_forty-four million seven hundred and eighty-two thousand six hundred and thirty-six dollars_. It is certainly a most novel kind of agricultural superiority that the South claims on that score! Our attention shall now be directed to the twelve principal pound-measure products of the free and of the slave States--hay, cotton, butter and cheese, tobacco, cane, sugar, wool, rice, hemp, maple sugar, beeswax and honey, flax, and hops--and in taking an account of them, we shall, in order to show the exact quantity produced in each State, and for the convenience of future reference, pursue the same plan as that adopted in the preceding tables. Whether slavery will appear to better advantage on the scales than it did in the half-bushel, remains to be seen. It is possible that the rickety monster may make a better show on a new track; if it makes a more ridiculous display, we shall not be surprised. A careful examination of its precedents, has taught us the folly of expecting anything good to issue from it in any manner whatever. It has no disposition to emulate the magnanimity of its betters, and as for a laudable ambition to excel, that is a characteristic altogether foreign to its nature. Languor and inertia are the insalutary viands upon which it delights to satiate its morbid appetite; and "from bad to worse" is the ill-omened motto under which, in all its feeble efforts and achievements, it ekes out a most miserable and deleterious existence. TABLE NO. IX. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OF THE FREE STATES--1850. ------------------------------------------------------------ States. | Hay, tons | Hemp, tons | Hops, lbs --------------------|------------|-------------|------------ California | 2,038 | | Connecticut | 516,131 | | 554 Illinois | 601,952 | | 3,551 Indiana | 403,230 | | 92,796 Iowa | 89,055 | | 8,242 Maine | 755,889 | | 40,120 Massachusetts | 651,807 | | 121,595 Michigan | 404,934 | | 10,663 New Hampshire | 598,854 | | 257,174 New Jersey | 435,950 | | 2,133 New York | 3,728,797 | 4 | 2,536,299 Ohio | 1,443,142 | 150 | 63,731 Pennsylvania | 1,842,970 | 44 | 22,088 Rhode Island | 74,418 | | 277 Vermont | 866,153 | | 288,023 Wisconsin | 275,662 | | 15,930 |------------|-------------|------------ | 12,690,982 | 198 | 3,463,176 ============================================================ TABLE NO. X. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OF THE SLAVE STATES--1850.