OREGON FREE PRESS.
FOR THE
VOL.1.) WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1848. (NO. 15.
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French Provisional Government. We give below
the Proclamation of the Provisional Government of
France:
"Citizens: The Provisional Government hos just
been installed ; it is composed by the will of the people
of the citizens, Frederic Arago, Louis Blanc, Lamar
tine, Flocon, Ledru Rollin, Reourt, Marast, Albert,
to urate!) over the execution of the measures which
will be taken by the Government; the will of the peo
ple has also chosen for delegates in the department of
the police, the citizens Caussidiere and Sobrier. The
same sovereign will of the people has designated the
citizen Elienne Arago, to be the Director General of the
Postoffire.
" As the first execution ot the orders given by the
Provisional Government, it is ordered that the bakers
and venders of provisions of Paris keep their shops
open to all those who may have occasion for them.
"It is especially recommended to the people not to
quit their arms or their revolutionary attitude. They
have often been traitorously deceived. It is important
that (hey should not give opportunities to attacks as
criminal as they arc terrible.
" To satisfy the general wish of the sovereign people,
the Provisional Government has decided and effectua
ted, with the aid of the National Guard, the liberation
of nil political prisoners. But it has, equally with the
aid of the National Guard, and none could be more
honorable, kept in prison all tbose confined for crimes
against person and property.
" The families of citizens killed or wounded in de
fence of the rig!) Is of the people, are invited to convey,
as soon as possihle, to the delegates of the department
of police, the names of victims of their devotion to the
fallen cause, in order that aid may be afforded to those
whose wants are pressing.
" Done at Paris, in the Hotel of the Prefecture of Po
lice, 24lh February, 1848.
"Caussidiere and Sobrier."
Lear took out letters of Administration, and made an
inventory of the property, amounting to 47,100 dollars,
which was handed over to Mr. Jefferson. Mr. Lear
dii d in '38, anl Col. Banford, of Georgetown, became
the administrator de bonis non; and it appears that the
balance in his hands in favor of the heirs, on the Hlh
November, '36, with the accumulated interest, was
41,914 dollars and 49 cents the whole of which was
in money, except 5000 dollars in Bank of Washington
slocks.
The Traitor Arnold. The Boston Star says : We
are templed to transcribe, from the " Massachusetts
Centinel" of Aug. G, 1788, a file of which, now singu
larly looking, work is before us a paragraph that
throws some light on the subsequent fate of Arnold,
and may also have been warmly significative of his
ultimauMlesliny ziv :
"'Ill-got gain never prospers says poor Richard.
From St. John's, in New Brunswick, we learn, that on
the 11th ult., a large store belonging to one Benedict
Arnold, was destroyed by fire. The loss is computed
at 5,500 pounds sterling. As 5,000 pounds was the
bribe Arnold received, it seems that his master Satan
has now demanded the principal, and 5001. as interest,
on the price of his apostacy. A son of Mr. Arnold was
so much burnt, that his life was desnaired of."
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The Mormons. The Mormon Prophet, Strang, has
ordered all his followers to Beaver Island in lake
Michigan. He has bought up that spot containing forty
square miles, and expected to gather the Mormons
there last fall, so says the Louisville Journal of October
last.
The Kosciusko Estate. The case of Kosciusko's
heirs has been brought up before the Orphan's Court
at Washington.
It appears that Gen. Kosciusko, before leaving the U.
States in 1798, did, on the 5th of May of that year, ap
point Mr. Jefferson his executor uncertain funds to be
appropriated to the purchase of the freedom of Mr.
Jefferson's or of oilier slaves, who were to he educated
and trained for the duties of good citizens as far as
could be done. On the 28th of June, 1806, Gen. Kosci
usko made another will bequeathing 3,700 dollars of
the funds aforesaid to Thaddeus Kosciusko Armstrong,
son of the late Secretary of War Armstrong. In 1816,
he made another will, revoking all his previous wills,
under which, so far as his properly in the United
Slates is concerned, he died intestate. In 18l9,without
a knowledge of the subsequent wills, Mr. Jefferson
proved the will of 1797, but renounced the duties of the
administration on account of his ago. In 1821 Mr.
Insolvency in England. The total liabilities of the
houses that have failed in the recent commercial revul
sion in England, are said to be one hundred and seven
teen millions and a half of dollars. Of this amount,
at least one hundred and five millions of dollars belong
to the United Kingdom.
Negro Suffrage. The people of Connecticut have
defeated the proposed amendment to the Constitution,
providing that colored men may vote, by a very large
majority.
Lowell Manufactures. It is stated that 1,800,000
yards of cottou cloth are made at Lowell, Mass., every
week, amounting to 93,600,000 yards per year, enough,
to extend twice arouiHl the whole world! Sixty-five
thousand bales of cotton are worked annually. Of
printed calico, there are 14,000,000 yards per year. In
these manufactures one million pounds of starch are
annually used.
No Doubt. A London correspondent of the Courier
and Enquirer says : " Depend upon it, that if the United
Stales would assume the wuole of the Mexican debt,
they might roast and eat the Mexican people without a
remonstrance from any one of the virtuous and hu
mane courts of Europe."
A Yankee riding up to a Dutchman, exclaimed,
"Well, stranger, lor acquaintance sake, what might
your namo be?" " Vy, my name is Haunso Hollen-
DoiienheiiienhoffengratlcnsteinerDaugnr s Well;" re-
plied the Yankee, " I rather guess as that is your name
for acquaintance sake, I sltau i cut" you."