Editors Table—Advertisements, 
$925,000,000, paying in the countries to which ex¬ 
ported, an average duty of over 90 per cent; making 
a balance of $177,000,000. A part of this balance, 
however, does not exist against us, having accrued in 
the shape of charges and profits in the carrying trade of 
our vessels. A sufficient amount however remains to 
show us the beautiful operation of the free trade sys¬ 
tem, when our Legislators are unwise enough to take 
off the commercial restraints that should ever be inter¬ 
posed to individual cupidity when dealing with na¬ 
tions that so rigidly, and we may add, wisely, protect 
their own interest. 
By this experiment, we have reduced ourselves from 
the most prosperous condition any nation ever enjoyed 
on the face of the earth, to a state of general ruin and 
bankruptcy—bankruptcy of the federal government, 
state governments, hanks, corporations, and individuals. 
Nearly $200,000,000 are still due by us abroad, while 
figures can hardly be arranged to give an intelligible es¬ 
timate of the aggregate indebtedness at home. We 
came out of the eight years war of the revolution with 
the most powerful nation on the globe with a debt of 
$50,000,000; we come out of an eight years experi¬ 
ment of comparative free trade with a debt more than 
three times as great. Surely the bitterest enmity of 
open foes is tender mercy, in comparison with the 
cruelty of insidious friends. 
We exhibit at the present moment something such 
a spectacle as one of the ancient mastadons, whose 
bones fill up our western salt licks, as the skeletons of 
ancient and once powerful, but simple minded nations, 
now dimly fill up the pages of history; one that was 
lucky enough to escape a voluntary immersion in a 
Kentucky quagmire, we mean. After floundering and 
struggling, and perhaps dislocating a few limbs, and 
almost exhausting his more than leviathan strength, 
he has succeeded in reaching terra-firma, and there he 
lies, all drabbled with mud, and reeking with slime. 
All the beasts of the forest could not have compelled 
him to his degraded condition, yet the veriest jackal of 
the woods can now insult him with impunity. Or, we 
may take Samson for our exemplar ; wearied out by the 
solicitations of our free trade Delilahs, we have at last 
yielded our better judgment to their vexatious teazing, 
and like'him, we have paid the just forfeit of our folly 
by grinding in the prison house of the Philistines. It 
is lucky for us that unlike the captive Hebrew, we 
have not had our eyes bored out in our humiliation. 
We have only been hood-winked, and as our increasing 
locks are already renewing our vigor, we may confident¬ 
ly expect that an acuter vision will direct our re¬ 
turning strength to an effectual self protection in future. 
Lard Lamps. —A friend has politely sent us one of 
the improved lard lamps, with the following state- 
meat. He bought 1 1-2 lbs. lard, at 8 cents per lb. 
and one pint of sperm oil, for 12 1-2 cents, which he 
placed in separate lamps, and commenced burning; 
each being so regulated as to afford, as near as the 
eye could determine, precisely the same quantity of 
light. The result was, one half of the lard exhausted 
all the oil: or the same light is furnished from lard at 
one half the cost of oil at the above prices. But 
in the interior lard is frequently bought for half the 
above price, and oil for 50 per cent, more; the dif¬ 
ference then is as 3 to 18 in favor of lard, or a saving 
of five-sixths the cost of the oil. 
The lard, free from salt, is put in cold, and a small 
quantity applied around the tubes, which settles into 
the small cup on the top and supplies fuel for the light 
till it is sufficiently melted within the lamp to afford a 
supply. For sale by E. Fillet, 125 Maiden-Lane. 
We shall be obliged by the Editors of the South¬ 
ern Planter, at Richmond, sending us the report of the 
Farm Committee of Henrico of 1841, which they esteem 
as a “ model of that kind of writing*” We have no 
recollection of ever seeing it, and would much like a 
perusal. We still incline, however, to our own sug¬ 
gestion of “ mounting the rostrum,” as the owners of 
animals could then be heard in explanation and defence, 
which we consider very important; and such a viva 
voce discussion, carried on with courtesy, and within 
a limited time, could not fail of being very exciting and 
instructive. We should not object to a condensed and 
clearly defined after-written report, to he published 
among the transactions of the society, so that our 
friends will see that we quite agree on this subject. 
ICr* Subscribers who have not yet paid for the cur¬ 
rent volume of this paper, are reminded that this No. 
completes two-thirds of the year. Our terms are, pay¬ 
ment strictly in advance, and any deviation from this 
rule, has been made for a temporary accommodation 
only. Collecting one dollar per ann. from subscribers, 
when they are scattered from Maine to Louisiana, is 
of course out of the question. Debts due us, there¬ 
fore, for the work, are strictly debts of honor. We 
trust to this character of our claims alone, for their 
immediate transmission to this office. Such as do not 
receive their numbers hereafter, must assign this as the 
cause of withholding them. 
We expect those gentlemen who have voluntarily, 
or by request, acted as agents, will in all cases indem¬ 
nify themselves for their trouble, by reserving the com¬ 
mission allowed. 
Works pertaining to Agriculture for sale by §ax 
toil <& Miles, 205 Broadway. 
Johnson’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistry and Geology, 30 
cents: Do. do. 1vol. 12mo. $1; Gray’s Botanical Text Book, 
$1 50; Lindley’s Horticulture, $12a; Gray’s Agricultural Chemis¬ 
try, $1 00; Downing’s Landscape Gardening, $3 50; do. Cot 
tage Residences, $2 50; Leibig’s Organic Chemistry, &c. <fec. 
Orders from any part of the United States punctually attended 
to, at the c heap cash book store, 205 Broadway. 
Wheat Sheaf FARM on Staten Island, for sale. 
A recent domestic bereavement has induced the Undersigned to 
offer his residence, on Staten Island, for sale. It is situated mid¬ 
way of the outer bay, 6n the sea shore, eight miles from the quar¬ 
antine Ferry, three from that of Rossville, and equi-distant from 
two others, Seguine’s Landing and Port Richmond. 
The condition of the Farm—the extent , value, and practical use¬ 
fulness of the improvements and its peculiar advantages, are suffi¬ 
ciently known. It has been improved in a way to render it sus¬ 
ceptible of six farming divisions of thirty acres and upwards, each 
including an appropriate allotment of woodland—each division of 
fering a moderately elevated building location. The condition of 
the soil can at this time bo best appreciated, as its harvest is hea¬ 
vy and now gathering. Terms to suit the purchaser, as the object 
is merely to change the investment for another susceptible of 
equal product. VV. A. SEELY, 218 Fulton-st. N. York. 
ISABELLA GRAPE V1MES, 
Of proper age for forming vineyards, propagated from and con¬ 
taining all the good qualities which the most improved cultivation 
for over ten years has conferred on the vineyards at Croton Point, 
are now offered to the public. Those who may purchase will re 
ccive such instructions as will enable them to cultivate the Grape 
with entire success, (provided their locality is not too far north.) 
All communications, post paid, addressed to R. T. UNDERHILL, 
M. D. 400 Broadway, N. Y., will receive attention. He feels quite 
confident that he has so far ameliorated the character and habits of 
the grape vines in his vineyards and nurseries, by improved cultiva¬ 
tion, pruning, &c., that they will generally ripen well and produce 
good fruit when planted in most of the Northern, all the Western, 
Middle and Southern States, October, 1842 
