The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-01-02

From the Star of Pascagoula.
PascagOuaHsa.

PascagOuahsa.
A glance at the map of Mississippi will
satisfy any one of the advantages of the
position of Pascagoula, with its harbor
sheltered on the north entirely, and al
most completely so on the east and west
by the mainland, with DauphIn, Petit
Bots, Horn and Ship Islands as pro-
lection from the winds of the Gulf; and
at the mouth of river, which, with its
tributaries, drains so large a portion of
the State. While Ship Island harbor,
only % miles distant, has sufficient water
for the largest ships, vessels drawing
eighteen feet can enter the pass between
Horn and Petit Bots Islands, only about
ten miles southeast of Pascagoula Light,
and find safe anchorage from four to six
miles from the town which reposes In all
its beauty along the coast
About eight miles above the Gulf Dog
river empties into the Pasc&goula, reach
ing up into Alabama between three and
four hundred miles and, one hundred
and twenty mile above its mouth, the
Pascagoula branches into the Chickasaw-
hay and Leaf rivers, both of which extend
some three hundred miles into the inte-
rior and light draft steamboats, have as
cended to Enterprise, at the head of the
Chickasawhay, a distance of four hundred
miles, while many large creeks pour their
waters into these streams. 1t is compu-
ted that the Pascagoula and its tributa-
ries furnish thirteen hundred miles of
water, lined with inexhaustible forests of
pine, cypress, oak of various kinds, ash,
hickory, gum, popular, juniper, etc.,
and which is everywhere available for
RATS. Again, its situation on the beau
tiful Gulf renders its climate most salu-
brlous, the heat of its summers being
delightfully."- tempered by the sea-breezes,
and no locality in the South is more
exempt, say physicians, from acute and
febrile diseases. During the summer
of ST when New Orleans, Mobile and
every other town on the Gulf coast suf-
fered terribly from yellow fever, Pasca-
goula was entirely exempt from the
dreadful plague, although boats arrived
daily from New Orleans crowded with
passengers. Therefore it is, and has
long been as might be expected, one of
the most popular watering places on the
Gulf, annually attracting multitudes of
visitors, while it is most easy of access
thoroughfsre between New Orleans and
New York, one hundred miles from the
former city and forty miles from Mobile.
So great are the advantages of this
region for the lumber trade, that since
the war, Notwithstanding the universal
depression of business existing through
out the South, and the gloom and des-
pondency which has everywhere prevailed
TIN oughout her borders, we find degree
of energy, thrift and business prosperity
displayed, unequalled in any other por-
ton of the State, and doubtless unex-
ceiled anywhere in the South. More than
twenty saw-mills of the largest capacity,
with planners, &C., have been erected. in
that time, near the mouth of the Pasca-
goula, at cost of half a million of dol
lars, and capable of furnishing million
feet of lumber per week, and this in the
face of the fact that until the last few
years vessels of more than five feet
draught could not cross the bar at the
mouth of the river. This has since been
increased by Ship Canal, dug in '68, to
six to eight feet, which is still INSULT
cient for the trade, which imperatively
demands the deepening of this channel
When we consider how rapidly the
lumber regions of the North are being
deprived of their forests, and see the high
prices which lumber commands in the
Northern markets, and which is contin-
ually on the increase, we then can have
an idea of the importance of a region
Astounding in the finest of timber which
can be so readily fioated to the mills,
alongside of which vessels can load, to
find ready market in almost any of the
ports Of the world; the importance of a
port, possessing advantages and facilities,
unequalled on the Atlantic or Gulf coast
Pascagoula, then, with her advantages
forinvestment, for business and residence,
has only to become better known to be
even more highly appreciated, and we
expect yet to see her saw-mills vastly
multiplied, and sash and blind factories,
and factories, and factories for all articles
of wood, line the banks of her river from
the mouth for twenty miles.
a Religious Papers Presentation
OF the Louisiana EmbrOGIfO.
From the n. o. Christian Advocate.
State Affairs.
We believe all candid persons are of one
mind about our late State electiOn--that it
was the fairest expression of the people had
for many years, and that the candidates re-
turned by the proper authorities as elected
are for integrity and capacity far ahead of
any who have held office for the four years
past. This result, however, is to be upset
nv intervention of q limited States ennrt