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OREG REE rRESS. FOR TUB VOL. I.) WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1848. (NO. 21. 'Here shall the Press the people's rights maintain, Unawed by influence, and unhribed by gain." London and Paws Daily Press. One of the propri etors or the Ballimon Sun, who has been in Europe several months with It. Hoc, the celebrated New York machinist, gives some interesting facts in regard to the daily press of London and Paris. He. slates that Mr. Hoe has succeeded in making contracts for building two of his fast presses, each capable of printing from ten to twelve thousand copies per hour. The price is 24,000 dollars. He says that of the London dailies only two have any ronsidi cable circulation. These are the Times and Ihe ):') News. The edition of the former, previous to the session of Parliament, was about 29,000 copies per day ; and lhat of the latter about 10,000. In Paris, there are eighteen daily journals, morning and evening. The 'La Presse' alone prints 33,000 per day; Le Siecle' 30,000; ' Le Constitutione!' 28,000; Journal des Dehals' 10,000, and so down. The price to subscri bers is for La l't sse per year, 7 dolls. 23 cts.; of Le Siecle, 7 dolls. 50 cts. ; Le Conslitutiunel, 9 dolls. 75 cts.; Journal des Dchnls, 15 dolls.; La Monitcur Universal, 21 dolls.: the prices all varying from 7,25 to SI dollars. The subscription price of the London Times is 6 pounds 10 shillings per annum, or between thirty-one and thirty-two dollars. California Exports and Imports. According to the statement of Ihe Collector of the port of San Francisco, it appears, lhat for the three months ending December 31sl, I8V7, the lolal value of exports amounted to 49,507 dollars and 53 cents. Nearly two-thirds of this amount consisted of the produce of California shipped to the Sandwich Islands, Peru, Mexico, and Russian America. The value of imports for the same period was 53,589 dollars and 73 cents. Of Ibis amount about thirty-two thousand dollars came from the S. Islands, and 7;701 dollars and 59 cents from Oregon, and the ballance from the United Slates, Chile, Sitka, Mexico and Bremen. A correspondent in one of Ihe California papers, in reference to these matters, says: These, and other authenticated data for which we have no space here, give room for the following re marks: The exports of California produce, for the lime stated, were not equal to three-fifths of her imports in other words, there is a large ballance of trade against the country. Tin re has been a heavy drain of specie to balance Ihe account, and slill the imports ex ceed the exports. The principal exports are hides and tallow, the former to the Unit d Stales, and Ihe lalter lo Peru. We have abundant means for tanning (he form er in California, where Ihe besl hides are sold for one dollar and a half each, in cash but Ihey are taken lo the United States and returned to us in manufacture d boots at from 6,50 to 18 dollars per pair. e sell our tallow at seven or eight cents per pound. We have the finest of lumbi r about our hill sides and vallhs, and we have imported indifferent Oregon lumber al 50 dollars per thousand. There are hundreds of milch cows upon every farm, and we import butler from the United Slates and Oregon at 50 or 75 cents per pound, and cheese at corresponding prices. The country swarms with beeves, thousands of which arc slaught ered for their skins and tallow every year, and the ranchos of the interior and the streels of our villages are infested with swine, while we arc importing beef and pork from the United Slates al 15 or 18 dollars per barrel, Our rivert and coasts are alive with the finest salmon and other fish, and we import infprior salted articles from Oregon and the United Stales. VVe.Jiav?. a soil and climate capable of producing successive crops or vegetables the year round, in sufficient abundance to supply any market in the world, and we have im ported potatoes, onions, turnips, cabages, etc., from Oregon. The average cash price fur wheal for the last fifteen months has been 50 cents or less, per bushel, and whole cargoes of it are awaiting a matket in the country, while we have been importing flour from Ihe United Stales, chile and Oregon, at an average cost of twelve or fourteen dollars per barrel. There can be no doubt that wheat can be produced in California al a less cost than in the Eastern Stales, and during Ihe time we have been importing foreign flour, there has actually been an abundant supply of gram in the coun try, but mills are wanting, and those we have are of a very inferior character. We take pleasure in informing our rich neighbors that we can furnish them excellent lumber at from sixteen to tweniy dollars per thousand good butter at fifteen and twenty cents, and splendid cheese al twelve and fifteen cents a pound. As to vegetables, nearly all kinds and in any quantity, may be had in Oregon,. at a remunerating price for the labor in growing them. VVe were never better able to supply any demand for the chief articles of provision, for roe have an abun dance beyond our own want. Poverty. Start not at the labor doom of honesl poverty it is to poverty that we are indebted for the discovery of a new world it made Franklin a philoso pher, Hogarth a painter, and Napoleon the conqut ror of Europe. The mightiest minds that ever astonish, d Ihe civilized world, were nursed in the vale of poverty lhat was their incentive to action, their stimulus to glory and immortality. Repine not, then at your 1 't, if you be poor and virtuous a large fortune to a giddy youth is Ihe most painful judgment an indulgent heaven can inflict upon man. 1 be inordinate love of wealth, so fatally prevalent in modern times, when, with a great majority, riches are a test of respectability, and cash a token "of worth and virtue, a cloak to screen crime is worse than blear-eyed famine, more fatal than Ihe festering folds of tbe purple pestilence. Mourn not, then, that you are poor push your faculties into a holier sphere, and reap abundant stores of mental grain in the extended field of an enlightened mind. News Items. The Young American, the organ of the National He form Association, has htttftled the names of (ii rrill Smith Tor President, and hlihu Burritl for Vice President. At their convention, held in Sept. '47, Mrs. Moll and Mrs. Child each received one vote as candi dates for the Presidency. '1 be principles of the party are freedom of the public lands, reduction of olHces and salaries, a home for all, universal suffrage, the abolition of the tariff, ine army, and Ihe navy. A monument is to be constructed at Washington in memory of the late Andrew Jackson. A subscription, had been raised to aid in defraying the expense of its erection. The Mormon Temple at Nauvoo, 111., has been pur chased by a committee of the Catholic Church for too sum of sixty-five thousand dollars.