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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.