New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-07-08
DAILY CRESCENT.
Mobile Items

| n =" IN -dobiLE.-lh ne Fourth passed
w quiet'y IN Oar sister city The Tribune Of
the 9Th says;
so, me principal features were the firing Of the
tho r,or,;r' caae's perf9rming the service in
anu the laying Of the corner atnpe - Ta,r n,Dh
@ @ahce haii' On 81. Joseph street Tho oratitIn -
| tiie occasion was delivered by Rev Mr Unrba.
ana 's highly praised by those who heal !. 'o'
Lhc carer festivities Of the day were e,,iovsd
! Deyond the city-on the eastern shore. at ~
| smith :, Dangerous, etc At Dog River the.a
E'if.,a arg anu very agreeable picnic. The
/ fusliers had an encanpment at Choctaw poin,
! with target shooting.
| SrDDEN DEATH. - The Tribune records the
sudden death Of VIM S Shepherd, which occur.
red on the 9TH The Tribune adds:
! He had been employed as clerk on one Of the
Mississippi boats, and having been, during the
wiLter, hard worked and suffering from expo
sure, his health became greatly impaired He
had just arrived here on his way to Bladon
Springs, and soon after going aboard Of the boat
yesttrday Was seized with spasms. lie was i'm
medately taken to the Battle House and soon
after died. His age was abou: 35 years
SAD ACCIDENT, Mr. Adolphus Caille, WHO
for several years past has published the Mobile
Price Current, and had charge of the CONNER
cial Department of the Register, was drowned
at Point Clear q Monday night. The Adyer-
tiser says;
About Il o'clock p NJ, he went in bathing
with several gentlemen from town, who, after
swimming about sometime, NIL came out and
prepared to dress and return to the hote!
Callle, hOweyer, remarked to one OF the comp1-
ny that he believed he would 90 back and take
one more swim The party thought nothing of
this, but as they had completed dressing with
out his le-appearance, they called TO him that
they we're ready to return Receiving no reply,
tAey commenced dlllgent search, but without
success. Yesterday morning about day break
the lifeless body was discovered in about four
| teet depth OF water, and was carried on board
the Junior to be brought to the city.
| Mr.. Caille was an industrious and reliable
man and was very highly esteemed by all who
knew him, particularly by the proprietors Of the
Register, on which paper he has been steadily
employed some eight or ten years past He
| leaves wife and three children dependent upon
his labor for support, and upon whom the news
| Of his death must have fallen with terrible
weight. He was inferred last evening at five
| o'clock.
| SPURIOUS MoNEY.-The Tribune cautions the
public against a class of bills in circulation
| there purportiDg to be of the issue of the Bank
of Montgomery, and we'll calculated to deceive
| -hS d uesSiipelon may ue ol sOme service mere,
We append the Tribunes description of them:
| These bills are not counterfeits, for there is
nothing on their face resembling the genuine
The vignette is entirely different, and under the
two marks of 3, on the upper edge, il imprinted
" State of Alabama" whereas in the genuine
bill, under the left hand figure is engraved "se.
| cured by the pledge of public stocks and the
number and letter under the one on the right
hand. The heavy letter line in the centre reads
Bank of Montgomery" and it is dated at
.Nomtgomery. VIM. Poe is President, and P
b. Smith, Cashier of the Bank of Montgomery
In the hcticious bills in question, George Briggs
is President, and Vim. Poe, Cashier--the whole
being autographed.
The Battle House stage was upset on Mon.
day with load of passengers, when going out
to John Smiths on the hell Road, by which a
lad named Ward had his leg broken Ward
was seated on top. Some Of the other passengers
were injured.
Quite an exciting scene, says the Advertiser,
took place yesterday on Common street The
Office of Messrs. r. Desha & Co was discovered
i to be on fire, and almost as soon as the alarm
was given the flames burst through the front
windows, and for some minutes it was feared the
office and its contents would be entirely de-
stroyed. By the prompt action of the neighbors,
however, and the aid of sunlry buckets of water,
the work Of destruction was limited to few
reams of paper and some cotton samples.
In reference to the condition of the Alabama
and Bigbee Rivers, the Advertiser says they
continue very low Light draught boats on the
former can barely reach Montgomery, and on
the latter Demopolis is only accessible by the
smallest of the steamers. For some days pas
freight on the Alabama has been 81 per barrel
or double the usual charge, and even at tha
rate the business is anything bat Californian
\ correspondent Of the Mobile Register fur
uishes THAI paper with the following
REMINIssENCEs OF ALABAMA SHIP BUILDING -
The new clipper ship now actually comm nee.
here will slightly exceed 100 tons carpenter,
measurement She is designed to be as good
ship as can be built Of the bes. materials anC
workmanship The party contracting to bull.
intends his skill and long experience in ship
building shall be exercised to their utmost ca
pacity to produce "A craft equal to any other
to be a credit in any port to the city from
which she halls.
The und ,rtakng is a large one, but whcr
there exists such feeling Of liberality toward,
the enterprise, Mr.. Porter can meet with little
obstacle to his progress Sites upon which t
build the ship, for example, have been offeret
upon exceedingly favorable terms, though on
has not been yet selected.
The ship is to be built for Messrs. James Rel
& Co, of which firm our popular fellow citizen
| hOEtr stewart, Lsu IL tlle dCllNt pH-lnVr, VIII
some other of their friends
1t is not perhaps generally known or remom
bered that the first steamboat that ever arrived
at Mobile and run upon the Alabama water
was built at St stephens, seventy miles aboy'
here, on the Tomheckbee river. and was calleC
the Alabama She was built by Mr. Brown, o.
Bell, one OF the late partners of that eminen
shipbuilding firm now Of Newl ork, who bav
not great while ago retired from business
said to be We, rich His start he made at St
stephens. The Messrs. Dearing now of Tusca
, loosa) built another steamboat there atterward.
called the Tombeckbee. But antecedent
those, fine large schooner was built for Majo
VIM Henry, called the Alpha and old Co
Rawkin has beautiful sloop, built short di:
tance above.
Thus old st. Stephens was once quite shiI
: building point.
For Mobile to become permanently and e,
tensively a ship, building point, will, in innumei
able modes. contribute to the wealth and in
portance Of the State and our sea port, and
eminently entitled to every encouragement.
, New York Items
From papers of the 10Th and Both ult.
:, The Cunard mail steamer Asia left at moo
on the Goth for Liverpool, with l45 passenger
. and S5Sl,OS2 81 in specie.
), Mr. 7 F. Meagher arrived from the East q
| the Doth He was solicited to deliver Fourt