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MOBILE, LIK^fEV ORLEANS, HAS AN IMPERMANENT POPULATION ? WEALTHY LEAVE FOR SUMMER ? MECHANICS ACCUMULATE AND THEN MOVE ON ? ACTIONS OF U.S. NAVY OFFICERS LIEUT. TOTTEN AND COMMANDER RANDOLPH IN THEIR PROCLAMATION TO ROUND ISLANDERS STRONGLY CRITICIZED August 30, 18^9
Daily Crescent - Saturday, September 1, l8*+9 - p 2 c 2
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE
Mobile, August 30, 18^9
Mobile at this season wears a more Sabbath-like air every day.
There is no liveliness visible in any branch of business, and the streets are nearly deserted after post-office hours. Dullness and quiet seems to reign every where, except where the proverbial hospitality of the people make cheerfulness within doors.
Constructilq Going On
The principal, and I might almost say the only sign of activity, is in the number of buildings going up in different parts of the city? a proof that the stagnation is that of the season, and should not create an. unfavorable opinion of the business character of the place.
In the two or three days I have been here. I have noticed a surprising number of improvements starting up in the principal streets, but mostly in by-places, where small dwellings are going up, such as are occupied by mechanics and men of small means. In most cases, as I am informed, these are homesteads.
The low price of real estate for a few years has enabled the poor man to secure him a lot, and a great many of them are putting up dwellings, rt is an excellent sign of the growth of a permanent population?men wjio reside hers and invest their earnings here.
People Migratory
It has been a great drawback to the city, as indeed to the whole South, that our population is so migratory that our wealthier citizens roam away during the summer months to expend their winter earnings in other places; and that our mechanics have been, so to speak, an unsettled race, coming among us to accumulate, and quitting when their desires are satisfied to enjoy the fruits of their labor elsewhere.