The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-08-15


you please and are not tied down to
any fashions or formalities save those
that are always impoeed upon real
ladies and gentlemen. Good food,
tidy rooms, clean beds, freedom, and
the salt air give one during a swell
tering hot term about as great
sense Of continual comfort as can be
gained anywhere. The nights are
always cool.
The house has wide piazza on one
side and on one end, and some part
of it is always in the shade, and in
the breeze. When you get here, If
you come with any proper motives,
you are seized with a spirit Of placid
content, q tendency to gentle repose
steals over you, your food digests,
your appetite comes home from its
career of vagrancy, your liver sets mp
business again, and conscience stands
by with q certificate of friendship,
sworn to before Heavens notary and
attested by the seal Of the upper
Court, that is if you are proper
man or woman.
About q mile out in the water is q
lighthouse, which stands at the outer
point of q sand bar, and at low water
the bar il visible nearly all the way.
It was near the end of this bar that
during the troubles preceding the
revolution the British man-Of-war
Gaspee was stationed, the vessel it
will be remembered that was success
fully attacked by the rebellious Rhode
islanders under the lead Of John
Brown of Providence, who for aught
we know may have been the anees-
tor of John Brown of Harper's Ferry.
At any rate the two Johns were alike
in impetoosity, devil-may-care au-
dacity, hatred Of oppression, and dis
position to take the short cut to do
away with injustice.
On the other side Of the bay We
see the domains and favorite haunts
of that royal old savage King Philip,
and every evening about eight o'clock
we can see the Fab River steamer
emerge from Mt. Hope Bay on her
way to New York. Providence
steamers are passing hourly during
the day, and are constant objects of
interest in many ways. Some of
them have boarders or friends of
boarders at the house, ard half an
hour after landing at Rocky Point
the coach will bring them with the
late news and the new Corners to
wake as up, and give as fresh topics
for discussion. The new corners can
not come without an inspection more
searching than is ever visited upon
the baggage of q traveller by the
spies Of the custom house, and 90 what
she had on " is fact of established
prominence in much less time than it
takes to write il. And yet, our ladies
at the house are notlyain gossipers or
butterflies of fashion, but sensible
mothers chiefy-but they don't mean
to have their children grow up and
dress like frighta, not if they know
it. That won't happen if the cour.
understands herself, and she thinks
she do"
| Of course games abound, though
there is no game. The fishing il
good, and the bathing answers every
purpose Of health, but there is nc
surf. About three miles sway ID
Oakland Beach, where liz one of the
finest hotels in the country, with ali
the modern conveniences. Oakland
is rival of Rocky Point, and begins
to divide excursions with it, much te
the chagrin of the latter, which
| faacied that it was the place and
could defy competition. This notion
made Rocky proud, exorbitant, and
hafd-hearted. tput up prices, pui
indignities upon customers, gavs
them the minimum of accommodation
for the maximum of money, and die
in general as wealth and haughtines.
will; hence Oakland, a new line O
steamers, and . healthy competition
They have clam-bakes at Oakland
too. ALERT.
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