New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-23
AFFAIRS IN THE PRUSSfAy cAP!r1L
POSITION OF THE LABoRING MAN.

dllcn of the lsboriDg man in America as com
pared with bis position here snd speak OF the
off. of wages. the replg is Invariably made:
"but il costs so much more 70 live there. that
nupon TIE whole it is pretty much the same And
this, whether I am talking with prof, ssor in the
University, or with the cobbler who is mending
rip il ny shoe.
So fer as my experience and observation go the
cost of lising-le wing out Of view two things,
viz: clothes from fashionable taors aud house
rents-is about the ssme in New-York as in Ber-
lin, providing you live equally well in the two
cities. A poor family, il would seem, may obtain
food, one year win another, as cheaply there as
here. at all events, the cheepneas Of living. 10
this part Of Germany at least, which is 50 striking
when the comparison is made between the house
holds of the rich here ard with VS., ia not so evil
dent Is We descend the scale Of social rank.
Last Winter TiIE TRIBUNE brought US sad It'd
inps of the condition of the poor in the American
cities, both from the extraordinary prices OF all
articles of food and from ths beautiful workings OF
Democratic Iif aud other measures affecting the
interests of labor. / seems quite probable that
TIE tales of suffering will go from the cities here
this Winter, but the condition of the pO)r will not
he made worse by the insane acton OF any So
called Democratic Congress cutting ct t'e root OF
prosperity by removing all guards and protection
from home industry But to the r55:ot
Here are some of the prices which, with no
great variation, have ruled here fr a year past
Potatoes have varied from tsaler D to . silver
eroschen Der sctefel down 10 % sgr and nov are
I'd again to tb. 2 sgr.. with prospect of much
ki.ber rate. Now sch ie is qusrer lees than
a busbel -four bushels are 5 3 10 schefiel), and
vlv
ara now selling here at full dollar bushel at
,otsiL But,or is Z, 10 aud IL sgr pound. Toe
PrusAiap pound Is 3 por cent smaller tha ours
the s,lyereroscten "a cebts--making the price 20
% arc 80 cents now, when. if ever, it should be
cbesp-apd the pounds small a. that. As sub
sttute for but lard is very much eaten, aud this
costs now 20 cents pound for such as my land
lady AYERS tastes very strongly of mutton tallow.
Cheese Of various qualities costs precisely the
same as butter g. 10 and IL SCR
Bread ia Europe is truly the staff Of lif- among
the poorer classes 10 this oty rye bread, with but
ter or some sort OF grease upon IT, forns at least
the entire spread" at twelve or hfteen meals
week. Three or four cents worth OF vegetables,
boiled almost to q stew, with bit OF mutton bone
or refuse beef lust to give me vegetables flavor,
NAV generally be found on the table at noon, bat
the ore at thing Is the thick slice Of black bread
The price of wheat and rye, then, is what is most
snxiOusly watched bsre as well as IN Paris
There is no private baking all bread is bought OF
the bakers and the Government watches them
closely. A wv months $50 there was decline in
the price of grain, without corresponding in
or, ase in the size of the fye-groscheD loaf.
Hpckeldey sent circular to the bakers that ua
less the loaf we're larger before the next market
dsy ne would allow so many thousand loaves OF
country bread to pass the CRY gates without toll
TIE loaf had bigger belly next morning. but has
shrunk again from its fair proportions. To-day
rye lin To- grain has been selling at y tbasr per
1850 pounds, which. SLOWING for the difference
in the English and Prus,isn pound, L make equal
To SCI so for rather less than =, ZOO pounds.
1bree qualities of wheat sold (reckoDing 10 the
,sme way st-poor, 81 % to $50 so; middling,
Sa6 25 to 1874 So and good $50 to ~! % Per
. goo pounds / have no II cans OF knowing now
this CON pares with the cost in New York. but is
Il not 30 b,Qb as TO render the cost of bread here
equal 10 the cost there
Coffee is drunk here by all classes In some sdape
or other-not seldom in the shape Of peas, reckon
The three prices are 20, 20 and 80 cents American
money per Russian pound, for the raw beans
Loaf sugar, beet, Tor hardly any other is used
costs some 10 cents per pound-it is almost ex
clusiyely an article of domestic manufacture
VERY DO meadow hay favored tea costs 81 %,
spd the poor people never taste it-those not very
ppor use perhaps four ounces 8 year, sleeping 1t
with bit OF eli namon or something OF the sort 50
that the weak SOLUTION enhll nave sumo tastc'
Dried peas and lentiles, which ore much more
used IS common articles of food than with US, cost
the housekeeper not ter from p per bushei, while
beans are about fifth higher.
squasbes and pumpkins are hardly known
Other vegetables, especially carrots, turnips and
cabbats s, / take 70 be much cheaper than IN oar
markets.
Rspeseed oil, which is generally burned whale
oil being quite unknown, costs about oO to ~
cetts per gslloD, as nearly as can make out 1t
being sold by the pOutd. Ii buns out, however
much foster than wbsle oil
You are aware that all the rivers and ponds oil
the endless plains of Northern Germany have been
connected together by canals and rendered naTiga-
bic for large boat by an excellent aud long con
tinued policy of public internal Improvement.
The consequence is that our little miserable ri7er
spree is crowded with boats from ali quarters
bringing the produce Oithe peasants at once u Ar
ke, Just row the landing places are every where
occupied with apple sellers. The poor people are
having their annual feast Of spples at cost OF 70
groschpn per metze, 81 so to 80 per bushel
Now all the talk hear about the eheapnes' OF
living in Germany may be very true, but these
figures sIe rather stubborn things.
IT. however q family used to living IN good New
Yorh style-Sl 900 rent for house (I thst be good
.,,lel a cou BE Of servants, good breakfast do
per ard supper daily. meat morning, noon and
might. puddines pies, buckwheat, oysters, roast
turkey for Sun days, aud pair Of caDvas-backs
occasionally will come over here and live like our
prof,Nor over the way-sbat family viii ma II
Cheap. BE pays some $500 rent for two rooms
one hiaht high on the street and series Oh
,oyr, Coz, mr. 6Va smsler mas running BACK mo