The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-07-11
REsPoNDENcE.
NEw ORLEANS. July 4th. 1854

Biloxi, taken few. salt water baths,
seen all that was to be seen there and
got back to breathe the smoke and
dust, hear the noise and thunder of
independence day. and swelter as l
now do under the rays ofold Sol with
the thermometer up to SO in the
shade. While | write the military
companies are passing, the canon
booming and ten thousand juveniles
are making all the noise that good
lungs aud wind can produce. Happy
crowd, may you each outlive centu-
ry Of Independence days" and may
each returning celebration find us a
more united. more enlightened, a more
contented, less selfish but more patri-
otto people.
Instead of orations and speeches to
sweltering crowds within brick walls
the committee thought it better to ap-
propriate the money given by the
council, to aid the FIRE and military
companies in making their turnouts
and in the display of fireworks and
other appropriate ceremonies of an
outdoor character. AS you have doubt
less by this time had your fill of Inde-
pende,ace, I will not burthen you with
any remarks or concentrates of any
kind, for | am satisfied that every
truehearted lover Of his country, claim
ing to be an american can and does
duly appreciate the day that saw our
nations birth, and will ever hallow in
bis heart its return. But what of
Biloxi? You will ask, and all can
say is "not much." After having
been to Pass Christian, Mississippi CT
ty, ocean springs and Biloxi, the crack
watering places of the south, DO ,ns-
er wonder why the wealthier ami a7
social Of our city and rural southern
families should prefer to spend tai
time and money at the north during
the summer season. With every ia.
cility which nature can bestow to rem
der them attractive, comfortable aud
beautiful summer retreats, if they we're
improved as they should be, they are
yet mere burlesques upon such places
and will ever be avoided by all of our
people who can afford to spend their
summers in a higher latitude. Biloxi
is one Of the Oldest towns in the Uni.
ted States, has a resident population
of at least fifteen hundred, and the
first foot of brick pavement has yet to
be laid within its beautiful precincts.
The streets are mere alleys ranging
from ten to twenty-five feet wide, un-
and unadorned, so that from
the water you can see but little ex-
cept shade trees with here and there a
black roof peering out from the green
foliage that fourishes in all It's uataUe
beauty in the streets as we'll as the
iooryards Of its little seven by nine
The inhabitants, are prin-
,ipally Of French extraction and /
should think decidedly of the old fogy
stamp. Mississippi city is an impor-
ant place containing some fue or sic
houses including fine airy Hotel, ard
'ftcr adding to this list Of its beauties
hat Of wharf projecting into the
water, nearly mile long, you can
the rest. Ocean springs is
bout ditto, and its hotels are the very
poorest in all the land. Call for Il
,lass Of ice water, and you are told
hat ice is all out''-cau for some-
hing to eat, and you get one or may
'e two big oysters and cracker, or
perhaps piece Of stale bread and a
up of vile coffee. All for two dollars
yer day and no questions answered. If
he half you say about the "Green- |
7ell's is true, the Baton Rougeans
ave got at home a comfortable and ,
leasant retreat which they should pat
onize heartily, without signing for the !
hores Of the Gulf or far distant water {
1g places, until the accommodations !;
re better than they now are, or bet I
IF than at their own beautiful resort. |
md then the society too at Green /
'ells has its own peculiar attractions, a
opposed as it is of the elite of the I
sutral parishes and Capital city, 0
bile at the places l have mentioned, t
'e company is heterogeneous ailmix-
Ire, that gives one but poor opinion