New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-26
FROM FLORIDA.
Key West and the TOrtuRas-Gen. Terry's
Visit Of Inspection TO the Ports Of The
Southern Department - The Yellow
Fever mt Key Wcst-fOrt Jcnsrson-

From Our Special Coresponnen,
orr kEr WEST Fla, Aug - 1862.
NJ last letter TO Tx TRIBUNE was dated iron the
picturesque old town Of st. Augustine, twelve days
ago. Since then the Delaware has voyaged TO tie
ultima thule OF our seabosrd Slave Ssatvs, and q
little further even 10 the southern extremity Of tho-e
formidable rec and saud-bas which the coast
Of Florida the most dangerous in the world. We
have visited The Torugas, sugge-tively denouinatc
the Dry" and now, returning, make four days
pause the islaId.harbor, from which address
Tomorrow hope to bOst anchor and 70 start for
Hilton Head, again looking in at ~. Augustine and
/ terrandina by the way. Pending which prOpose
70 improve the opportunity Of a mail fof New-Yoik
via Havana, whose departure from here is simul-
ianeous With ours, Ill relating my recent e1peii.
encos.
| A voyage of Just So hours 40 Minutes brought MS
from 81. Augustine to Key West. Il was very
brisk oue cone derl' the 0isttnce-abont $50 miles
And Tie prevalence OF leadwndr during the entire
transit Here, by the way, let ne put in a word vi
rucn'ed encomuG for Capt. Faircloth lof the Cos
MOI Otan but specially detailed 10 his present
mand). A tkil!ful. watchful, conscientious sea-
man is, as lr. SparrowgIass would ray, "a Rcoo
thing let any one glance at the map Of Florida,
rejecting that more vessels are wrecked every year
upon this coast than elsewhere throughout this
planet aud they muy duly estimate his value. II 10
candy, shony shore, full Of tIeacherOus reefs and
bars and ever-chanping curreuts-a place appropr-
aiely prolific III sharks, aibgators, and wreckers
All Of which the Delaware, under Capt. taircloihs
control satisfactorily avoided; ana on the ihld
night we slept trnquilly anchored of Key Yves,
dubious as to whether i, might be prudent TO 20
ashore IN the morning; for, an hour before, we had
received a yisit from guI boat, bound northward
from New-Oflcans which bad informed US Of the
appearance Of yellow fever upon the island.
Key West looked pretty enoogh, aud very tropi-
cal with its whie houses empowered in cocoanut
trees, its big coal depot Government buildings, and
strong fort, all seen under blazing Gun, whose
fierce tea: only those familiar with ulteiior Dixie
can realize, and islanded by water clear and
green as rea OF emerald. have beheld the water
oi Lake Superior ard that which ia midsummer
ponrs over the lioTseshoo Fall Niagara but never
witnessed the full pomp Of aqueous glory until 1
came iiher. The Gull Stream, for inelspce, il 30
darby, oeeply, beautifully blae, that you might
suppose tIat glassiull Of IL would EXHIBIT as in
Tense color ~ II taken from "a dye-lub; you oh.
serve Tie divergent line between il and the can
green,' az clearly as If ruled Or cut With knit,
bpeuser might have imagined such water I.y,nv ,he
shores OF The Bower OF Bliss in the Lat csn,o of
The Second Book Of the Faery Qusene.
Steaming mp 10 tho wharf, after some IA lev With
the shore We lay there ali day, taking in coal. By
noon it appeared that W hat had heard Of yel,ov
fever had, as usual, been exaggerated; hence G.n
Terry relaxed our involuntary quarantine; defer.
ring, however, bis purposed inspection until our re-
ashore, making what discoveries we might.