New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-06-28
CORRESPONDENTS OF THE CRESCENT,



/ Mobile, June &c, 1851
| Eds. CrrseHf Having passed several days here
and at Point Clear In the most agreeable manner,
cannot refrain from giving you few dottngs -
as much, however, for my own qualification as for
any benefit to you particular interest your read
ers. First for the Battle Honse, and their gentle
manly and liberal proprietors. Let me say, what
everybody who visits this hotel knows, that the
Battle House is the best kept hotel 10 the Southern
country, and Messrs. Chamberlain & Darling have no
superiors as caterers, and thoroughly understand
the courtesies due to guests Here you will find
clean, COOL comfortable rooms, the table furnished
with the very best the market affords, and civil,
polite attention in every department from the Office
down to the walters.
During the erection of the additional building at
Point Clear Mr.. Darling spends most Of bis time at
the Point but the general management and super
vision of the hotel is presided over by Col Harding
than whom more capable, obliging and popular
gentleman is not known in these parts. The hotel
is rapidly filing up. Yesterday morning there were
ll3 guests. and nearly all the rooms engaged. Ny
impressions of Mobile and her citizens are most
favorable / have seen more of the permanent resi-
dents the past week than on any previous visit.
Heretofore l have made business trips which have
been limited TO the transaction of certain business
and there it ended. On the present occasion, have
had the opportunity of seeing them at their homes,
in the domestic circle and also of interchanging
business views and find them possessed of excellent
social qualities and an enterprisng spirit which emf
nently lit them for wider field of action than No
bile Affords This was particularly noticeable in the
interest the commercial community, and indeed, all
classes of citizens exhibit in the enterprise just
started here by your New Orleans people, " The
Southern Oil Company" In company with party
of gentlemen, l visited the factory yesterday and
was shown through the establishment by the gentle
man under whose direction and able superintendent
the factory was built The Secretary of your Com
pany and several OF the stockholders from New Or
leans were at the Works when we arrived, and the
oil running from of the refining stills. The
process seems simple, and is carried at trifing
expense, and the results are truly astounding.
Eighteen gallons OF superior machinery oil are oh.
tanned from barrel OF rosin, besides from six to
eight gallons of other products Of greater value than
the material from which it is manufactured. | was
much interested in the explanations and was orcibly
impressed with the immense value of the enterprise
yet l cannot be expected to give correct and
elaborate description after an hours investigation
The enterprise, however, is fired fact in the est
nation of all who have visited the Works, and the
merchants, turpentine dstillers, and capitalists all
feel lively interest in the business and will cooper
ate in every way possible with the stockholders to
promote their interests and further their views.
understand the formal opening Of the Works is de-
ferred for the return of the President of the Com
pany, now on a brief visit North, though IN the
meanwhile the Company will continue to manufacture
their products.
l expect to leave for Bladon Springs in few
days. and on my return will devote some time to
this oil matter, and endeavor to thoroughly COM
prehend the whole business, and will then make an
attempt to give you accurate description, for
am deeply impressed with its Importance as an in.
vestment well as the Influence it promises to exer
else the destinies of the South for the future
TRAVELLER