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JOURNEY ON v,G?rCLIA TC PASCAGOULA DESCRIBED -- TWO CABINS AND SOCIAL HALL FI I.LSD VIITH COTS — ROBBERY AND VATJDALir.v AT PASCAGOULA INCLUDED EUWER RE^ID"NCEfi, BIG HOTEL,
SA'-J MILL MAC :TT NERY — LUMBER TRADE VO'-: BOOYING SIX MONTHS AFTER WA' October ?3» 1865
?r.O. Tirres - Thursday, October 26, 1865 - p c 3
Pascagoula, ?4iss., October 23»
To the Editor of the K.r. Tirr.es —
Railroad Trip
At precisely 5 o'clock cn Saturday evening, October ?1, 1865, your correspondent deposited his precious person in a Pontchartrain car 8nd -waited vith Tore than his usual philosophy th« signal to start.
His corrpagnon du voyage (borroved expressly for the occasion) bearing the semblance of a car pet bag reposed in a very tranquil state of irind by his side. It presented no plethoric features to tempt the cupidity of any of the light-fingered persuasion. The fifteen minutes assiduous attention previously bcstoved vith a view to enable it to assuire an appearance of rotundity vas not properly appreciated by it and it pave evidences of ingratitude by shaking its collapsed sides at rr.y egsy gaze.
'"reenrran and the Bag
After the usual lapse of time, the lake end vas reached. The vigilant eye of a freedman. of saline proclivities, rendered doubly acute by a prospective fifty cent fractional currency bill, instantly alighted, in conjunction vith his dexter hand, upon said carpet bag, at the same time he gratuitously proffered the following very interesting and highly important observation; vhether it vas intended as an interrogatory or as information \v>hich he alone possessed, and therefore could be relied upon, I have not yet been clearly enabled to determine. But casually dragging by its rounded ears that valuable receptscle for all my "dovlas", he exclaimed "bag-idge fur the Man'olia," started towards the pier head.
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