The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-03-12
CUSTOM HOUSES
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News from the West Indies.

81. Louis. ........ $4,000 Norfolk ........ $4,000
For repairs and fixtures Of custom $4,000
News from the West Indies
from the Savannah Republican March g.
Captain Sawyer, of the steamship Conway, has
placed US in possession of late Nassau and Kings
ton papers, from which we CLEAN few items OF in
terest.
The Bahama Legislature met at Nassau on the 22d
ult. q. q Anderson was chosen Speaker position
he has filled for many years-and Joshua Brook
Chief Clerk. At 3 P. NJ Governor Gregory went to
the council chamber where the House, headed by
the Speaker, attended and the Legislature was for
mally orened. The speech Tor message) of the
Governor is a succinct and well-written document,
and presents rather favorable view Of the state of
the colony.
The Governor says he has entertained and fire.
quently expressed to the legislative bodies earnest
desire to promote the advent to that colony of vale
tudenarians, and their families from Canada and the
United States. He availed himself of recent visit
to Philadelphia and New York, to spread abroad the
advantages which the winter climate of the Bahamas
holds out to those who are suffering from pulmonary
weakness. 1.-THE recent establishment of monthly
mail steamer between Nassau and Savannah he
adds, has already had the effect within the present
month, of bringing to the islands inconsiderable
number Of American families, in search Of health.
This be thinks, lis an indication of what may be
expected if monthly steamer should be once esta
blished between Nassau and New York; and he still
continues to entertain sanguine hope that the act
Of 1851 will, long, into operation, and that
he may be permitted to witness that increase in the
value OF houses and suburban land, and that i'm
provement in the agricultural and commercial inter
ests OF the colony generally which, in his opinion,
cannot fail to flow from constant stream OF passen-
gers coming to their shores for health and return
ing with renewed strength, to encourage others
! to follow in their steps, He adds" In the
meantime, doubt not that, with myself you duly
appreciate the opportunity which the Royal
Mail Steam Packet Company has afforded to the
inhabitants of this island and Inagua of proceed
ing to and from Savannah by . monthly steamer,
and Of keeping up regular correspondence with
America. hope to induce her Majestys govern
ment to improve our means OF corresponding with
England through the fundamentally Of the trans
atlantic steamers between Liverpool and New York.
g In my anxiety to see the colony improve have
long wished that some means Of deepening the har
Dor Of Nassau should be found, to admit steam
and ships of war Of any size. | did hope that
the Naval Commander.in-Ch ief in these seas would
have been enabled to visit the Bahamas, and would
thus have had an opportunity OF judging, from per-
sonal observation, whether it would not be both
practicable and wise to assist the colony in the &C
eomplishment of a work in which both national and
colonial interests deeply involved but, unfor
tunately, it appears from communication which |
have received from him, and which will he laid before
you, that while he has every desire to avail himself
of your invitation It is not in his power at present to
DO So
The finances of the colony are in a satisfactory
/ condition.
The total revenue in 1850 f22 OF
In !ssl a.
IN ieo<... LolV4
by TINS u appears that IN TWO years the income
has advanced TO the extent OF "a 900 year-a large
increase considering the small amount OF the revenue.
The Governor thinks that the increase Of revenue
last year attributable mainly to the sale of pro.
perry saved from ships wrecked on the coast. The
condition Of the export trade Of the colony is not
SO encouraging as 1t was a year ago. The three
principal exports in ls52-fruit, salt, and sponge
fell short Of those OF 1851. Last year, pneapples,
Of fl0 $50; while in 1851 the value was fl2 600
showing decrease Of f1,750. The export of salt
in 1852, amounted to Ga 440 whereas in 1851 it was
f16500-showiDg decrease Of e2 ,060 The sponge
trade shows the following figures =
In 1871 " Observation-Disclosures. ........ Ia 600
In 1862 ".......................... ll.257
1t is proposed to erect fourth lighthouse in the
Bahama Islands, to be placed on the Great Isaac
Rock
The Bahama Herald is urging upon the people of
Nassau the necessity Of the establishment Of com
modious hotel. In this connection it refers to the
arrival there Of a number Of persons from Savannah
seeking mere genial air, the strongest evidence
which can be adduced Of its necessity.
Thursday, the 10th ut., was observed as a day of
thanksgiving by the religious denominations of New
Providence, on the disappearance Of the cholera.
The French schooner La Perle, Landes, master,
from Port au Prince, bound to Havre, with a cargo
consisting Of 3045 bags Of coffee 50 bags Of cocoa,
60 bales of cotton and 81 tons Of loqwood was
stranded on the Hogsties Reef on the 18th nit.
Aboutl 500 bags Of coffee, some Of the cocoa and
about thirty bales Of cotton were saved.
FROM Jamaica we learn that the prospects Of the
sugar growers the present year are highly favora-
BILE, and the demand for sugar promises TO be active
and the prices fair. The ladies Of that island were
still holding abolition tea-drinkings. What a pity
the elder Mr.. Weller could not drop in among them.
Domestic Miscellany.
a workman Of Lancaster Pa, has just completed
block for the Washington Monument, to be pre-.
sented by the farmers Of the county of Lancaster II
u sandstone, and bears the inscription Of Lancaster
county, together with sheaf of wheat and other
agricultural devices.
Inc Columbia Is. c. Banner Of the 5tb inst
says we have to-day the heaviest fall OF snow
mat mas been seen in this vicinity for many yearsr
snow zen 70 the depth Of six TO eight inches in Able.
vile district. " '
The Ohio canal will be open for navigation some
tine between March "a and April l.
The New York State canals will be omen fer navi.
cation, we understand about April Is.
Henry Rempye, in a ft Of insanity, committed
suicide at st. Louis, on the 26th ult., by Jumping
into WELL
The printing Office Of the SPIRIT of J.Ferson. at
Charestown, Va, and the adjoining store Of Messrs
Ely Son, together with their contents were de-
stroyed by fire on the 4th inst
A bill Of indictment has been found by the Grand
Jury OF Penobscot county Maine. against the city Of
Bangor "a n conyn0n aelIer bv aOenf of ardant