The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1881-01-07
JEFFERSON DAVIS,
A Visit to the Home OF the Presi-
dent of the Late Confederate
States.
Editorial Cor. Of the Philadelphia Times.

Editorial Cor, Of the Philadelphia Times.
MISSISSIPPI CITY, Miss. Dec. Is, 80.
wIite on the opcu veranda OF
the dilapidated summer hotel that
constitutes most OF the city. Be.
you'd the bar.room across the way,
bearing the inviting title of the
"Dew.drop," aud the little ware.
house aud station, the hotel is
guiltless of tenement associates
but the air is balmy as a Northern
summer mornings; the roses We
welcome in June are iu tun bloom
along tue broken fence that once
made an enclosure about this resort
Of fugilives from yellow Jack
when he sways his deadly sceptre
in the Crescent City, and the LATEST
content prevails aluong man and
beast without regard to race or
previous condition of servitude. |
have learned to look with contempt
upon my thick travelling blanket
aud the welllined oyershoes
bucklel within. They seemed to
he quite superhuous luggage last
night when, after a long, hot eve.
nlng, the lightning and the tempest
danced the racquet with a running
accompaniment of young earth
quakes; but they may grow in
favor as | journey back toward the
Pennsylvania mountains.
VISITING JEFFERSON DAVIS.
A journey through the South for
The study OF the currents of opin.
Ioh aud the present condition and
probable progress of the recon-.
structed States, wonld be- incOul.
pltte without visit to the one
man who must stand in history as
the tIout of the oyerthrown Con.
iederacy. A drive of five miles
through the sand and struggling
pines which skirt the Gulf bay, ex-
lllhlls the same general dilapi,la.
ll0n among the old time summer
homes, which were once the tavo-
lite retreats of the elite Of New
orleans iu the sickly season. The
shore of the bay has a number of
pa'dtial plantation houses, but they
nave fallen into the sweeping de.
gay that marks them AS relies of
an age that has gone. The only
Que that seems to have been care.
ially preserved trom the des0lation
l1at surrounds it, is the Dorsey
pace, now the holne OF Jefferson
Davis In a forest of green live
OAKS, richly laden orange trees,
anu a profusion of vines and flow
eis, a large frame plantation house
spresentcd. 1t is a single story
~ helght aud has the regulation
pliIars and broad verandas of tue
%sa,lStocratlc a., Southern mansion.
ihere the ex.Confederate presi.
m nent lives with his nephew, Gen.
TSo TTaS's, aud their joint families.
aue ex'queen of the Confederate
oUurt o. Is a stout, motherly, cultured
a"" genial woman, and Il daughter,
" ~o' strongly marked copy OF the
,%io'ner, possesses unusual attrac.
nun 1lolls OF both person and Intellect.
ran rue mousse it furnished with every
,esarl wa Tor comfort, as the we'll.
,h no'. easy chairs and lounges aud
anu, ~. ua'l aud parlordivans faithfully
i,Is'' wi,, and the walls are decorated
hr;a '.a ancient paintings and modern
nao,a,orac, nov. while the wide chin.
tsl, Il pace and cspacious mantel
sna, .m now tho cheerful pine Gre
fr"a. fr"aAles when a chill or a stray
inm "', t! sllences the song OF the mock
na'lo so're and the bloodtbirsty sere
v h"a ol the mosquito. Soon after
uar'o uao oeen politely bowed into tht
slano or Jefferson DAVIS entered
U"t, eo,',i,,, and his greeting was tin
hosn;a.ll,w hal Welcome of the proverbia
ftsup,.aliiy u Of the SortlL | oon
era, I 70 dlsappointnlpnt In the aen
appearance OF the man whe