The daily union., 1852-12-12
Cost OF Living High Prlees VI Produce

oAs ESaT " he Hvsfos Cosr~v
My attention has been called to IA article 10 your pa.
daily complaints made about the high prices OF the neces
sares OF life AS yet have satisfactory
assigned. The Albany Journal ssys
There butter aud cheese taken down the river
just now than ever before known, The prevailing
question H how can such large quantities Of those articles
tanned 2"
The New York Express answers
$ The question can be very easily answered aud 1t has
been answered often IN the newspapers ofiae The spec
make enormous profits, pay for heavy city rents
the price TO the consumer is raised in proportion"
Tony mind this is but slight cause. The is
unsatisfactory think the profits 10 the middemen'
greater than they have been One
easily satisfy himself of this fact by going into the nte
or, or write and inquire the prices OF all the necessares
of life.
He will find that the average he can buy cheaper
in the larger ctes--ireight deducled-lhan he possibly
can in the interior especially is il so at retail
What, then, Is the OF butter, lard cheese pork
beef, Hour. &c, bearing such high prices
will give my reason, and II shall enable the farmer
to make more money and raise corresponding crops 10
meet The demand or TO open the eyes OF our people TO
the great changes going with us, shall be graed.
When The large deposi!es OF gold throughout Caor-
MIA were first made manifest newspapers and magazines
filled with specuaIons about the effect they would
have in the mercantile world All sorts OF theories were
advanced and commented on. Strong doubts were held
by learned men that any large yield OF gold, such
would effect trade, could continue.
Gold has not only been found TO be inexhausble in
California but, in the lime, Australia has risen up
as competitor, and bids fair from all accounts to match
California il not surpass her. in quantity and quality of
the precious metal BY this we see an entire change has
been going on and will continue 10 20 the prices
OF every species of merchandise long the crcula-
ting medium is gathered in such abundance and retains
it's standard value as at present The reasons are OBJ
vious.
uxlly gone out from amongst nearly or quite touT
hundred thousand working people, and most OF them pro-
ducers. This large number has become consumers -
large consumers for will hazard the assertion that
one man in California will consume and waste
the average than would supply two on the Atlantic AL
mitting this fac-which think no one will deny who
knows the habits OF men when surrounded by gold--re
ceying for their daily labor alone five and six times
much as they before received then change this
large number OF producers into consumers and you have
fact which is startling al first sight Here you have
change from producers to consumers which is double
change, and each OF these consuming and wasting two
to one making increase of consumers to the amount
of more than. .one-tenth part Of the whole population OF
these United States
Again let us look at Australia and witness what she
beginning demand from in the shape OF produce
The fact is going with her and England. Eng
lands producers are gong out from her. ana she IN turn
will have to supply and be supplied.
II would be interesting as well as valuable to gather up
statistics of the shipments already made to these places,
and had leisure would do so but should much like
them gathered together in form, and placed side
by side with the immense imports OF gold. Then ii
would be plain 10 why the necessaries oil e are so
much higher with us than formerly.
If these brief and hasty remarks shall induce any
to gather full statistics OF prodnce sent forward TO Cali
forna and Australia the past yeaFbearng IN mind that
as many vessels have gone from Europe from
this side OF the Atanc-,he account would be full Of
! interest.
| BosToN, Dec. g. c. A. b.
Our intelligent correspondent speaks well, for he
derstands the subject upon which he writes. All prices
which belong to the of living, which are at.
tached TO them have risen immensely, and the rise in
price OF these commodities may not be above what ii
should be, when the influx OF gold is great that the
circulating medium is enlarged beyond former precedent
All consumers however, do not participate in the advan-
tages which dealers obtain through the pentifuness
OF money.