New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-03-20

FLORIDA.
LETTER FROM soIoN ROBINSON.

sons who read OF the loneliness of this climate have
visited the country expecting to ind everything else that
tends to life comfortable 1t is needless that
Iucb persons have been OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES dis
gusted private families OF the Yankee persuasion
ran live here wen, cheapy, comfortably and home
like in their native land Consequently, recommend
families who desire enjoy Winter residence in Florida
20 build buy, hire house, aud make "a home" OF
their own.
Jacksonville is improving rapidly. Judge from ap-
pearances that houses been built since left
here last Spring including large hotel not yet hnls.ea
they can be completed without any solicitation Oh .s
part Of tho proprietor II y TO he called Ie ~ The bSesf
located north OF the public square, uPoh. the . st
ground in town, fronting south and east VIII
pazzas and promenade deck above the four high stories
and roof. which overlookS the 81 JONI % iro % d
interior, and will when the wllderhes Is csareu anu
Florida This house has been erected by Massachusetts
capital, and mostly by Do%n Last 1eShnnSs, MIL s al
able home for visitors sick OF WELL as has SANITARY
neriv Of worcester Mass. When finished the hotel viii
accommodate $50 guests with ample room lor comfort
Another new hotel aud repairs OF Old ones a large,
new boarding house besides several additional private
houses offer much greater accommodations than last
offered space at fun rates. ranging from 81 20 SIS week
In private houses and $40 to $50 a week in hotels
A good many families continually arriving VINO
would gladly provide for themselves in their own hired
has S SSen accustomed 70 "HA''
MToWn experience upon several Journeys between
mere and NeWYork warrant giving advice those
who intend to Florida this Winter You can make
potomac or else eight hours the Chesapeake, from
Anemessie to Norfolk greatly prefer the latter From
bia to Augusta via Wilmington, Florence kings
Vile TO Augusta aud Savannah From there here the
road is good, and you take sleepingcar at p. M
arriving here at u a. m You may also take steamers
four days week from Savannah So you may come
from Florence Charleston and take steamers there TO
this place, and above, twice week through,tcket
$40 10 $50 via Charleston,
savannah, FernaOdna-good, safe ships by either
NV experience in shipping freight, is also worth
something 10 others. ! started two lots the Same
day. That most wanted; by steam VIA rSrns sh'
and she here and discharged three days before the
freight by arrived. Another lot OF freight
by Schooner has been three aOat and for aught
i know may be three weeks more. The most sure
and 1 foI rGh9 Te baEe s The Cheapest Way
however. by sail and vessels leaving every week
benefit OF families desiring 10 eDlgrate TO Florida
they desire TO travel cheapy they can safely make the
60 fathers, and Of the Oldest or the present
generation Indeed is very hard road TO travel"
by sai from New.York to Jacksonville The trip has
been often made III five or SIX days and once the present
In consequence of the immense demand lumber by
those building here the past and present year the great
mills have all been active aud lumber vessels nave some
times found difficult 10 tfTeights They are onering
20 carry lumber 2 thousand Inc price ranges az
the mills from e. TO SIS thousand. and the great bulk OF
suitable lumber for house be delivered upon the
building lot for less than $40 thousand-shnges LOT 70
lath for s. brick $3.50 that wooden house suitable Tor
NJ s erect i f moderate sum For instance the one
that now living in cost $1,000, finished not very
plastered. and painted neatly. IL cottage 2gx2s
divided INTO four rooms -FOUR closets anu
two trunk rooms unfinished under the slope OF the
roof 1t has q chimney with two fre-places, and rooms
ten feet between the joints. On the north side the
roof projects piazza 6x2S feet On the south side
there is kitchen and 12x1s with piazza bxS
between kitchen and dinng-rOOm doors. Except the
front the siding put rough. and covered with com
course there is no cellar things only needed
night once IN 80 years The house stands IKE
nearly others upon posts about three feet hgh with
circulation OF air underneath There are sixteen
windows MIN ,h onGss au The tim eayeronrhs and
conductors extra The well cost about $40, and lot
of the improvements will be less than 200 and the
quarteracre lot may Oe rated any where from sO TO
IDg.houses generally may he rated the figures
good many respectable families occupy comfortable
Thus yGT have what may cost 20 ees Ho 70 Vs ns
that cheapy they be built the rents do not cor
respond with cost. Such one as ! have described
less desirable are let now $40 month; and one Of
my neighbors pays $50 month Tor cottage Win two
equally high.
food and grocery supplies may cost ite more tah 10
New-YOrk, simply because grOcers ask what they can
can St large Supplies iTota Se%Yofk at low rates Of
freght-25 oents for barrel OF flour Beef cheaper
Ter; indeed they are excellent oysters not Poultry
is like everything NATIVES there is great room for i'm
prOvement; and unti improved, the fowls and Rebels
are much alike both are unpalatable to Yankee
Feedng animals to make them more palatable for
man. well richer human food, Is not In fashion IN
asanst Florida beef" There is no reason why cattle
should be Stalled here, and make good beef Us
that winch supplies the consumption OF NewYOrk and
other Northern cities where such is sold here would
60 the usagemakers. None OF your city butchers
would allow the very best of 1t to DO seen upon their
stalls Yet 1t is not unpalatable nor unwholesome food
II IN looks and taste more like venison than IL is ike
stalled beef 1t does need butter lard TO cook IT, not
having fat enough OF its own
Pork is like the beef II would never answer To depend
upon OF native pork cook native beef 1t not
Fat enough to grease Itself As for mutton cannot say
IL is almost seen In market That which have
private tables, both in color and fatness and
good taste. resemble rather lean veuisOn. And
why mott Both aniinals I'd, tasting any cu
VeniSOn turkeys, BEARS birds, squirrels, other
game abound in the extensive forests OF this state but
they seldom seen ~ market Inc reason Is obvious
Under the ancient regime OF hog and homny there was
market for Under the new order OF things and
influx Of game there hunters, at least none
who make ~ business Of furnishing game, they do at
Detroit Chicago, Milwaukee st. Paul. and many other
Gowns OF West, well sending IL 70 Hew-York IN
vast quantities. There is game room, good market fine
bunting grounds and lovely weather here for hundred
effort has been made to supply this town, al
ways crowded with visitors with OF good meats
that we'hear complaints Oh scarcity and quality Both
could, should, aud viii be remeded as well
=: s,i other p,o complaints about the comforts
lovely climate this be reached by four days
travel from New York it is idle 70 suppose that it will
able and willing 70 he comfortable and such people
will command all the artificial comforts OF home 10 follow
them 70 region where can sit as doing now, in
SOON without fire where we have not seen a single day
of 1862 that was not enjoyable out doors, except too
warm, and frost only one night.
We have had two showers By night, but only one by
~ t%ur q, T a TO- mat p,G t not hnGer gan a
not believe there is other spot America that equals
at Eow-York. often greater than Az the stormy,
Winter. s.R
VIRGINIA.
1pROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
LYRCHBURG, Va, March 16.-Nine years ago