Morning journal and courier., 1880-03-26
Price Four Cen is.

l blackberry bushes, loaded with green fruit,
 recalled many familiar spot thousand miles | away, and faces we desired so much to see 1 again. The beautiful and spacious river, with | its winding shores and low green banks, it's l little sklffs and occasional steamers compelled | us often to stop and look back In full view. some four or five miles away, was the city tha | we had just left; over our heads was a snil-
 ing sky, and sun glowing with a heat that was at S0o in the shade, made agreeable by steady breeze from over the water. Upon the 1 top of the bank large tall pines with tops crowned with green tasselled leaves, huge live oaks, and water oaks, some 1 with great clustered stems. one l with spread of over ninety feet. and all dropped and festooned with gray moss, adorn- ed and shaded the private carriage way that runs between beautiful villas and the top of the rivers bank. Occasionally we rested on the seats which thoughtful hands had placed between the trunks of the noble trees, and moro deliberately studied our novel and fasci- hating surroundings. Near the dwellings
 which we passed were groves of orange trees with their waxen polished leaves and opening and exquisitely sweet flowers, from one of which alone 2500 oranges had been taken. We saw in the river no alligators, but we learned
 that they were only just awakening from their
 usual three months winters sleep. Like other
 reptiles during this long season of torpor they :,
 take no food-thus. with them, does sleep anticipate and closely resemble death.
 Beneath friendly and hosp1table roof we.
 siaksd our thirst with cool and delicious
 orangeade-a drink differing from lemonade
 in that 1t is made of the juice of the sour orange instead oi the lemon. We were re-
 galed at lunch with oranges such as only
 Florida can produce, and with strawberries of
 large size and delicious flavor taken from vines
 which yield fruit continuously from January
 to June. From an orange orchard near by we were informed that 70 900 oranges have been
 taken this season. Before the crop was gather
 ar dad with cold fr,; to have been marvelously beautiful But cannot now take time to describe all that saw of interest to your readers and will only add, that after few hours of very great enjoy ment we steamed back to the city, where dur ing the evening, in the saloon of the Texas, your correspondent was honored by cali from Gov. Brown of Georgia, his old friend and Yale Law School classmate some mem bers of his family, and his brother Col Brown. The Governor, not only by his eminent success in political life, but more especially by the judicial laurels he has won and worn (hayiue filled with distinguished ability the office of Chief Justice of the State of Georgia has re- hected honor upon the institution in which in part he received his education for tte bar. Ool Brown also studied law at Yale and both gentlemen will be pleasantly remembered by all those who then enjoyed their acquaintance and friendship. Having introduced the Govern or to our honored and venerable Ex- Chief Justice Seymour, to whom by reputation he witness the play and nlingling of the intellectual light of thsse two justly distinguished men. Asa young man your correspondent saw in Gov Brown the promise which has been fulfilled in the golden maturity of later years.
 After another night spent at the wharf on ship board, in the early morning following we continued our voyage down and out of the riy- CT into the broad Atlantic.
 The deep solitude of the sky -bound sea was relieved by occasionaliwhite winged but lonely o-a1n lna~ distant and invisible lands. Dark graceful smoke piumes, at first but dimly seen, re- vealed the presence of approaching steamers, and furnished welcome food for speculation. A German barque, looking as if it had wres- tied with the elements, raised it's flag to ipdi- cate that it desired to communicate with us. Having sighted the land after a voyage across the Atlantic of more than three thousand miles, its captain wished to ascertain as accu- rately as possible his whereabouts and to test the correctness of his reckoning. Upon 8 largeblack board each vessel marked and ex- hibited to the other first the latitude and then the longitude of the place where they met, as indicated by their respective logs or records, from which it appeared that the barque was fifty miles removed from the po- stion it's officers supposed it occupied. In the neighborhood of Jupiter lighthouse, well down on the Florida coast, we met 8 schooner, one of whose officers inquired of us if we were going to Key West. It had no name in sight and was in ballast, and as it sailed, after parting company with US, first towards the east, and soon, without any apparent good reason, changed it's course to the south, our passenger captain, having watched her closely, quickly made up his mind as to her character and business. He explained how easily but fraudulently few thousand dollars could be made. Depend upon it." said the captain, ''she's bank shark. She halls from Ksy West no doubt, and very likely has 8 Key West license. She may have English papers, or both English and American papers Nassau wreckers can't come here-our wreck CTS would drive them of. So at the Bahamas with their trade. They pay sometimes to pilot 8 vessel, and pilot her ashore-then they come in for salvage. See" said he s'she has no cargo aboard, and her boat is on her davits ready to be launched. You can't keep any account of goods taken from a wreck and running into Jupiter inlet it ia an easy matter to secure the plunder. Depend ont them fellows are wide awake and watching for busi- ness. Their vessel shows no name, and can't be reported"
 An old resident of Nassau informed me that formerly there were persons doing business in Nassau who were well known to be in colIu- sion with certain ship owners who desired to sell their vessel property and cargoes to the insurance companies. When one of these men visited New York, very soon afterwards New York vessels would be wrecked in the Ba- hama waters. The masters of vessels pur- posely wrecked their vessels, an arrangement having been previously made with the wreck srs, and a certain division of the salvage mon ey agreed upon. It Is believed and hoped that such cases do not often now occur. But must bid you, for the present, Adieu.
 O.I