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__QUARANTIN DF MOBILE DUE TO CHOLERA
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AT MOBILE SHARPLY CRITICIZED --PEOPLE BOUND FROM NEW ORLEANS MERELY CHANGED STEAMERS AT PASCAGOULA -- ONLY LASTED gXEXXS two weeks
August 18 - Sept. *+, 1866
Daily Picayune - Friday, August 31, 1866 - p *+ c 1
MOBILE QUARANTINE STARTED AUGUST 18, 1866
We learn from Mr. T. H. Higin'botham who returned from Mobile yesterday that the quarantine of the boats from New Orleans was imposed by Gen. Wood, who headquarters at Augusta, Ga., on August 18, 1866.
The measure, as might be expected, elicits the condemnation of the citizens of Mobile and the sharp criticism of the press.
Notwithstanding the embargeo, persons readh Mobile daily from New Orleans by way of Pascagoula, whence they take a steamer for Mobile. Pascagoula not being an "infected port," steamers from that point find no difficulty in "going through."
Mr. Higinbotham also reports one fatal case of cholera on the wharf at Mobile when the steamer Sarah left.
Daily Picayune - Tuesday, September *+, 1866
Upon the arrival of the k P. M. train at the Lake end this afternoon, the mail line steamer Mary will leave for Mobile direct.
Captain Myers will be on hand and she will have a clean bill of health.
Apply to I. C. Harris, corner Camp and Common Streets.


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