The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-11-21
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 10, 1879.


l am delighted to notice that the
effect of my letter has been, like
putting coal on the back of a ter
rapln, to make our old friend,
"Snap Beans" crawl out of his
shell. He has been too long "hiding
his light under a bushel.' He is
too fond of the dolce nienti, and
laps himself in Elysian dreams,
when he should spread his canvass
and dash off over the crested bill
lows with IL spanking breeze. If
"there is life in the old land yet,"
so there is enough energy and vim
IN the old veteran of democracy if
he sees fit to put it in motion.
"Snap Beans" makes a pathetic
allusion to our old comrades, who
have crossed over the river to
rest in the shade" as Stonewall
Jackson said in his delirium. But
when he says they " banded in
their ferriage money!" he makes IA
slight mistake. They, and all their
contemporaries, including Snap aud
myself, lived at time when it was
not the custom to plank down the
cash. We all went upon tic. Plan
tations and negroes were sold on
credit, and no one dreamed of pay
ment in hand. The saloon man
bought his liquors on time, and sold
his drinks on. credit. No gentle
man required money. j" His word
was as good as his bond land of.
ten one was no better than the other.
Not one of the persons referred to
tOrked over when they crossed that
ferry. They told the ferryman to
chalk it down, and he has doubtless
followed them to the "other side
of Jordan" with the bill iu his
hands.
"Snap Beans" reminds me that
L omitted the name of Col. ThOS.
Ives. He was very remarkable
man. When | first saw him in
Carroll county, he told me he had
come from North Carolina to Mis-
sissippi to dle,and he was apparent
ly dying with consumption.
Two years afterwards | found
him at jackson, senator, and in
robust health. He told me that he
had subdued the hemorrhage by
using cognac brandy and eating
,nions saturated with salt; that
ie lived on these articles, and Oh
'alt fish, had no sense of thirst, i
md used no fluids whatever, except
lis three wine glasses of brandy t
Iaily. He subsequently became a
lie principal deputy in the Office of a
United States Marshal Gwin, when /
he business was immense, and i
ften rode fifty miles a day in the f
un and rain on this meager diet, n
ever using milk, coffee, tea, or one a
Irop of water. Ii
His last adventure was to estab. il
sh in Hancock county a Palma
)hristi farm. The plant grew fine
y and he made superior article
t castor oil. Unfortunately he =
id not persevere in this industry .
7ent to Texas, got caught out on i
he prairies in a nOrtheaster and 2
erished. 6,
| noticed the other day very n
raceful compliment to the Hon. II. !, u
eal from the venerable patriarch .,
f the press, the Hon. G. w. Har- a,
er, of the Raymond Gazette. 1t =,
as a deserved tribute to an old q,
lend, but did you notice how in. o
he contrived to strike of :,
,me twenty years of his age. Ac i
riding to his paragraph he and r.
cal (who is comparatively young
an) entered the Legislature togeth- u
: when they were each about 81. ~
his may he true in relation to III
nal, but our venerable friend can't c'
'ove himself to be one day under iu
}. Col. Mason, of the Re0eilte III
I'd Maj. Grafton, of the Democrat, III
I'VE the registry of his birth. But W
by should he wish to conceal his III
,e, when he has all the intellect
Il and physical energy and fresh
,Ss of IA man IN his primei He is W
Ie of those men who never be- NJ
me old, but remain to the last m
tive, useful, enterpriSing, the as
arm of the social circle, and the pl
vorite of the young. sd