The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1875-09-23

and Aposher day on the Gulf
For the Atlantic Coast line four 90.
perb parlor and saloon cars are nos BE-.
Ing constructed at Wilmington. North
Carollna. pullmAa cars are run through
from Portsmouth, OF Richmoud 10 Savan-
nah. As thc necessities Of The service may
require.
Al Jacksonville are The ST. James and
Grand National bolels, built BY northern
capital, aud accommodating one shons.
and persons. The Metropolitan viii
take 10 two hundred more. Jackson.
willie has twenty thousand people In win
ter, resident aud visiting. The hotels
charge 81 day, aud less by the month
At Green Cove Springs Is the Clarendon
hotel, one u the most attractive In the
state, taking two hundred aud dry per.
sons. This is thirly.hse miles from Jack
sonyille and twenty-five miles from ST..
Augustine. Here there il 9 hue, clear
sulphur spring A New York 6rm,
Harris & Appegate, keep the house
The Union hotel Is also ai Green Cove
Springs. Both are being enlarged, aud
also all the large hotels in Florida, A.
there was an insufieiency Of hotel accom-
mediation In Florida last year. One mile
distant Is the Magnolia hotel, which &C.
commodities three hundred people. Five
steamers pass daily up aud down the riv-
er; fare, Jacksonville TO Palatka, o.; To
Enterprise, %. At Pala'ka is the Put
nam House, close to Hart's orange grove,
the finest in the state. II will accommo-
date three hundred guests, aud Is kept by
Mr.. +. II. Orvis, Of the Equinox House
at Manchester, Vermont. At St. Angus
tine are the ST. Augustine hotel, accom-
modating FIVE hundred people, aud be
ing increased TO hold seven hundred
aud hfy; the Florida House and the
Magnolia House. AT Tallahassee 10 one
large hotel. Winter rates are uniformly
for transient guests, 81 day. There
are hundreds Of boarding houses, which
charge $i5 week, or tbereabouts' Fish
are sought in the Matanzas or Indian riv-
ers, aud Lakes Monroe, Elarney, and
George. The fish are black bass, drum,
sheepshead, devil fish, and cat fish. The
game are deer, bears, wild turkeys,
woodcock, pheasants, and all sorts OF
smaller game. A Florida winter will
cost $500 or less, lived in first class
style, for each visitor.
After talking to Mr.. Walker met Col,
Pope. lie is the general freight and pas
senger agent OF the Florida line. He ex-
planned to me what had not before
known, that the Southern Railway Sc
curity Company now comprises 800 miles
Of rail southwark from Richmond and
Weldon, terminating at Charleston aud
Augusta, and only wanting the link be-
tween the river Potomac aud Richmond
to make first class through line, with q
slight change Of gauge at Wilmington, to
the cotton fields. At Savannah seven
hundred and fifty thousand bales of cot
ton are annually handled; at Augusta
three hundred thousand bales, and al
Charleston six hundred thousand, so that
the Atlantic coast line nearly penetrates
q territory which grows aud receives
about two million bales, perhaps more.
The Florida traffic all keeps to the coast
because the temperature Of the sea quail
fes the climate and makes 1t equal
Indeed, Charleston and Savannah,
the latter particularly, are the gold
en- gates to Florida, and in either city
the northern consumptive has bslmy
equal air, without the monotoDy Of exile
Savannah is the Boston OF the south. II
has more culture, amiability, and sub
stantiability than any city within the linn
its of the lost cause. Mr.. Pope says thai
Florida receives the same general popu
lstion all the year round, and that fami
lies take their children from New YorI
and New England to the Eyerglad'
State, aud contemplate the formation o
schools and making occupation for theil
sequestered circles. There are few goot
doctors in Florida, notwithstanding th'
excess OF invalids there Mr.. Pop,
thinks that Tallahassee, the state CAPT al
will eventually become the Saratoga o
the South. Up to the present time ha
been a minor resort Mr.. Pope think
the day Is at hand when psrlor train
will start every day from New York t
jacksonville, dropping some passenger
on the Chesapeake ronie, where clam
aud oysters, perch aud sheepsbead. crab
and filters, delight the epicure as b
glides down the exquisite bay Of til
Lords OF Baltimore.
What may we not expect Of Florld
when tue most delicate people Of th
north have made il their winter home
Then, perhaps, as in the days Of th
,, plague al Florence, some Boccaccio ma
while away his exile with story tellin
such a. shall inspire Shakespeare to n
peat the pleasing inventions in liter
lure which shall make the centuriC
stand still and all the after poets pIasb |
vain against the solid shores OF his pei
formances.
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