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OREftOi FREE PRESS. Geo. L. Curry, Editor and Proprietor. OREGON CITY. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 1848. PAY UP. With the next number terminates the first six months of the existence of the Free Press, and those of our subscribers who shall continue in arrears with us after that period, or shall not have made some arrangement for the liquidation of our de mands against them, need not expect to receive the paper thereafter we are too poor to publish a paper for nothing, even should some of our patrons seem to act as though they judged to the contrary. Any and all who, as it will be considered, discon tinue in this way will bo charged for the year's sub scription. So please pay up, gentlemen, and oblige us. News of the Week. The brig Stirling, from the Sandwich Islands, arrived in the river some ten days ago. She left the Islands on the iOtli of August, not coming direct from Honolulu, however, she has no later papers, as we learn. The term of enlistment having expired, tho command at the Dalles are returniug to the valiey. At Fort Waters we trust that, the garrison may remain, at least until the immigrants shall have passed through tho Cayuse country. We understand that a parly are to rendezvous near Salem, on Tuesday next, for the purpose of starting out to explore the section of country on Powder river, with a view of ascertaining as to the truth of the re ports relative to gold having been found in that vicinity. Iowa. The Iowa legislature, after quite a boisterous session, encountering much difficulty and wrangling has beem compelled to adjourn 'sine die' without be ing able to elect either United States senators or judges of the courts. Thus it will require another ses sion before any choice of these high officers can be made. Astor's Fortune. John Jacob Aster's fortune, at the time of his death, is estimated at forty millions of dol lars. He appropriated three hundred thousand dol lars for a public library in New York the annual interest of this sum to be appropriated to the purchase oQ books. A building is to be erected, not to cost over sixty thousand dollars. A good many legacies were left, but the bulk of his estate goes to his son. Louis Philippe's Debts. A good deal has been said about what the ex-monarch owns, but the following is all we have seen as to what he owes: "The Paris correspondent of the London Atlas says: 'Louis Philippe has quitted the country, leaving be hind him 25 million franks' worth of debts, tiis custom being to pay his creditors but once in five years. It is the third year only which is now elapsing.' C. M. Clay vs. the People of Lexington. The Lex ington Atlas, says that the suit brought by Capt. G. M. Clay against "TAe Committee" for removing the True American office from this city, in August 8145, was terminated on Saturday last, iu tile Circuit Court ofj r Jessamine county, to which placo the trial had beeii removed, by the jury returning a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for twenty-five hundred dallars. Tho defendants, we also learn, have taken an appeal. PRODUCE AND TRANSPORTATION. Mr. Editor; I wish to inform those who feel inter ested in the subject (through the medium of your ex cellent paper) that there will be a meeting, on Satur day, the 3uth inst., at the City Hotel, in Oregon City, at 2 o'clock p. ii., tor the purpose of making arrange ments for building a vessel for the transportation of Oregon produce. All interested arc particularly invi ted to attend. Sept. 20, "18. A FARMER. Mr. Editok ; I believe you could not do better than to devote a portion of your excellent sheet to showing the propriety of an undertaking of the kind proposed. The farmer furnishes material for a barrel of flour at, about 3 dollars the shipper in a few days sells the same for from forty to fifty dollars per barrel. You will please let rne know the proffit eacli receive, as near as you can, and by doing so you may show us where we are and what we may expect. Mr. Free Press-man let them know one important fact, that is, whatever we will to do, that we lan do. If we conclude to labor for the benefit of others, and let them enjoy the promts of our labor, we can de slaves, in one sense ol the word or if we determine to have the proflits on our labor we can have them. In short, insist upon every man coming up to the work, for I believe it our only salvation. A FARMER. We take the greatest pleasure in giving our corres pondent a chance to be heard. lie appears to be in earnest and certainly whatever concerns the inter ests of the producing classes is of the first importance to the country. As to our capability of constructing such vessels as would be required to couvey our ex ports to ports as convenient as those of California, there need be no question. That these vessels are actually wanted, we judge is the fact, as those vessels that are regularly concerned in trading here will not take freight, their owners, generally, monopolizing them in speculations of their own. At any rate let there be a grand conferancc of the producers, in or der to determine upon whatever course of action is necessary. By reference to another column it will bo seen that the people of Clatsop arc moving in this mat ter with spirit. Congressional On the 22d of March, Mr. Athcrton, rendered in, from the annual reports of the Secratary of the Treasury, a statistical exposition of the state of the finances, from which he drew this satisfactory con clusion; that, including the current revenues, there would be only required for the present and the next fiscal year, loans to tho amount of 36,000,000 dollars ; that is to say, tho present bill of 16,000,000 dollars for existing deficiencies, and another bill of 20,000,000 dollars for anticipated deficiencies. Mr. Atherton urged the immediate passage of the bill, because the Secretary of the Treasury wished to draw this money from Europe, so as not to exhaust our floating but