The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-04-03

In former letter It was remarked
that the question as to whether the eli
mate Of our american Italyp would
have an enervating effect ona northerneE
who would make this his permanent
home, or not, was open Tor discussion.
Persons who have lived here for three Or
four years say that the perennial summer
Is not facilitating. They come before
you with an array Of
THERNoNETRIcAL STATISTICS
tell Of the fine sea breezes, and try to
prove that the hottest day in summer here
is several degrees cooler than the hottest
summer day in New England. All this
may be true, but it does not prove any
thing. Il is simply arguing against rea-
son and long accepted facts to say that a
man will have the vigor, the energy and
the mental and physical activity about
him while living in an everlastingly
warm climate that he will have while liv-
ing in the colder latitudes,
FLORIDA LIVE STOCK CONCLUDED.
The foregoing question can be very
readily settled, | think, by bringing up the
inevitable Florida cracker a man who
has soiourned here all his days, as an il
lustration. l do not remember Of ever
having seen more lethargiC, indolent in
diyidual than the native FlOridian. He
is capable Of enduring more good, sub
stantial rest than any other man in the
country, not even excepting Mr.. 10, the
poor red man. From the cradle to the
grave he is the same idle, ignorant, indit'
ierent soul. His aim in life ia simply to
live, and that is all, Sometimes / think
existence even becomes a burden 10 him,
and that he will hail with Joy the coming
OF the King Of TerroH, when no will Be
dropped from the roll militant and re-
licyed from the trouble Of breathing,
The Florida Crackers" habits Of living
are simply wrctchCd. His hut il but lit
tic superior to the wigWam Of the abO-
riginec, and his table Is supplied with the
scantiest fare. Cabbage, palmetto buds,
rancid bacon and corn bread generally
make up the bill. Sometimes he iRdulgOs
in such rarities HsGWeCt potatoes, yenisOn,
fish and an alligator steak, but this does
not happen very often. 1t costs him too
much effort to obtain these luxuries,
The largest and finest sweet potatoes |
have ever seen are grown in Florida, and
the only labor involved in raising them
Is simply the planting. They do not re-
quirc the least attention after having
been put into the ground. The natives
know this we'll enough, but most Of them
are too "tired" to profit by the knowledge.
They prefer to steal potatoes or go with.
out them, rather than work one day and
insure themselves crop that would last
them year. Resides being lazy, these
people are denscly ignorant, 1t least
ninc.tcnths Of them can neither read nor
write, and they are glad Of It. A friend
OF mine, whose word | would believe rs
soon rs would my own, told me not long
since that he met two "craCkers" within
the last year who did not know the war
was over. One Of them inquired il
Linkum was Pres-a-dant yet, and when
told that lGr. Lincoln had been assassin
ated, the ignorant wretch gazOd with
blank, idiOtic astonislmGnt and asked,
whats tha-a-t2" 1t is to be earnestly
hoped that the present influx Of Northern
people will have a civiliIing influence on
this benightetl country. II. I'd