New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-08-03
NUMBER l29

| i@7t "eeh' ana worried q few days through right
/ comfortably.
Ihe hotels are full, and Pradat's is iammed. We
i stopped at Gus Richaras', plain and uppretend-
4 ing retreat for bachelors, tor gentlemen without
iadies,) and found all the comfort We wanted the
rooms being the coolest, the table the best and
the bar the most unexceptionable, to BE found on
/ the Whole Biloxi strand.
! We need not tell how we fell in with Bob, and
| Frank, and Adam, had chowdering on Deer Island,
sailing about the Bay, fishing in Back Bay, oyster
ing bathing, and the like. The sun is quite as hot
as in this city, but, them there the brisk
breezes and the cool live oak shades of the place.
/ which render it delightful enough to any jaded
/ denizen Of the heated and dusty city, who may
have the luck to escape from it at the present time.
1 The drought is painfully apparent in some Of the
| fields and gardens about Biloxi. Melon vines,
sweet potatoes grapes, peaches, etc, are in many
places totally ruined or abortiye in their attempts
| to grow. All along the Gulf shore, beyond Biloxi,
| water has been very scarce. At one time, Ocean
/ Springs had to send to Biloxi for water and about
the same time of the inhabitants of East Pas
cagouIa had to send to Mobile for water. few
showers Of rain have since relieved the scarcity
Smiths Circus, of this city, was going from place
| to place in a schooner, and exhibiting to paying
| audiences diiapdated band of negro miDstreIs,
1 also from this city, was sailing around and picking
| up few dollars here and there.
We were at the ball at the Shady Grove on
| Wednesday night, where everything passed off
pleasantly and merriy.
The pleasure yacht Corypheus, having on board
Mr.. Alderman Sid Story, Com. Dick Milliken, and
four OF five of their friends came into Biloxi for
water and sleep whilst we were there. We boarded
and found all hands we'll 1t would be hard task
| to justly describe the luxurious appointments Of
the Corypheus, the finest yacht Southern waters
or to picture the perfect luzary Of her fortunate
| passengers.
Capt. John Brown showed US the prizes which
he has put up for the regatta of the sth silver
pitcher goblet and cup. We think they are worth
running for.
| The chief thing to which we wish to aude, is
that terror Of Travellers that incubus upon the Gulf
shore population, the Mobile mail line of steamers.
4 We speak particularly of the Alabama, the only
| boat that goes to Biloxi and Ocean Springs. The
boat itself is good enough; but the after defiance
of public comfort as regards time, shown by the
captain or the compsny running the boat, has won
the hearty anathema of both the towns named, and
we think justly.
The company having said good deal about
shallow water and the tides in extenuaton Of their
cupability, we made it our business to watch the
tides whilst we were at Biloxi as well as the
Alabama.
Though the public are not favored with any
4 thing like time table by the accommodating
owners of the Alabama, the repeated arrival and
departure of that boat at nearly the same hour of
the night or day, has led the public more or less
to look for something like continuance of her
partial regularity. But the public is often very
gullible.
Thursday evening last, just before dark, the
Alabama reached Biloxi from the city, and went
on to Ocean Springs. The tide was low, and she
had no hndrance Next day, it was expected that
she would come along about four or five in the
afternoons this expectation being based upon her
frequent arrival at thay hour.
She came at two. She whstled five minutes be-
fore reaching the wharf She staid at the wharf
five minutes, and put out at ten minutes past two.
People who intended leaving that day but were
not ready grabbed up their things and ran for the
boat, dinnerless fit to break their necks. few
got on board but the crowd, who lived too far off
were left behind We were left; we know plenty
who made every exertion to get on board, but
were left 1t was really shameful sight to see
how some ladies ran, only to be left, and to walk
back to their lodgings, sick of fatigue and disap-
pointment. We heard that number of ladies and
| gentlemen were left also at Ocean Springs by this
wanton departure without notice. The tide on this
occasion was not near so low as when the boat
went to Ocean Springs the evening before, and
would not have been for several hours The pre-
mature arrival and departure Of the boat was,
therefore; an unmitigated outrage.
People who had business to attend to in the city
l grin and baar a,adz
Sunday. On this occasion everybody prepared
for the treaohery of the Alabama. As early as |
o'clock in the afternoon gentlemen and their fami-
lies began to assemble under the cedars in front of
Richards, anawatch for the boat when she should
| appear round the point from Ocean Springs.
Though they came without having had dinner they
waited and waited, and kept waiting. In the after
noon, no boat. In the evening, no boat. Ladies
with children had to give up waiting, and return to
their quarters. At 8 o'clock no boat. Nearly all
the crowd again gave up their trip and returned
| home. We waited it out, however, and the boat
| arrived at about IL o'clock. Ten hoars waiting,
| We neyerstepped upon anything more reluctantly.
| There was some talk about the boat having been
aground but at the proper hour in the evening
there was the same height of water through which
the boaShad easily passed many atme.
OF COURSE there was no supper looked for at
that late hour. The boat reached ths city between
and O'Clock on Monday, and discharged one Of
the hungriest crowds of passengers ne ever travel
ed with.
The mail line company may talk.about low water
and the tides :; but the above facts, and only
smallportion Of the facts, showing how the people
of the watering.plaees are imposed upon by the
company's steamer Alabama.
But it is useless to grumbls. A monopoly is
mighty, anawil prevail; especially when people
have the remedy in their own hands and neglect
to exercise it,.
SCHOOL BOA RDS.
FIRsT DISTRICT ScHooL, BoARD.-This Board
held its regular monthly meeting lash evening Mr.
!. Lushea in the chair.
Mr.. Wharton read the, report of the Com4littee
on the Girls High School, showing that different
improvements. mostly with yieK to ventilation,