-In the northern and eastern
States the daily wages from dollar TO one dol
lar twenty-five cents, being higher In cities. In the
more northern slave States wages not quite so
high. In the new slave States the wages Of mechan-
les are higher. varying frome to dollars. In
the Western States, the price is generally variable,
being from IS cents two dollars per day; scarcity
in supply tending to advance the price; while the
low price of provisions, and consequent higher rates
of money. has contrary tendency.
In England the average wages Of laborer are forty
cents peS day. but the standard varies greatly. The
Nottingbam stocking weayers. in address to the
public stated that after toiing from fourteen TO six
teen hours per day, they cuuld earn only from one
dollar To one dollar and twenty-five cents per week
and were obliged to subsist on bread and water, or
,aotatoes and salt In Ireland the average price OF
eommon labor Is from ten to twelve cents per day.
In France. the common wages of hired laborer are
thirty-seyen dollars fifteen cents for man. and egh-
teen dollars and seveniy-6ve for a woman, annually
tbe Ia uoon which are equal to one-h Of the nett
p,odct. In some parts Of India. where the laborers
want but little rice and salt, the common wages are
as low as five cents day.