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Here, all that is seen of its former grandeur is an immense, almost interminable wharf, at the end of which, along the coast, are some pleasant cottages and a delightful boarding house, or hotel, kept by Dr. Tegarden, whose rooms are always taken up early in the season for the families of our most respectable citizens.
Biloxi
Next our	boat deflects from its regular	course to	enter the
Bay	of Biloxi	in which reposes the venerable	town where	the first
European settlement was made in the south-west. Biloxi, we need not inform our readers, is quite a town—with the comforts, pleasures infirmities and vices of a seaport. It is a great spot for fishermen and oyster dealers, and owing to the number of the houses is a cheaper place for summer residence than the other resorts referred to
Pascagoula
From Biloxi we plunge into the open sea and have a pleasant taste of a sea voyage. In case of a blow, or a high wind, we may en.joy some of the disagreeable accompaniments.
Presently our steamer again approaches the shore, and the eye is attracted by a fine, bold coast, with dark green luxuriant-growth of trees and vegetation commencing at the very edge of the water; with the surge dashing against the base of the live oaks. This is East Pascagoula, the most delightful, in point of location of all our sea-side resorts, and fully the equal of the far-famed places of the North,	whither so many of our people flock every	summer.
Here the	sea bathing is unequaled. The	Hotel will	compare with
the best in the country. The enterprising gentlemen who have lately taken it on along lease are determined to make it the Cape .Kay of the South. Their efforts thus far have been so liberally encouraged that' they intend to embark in extensive additions and improvements, ®hich will leave our citizens entirely without an excuse for abandoning our own neighborhood in pursuit of pleasant residences on the sea shore.
Here the strong sea breeze is continually blowing, imparting health and delightful languor to the body and mind; and here all the luxuries of the sea — delicious fish and oysters — with fruit and vegetables produced by the excellent soil in the neighborhood abound. Add to‘these the very best Southern society -- sociable, kind, and agreeable — without pretension, ostentation, or snobbishness, and we think the person who cannot be well pleased at Pascagoula must be of a most intractable temper and taste.
Such are the resources for pleasure, health and comfort which our city arid its vicinity present.