New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-13
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE.
Travelling in .Georeia-Fiorida Legislature
village OF Quincy, &c.

Correspondence or nc ifluNAe
QCscY, Florida 2f.h Dec. lsf7.
Since the date Of the letter / wrote you at Sa-
yannah, / have iourneyed through what they call
the rire-gYass part Of Georgia, and really did
not suppose that any part Of the Union contained
80 unpleasant a country to travel through, IN the
way Of accommodation for man or beast. drove
oyortvo hundred miles and in all that distance
saw but three or four framed houses, and glass
windows are a luxury seldom INDUCED IN.
don't think | saw more than a half dozen houses
furnished with glass between Bryan Old c. II. and
Lowndes Co We had but one comfortable lOdg-
ing place In a weeks travel; and although had
taken the pains to get way bill OF the route from
one who had often travelled it, that the most
comfortable quarters might be secured, yet ire-
qleuily we were but ttle better of than we
would have been out Of doors. One night. si,er
having driven hard 10 reach a house 70 which
We bad been directed. and where we had been en-.
.oined to stop the owner, wealthy planter and
well prepared 10 accommodate az, refused to shell
ter us. although he was assured that the exposure
Of the previous night bad greatly afflicted the m.
valid who was IN company with me. Should you
ever pass Perry's Mills, Tatnali Co. don't stop a.,
Old SIR. Da.hers
The county is very thinly settled. Sometimes
for half dozen miles or more you would not see
cshn but when We got into Thomas County on
ferent state OF things existed. ! was gratiiied "
one thing, which was, that every farmer, however
small. had n patch of sugarcane large enough r.
Weld Sugar sufficient - meet the wants OF his
family. All are not able 90 own a mill with which
70 press the juice boiler in which 10 reduce il
20 syrup or sugar so that IN many cases these ar
toles have 10 travel round neIghborhood, one
ee. sometimes doing the work ~ many farmers
Sugar boiling, South IS not 50 neat process as
sugar.msliDg IN Vermont or Network. Pitch
mines ere TO be found in great abundance the
whole distance from Savannah 70 this place ani
if North Carolina fails b. supply the world yin
naval stores by destroying the trees there therr
are enough Of them remaining IN Georgia and
Florida to make tar and turPen'3ne Tor some ceD-
tufCs
STAYED at Tallahassee 1.-THE Capital OF Florida
several days aud looked in upon the law makers
repeatedly As n whole, they were respectable
looking company, but some were pretty hard LOOK
ing customers externally. They have the knack OF
making long speeches well as larger legisl alive
bodies No matter Of general interest was before
the body during my soOUrn in the Capital. ITALIA
hassee is a very pleasant place IN many respects,
aud one Of considerable trade, having many stores
which will vie with those you see IN any OF tie
Eastern cities. They however, keep very gen.
ersl assortment, bringing into the same apartment
silks and bacon, books and liquors NC. &c
Twas anxious to 20 down on the Peninsula, where
the weather IS much milder than here. but there Is
no method OF getting there. aud no place To stop
when one is there. Allthe places ON the st Johns
river are more than filed with inyalids from the
North turning all the hotels and boarding houses
into hospitals and in the interior ol the State the
water Is so tncturcd with what is called rotten
limestone that it il very hurtinl 10 persons whose
digestive organs are easily deranged or Affected.
Quincy is one OF the pleasantest villages IN tue
gtate-sineularly free from those causes which IN
duce lsvers in other localities There are numerous
sptngs and wells OF pure free stone water aud al
though the air is perhaps not so mild as situations
contiguous the seacoast II is bland and invgora
.ng to those whose lungs are diseased. Mr.. j. Z.
BARTLETT of New-YOrk is now here he came 10
ST Marys Ga then 70 Woodstock. Jacksonville,
Black Creek Newnansville, and other places m
Florida 10 this place. aud says that 1t is altogether
the best place for him that he has found-his lungs
free 20 inhae volumes OF the atmosphere, and The
pain which remained with him while In New
York gone. There he had 10 be quiet here he can
walk many miles aud take violent exercise OF other
kinds without Inconvenience. We have also good
hotel NJ the Carolina House, where the proprietors
Messrs Mcmillan BlzZell, SET good table give
Us clean beds aud Bleeding, and do everything they
can to make sick and well comfortable and content
ed at the reasonable charge of about twenty dol
lars per month for board, lodgings and lights
The neiehborhood abounds with quail, black aud
gray fox SQUIRRELS wild turkeys, deer and, dozen
miles OIL an angler with his hook ana Inc may
catch more fish in few hours than he can llit
Ia Florida have experienced more spitality than
In any other State ever visited and for this virtue
Quincy is not behind any village anywhere. ms
to1n has four Church edihc6s, the MethOdist IS
c0mmOdious ornament to the village. but the pres
byterian Church. erected chiefly by the munificence
OF one man, would do credit TO any village IN New.
England for its external appearance, and internal
convenionces. The nights have been cold ana
frosty lately. but the days are warm and pleasant
and the mir balmy. Should you know any invahds
seeking a mild climate, advise them TO take ship
tor Savannah, come thence by railroad to Macon
next 20 Columbus and descend the Chatahoochee
90 one Of the many good steamboats, which now
DIV on the river to Chattahoochee where they will
fnd stages or hacks 20 Quincy, about twenty miles
distant
Ia this County the planters grow the FLORIDA u
hacco which commands high price in New-fork .
the crop - not so large formerly but very prof
table 10 those who have grown tthis year IN CON
sequence of an advance IN price. Many planters
seem inclined to turn their attention to the cot'va
ton of sugar cane with the intention 70 expNt
SUGAR but at present there Is not more made Than
sut'ces Cor the demands Of the inhabitants nc
mail closes sni g. must l. Yours troly. 20 r.