The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-05-08

A considerable number Of our citizens are begin.
ming to ash themselves where and in what manner
they will spend the approaching summer months
Now ss have to ask, who are going on their usual
migration 70 the North In our opinion. as to the
mere matter q enjoyment, there is no necessity for
il There is objection 10 travel 10 the North, or
On The European Continent, when there is leisure
for il and improvement is sought: social inter.
change between different portions Of this country
and between our cohntry and others, is productive
Of good results but we do think this natter-of
COURSE leaving by our citizens, for Northern cities
and watering places, in search Of enjoyment is
unnecessary.
Ofthose who leave, as summer approaches. there
is class who have done business here for years.
while their families remain in distant portions of
the country. Why not identity themselves with
US, by settling their families here, and making good
Creoles Of their children As it now is. tbe hus-
band and father is separated from his wife and
children for six OF eight months Of the year--an
alternative which must itself be extremely unnleas.
ant and is followed by the consequence that the
family and head Of the family form distinct associa.
tons and establish social connections in different
portions OF the Union. This should not be, and
need not.
There is another class who spend their winters
mere, but leave, as summer approaches, for the
North with their families and as matter Of course,
have to entrust their business to Others Besides
the enormous expense of travel, they have all the
dlscomtorts Of the packed and crowded Hotels Of
the North; and if they have children, it becomes
doubly dsagreeable for the reason that they cannot
take their servants to the North without danger of
their being kidnapped. Their confidential servants
and nurses have to beleftat home Those who return
BY way Of the lakes and rivers are fortunate if thew
do not have two or three weeks detention at Pitts
burgh or Cincinnati, get money bound" or have
trip of three or four weeks from those cities.
passed alternately sand-bar and LAYING up at
night to prevent snagging.
Many OF our citizens leave all the comforts of
Rome tor fear Of sickness but it is well known
that the yellow fever is disease now SO well I'M
derstood by the faculty and by the people them
selves, that with prudence il is not more dangerous
than the typhoid and other fevers and diseases
peculiar to the North. Why need they go beyond
our lake shores Here health can always be found.
For the amount it will cost man, with his family.
TO travel genteelly at the Nsrh for one season he
can purchase lot at Bay. St Louis Pass Christian.
Biloxi, or at some other of the watering places.
and build house on it. Thus he can have a
delightful summer home, at which he can live
under his own vine and fig tree" with excellent
society, and among his neghbors and friends, at |
the same time that he can keep up a constant cor |
respondence with his business in the city, either by
short visits or by the daily mails. We have visited
most Of the watering places at the North, and for
real comfort and pleasure they do not, in our est
nation, equal those on our lake shores.
wATERING-PLAcEs.
In connection with the foregoing remarks, it NAV |
notb amiss to aude to some Of the numerous water
ing places on the Lake, which present the strongest
attractions to those who have the inclination. the
means and leisure to leave the city during the sum.
mer months. AT Pass Christian are now settled a |
large number Of our citizens, who constitute 80.
ciety which, in intelligence and all the amenities Of
social life, is, during the summer season, unsur.
passed by that at any point in the Union, Be-
SIDES there is always gay, pleasure-seeking COM
pany at the excellently-well kept hotel Of our
friend Montgomery. Dancing mnsc, yachting, |
pistol shooting fishing, hunting, etc-a are had |
there, and suited to every variety Of taste.
The same may be said of Biloxi, with its superior
hotels, under the management Of Nixon, Mitchell
Short, Coates, etc. Biloxi is a favorite place of
esort, and there are thousands who, from past ex-
'erlence, will speak of its advantages whether
Or permanent residence or for transient visitors
'ascagOula the delightful halfway watering place
Q Mobile, is unsurpassed in its fishing, bathing. t
des, etc. Nor should we fail to speak particu. c
lrly ofthe charming places Of summer resort ON the
astern shore of Mobile Bay. Nothing can be (
more pleasant than visit to Point Clear. Free: l
mans, and Towards, with their comminoIino,
uests from Mobile and New Orleans. who vie
nth each other in efforts to render themselves re-
iprOcally agreeable. We know many of our citi.
ems who were delighted with their visits to these