New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-10-03
Mobile Items.

Mobile Items
In regard to the subject Of quarantine, the
Evening News, Of Saturday, says:
M These sanitary measures must be absolute or
they are futile. The present quarantine laws
are farcical A sailing vessel and steamboat
start the same day from New Orleans, the one
with q crew only, the other with crowd OF pas
sengers The former must come to anchor TOT
six DAYS, and the latter shows 8 clean bill OF
health and goes to the wharf There is no'safety |
in this, and the question Of justice needs no |
discussion. The object Of quarantine 1s 70 give
sufficient time for the development OF disease.
No one acquaintedlwith the captains OF the New
Orleans mail boats will suspect them OF intro
ducing yellow fever patients by design, pnt u -
no reflection upon their Judgment TO doupt ehelr
capacity to read the interiors Of every Passsh-
ger, and decide as to the existence q a,ss;se
man leaves New Orleans to-day, and arrives
in Mobile tomorrow. Who knows ms !condi-
finn Who can vouch for his health me
nhvs;eiari OF the quarantine ground may, by o
detention Of sig days, but surely the officers OF
a steamboat. associated with him few hours,
cannot. The commercial interests OF the CITY
would not advocate change IN the present.
4 rip;d enforcement of the quarantine laws will
attack private interests, but they must make
compromises. e.
I, ma ,..rue paper has the following:
NJ ss0aihts ~ ,...cple produce by the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad this week, ~ 40 '0i'o y. tar
bales cotton, 10 bbls thrpehtine, bn".
ling Of what the weekly receipts by this road
will be during the winter months.
Besides the above, large quantities OF lumber
| bricks, wood, chickens, eggs, and various othef
articles have been received by the road
| The Advertiser of Sunday hos the following
items:
i 1t is with great pleasure we chronicle large
decrease in the mortuary list for the week end
ing last evening As we suggested In our last
report would be the case, the health OF the city
has much improved since then. We are just
entering upon the pleasant month Of October,
with signs north of us OF an early frost, and we
now confidently look for an agreeable and
healthy fall season, and the early opening OF
business.
4 We regret to learn that on Monday evening
last, Mr.. James Mccartney, an egineer on board
the steamer Orion bound for, New Orleans, fell
! overheard at Dog River bar and was drowned.
, He formerly lived in Pittsburg, but for several
| years past was resident Of Mobile. ..@.
A CHALLENGE.-A sharp personal correspon-
j. hSS'te'oA
! Cooper, of Pennsylvania, and Morton Mehi.
Z chael, ESQ.,, editor of the North American and
United States Gazette, in consequence Of artl-
3 cles published in that paper rejecting on the
subscription by the city of Philadelphia to the
/ bury and Erie Railroad, as having been OBJ
!, tanned by false pretenses and malyertion. Mr.
: Cooper addressed note asking Mr., McMichael i
n the Language applied to him. Mr.: Mchichaers
a reply denied the right to question him, but
I said he was legally, morally and personally re
!. lsponsible for that as for everything that ap
- peared in the American. Mr.. Cooper sent th'
e Hon w. Cost johnson, of Maryland, to act az
"a his friend, and as the bearer of challenge te
h Mr.. McMichael, who asked two days for consid
! Grafton At the termination Of that tim
t Mr.. McMichael declined the meeting on tn
n ground that it was his duty as public journal
Z ist to animadyert upon such transactions, and h
n could not therefore be held personally RESPONSE
y BILE 1t is intimated that the correspondence vii
ID be published in case of any fresh attack in tn
I'd North American. By provision of the Stat
lie Constitution, the sending of challenge is mad
u misdemeanor, to be punished with fine an
~ imprisonment, and makes the challenger incom
~ petent to hold any office of trust, honor or profit
n A FATAL SHOT. On Tuesday last party {
rs Cincnnatians went to the country, in tn
AZ neighborhood of Hillsborough, on sporting ez
or pedition On Wednesday afternoon, as one
al the party, named Joseph Cridlan, was perambu
he lating the woods in search of game, he though
. he espied quail on the ground feeding II
OF stantly raising his gun he took aim and fired .
CHI the object. Cridlan hurried up to secure b
q prize To his establishment, he found that
had shot and Instantly killed another of tt
ut party named James CLANCY, who had lain dow
Ia to rest, having Travelled all day. Cridlan
8 tered a scream and fell to the ground. Il
ps- comrade soon came up and witnessed the trag
cal scene, and then, assisted by Cridlan carrie
nd CLANCY to o railroad station near by, al
up brought his remains to this city yesterdt
morning, and delivered them to his family, vi
resides on East Front street. CLANCY leaves
od wife and four children Cridlan is almost il
sane in consequence Of the unfortunate occu
~. | renee
MS Mrs Clancy, the wife of the unfortuna
49, man, when she heard of the sad event, was
ken with strong commissions, which contnu
tut with more or less force until Saturday NOR
rst ing, when she died Her husband was buri
sed on Thursday She will be consigned to t
zee. same grave to-day. Four children, who I'll
day week were blessed with the relation
q protectors whose guardianship was task
81 love, are now orphans, left without o being
sr. care for them. [Cin Sun, 18th ult.
A LAuGHABLE INCIDENT One summer eve
ion ing, at church in Poughkeepsie, it was fou
h count of the heat The preacher became We
Ids, eloquent and then calming down into solel
mood, he riyeted the attention Of his audien
ned You might have heard the dropping of q P
the BE then soared into o strain Of eloquence IL
carried his hearers along with him. Hequo
passage Of Holy Writ, and applied it 70
hearts and consciences Of his audience. 1t v
on, solemn moment; the preacher saw his adyf
sets, tage, and was resolved to use it; again
on quoted the pungent passage, and began to I
ain ply it with all his skill
man aWho of my hearers can say that in tn
ner circumstances he acted thus' Who, say,
irsd say he did it?
buse At that moment, an insect flew into the me
$ to ing house, and screeched out, 6 Katy d
with Katy did !"
ed The whole audience became conyulsive "
ras- laughter The minister's eloquence went
the nought; he stood amazed, and vented an an!
and expression, while we thought, s Truly, til
VITO is but one step from the sublime to the Ri
up. nlous.'
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