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MULES, HORSES AND WAGONS ? ALABAMIANS COLONIZING IN BRAZIL NEGROES CROWING CITY ? SMALL POX EPIDEMIC GROWING January 13, 1866
N.O. Daily Crescent - Monday, January 15, 1866 p 1 c 5
LETTER FROM MOBILE
Mobile, January 13* 1866
Editor Crescent ?
After celebrating the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans,
I	left Nev Orleans on that fine passenger packet the Magnolia, Capt. W. Everidge, commanding, and T. V. W. Graham, purser, with a full cabin of passengers and loaded to her guard with freight. After a fine trip we arrived on Tuesday evening (January 9, 1866).
Business Good
Business of all kinds is good here: the receipts of cotton being very heavy. Yesterday the largest sale made in 5 years took place amounting to 2300 bales, principally on English and French account.
A good sale of horses, mules and wagons has just taken place, at which 15^ mules and 5k horses were sold. The mules sold as high as S215 each; the horses averaged $75; 222 wagons were sold and averaged ?35 each.
Shios
The steam blockade runners Blrgin and Red Gauntlet are still in port here, in command of Ensign F. R. Inscke of U. S, Navy, but will be turned over to the Navy Department tomorrow upon the payment of $20,000 charges incurred on them. It is supposed that the Secretary of the Navy will soon offer them for sale.
The late Confederate gunboat Morgan, built in I863 at Mobile, has been purchased by Captain M. Everidge, of the steamer Magnolia, and thoroughly overhauled from stem to stern. She will today enter the trade between New Orleans and Mobile, under command of that popular and experienced steamboat officer, Captain David Sinnott.
She will start on her trial trip at 12 M.
As the Manhattan is hauled up for repairs, and there is no mail today, I send this and late papers by the Morgan.