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THE LAND OF FLOWERS.
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An Interesting Letter from the Hon. Jos.
E. Brown.
From Jacksonville Up tlie St. John's River —
A Few Days at Palatka ami Mellonville —
Stumbling in Upon a Colony of Georgians
—Sailing Down the Flowery Banks of In
dian River—The Luxuriance of Orange and
Sugar Cane Culture .
Editors Constitution :—As I have had a
great many inquiries since my return from
Florida about the country and its productions,
prospects, Ac., I beg space in your valuable
paper to make a general reply, which will, I
trust, be received in lieu of an individual re
ply to ettfih inquirer.
In twentj'-four hours after leaving Atlanta,
we arrived in Jacksonville, the principal city
of Florida, very handsomely located upon the
St. John's river, which is a thrifty, enterpris
ing little city, showing quite an activity in
business, and a good deal of general improve
ment. Its people are very hospitable and
kind, and its hotel accommcrtlations very good
and very ample. This is the general meeting
point of visitors to Florida, and I think the
city has a very interesting future.
After two or three days in Jacksonville,
our party passed up the St. John’s river,
which is a beautiful chain of small lakes a
great portion of the way, and a fine body of
water up to Enterprise and Mellonville, which
Ke on different sides of Lake Monro.
The river is navigated by quite a number
of excellent boats, making the trip from Jack
sonville to-Mellonville, or Enterprise, a very
agreeable one. At various points along the
banks of the river are seen beautiful orange
groves, giving to the whole a very pleasing
and picturesque appearance. In the river
are found & great many ducks, cranes and
other fowls, and upon the banks is frequently
seen the alligator, which, taken together, give
sportsmen, who carry their guns, a great deal
of amusement during their passage.
We passed from Jacksonville to Palatka
on the beautiful fast boat, Gen. Hampton.—
The Captain and all the officers were very
polite and accommodating, and make the pas
sage very agreeable to all who patronize
them.
At Palatka we stopped and passed part of
an afternoon, where we met Col. DeVal, the
son-in-law of the late Dr. Moses Waddell, of
this State, an old time gentleman, who, to
gether with his excellent wife, are living very
quietly and comfortably, making themselves
very agreeable to all their visitors. They
are especially interesting to Georgians.
Palatka is a handsome little city, contain
ing a number of orange groves and gardens,
and some of the river fronts are very beauti
ful. Near that city is the celebrated Hart’s
Grove.
Leaving Palatka, we passed up the river to
Mellonville upon the David Clark, belonging
to the Brock line. This line is particularly
accommodating, and its boats very comfort
able indeed. No line upon the river is more
popular. They are doing a large business,
and well merit the patronage of the public.
At Mellonville we stayed a few days with
Maj.. M. R. Marks, formerly of Merriwetker
county, Georgia, who keeps the Orange
Hcxise, near Mellonville, where his guests are
made very comfortable, and receive every at
tention that they could desire. During our
stay we visited Judge Hayden, of Atlanta,
who has a beuntiful place, and an excellent
young grove. Here we found a neighborhood
of very intelligent, worthy people, among oth
ers, Gen. Finnegan, Col. Scott, of Kentucky,
who spends his winters there, Major Whitner,
Dr. Spence, Mr. Wiley, formerly of Savannah,
to say nothing of a number of other very in
telligent gentlemen. Among other Georgians
there, we had the great pleasure of shaking
the hand of our old friend, Cousin John
Thrasher, so well known in Atlanta, who is
spending part of his winters in Florida.
Society here is excellent, and the orange
culture is being pressed forward vety vigor
ouslj*, and will doubtless be made profitable.
There is probably no part of Florida where a
person seeking good society, would find a
more pleasant home.
Leaving Mellonville. we ascended the river
to Lake Harney, on the Lollie Boy, where we
found both Captain and crew very obliging
and kind. Landing early in the morning, we
took stage twenty-four miles to Land Point,
on Indian river, where we spent most of our
time during our stay in Florida. This is
much the most pleasant part of Florida which
I have seen, the only difficulty being the want
of easy access for travelers.
They very much need a narrow-gauge rail
road from Enterprise, on Lake Monro—the
highest point to which the larger boats requir
ing deep water cau run—to Lind Point, on
Indian- river, about forty miles. The country
is very favorable for the construction of a
railroad, there being very little grading and
an abundance of pine all along the line for
cross-ties, making the construction of a road
a very clieap one. A three-foot gauge road
with a twenty-five or thirty pound rail, could
he built there for five or six thousand dollars
a mile, which would do all the business ne
cessary between Indian river and the deep
water of the St. John’s, and would, in a few
years, be made an excellent paying stock.—
If this were done, and a short canal cut, less
than a mile in length—connecting the north
end of Indian river with Musquito Lagoon—
which could be done for a few thousand dol
lars, so that boats loaded with the production
from along the river, intended for Northern
markets, could pass out through Musquito
Lagoon to the Atlantic, and the narrow-gauge
road was built to the St. John’s for the ben
efit of inland travel and freight, Indian river
would be a sort of earthly paradise in the
winter, and its banks, from one end to the
ether, would soon be dotted with the homes
•Fa thrifty, prosperous and happy people.
Five or six years ago, I am told, there was
mot a dozen families npon the river, from one
end to the other. Now the settlements are
very considerable and are constantly increas
ing. Probably no part of the country is
building up with greater rapidity, taking into
account the great difficulty in reaching it.
When I say difficulty in reaching it, I mean
that it is more diflionlt than some of the oth
•r parts of the State. A few years ago it
would not have been thought difficult to reach
Indian river even with its present facilities
lor accommodating travelers, but now the
idea of half a day, or day’s staging is deter
ring to travelers, and where that is necessary,
they at once speak of it as difficult.
The river is a beautiful sheet of soft water,
said to be about 195 miles long, separated
from the Atlantic Ocean by a peninsula, rang
ing from about a hundred yards at the nar
rowest point, to five or six miles at the
broodest point, in width, being a strip of land
running the whole length between the river
and the Atlantic, except two or three inlets
from the Atlantic, throngh which the salt wa
ter is passed into-the river. These inlets lie
nearest the lower or Southern end of the
river.
The river itself is probably from a mile and
a half to six or seven miles in width. It is
almost all the way very shallow next to the
bank, and grows deeper as you approach the
middle or thread of the river.
The settlers are mostlj T located along the
banks of the river, and almost every family
has a little sail boat. These small boats are
used as pleasure carriages, as well as for the
transportation of commodities from one set
tlement to another, and the travel upon them
on so fine a sheet of water is very agreeable.
The river abounds in immense quantities
of fish. No one has any difficulty in taking
just as many of them as he needs, indeed
the number is astonishing. Then there are
vast numbers of ducks, coots, and other wa
ter fowls upon the river, and in the little lakes
and inlets near it, affording as fine amuse
ment for the sportsman as anyone can ask.
Then there are vast numbers of cranes, peli
cans, eagles, and fishing hawks which are seen
at various points upon the river. Upon the
whole, it is hard to imagine a more beautiful
sheet of water with more interesting points
about it. The river has no current only as it
is affected by the blowing of the wind, which
makes it some times appear to be running in
one or the other direction, being a body of
salt water and the Atlantic being so near, we
were all the while in a pleasant, salt, sea
breeze, making it very healthy along upon
the banks of the river. When yon get back,
however, a mile or two from the river, there
would be occasional chills and fever until
3*oll get out into the piney woods where the
poor land is, and there again it would be
generally healthy.
In the hammocks near the river arc large
numbers of deer and bear, and an occasional
panther, affording fine sport for the huntsman,
while birds of various kinds, including part
ridges, are in great abundance, and squirrels
are ver}' numerous.
Many of the banks are ver}* high, say from
ten to twenty feet above the water, and there
runs back from the tops of these banks, in
man}* places, a splendid rich black hammock
land, covered with heavy timber and shrub
bery tjgit is almost impenetrable. These
lands when cleared and put into sugar cane
produce enormous crops. Some of the citi
zens told us there that there had been as
much as from two to four hundred dollars an
acre realized by the sale of the syrup made
from a single crop. There being no frost to
kill the cane after it is cut, the rattoon springs
up again, and it makes another crop the suc
ceeding 3 T ear without being again planted,
and it continues thus fora number of succes
sive } ears to rattoon, and produces, with very
little cultivation, abundant crops of cane
without the expense and trouble of planting
again. Between the rich black hammocks
and the piney woods, is a sort of second ham
mock, being a little higher than the other,
which is underlain with coquina stone, being
a combination of sand and shell. These
rocks answer for most building purposes, and
when burnt or dissolved make a fine fertilizer.
This second class hammock is probably the
finest orange land in Florida, and most of the
citizens are planting young groves there which
look very flourishing. Some indeed have
planted groves in the lower black hammock,
but it is believed it is not so well adapted to
the orange.
Along the line of the river we also find the
citron, the lemon, the lime, the guava, the
banana, and other tropical fruits growing
very luxuriantly and beautifully. While we
were there in December and January we saw
the ripe citron (of commerce) hanging upon
the trees, weighing from three to four pounds,
others in the green stage, and the tender blos
soms upon the boughs of the same shrub.
The oranges of Indian river are probabl}*
superior to any that comes to the market for
size and sweetness. W r e were struck with
this fact in Jacksonville when we went out
to buy some oranges to send home to our
friends, and found the occupant of every shop
we entered representing his oranges as Indian
river oranges, though the} 7 might have been
grown in the suburbs of Jacksonville. The
orange culture can here be made ver}' profit
able, on account of the fact that it is very
nearly below the frost line, and the soil and
the climate are peculiarly adapted to it.
We saw a number of fine orange groves
along the banks of the river. The most cel
ebrated is what is known ns the Dummitt
grove, at the head of the river, and near Mus
quito Lagoon, which was planted by a broth
er-in-law of the late Gen. Hardee. The trees
are now large and in full bearing, and the
grove is said to be very profitable.
Another grove of peculiar beauty is the
grove owned by Col. Spratt, formerly of Ala
bama. The Colonel is an old time gentle
man after the Virginia order, a man of fine
sense and intelligence, and of very high tpned
and honorable bearing. Being broken up by
the war, and having lost his wife, he went to
Indian river, seven or eight 3’ears ago, pur
chased a piece of land on the river, and has,
by his own labor—commencing when he was
over sixty years of age—cleared off the ground
and has planted some eight or nine hundred
trees. The earliest planting are now in a
fine state of bearing, and were loaded when
we were there with luscious fruit. He has
left the cabbage palmetto trees and some
others of larger growth on the ground, and
had left a strip of timber between his grove
and the river. It is, therefore, surrounded by
timber on every side, which keeps off the cool
winds when there are any, and protects the
grove. The beauty of the green leaf of the
tree, commingled with the yellow fruit, twin
ing among the cabbage trees, makes a ver3*
picturesque and beautiful scenery. Upon the
whole, it is probably the most beautiful grove
of its size in Florida, and Col. Spratt is enti
tled to great credit for the indomitable energy
with which he has planted and cultivated it.
Mrs. Dickson, near his place, also has a
very fine grove, and our friend, C. Iv. Mad
dox, of this city, has a handsome young grove
in the same neighborhood.
We also met with aver} T kind reception
from the intelligent and hospitable people
along the river, among whom I mention Col.
Titus, Mr. Williard, Col. Spratt, Mr. Harvey,
Mr. Cleveland, Maj. Magruder, and Captain
Sharpe. The two latter are land agents, the
latter at Titusville, and the other near City
Point, P. 0., who would be able to give reli
able information in reference to the lands
along the river.
The lands are probably held a little higher
at present than their market value, but that
matter will soon regulate itself on the princi
ple of supply and demand.
The steamer Pioneer commenced running
regular trips on Indian river while we were
there. There are some obstructions about
sixty or seventy miles below Land Point which
make it a little troublesome to pass the whole
length of the river at present; but a small
amount expended there in removing the oys
ter beds will render the river navigable its
entire length for small steamers of eighty or
a hundred tons burden.
Having set forth in this imperfect and hasty
manner the advantages of the Indian river
country, I should be unfaithful if I were not
to mention some of the disadvantages. It is
said that in summer the mosquitoes, and
sometimes, though rarely, the sand flies are
troublesome; and the hot season is a little
too long for comfort, while fever and ague,
when you get back into the rich lands some
distance from the river, would render it un
pleasant. Immediately along the banks of
the river there is probably no difficulty about
health. Upon the whole, it is very easy to
make a living in the Indian river country
with but little labor, and while the orange
groves will not turn oat to their owners to be
the large fortunes that many calculate upon,
a grove properly managed is a handsome
piece of property, and will afford a good sup
port.
But the chief excellence of this section af
ter all is its mild, genial winter climate. I
have written very hastily, and find I have al
ready made this communication too long, I
will, therefore, not add anything more at
present. Joseph E. Brown.
Sympathy.
Wipe gently off that crystal drop
That dims the widow's eye,
Speak kindly to the fatherless,
And still the orphan’s cry;
Extend to all thy friendship true,
Thy sympathy and love,
And thou wilt have a blessing from
The (*ne who rules above.
Bring sunshine to the darkened path,
Upraise the drooping head,
And to the wretched suff’rer's couch
Bring back the hopes long fled;
Assist and comfort every one.
By counsel, hand and heart, ,
Be happy in the happiness
That you to them impart.
There’s none so poor in nature’s gifts.
But what something can give
To banish want and misery
From the haunts in which they live;
It may not be in shape of arms,
Of raiment, food and gold ;
But sympathy we can’t refuse,
For ’tis a gift all hold.
Jake and Silas on the Political Situation.
Jake—“ Hello, Silas ! howdy do ? How’s
Riah an’ de child’en ? Habn’t seed yer fur
a long time. Hearn j'iner had all moved
away.”
Silas—“ Jake, ole feller, I’s glad ter see
yer. Riah an’ de little uns am pritty piert.
llow’s Mclind}* ?”
Jake—“ Melindy hab been kinder sick, but
she’s so aster be ’bout now. Silas, hab 3*e
hearn de white folks talk much ’bout de ’lee*
tions wery lately ? I tell you I hab bin ’sid
rin dis matter, an, by golly, I’s gittin scar’d,
I is. We better try ter git on de right side
ob de fence. Dere’s nuffin like bein on de
strong side. When de Diraocrats come in,
what kin de Publicans do den ? Don’t }*er
see dey’ll hab tings in dere own bans; an,
sides dis, what hab de Publican party done
for us ? Dey sa) r dat de} r fit fur us ; but de
fact am, dc} r fit more fur demselves. Drat
it, didn’t us niggers hab ter fight, too ? Ef it
hadn’t bin fur de votes de}* got from us how
in de debble could dey hab beat tothers in de
lection ? Dey hab ceived dis chile a long
time. I hab never seed de mule an de forty
acre farm dey tended ter gib us ; and den ver
hab hearn I spect about de Bank bustio, an
how dey got so much from de coloreofolks
all ober de oountry.”
Silas—“ B3’ gosh, dat’s so !”
Jake—“By goll} r , I wouldn’t trus em fur
as I could fling my ole Mine mule by de tail.
Dis nigger liab had his ears op’n, an his eyes,
too. From what I hab hearn, de Publicans
am a gittin demselves in a fix. I know dis
much, dat dere hab bin a good eal fonn out
in de last free or four months ; an I*s a tinkin
dat dere is a gwinc ter be a chance. One
ting comes to my mine mighty strong, an tis
dis, when I’s in trouble or want to borry
money ter pay ousc rent I don't git helped
bj r gwine ter de Publicans ; dey'd see me ter
de debble fust. I goes ter my ole marster or
his young chaps. Dese am de plain facts,
an dere ain’t a good nigger in de State but
what’ll say I’s tellin de troof.”
Silas—“You* s giving it ter em bout right.”
Jake—“ When de lection day comes I hab
seed dat de nigger stand roun de polls like a
gang ob sheep, an five of six white fellers jist
lead em long like dey didn’t hab a grain ob
sense. Dey look at de tickets an grin like
as how dey’d tell what’s on em; but dere
aint a man in fifty dat kin read a bit. Dey
jist blievc what de white men tell em—same
as gospel. Dey don’t have a bit ob pinion
demselves.”
Silas—“ I’s glad ter hear 3*er talk. De
pints }*er make bout dis woting business am
good. We niggers say we hab rights, we’s
free an kin do like we please ; and 3’it we vote
jist like de white fellers say. I hab knowed
some niggers ter wote fur men dafcHisteal an
rob, an dey knowed it; an all kase de3 r was
on the Radical ticket. We may tink as we
please bout de white folks, but dey’s de big
dogs in dis country ; an dey kin manage tings
when dey set dere heads ter it.”
Jake —“ Dat’s de way I look at it.”
Silas—“De Radicals try ter make us nig
gers blieve dat when de Dimocrats git in of
fice dey’ll rob us ob our rights an put us back
inter slaber3* agin ; but dey don’t pull de wool
ober dis darkey’s e3*es. Dey know when dey
say so dat de Dimocrats nebber kin do it, an
won’t tempt it. When de nex lection comes
I’s gwine ter wote fur de bes men, I don’t
care who dey is—Dimocrats or Radicals. I’s
free, I kin do like I want ter, an de udder
niggers needn’t try ter scare me nuther ; ef
dey do, dey’ll git sick ob it when der tide
turns totber way. I’s gwine ter do jist like I
saj* de next time, Jake, and here’s my han
on it.”
Jake—-“ Here’s mine, Silas. Jist let em
try ter fright’n dis chile ; I’ll show era what
I’ll do. By golly, I’s a free man, I is!”
“Do } r ou like novels ?” asked Miss Fitz
gerald of her backwoods lover. “ I can’t say,”
he replied; “ I never any; but I tell you
what—you just bet I I’m dead on possum.”
A Connecticut patriot offers to tote Rhode
Island to the Centennial and pnt her on exhi
bition, if seme one of our wealthy men will j
pa} r for the wheel-barrow.
HUMOROUS.
Let the Man Out.
The late Rev. Dr. Wightman, one night
sitting later than usual, sunk in the profund
ities of a great folio tome, imagined he heard
a sound in the kitchen inconsistent with the
quietude and security of a mouse, and so, tak
ing his candle, he proceeded to investigate
the cause. His foot being heard in the lob
by, the housekeeper began with all earnest
ness to cover the fire, as if preparing for bed.
“Ye’re up late to-night, Mary.” “I’m jist
rakin’ the fire sir, and gaun to bed.” “That’s
right, Mary ; I like timeous hours.” On his
way back to the study, he passed the coal
closet, and turning the key, took it with him.
Next morning, at an early hour, there was a
rap at his bed-room door, and a request for
the key - , to put a fire on. “Ye’re too soon
up, Mary ; go back to your bed yet.” Half
an hour later there was another knock, and a
similar request, in order to prepare for break
fast. “ I don’t want breakfast so soon, Ma
ry; go back to your bed.” Another half
hour, and another knock, with an entreaty
for the ke}% as it was washing day. This
was enough. He arose and handed out the
key, saying: “Go and let the man out.”
Mary’s sweetheart had been imprisoned all
night in the coal closet, as the preacher
shrewdly suspected, where, Pyramis and
Thisbelike, they had breathed their love
through the key-hole.
Paddy to the Front Again.
An Irishman had sold his farm, and moved
all his personal property to one adjoining
which he had purchased.
lie claimed that stable manure was per
sonal property and not real estate, and com
menced moving the same. A law-suit was
the consequence, and the court decided
against him. His final remarks to the Judge,
after the jury had found a verdict against
him, were as follows :
“ Mr. Judge, a horse and cow are personal
property ?”
“ Yes,” answered the Judge.
“Mr. Judge, corn, oats, hay, etc., are per
sonal property ?”
“Yes,” replied the Judge.
“Then,” said Pat, “how in the devil can
personal property eat personal property and
produce real estate ?”
I Wish I was a June Bug I
She was a colored lady and attending a
revival of religion, and had worked herself
up to the extreme pitch of going to the good
place in a moment, or sooner if possible. As
thei** feelings increased she likewise did the
same and exclaimed:
“ I wish I was a june bug !”
A brother of sable hue standing near by
inquired :
“What do you want to be a june bug for?”
“That I might fly to my Jesus.”
“You fool nigger, woodpecker ketch you
'fore you half way dar.”
jyF’A mother was tolling some lad}" callers
the other day about her intention to celebrate
an anniversary of some event, and her plug
ugly of a boy came into the room just then
and asked : “Maw, what is an anniversary?”
“I’ll tell you sometime,” she replied. “I
know,” he wickedly replied ; “you are going
to pick up the shovel and chase pa down into
the cellar again !” After the ladies had de
parted the mother took the boy up-stairs and
removed his false impressions.
IdP’The following story is told in Wash
ington of the late Senator Saulsbury, of Del
aware. The Senator had the reputation
during the late years of his Senatorial term
of imbibing very freely, and it was told of
him that he was accustomed to have two
cocktails carried to his room in the morning
before he rose, and when asked by a friend
why he bad two cocktails, he replied that
after taking one he felt like another man and
thought it would be mean not to treat that
other man.
Congregationalist gives this hint
to church choirs : “ At the last Sabbath ser
vice which we had the pleasure of attending
as listeners, the fine quartette choir sang an
impressive opening piece. It was this : Solo
—’Hyah thar fayar fra M’siah ; aw bla ow aw
ow aw miah iniquioah.’ Chorus—‘Cah me
naw way a,’ etc. We mention the fact, as
some other church quartette may like to pur
chase the music and peform the same. The
effect on the worshipper is peculiar.”
boys of Detroit seem to be going
down hill in their morals of late. Sunday,
one of the legion observed an old citizen
yawning and gaping on the street corner, and
said to him: “Better not open your mouth
too wide.” “Why?” was the surprised que
ry. “There’s a law agin opening a saloon
on Sunday,” continued the sinful child, as
he slid for the middle of the street.
idF* 4 * How like its father it is !” said the
nurse, on the occasion of the christening of
a baby whose father was more than seventy
years of age, and who had married a young
wife. “Very like,” said a satirical lady;
“ bald, and not a tooth in its head.”
GPA thoughtful boy, upon whose shoul
ders his mother was expressing her resent
ment with both slippers, felt too proud to
cry, and kept up his courage bj repeating to
himself: “Two souls that beat as one.”
GF’A sick boj', dreadfully sick from chew
ing tobacco, lay on a store box. Another
boy sympathized with and cheered him by
saying: “ Grin and bear it, Bill—we’ve all
got to come to it sometime. You’ll get over
it by and by.”
Are you a Christian ?” asked a min
ister of a forlorn looking man at an inquiry
meeting, who had taken a front seat. ‘No/
he answered sadly, ‘l’m a guano agent/ It
was a hopeless case.
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Ladies’ Hats and Bonnets, Artificial Flowers, Ribbon, r'
The Largest stock of Boots and Sh oe *
THAT HAS EVER BEEN BROUGHT TO JEFFERSON!
CHEAPER TlHiyyiyr EVER!
LARGE STOCK OF OVERSHOES, Umbrellas, „
SADDLES, BRIDLES, COLLAR
FACTORY JANES, Cassimeres, Cotton l* rD '
Osnaburgs, Checks, Shirting, Bleaching,
TICKINGS, BLANKETS, &c.
LADIES’ and GENTS’ SHAWLS,
Linseys, Flannels, &c.
Crockery and Glass-Ware!
A SELECT STOCK of LAMPS AND CHIMNEY
PAINTED BUCKETS , CEDAR BUCKETS, WELL BUCKETS , <s•<*-
LARGE STOCK OT HARDWARE, Table Cutlery, Pocket Cutlery,
H ats and Caps,
FULL LINE OF NOTIONS,
Drugs and Patent Medicines, Glass, Putty,
Spice, Pepper, Soda, Salts, Bine Stone, Coperas, &c
KEROSENE OIL!
CPOCFPIFQ COFFEE. TEAS, MOLASSES, SYRUPS, LAB?* fVftl
CHEESE, FLOUR, BACON,
ALL TOILET ARTICLES, Perfumery ,
HAIR OIL, TOILET SOAPS, Ac.
GFTn fact almost everything except artificial teeth, tombstones and playing
October 16, 1875. GF’Call and see us when you come 1°