New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-24
LATER FROM HAVANA AND THE ISTHMUS
100000 i'm Gold Dust.
SPLENDID PASSAGE OF THE PROMETHEUS.

The United States Mail steamship Ohio, James
Finday Schenck, U. S. n, commander, arrived at
this port about hall past two o'clock on Saturday
afternoon from Chagres and Havana She left
Havana on the evening Of the 18th.
She brings the California mails of January Is.
$4,000 in Gold Dust on freight, and $50 passen
gers.
The steamship Cherokee, Capt. Windle, arrived
on Saturday night about 10 o'clock She brought
s5O4,OOO in Gold Dust, and us passengers.
Buth steamships sailed from Cnagres on the 9th
inst, the Cherokee about two hours before the
Ohio The former vessel brings news from ia
maica to the 18th inst
The Ohios homeward passage has been ex.
ceedingly boisterous having experienced a sue
cession of easterly gales from the time of her
leaving Havana until her arrival off Barnegat,
which greatly retarded her progress, and prevent
ed an early arrival.
We return our thanks to Mr. J. II. R. Fairchild,
Purser of the Ohio and Mr.. Lewis G. Paine, Par
ser of the Cherokee, for their kindness in forward
ing The TrG6unes dispatches.
The Georgia from New York, and the Falcon,
from New Orleans, arrived at Havana on tire 18th.
The English Mail steamer Conway arrived on the
18th, from Kingston, (Jamsica) and sailed Oh the
10th for B alize, (Honduras)
1t was very gay and lively at Havana when the
Ohio sailed. The Italian Opera and the Raves,
at the Tacon Theatre, alternately, were drawing
crowded houses; and the masked balls wee well
afforded by the beauty and fashion of the place.
Great preparations for the Carnival were making
1t commences about the 4th of March. The eh-
fofG 1vi bxyR il a
leaves directly for New York. in about MONTH
in order to take his place in the Castle Garden
concerts, in April.
The captain of vessel, which arrived at Ha-
vana on the l4th inst, reported an American
steamer, with three masts, ashore on the Bahama
banks, about Is miles south Of Gun Key reef
She had signal flying, bat from the distance he
could not make her out. He saw number Of
wreckers alongside, and from appearances they
were trying to get her of.
On the 18TH Patrick Carroll, of New York,
aged so, lately employed as laborer on the Pana-
ma Railroad, died OF fever on board the Cherokee.
The steamship Prometheus, Capt. MINER, which
left New Orleans on Sunday afternoon the 10th
inst reached this port on Saturday night making
the run from the Balze, 1900 miles, in five days
and 81 hours, and from New OreanS in sac days
and fire hours This is the most extraordinary
passage on record.
The Prometheus brings New Orleans papers of
the 10th, trro days in advance of the mail. On
her passage from Chagres to New Orleans she
reached the bar at the Balze in four days and
twenty hours. Distance 400 miles. Corn. Van
derbilt. who has been absent two or three months
in Nicaragua, came passenger in the Prometheus'
On Saturday afternoon, at o'clock, she passed a
ship ashore on Brigantine Shoals and at o'clock
psssed the Cherokee of Barnegat. We are in
debted TO the Prometheus for New Orleans files
of Sunday, 10th.
The following are the specie and passenger
lists of the Ohio and Cherokee: