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MERCHANDISE SHIPPINQ TO INTERIOR VERY BRISK -- SMALL POX DEATHS AMONG NFGROES SEVERE ? FINES FOR MINOR CRIMES CONTINUE STRONG AMUSEMENTS POPULAR -- IMPROVEMENT FOR SHIPPING CONTINUE
February 11, 1866
N.O. Daily Crescent - Wednesday, February l1*-, 1866 p 2 c 2
THE MOBILE CORRESPONDENCE
Mobile, Ala., February 11, 1866
Editor, N.O. Crescent ?
Business
Business begins to improve here if we may judge by the large amount of merchandise received daily from New Orleans by the various lines of boats; a large portion of which is sold to go into the interior.
Military Defalcations
Captain J. C. Ford, A.Q.M. of the U. S. Reserve Corps, who has been on trial the past three weeks before a general court martial for misappropriating government funds to his own use, receiving bribes of money, carriages, furniture, horses, buggies, jewelry, etc.. has been found guilty, and sentenced by the court to one years' imprisonment in the Tennessee State Prison, and to pay a fine of $10,000, which sentence has been approved by General Wood, commanding Department of Alabama, and he has been sent there under guard.
The next Assistant Quartermaster who will be tried by the court is John Stewart, formerly Chief A. Q. M. of the Department of Alabama, upon nearly the same charges.
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Military Change of Command
Brig. Gen. G. A. De Russy, who has been in command of the post of Mobile, having been mustered out of service, Colonel Dawson, of the 15th United States Infantry, has assumed command.
Small Pox
The small pox his been very severe on the freedmen and colored soldiers. Upon calling at the office of Capt. McIntosh, I learn that
the Government has buried colored persons (among whom were 1+ soldiers) who had died of tho rn
Freedmen's Bureau 2b died with it. **	?f the froiI! the