Daily Republican., 1878-12-31
LETTER FROM FLORIDA.
Travel Notes VI Incidents and
Character, Iby . Young DeIaws

Character, Iby = Young DeIaws
| rean.
The following letter has been hand
ed 70 us by lady Of this city, from hrl
son, who is on trip to Florida, Will
the privilege of using it, if it Seemed
proper. We give it place with plea
sure in " columns:
JACKSONVILLE, FLA,
l-th mo. 26tb, 1875, 2 p. NJ.
Dear :-Just at this nome n,
the sun family shows himself Tn,
morning has been very grey, and fo'
most OF the time the rain has been fall
ing heavily. Never in fact, saw Jack
sonville looking 80 unattractive as oil
our landing, but hope to morrow it will
make a more attractive exhibition o
itself. From Savannah to this point
came by the inside steamer, leaving
Savannah siA
{, clock, and touching the wharf her.
about one hour go. During all of yes
terday the wind was from the north
vest, and quite cold, so that We could
not comfortably stand en- the unenclosed
decks. This morning, too, we had IL
keep within the cabins, only veItirin
out when the vessel stuck fast In tn.
mud Of the thoronghfare.
The pictured piece of card board con
tanning the advertisement OF this route
shows palm trees and other attractive
iratures, but the reality WE found was
a great eXpanse Of meadow, similar tc
'hos. b.tw-rn Abs .corn and Atlant,
City, and pine forests in the distance
Three or four points w-r. stopped at,
Bruins wick about 5 o'clock yesterday
afternoon ana St. Mary's and Fernan.
dina at midnight. These last missed
being sound asleep though most OF the
PASSENGERS continued up filling the tinr
with singing and instrumental music
One OF our travellers, met on the
railroad between Augusta and Savan
nah ard was surprised to come across
him again wh-. got on the CHy o.
Bridgetop. He had been some Yeas
back medical student in the Augusta
college aud seemed like righ, clever
fellow. We did not talk politics and %
course did not quarrel He told IN.
thai when Lookout mountain was dis
posed Of after the war, he bought siS
diflcnl tracts, so called, somewhere ovrl
its surface, each tract containing l6I
acres and costing each rs cents. liz
said the land was good.
Another passenger was an English
man, very grntlenan'y sort OF man,
who was about visiting his two sons who
had taken up 500 acres OF land aud Were
planting it in fruit. He said he had left
England for good and would remaiu here
with his sons. A 'hird passenger was a
gent from New York, who the English
man aforesaid told me had been more or
less intoxicated for three lays, he too
having lrft New York in the sam. 'v.s
sci. This tipsy passenger is nephew
al the celebrated lawyer David Dudley
Field. and found him AL individual OF
considerable cheek. He got the cap
tain's cap Yesterday. The cap is orna
mrut-d with gilt band and has the
word captain on it in gilt letters, and
when h- stopped at Brunswick and the
hands were pitching on tirewood, he
ordered them how to proceed and
amused them very much. He quit the
boat with several others at Fernandina.
A fourth and fifth passenger were col
urrd man and a whoi-sal- shoe dealer
from Atlanta. The saoe dealer, a very
heavy man, is a very heavy eater aud
seems TO suffer some from his appetite.
Tie X stopping at the Windsor, a new
house, and wants me to 20 with him to
St. Augustine, but | prefer to travel
alone and pick up and drop as | can.
There are several fine stores either
st finished or finishing, but | really
cannot see how so many are to b. sup
ported. They tell me that the visitors
here so far are less III number than last
season and the hotels seem to be on the
Increase. am very sorry DR.. Gun
forts premises ar shut up, or rather
that DR.. &. with his clean, well furnish
I'd and not expensive house and table
are not somewhere about the place
This house is good, the present number
of boardrrs is probably Is; cost per day
So.
Will move probably to morrow to q
more moderate priced house. TIE pa
pcrs tell us that you are having lots o
snow, ram and wlnt.r.
Thy aifrctionate son, b. +. l..