The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1878-06-21
COAST IMPRESSIONS.
Another Letter From "Wanderer"- VIVA,
She Thinks of Our Country, Etc.,

PAsCAGoULA, Miss, June Il, 1873.
My DEAR FRIEND. - You know wheI
there is a Richmond IN the field Their,
is gallmtry there; aud, as that is til,
name of him who holds the DEMOCRAT
STAR in his right hand, my first letter, o
conrsr, was published. | address yor
through the coast paper, that other Of oul
friends may read of this delightful coun
try, and some at least, will make their ar
rangements to como and see for thernsclves
whether these things be so. | sincerely
hope that you may be among III,
number. | ought to have told you first OF
Pass Christian-the Paradise bower of til,
seashore-but, couldI tell you lust what /
saw, and just how | felt when that vision
of beauty burst upon my sight, after a
long and tedious journey to reach it, my
language would be so cxtrdyigant that the
reader would suspicion it was q woman
writing, and think the description eXag-
gerated. When the conductor called out
Pass Christian and we were landed in
a bleak, dcsOlatc spot of white sands and
gloomy pines, my spirit fell. However.
| We tilltttu tue 1ilib bulIbllS WITH some
cheer that we had reached a stopping
place. A drive of q half mile, and the
broad expanse of water with rolling waves,
met our gaze and then that drive along
tho shell road on the beach (for this is me
street of the town and is seven miles long)
with place after place of unrivalled bean
ty bursting every moment upon you, pa
latial houses, landscape yards, perfume of
flowers, song of birds, trees Of every vari-
ETY. of foliage, swift guilt winds all com-
blned, were enough, don't you think, to
iutoXicate a lover of nature and the bean
tiful and, then, to meet long tried friends
from whom we had been years separated,
and fluid them living in such an Eden, and
we were 10 make them a long, long visit.
1t did seem that surely ! WIS back again
in that dear old South, which the poet
Lucas calls { aud where We were
draining" For days | was under an ex-
hilaratnrc, and if our eyes did not sparkle
with a grateful, apprcciative spirit, it il
because age is dimrning their lustre so the
soul can no more be seen. Only think of
oleandcrs that we pet in small tubs, aud
take in from the winter cold, growing out |
in the yards like trees. some of them if
teen feet high and covered with rich,
gorgeous flowers having the most delicate
perfume. The white grows AZ luxuriantly
as the rose colored, and the two together
in q yard give it the appearance of a NAM
moth bouquet. Then of useful and palata-
BILE things, only think of oysters at Is cents
a hundred, crabs ten cents a dozen, fish al
most for nothing and of every variety, and
10 have them Cor breakfast lunch and din
ner, y yDn are expected to indulge in
eating 10 any excess. Then such fig trees
and range Orehards-it is just too much
to write about fear l will never want TO
leave this favored cline. Even the tor
menting mosquito cannot deprive you Of
for though he bites with a
we know that when the winds
sweeping over the sea that Mr. Mos
quito y doomed for hidden recesses.
Well, | Told you in my last 1 would be at
Scranton. ] must say IL is an enterprisinr
place, for people who will do wei here
would thrive anywhere under the an;
for, as the Dutchnlan says, the bad place
be que mile from this town. The
h"t rays 0f the sun driven from the coast
by cooling sea-breezes seem TO conceutrate
here IN fury aud revenge !. aud the mos
quite, cheated OF his bait at the shorr.
determined to have his feast here.
still the people arc intelligent. euterrr-
,ing and industrious. Of one, whole
noble roma | must speak, Tor