New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-15
Especial to the New Orleans Crescen:.f
LETTER FROM MOBILE.
MOBILE, JanHary IA /

| MOBILE, January IS, 1866,
Ed Geseent-Agreeable to my promise to yot
before leaving the Crescent City to send Won A
few lines from Mobile will now endeayor to
fulfil it, After celebrating the anniversary of the
battle of New Orleans ] left New Orleans on that
fine passenger packet the Magnolia Captain NJ.
Eyeridge commanding, and I. V. W. Graham
purser, with full cabin Of passengers and loaded
to her guards with freight. After tiuc trip we
arrived on Tuesday evening
Business of all kinds is good here the receipts
OF cotton being very heavy. Yesterday the largest
sale made IN five years took place, amounting to
200 bales, principally on English and French ac-
count A good sale of horses, mules and wagons
has just taken place, al which 154 mules and "a
horses were sold. The mules sold as high as s2I5
each; the horses averaged SIS 222 wagons were
sold and averaged s35 each
The steam blockade runners Virgin and Red
Gauntlet are still in port here, in command of En-
sign f. Il. lnseke, o. S. Navy, but will be turned
over to the Navy Department tomorrow, upon the
payment of $4,000 charges incurred on them. 1t
is supposed that the Secretary of the Navy will
soon offer them for sale. The late Confederate
gunboat Morgan, built in 1868 at Mobile, has been
purchased by Capt. NJ. Everidge, of the steamer
Magnolia, and thoroughly oyerhauled from stem to
stern. She will to-day enter the trade between
New Orleans and Mobile under command of that
popular and experienced steamboat officer, Capt.
David Sinnott. She will start on her trial trip at
IAN.
AS the Manhattan is hauled up for repairs, and
there is no mail to-day send this and late papers
by the Morgan.
l cannot help giving you the following item,
which occurred on Monday last at the Mayors
Court. You may rely on its being true to the
letter. Councilman Hurte has been the presiding
magistrate during the absence of Mayor Withers
citizen had been arrested and locked up for the
night. Early in the morning he sent word to
Judge Hurtel that his wife was dying, and that it
was absolutely necessary that he should be at
home upon the occasion. Judge H.. who is well
known for his kindness of heart, granted the
request and released him. On his return home he
found his wife filling his position, that of dyeng
old clothes. Judge H. acknowledged the Joke
and asked the reporters to take SMILE
Major Hastings is pushing forward his arrange
ments to coonize Brazil. One set of emigrants
have already sailed from New Orleans. The YES
sci could not accommodate all that were ready to
go. Major H. is now making preparations for
taking out the remainder of the colony, with
whom he expects to embark in person early in the
month of February. The colonists are mostly
from the interior of Alabama. They propose to
make settlement on one of the tributaries of the
Amazon.
Yesterday in company with Geo. F. Harrington,
Esq, visited the Freedmen's Bureau for the first
time. We were courteously and kindly received
by Col Geo. D. Robinson, the superintendent OF
the district of Mobile, and Lieut. Col. Geo. E. Var
rington the newly appointed judge of the provost
court Gen. De Russy, commanding the district,
makes very popular officer, and the most kindly
relations exist between him and Gen. Withers, the
Mayor, which augers well.
The new court martial of which Gen. Wood is
president and Brevet Major Norton judge advo-
cate, convened yesterday morning. The case of
Capt. John G. Ford, of the Veteran Reserve Corps,
and late of the quartermaster's department, was
taken up. There two charges: first, " with
knowingly and willingly misappropriating property
of the United States intended for the military SER
vice thereof" and second, with receiving bribe
for msappropriating property of the United States
intended for the military service" The court ad-
journed until Saturday, in order to give the prs-
oner time to prepare his defense. VIM. Boyles,
Esq, appears for the defense.
The Provost Court has authority to try all civil
cases not involving titles to real estate, and such
cases of criminal character as do come within
the scope of the civil magistrate. The great num-
ber of negroes congregating here at tpresent makes
the duties of Judge Warrington very onerous and
his energies are taxed from early morn till
late at night, in settling cases of every shade of
difficulty betaceen the shades. The number of
cases coming before Judge Y. number from fifty
to seventy-fve per day, and many have to be
passed over in a summary manner. Cotton steal
ing is as prevalent among the negroes as the
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even upon most trivial case among themselves.
The smallpox is increasing very rapidly, as you
will see by an editorial in the Tribune of to-day,
and it is causing great deal of alarm among the
white citizens
The planters regard the labor of the negroes as
entirely unreliable now, though high hopes were
entertained about the lst of January that their
services could be secured for the year. A large
number refuse to contract at all. We must have
cotton. The manufacturing and commercial in
terests of the country depend on it. The success
of the financial system of the government depends
upon it. To have it, white labor must be intro
duced. The German, Swiss, Irish, Swede, etc, can
make cotton and their services can be secured.
On Friday evening last, the propeller Joseph
Sparks, ran on the distractions, she was enter
ing the port, and parted entirely in the center.
She is a total loss. No lives were sacrificed.
Mr.. Eddy took his benefit at the theater, here
Friday evening, with of the most crowded
audiences that have attended the theater for many
years.
Everybody is on the tiptoe of expectation of the
arrival Of the great Snowman, "a Ward" and his
"Betsy Jane.''
The following report of cases before the Freed
mems Bureau, and other statistics for the week
ending on the 9th inst, may be OF some interest to
your readers
For collection of wages from white employers 255
-. =. coored employers, 10
For whipping and other i'll treatment from hands of
From the hands OF DOored citizens
For protection from white mobs in the streets. while
employed at their daily work. rk................... IS
Total. 365
Number of ratons issued to destitute citizens for
| the past week 56l4, as foows
Number of white persons drawing rations 57s
| colored persons ...,,......... 81
Number of persons in hospital at Dog river of both