The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-09-23

with the cash, will receive prompt attention.
for your orange trees Will be hard at work
making you fortune
Lake Jessup is a beautiful sheet of wa
ter about twelve miles in length, and from
three to five in width-shaped something
like a horn: and cannot. therefore, be
called q crescent It's outlet is the St.
Johns river, and is distant from Jackson
vile by water about 200 hundred miles.
Good sized steamboats, can run up the St.
Johns river and into the lake at all sea-
sons, and during the greater part of the
year there are from five to ten feet of wa
Ter on the bar This is certainly the head
Of permanent navigation on the st. Johns,
though boats can 90 some distance further
up the river, but there is no country to
sustain continued navigation, the lands
being generally low, fat and damp. and
can therefore never be settled. There. is
no permanent line of steamboats, running
to lake Jessup yet; bnt an effort is now
being made to organize a company for
that purpose. and we nope soon to have
boats coming here regularly. We get our
freight now by means of oar and sail boats
from Mellonville on Lake Monroe, distant
about twenty miles, TO which point reg
ular weekly mail boat runs from Jackson
Vile.
The time is now at hand when capital
invested in boats to run as far up the ST.
Jonn's as this point will pay handsome
dividend, and it will soon be very profit
able business.
We are anticipating large immigra-
ton to Southeast Florida this fall and
winter, both from tho Southern and
Northern States Persons from the North
are settling lower down the St. Johns,
that is nearer to Palatka. Dorn the river
here is up the country, as its course is
nearly North.
BY this time imagine I can hear you
ask, is your country all sunshine, and has
it no shade? l reply it has its dark side.
No picture is perfect without it. The
pencil of an Apelcs could never have de-
ceived the fowls Of the air with its cluster
of grapes had there been no intermingling
of dark colors. Some pictures, you know,
require q deeper shading than others.
Some will allow buta gentle srroke Of the
brush.
The greatest trouble we have to con-
tend with is the want of good society and
money, both of which, we think, q few
mouths will remedy. There are twelve
or fifteen families in our immediate neigh
borhcod, but we are all poor. Some OF US
were at one time rich others in good cir
cumstanreS, but like thousands OF our IN.
fortunate c9untrymen lost all we pos
sessed by the unhappy result of the late
war. We arc here, however, for the pnr-
pose of trying to build our fortunes anew,
and l feel thankful that ! have found
country so we'll suited for our undertaking
without going to Brazil or Honduras.
Let me say then, DO aot be deceived if
YOU como hero without any moncy-for
If you do, you may expect to travel
rough road for a year or two. Provisions
and labor are scarce mad high. The old
settlers have never paid any attention to
the production OF anything for market,
except IL little cotton, sngar and syrup.
We, consequently, arc compelled to send
to Jacksonville Or Savannah for our sup
plies, unless we are able to pay the extra
charges for such articles TO our country
merchants Another year we hope to be
independent on this score, as we expect
to have open land cnou;5h to raise our
own provisions.
New comers here may expect TO 60 in
the woods and start from the stump, as
there are 10 improved places for SALE
Perhaps few might be so fortunate as
to purchase an unceilcd log cabin aud
"IIi.tee" patch The cost of clearing
land ranges from s!2 to $50 per acre,
owing entirely to tie manner in which it
is done. Persons who labor by the day
charge 81 per day; by the month or year,
from SO to SIG per month, and the en-
plover furnishes provisions. | would ad-
viso all persons who design coming here
te live. to bring one or two good hands
with them. Our little colony pursued
this course and we consequently get our
work done much cheaper than if VIC had
depended on the labor of the country.
we are free here from 81 trouble with
which you are cursed. to-wit: dense
population of cmanciratci slaves. There
are but twelve in IN area OF several hun
drcd miles, and they are well disposed
and such as may be trusted.
The greatest pests with which wo havo
to contend arc gnats, feas, bed bugs, ticks
and mosquitoes They arc not more nu-
merous, however. than in many portions
of Georgia and in most new countries.
Many families in this country never use q
MOSQUITO bar But if you would take
anv pleasure in q serenade from these last
named gentlemen, I would advise you to
spend a day or nj ght on Indian river in
the spring, summer or fall of tho year.
There Won may listen to the euphonious
sonnd of their tromhoncs at the rate of
forty thousand minute. The truth is,
au up country man cannot live there.
His very lifeblood will be sucked out.
Without this insullerable plague the In