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Notices of the Press—The Treaty and the Tariff. 
Trench Plow. —There is an excellent model of 
the Great, or Jersey, Trench plow, by that veteran ag¬ 
riculturist, Col. Le Couteur, and the detail of its use 
in tht last number of the Journal. After a few inches 
of the top soil has been thrown off by an ordinary plow, 
it is drawn along by a powerful team of four to eight 
horses, in the same furrow, turning up the land from 
10 to 18 inches more, all of which is made into a good 
soil. By this means immense crops of roots, grain 
and grass are raised. This single plowing is a substi¬ 
tute for the numerous shallow plowings practiced in 
other parts of England, and the deep and expensive 
spading, practised in proper garden tillage every where. 
But as few of our countrymen are as yet prepared to 
encounter this thorough system of husbandry, we for¬ 
bear to enlarge upon it. We will add, however, that 
where this system is practiced, land has got to be 
worth from $500 to $750 per acre, for cultivation. 
On Cottage Economy and Cookery. —It seems, 
from a long report to be found in this journal, the pre¬ 
mium for which was awarded to a lady, that the lead¬ 
ing, most intelligent, extensive, and useful Agricultural 
Society in the world, does not think it beneath them to 
publish, with all the minutest items, 18 pages of re¬ 
ceipts and managements in cooking cheap, substantial, 
and wholesome dishes for the laboring classes. Though 
we consider this a peculiarly appropriate topic for that 
longitude, we should deem it also fully worthy of this, 
did our space allow us to give them, so modified as to 
be entirely adapted to our situation. It will have been 
noticed by our readers, that we have occasionally ap¬ 
propriated a corner to these matters, from our own con¬ 
sideration of their intrinsic merits. 
League of Industry, devoted to Home Manufac¬ 
tures , Agriculture and Commerce. —The above is the 
title of a neat, semi-monthly sheet, of 8 pages, published 
at Richmond, Va., by Moses Goold. We hail the es¬ 
tablishment of the above paper at the capitol of the 
Old Dominion, as one of the best signs of the times. 
The paper sent us is well filled with original matter, 
sound, sensible and to the point; all bearing on the 
subject of fostering domestic industry, instead of send¬ 
ing our money to foreign countries, for such articles as 
we can abundantly supply at home. The disturbing 
subject of politics has no place there. The true inter¬ 
ests of the entire citizens of the Union is the theme , and 
to this we hope it will rigidly adhere. If this work is 
sustained, it will accelerate the highly beneficial change 
of opinion on these important topics in the south, 
which has been going on for some years past. 
The interesting biography of Bakewell, was in 
type for our last No. but not having room then, it ap¬ 
pears in this. It is probable that Balceioell possessed 
more genius as a breeder than any other of the human 
race; certainly far, very far, was his success in ad¬ 
vance of any other individual, whose name history has 
handed down to us. The sketch we give, will be read 
with interest by every intelligent breeder. 
Thorough under Draining. —We had marked for 
publication, from the Lon. Far. Mag., the best article 
we have yet seen on under draining, by Mr. Smith, of 
Deanston, but as we have not yet had space for its pub¬ 
lication, and know not when we shall, and the system 
thus far, has been so little practised in this country, we 
conclude to deny ourselves the pleasure of laying it be¬ 
fore our readers for the present. 
EDITOR’S TABLE. 
(Omitted in our last number.) 
The Treaty and the Tariff. —We cannot permit 
our paper to go to press, without congratulating our 
readers on the successful negotiation of a treaty with 
Great Britain, and the enactmect of an efficient pro¬ 
tective tariff. The first, gives us a present, and the 
hope of a permanent peace, with the only nation in the 
world that can do us material injury ; the last, will af¬ 
ford us, so long as we have wisdom to adhere to it, a 
reasonable condition of prosperity, throughout every 
portion of our country. The first, secures us from 
foreign violence and aggression; the last, from foreign 
management and fraud. The first, protects the peace¬ 
ful fireside of every citizen of the union; the last, 
yields to industry and frugality, an abundance of all the 
comforts of life. The first, will prevent a vast nation¬ 
al injury; the last, in the aggregate, an equal or 
greater amount of individual loss. 
But after the consummation of the treaty, there is 
nothing we so much admire, as the straight forward, 
honest, manly sense, exhibited by the two distinguished 
agents in the negotiation. They evidently entered 
upon their arduous duty with the good faith, direct 
purpose, fair and open dealing, that characterises 
honest men in their private transactions, and has not 
characterised most of the national bargains, that have 
been concluded within the last few centuries. A dif¬ 
ferent system of policy has been taught by the diplo¬ 
matists of the middle and later ages ; a system of fraud 
and treachery, of chicanery and deception, where each 
party cautiously lay in ambush, till some carelessness 
on the part of his adversary, or some successful ma¬ 
noeuvre of his own, afforded an advantage which the 
wily negotiator secured at a single bound. The whole 
host of feline statesmen, from Machiavel, Talleyrand, 
and Metternich, the royal tigers of the race, down to 
the pettiest grimalkins that prowl around a bird’s nest, 
or rat warren, have, by these illustrious statesmen, 
been rebuked and instructed, for all time to come. 
They had a great and noble purpose to achieve, which 
they at once, accomplished, by mutual, though trifling 
concessions ; while they secured important and lasting 
advantages to each of the great nations they represent¬ 
ed. The honest intentions of Great Britain were amply 
guaranteed, by sending to us a representative, strong, 
and justly too, in the confidence of his own govern¬ 
ment, but whose character, developed through a long 
and successful life, rendered him every way acceptable 
to our own. In announcing Lord Ashburton’s ap¬ 
pointment as the plenipotentiary to this country, we 
had the assurance, that while England would lose 
nothing she had a fair right to claim, there would be 
no attempt to secure petty advantages, to which she had 
no title; and the appointment of America’s great 
statesman by us, was an evidence of an equal disposi¬ 
tion on our part, to conclude a treaty on the broadest 
principles of a just and enlightened policy. Let it be 
perpetual. 
The tariff recently passed, though not free from ob¬ 
jections in its details, yet as a whole, is worthy the ap¬ 
probation of every American, who desires to see his 
fellow citizens protected, against the frauds of aliens, 
and the pauper labor of other lands. We have had a 
pretty thorough trial of the principles, and practical 
working of free trade for the last eight years, and the 
result may be stated in a few words. 
From 1833 to 1840 inclusive, a period of eight years, 
we have imported in round numbers, to the amount of 
$1,102,000,000, at an average duty of about 20 per 
cent; and during the same time we have exported 
