The Morehouse clarion., 1881-08-05
ABOUT BILOXI.

few Jottlngs OF my vlslt 70 tne
Sea Shore Camp Meeting may in
terest your readers, I will do by
others as | would wish, ETC., and
give brief account of my trip to
that interesting place. With this l
will also give promise that l may,
or may not, write soon, more at
length and relate all I saw, all I
heard, give the sermons in full,
verbatim gesticulatum, foot stamp
uration, face expressurati IN, who
were converted, what they said and
DONE. who officiated around the al
ter, what they saio and done, liter
atm sweat wipuratim, fan wagura-
tim, all the songs sang, etc.
This, to make an interesting ar.
ticle, would include twelve sermons,
about sixty conversions, and bring
on the stage several hundred ac-
tors, and when fully and faithfully
portrayed would give your readers
pleasant evenings reading and
no doubt many would be greatly
edited.
BY the way, l shall ask you when
you publish this article to issue q
few extra copies, as wish to for
ward copy to each person who
attended the meeting. To save
you trouble, I can send up few
wagons on the day of publication,
haul the papers home and mail
them myself.
Well, to begin with the trip, we,
that is myself and a few friends,
including Brother Mckee, boarded
the beautiful little steamer, Earle,
July 18th, and registered for the
Crescent City. We had q very
pleasant trip, however, without an
incident worth relating. No ordi-
nary words of praise would do JUS
tice to the officers Of the Earle.
She is commanded by Capt. Swe-
ny, 8 gentleman worthy of the con-
fidenos Of the public. We arrived
in New Orleans at 10 p. m. Thurs
day in time to visit West End, the
great resort for pleasure-seekers.
The day and night we're celebrated
by the French population, it being
the anniversary Of the fall of the
Bastile. West End had been Sc
lected as the place for the jubilee
and about sixty thousand feet trol
the ground allowing two feet tx
each individual on an average
Our trip had been, SO far, withou
incident, but the next few hour
were very different; as nearly as
can recollect, five thousand oc
Cured every minute. Such crowd
Of people conglomerated, squeez
ing, pressing, mashing, pushing
and pulling. The trains ran al
night and till late next morning er
all could get off the grounds, o.
arrival of each train, at intervals o
twenty minutes, there was a genera
scramble for the cars; in thes
scrambles the gentlemen, as class
were rather too much for their fai
opponents, and large proportio
I of women were left, so by 2 q. m
the time had arrived when seve
women would have hold of one ma
IN this contest; I should say tha
about this number had hold
Bro. Mckee several times. Th
scene brought to my mind mos
wildly the horrors Of the Bastilt
and while I thought Of the suffel
, ings of that dreadful period, m
feelings overcame me and / shoul
have wept, only that I did ne
know how to do SO in French.
The next few days were spent
the city, most of the time in con
pany with Frank Pleasant, Esq
Sheriff of Union parish, of whol
t Union may well be proud.
The trip from New Orleans
the Camp Ground requires aho'
three hours. I arrived there at
!, a. m. Sunday in time, as tours
would say, Ito take in the place
before the II o'clock service. Fl