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BAY ST. LOUT^ ACTIVE WITH GUESTS
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ENJOYING FISHING * BATHING -WEDDING - SOIREE - LATEST LADY STRAW HAT FASHIONS - POSSIBLY A "BLOOMER" GIRL SOON - NEW STEAMER CHINGARORA SPEEDIEST BOAT ON RUN
July 8, 1851
Daily Delta - Thursday, July 10, 1851 -pi col 6
LETTER FROM MISSISSIPPI
Bay St. Louis, July 8, 1851
Editors Deltas-
I	promised you in my last to keep you posted up about the doings in this rural watering place; therefore I must keep my word.
There is a goodly sprinkling of your merchant princes here, who seem to have thrown aside grave faces, Sunday-go-to-meetings, the ledgers and cash-books, and taken up vith enthusiastic delight, the fishing rod, dinner parties, and everything else in the Jolly God line, except kite flying, and I should not vonder but ere long it will fall to my lot to narrate to you a second Circus Street dinner. There will be one difference, however—here we have beds tpf^sand—there you have "verdant -mud." <•«-•
Is it not a burning shame that "Cupid" will keep "moving," even in this secluded spot ? Last evening an enterprising young coffee merchant forgot the rise in the market, and was bound by the silken cords of matrimony, to cherish forever a young and accomplished daughter of your old resident, Mr. L. D.
The assembly was brilliant in the extreme, and the army of Creole beauty was large. Amongst them I noticed what is universally
conceded to be the belle of the Bay, Kiss B----------d. Champagne flowed
freely, and dancing was kept up to the witching hour of the night, when all retired veil pleased, and wishing the youthful couple success and happiness through this bustling world.
The weather is fine, and bathing delightful. A plunge in to the briny deen calls forth many exclamations from the denizens of your city.
Salt.,oysters, plump and full, about the size of^a dollar, such as would make friend "Sam" shed tears, are plentiful, so are crabs* and the fishing.	’