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Doc CHEAT !-The Nantucket Inquirer, in alluding to the low price at which news papers are now published, and the disposi-

 ton that IS manifested by many to cheapea or undersell. remarks with great justice - ss It is this, which has rendered the publish ing trade unprofitable to thousands of op- eratives, and ruinous to many professional adventures. Such being the result Tn nu merous cases, the craft itself has in some degree become discreditable, or dlsreputa- bic. II is this disposition. in short, which keeps the iourneymen printer poor, and the editors nose at the grlndstone forever.- The bare paper, as 1t comes from the mill, which goes to furnish a patron with upwards of 300 printed sheets per annum tor four dollars, cost, at least two thirds of that sum. What then is left for the poor workingman,s wages. but the merest plttance- what for the publisher, or editor, but his labor for his pains Nearly one fourth of the ag- gregate amount of newspaper subscriptions, throughout the United States, we have no doubt is never paid, and the proprlefors are consequently cheated out of nearly all up- on which they fallaciously depend for sub- sistence. The fault is in some measure at tributabIe to that spirit of cheapenIng, false- ly called competition, which is not only de- structive 10 those who engage in 1t, but high W injurious to others. It is time that prin- ters and publishers of this country took this subject into serious consideration"