Show F 54 51 ai i t vm I 1 1 1 W i pram iucci go tunes times arid and tta kah ahu jhu 31 probably at no period bince the discovery of the gold mines mina hwo havo tile the people of california Calif orRia found it ft so BO difficult to te procura the es their la i borus bor ke buring the few months montha thousands of mr r population hayo haye actually from froin hunger they aey hai leave ve ba been ii va forced peato to i I 1 h ve upon coarse and uil 1111 food 61 aad aid have hav e in in many instances not of this I 1 we hazard bazard but bat til tie in saying that uio the laboring labori ug portion of our population lias has wade nothing for fop the I 1 I 1 A 1 puit four or five mouths months the price ot taken ns all nor have merchants ats with the of importers of such articles as were essen tealio bial to th tho very existence ot of I 1 the lie people made their c e n sea mith witban a i n abundance abunda of the of life in our I 1 markets food has ady incel while a vessels L leave been n employed in bringing to our eh ores every every L I 1 co commodity which th jhb c hearie heart of man cai can de desire air e tilou eliou ilsa of our oar citizens have actually 11 ann in iw gm sa they have aut hsin able ma to obtain lor for their ser vices what would supply their druly wants flour at I 1 twenty twenty live five cents pur por pound choke choice prees pieces ot of fifty add adas as eirten aten sixty two tivo and a half cents potatoes I 1 twelve fand anam a half cents pork fifty cents buttard but from sixty two t tp 0 one ne 1 dollar and twenty fiyo awo ces cens I 1 per pound wild T ducks 1 ais from two to four dollars each thirty teva beven dud and a half cents per pound coffee and a hall half cents per pound we would ask the reader to turn tarn to another branch bf business to dry goods de dealers aleis and see what pro 11 tithe they ara are making scarcely enough to hold soul the prices in in this hist instance tince will barely pay cost and carriage from atlantic ports it 14 s thuA with clothing g arril har hardware ware slid and indeed we artie mR tie urge wilif all brandies branches of af business with the of those immediately connected with irith the sale or transportation of food the prices of f those articles irti cles which the poor man must consume are so very I 1 iii high I 1 hl that he hits has nochim not liing left with which to obtain otter other articles after the purchase |