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I rSI'.SIPPI CTTY
Next we approach that great invisible town, destined to eclipse our own Crescent City, the only apparent rerains of which are the almost J	endless	pier	and tottering wharf. But we are told, for we have never
trusted our precious todies on that pier, which the enterprise and genius of the Mississippi speculators erected, to receive the vast produce which was so confidently expected to be landed h<§re for reshipment to Europe—we h~ve never essayed the long journey along that pier, but we understand that when you have once reached the land, there are many pleasant little houses nestled in the live oaks where you may p^ss a few weeks very delightfully.
It is worth a visit to this place to enjoy the fine hospitality and denial intercourse of Dr. Tegarden vho received a few families '•’ith him for^ the summer--and to discuss political reforms with that most progresive of all radicals, Mr. McCaughan.
BILOXI
Leaving Mississippi City, so called, we soon perceive the white villas of Biloxi in the distance, speckling the green horizon and tempting us into the arms of the Bay, which about two hundred years ago received the frail boats of the first discoverer of the great South VJest, and the pioneer in the Gulf of Mexico.
’•.'ith some difficulty we pass over the bar, are landed, and with ^uch surprise behold a considerable village, or town, has sprung up here in a few years.
Biloxi is much the largest of any of the sea-side resorts. Its regular populrtion must be five or six hundred, and its visiting population considerably more than double that number.
Biloxi has many advantages. The town is right on the sea; there is no long white beach to traverse before you can reach the sea; and the soil is good, producing vegetables, and a fine growth of trees.
Here you can always get a fine supply of fish and oysters, and an abundance of fruit and all other vegetables.
There are a half dozen excellent houses in Biloxi. \?e cannot enumerate them all. Fadame Pradat has a beautiful place called the "Oaks" where a great many families are staying, and where all the pleasures of the sea-side may be enjoyed in the greatest abundance.
Mrs. Nixon has a large and. com odious house with an open green plat bel'ore-the house ana delightful grounds for children and grown people to promenade. As a house for families wno seetc quiet pleasures, EiKX and'like a plenty of room, excellent society and good accommodations, we cannot too highly recommend Mps^Nixon. The "Magnolia" is an excellent house and affords fine accommodations antf is much resorted so.
There are other very pleasant resorts here, together with many delightful cottages to rent, all of which seem to render Biloxi the most frequented of all the sec-side places.