Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-01-30

New York, Jan. 81, 1856

NEW 1ORh, Jun. "a, ioOi.
This morning the literary juveniles in highly
ventilated pantaloons, vulgularly called news
boys. are crying with all their might, "Hertra
Erald = "Rival OF the Cherokee p The two
California steamers, Cherokee and Prometheus
arrived this morning from Chagres with two
millions of gold dust. But you will have had
all their news by that swift errand-runner of
your journal, the lightning.
1t would have pleased us much better to
have heard the boys crying the arrival of the
steamship Atlantic, due nearly two weeks ago
at this port, from Liverpool. This is her TWEEN
ty- fifth day, think, and we begin to feel that
she has gone the way of the Inflated steamer
President, which you will remember was wait
ed for so long in vain, and was never heard of
more; but God forbid
The steamer Fanny, engaged usually in the
New Orleans and Texan trade, after having
very extensive repairs put on her here, sailed
last Sunday for New Orleans. Her Command
er is not the Capt. McCerren, somewhat ia
nous here for an unlucky affair with girl
who fled one day from his attentions to the
roof of house, where her gymnastics attract
ed the attentions of a crowd, to whom, when
rescued, she accused poor McCurren of an at
tempt to seduce her and he was fain to COM
promise the matter by paying her 5000
Those perilous antics of hers on the gables. a
Ia Rcbecca, the Jewess, would have made most
any jury regard her as "savagely virtuous,' y
but am informed that il was all successful
ruse Of an artful woman to extort money
They are full of such tricks in this great city.
Adams & Co.'S Express received Sl47,Oo in
gold dust this morning from California They
have already made fortune by this business
of transporting dust from the mines. They
charge ga per cent, over and above the in
surance 6 81 per cent y and thus their re-
ceipts on what came to-day, will exceed
$4,000. On one occasion their profits could
not have been much short of &I0,O
Stinson & Co., of the New Orleans and Mo-
bile Express convey good deal of the gold
dust to the South. Their charge is one pei
cent. for insurance, and one per cent. for trans.
portation. So it costs the miner from the
South nearly ten per cent. to get his hard
earnings home after he has secured them.
1t is astonishing how this Express business
has increased. The upper part of Wall St. i:
full of Express Offices, whence freight, parcels
sc. &C., are despatched to every part of oul
wide spread country. Every wide awake mer
chant sends by Express in order to get hi
| goods few hours in advance of his dulle
ncighbor, and is willing to pay about doubl,
freight in order to secure this despatch.
The Journal of Commerce, rather vigilan
paper in the cause of morality, has just pub
lishcd anew the gambling laws applicable t.
the Gift, Concerts, Art Unions, Hay weight
Guessing Game, and similar games Of chance
There is very general complaint both her
and in New Orleans, that the Teegraphs be
tween the two cities cannot be relied on eithe
for time or accuracy.
There is great tempest in the Mercantil,
| Library Association, just now, in respect t.
choice of officers. This society, composed o
about 1000 clerks, make as much ado, in til,
newspapers and with placards, as if it were
one of 1.-THE Three Estates
The money market is easy, and good notes
are easily discounted at low rates. Trade is
dull, and the influx of S2,O0O,0O0 worth OF
foreign dry goods, SC, per steamer Asia. has
almost smothered what little life there was.
Steamship Ohio, now in apple pie order =
will resume her trip to Havana and New Or
leans on the 25th inst. 1t is scarcely known
here, and perhaps government is not cog
infant of the fact, that the Cuban authorities
overhaul the manifest and cargoes of all our
steamers that touch at Havana, and exact the
outrageous black mail of IL per cent. on all
specie, gold dust and jewelry that they can find
aboard, destined for New Orleans.