New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-07
Later from CallrnrnIn.
ARRIVAL OF TIE PONY EXPIRE


FoRr KEARNEY, March 1.-The Pony Express
passed here at halfpast O'Clock, A. NJ, being
several hours ahead of time, by the winter sche-
due.
san FRANCISCO, Feb. 16, $40 P M-Arrived,
l4th, bark Z9a, Honolulu; 18th, steamer Cortez,
Panama, with 275 passengers; all well. She
passed fleet Of whale ships on the 10th; anchors
in Magdalena Bay, and on the llth saw eleven
whale ships in Bartholomew Bay, About the 9Th
inst, the ship Speedwell was lost in Cameron Bay.
Sailed 18th, bark Louisa Sidney. The ships
Chariot Of Fame and Aurora have completed load
ing for England, having IS 900 sacks of wheat,
some flour, barley, etc The Webfoot and Eagle
Wild are to load with breadstuffs for England The
Richard Busted has been chartered for -four and
wheat for Cork and market. The Ocean Tele-
graph has completed loading for New York, and
the Great Republic commenced discharging at the
wharf Just vacated by the Telegraph. The Repub-
lie is not chartered, and her destination is un-
known.
CoMMERc1AE.-A steady daily trade is doing, of
quite much extent be expected at the
present season of the year. Ali the transactions
now occurring are for the supply of Legitimate
| demaud--consumption- is making a certain
| inroad upon stock Prices keep steady for such
articles as are moving. Butter and Candles if not
| potively improved, evince frrner feeling. Buy
ers Of the former article are met with advanced
preensions by holders, that yet check transac-
tiona. Sales of candles for the week aggregate
upwards of 900 boxes at about twenty cents and
their steady outlet encourages sellers. Coffee is
firm and tendency towards an advance. The grain
market continues upward. Shippers are free buy
of all the choice wheat to be had at 81 90 per
100 pounds, and in some peculiar instances, where
large parcels of extra choice were to be obtained,
higher prices have been paid for lots to arrive the
details of which are, for prudential reasons with
held from the public
| GENERAL NEws.-C. L. Wilson, the principal
| builder of the Sacramento Valley Railroad, was
attached On the l4th by Alsop & Co., for $4,000
| 1t is not known yet whether this will have any
| effect on the progressing extension of the road
The annual report of the condition of that portion
| of the Valley road completed shows surplus of
receipts over expenditures of $lo6, 900 against
| S90,GO0 surplus last year.
Some eight or nine different companies are en-.
deavoring to get bills through the Legislature au.
thorzing street railroads in San Francisco.
Abernethy, Clark & Co.. extensive lumber mer
chants. recently reported as failed, have resumed
| payment.
Lady Franklin sailed yesterday for British CO.
lumbia.
| The Pony Express, with Atlantic telegraphic
| dates via Fort Kearney to the I'd Of February ar
rived at Carson Valley yesterday, whence the news
Of the passage of the Pacific Railroad bill by the
Senate Immediately telegraphed to San Fran
cisco. The intelligence is ioyfulIy received as is
also the more favorable prospect of an early set,
tlement by compromise of the disunion question.
A teegraphiG dispatch from Los Angeles last
| evening announces the arrival of the incoming
Overland Mail stage, two days behind time, without
any mail, the letter bags having been left at Tue
son, Western Arizona, on account of Indian
troubles on the route.
Troops from Fort Buchanan are reported to have
proceeded into the Apache country with pros
pect Of protecting the mail route, that the next
stage may be expected in due time, with all de
layed mail matter.
The news from the Sandwich Islands per Zoa is
to the 2lst January, one month later. Business a
the Islands was dull the rainy season and absence
of whalers preventing activity. Three remarkable
short passag ges from San Francisco to Honolulu ore
recorded. The Norwester and Comet, both inside
, | of ten days and the Farwnd in eight days anC
seventeen hours the latter being the quickes
passage ever made.
; The commercial statistics of the kingdom for 1860
prepared by the Collector-General, are published
In nearly every item large falling off is showl
from the tables of previous years. The causes 0
| this decline attributed mainly to the decreas
! in foreign whale ships visiting the Islands, but il
d e of all kinds, which went into force in June
| 1890