Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-06

GUS enterprises that are constantly beinl
projected in this section. One follows an
other with startling rapidity, and the people
are becoming so hsbituated to the constant
repetition Of wonders that it will require
something Of extraordinary novelty to rouse
them out of their usual calmness.
The last conception relates to the build
ing Of narrow gauge railroad from point
nearly opposite this city to the nearest por-
tion of the Atlantic beach, a distance of
about thirteen miles. The land has been
secured, and will be regularly laid out in
streets and lots, while a large hotel, with
all the modern Improvements, will be one
of the main attractions. A magnificent
beach affords the finest and safest surf
bathing, and offers a smooth and level road
for driving, almost to the city of st. Angus
tine. And the beauty of 1t is that in forty
five minutes after leaving Jacksonville you
| can be wrestling with the ocean billoWs and
can be back to supper refreshed and invig-
grated.
The scheme has the countenance and sup
port OF several of our most solid citizens,
who have attested their confidence in its
success by subscription, already reaching
toward the sum of one hundred
thousand dollars. By this time next year
| Jacksonville will have q seaside resort at
| her very doors that will meet the wants of
her citizens, and be in keeping with her
/ reputation.
| A short distance back of the site of the
| future resort Is an abundant growth Of natu-
raj timber. preliminary survey has been
already made, and it is stated that the grad
ing will be shortly commenced. From the
character and business qualifications of the
| gentlemen at the head or the enterprise, no
/ doubt is entertained OF the complete success s
! Of the undertaking.
Supplementary to the above, the an
| nouncement is made that the Jacksonville
anu 81 augustine Railroad also proposes to
| construct branch from a point on their
line to Dago, small neighborhood on the
coast, which boasts superior advantages for
| neaIth, bathing, driving. Cheap and comfor-
| table cottages could be framed here, and
transported at reasonable prices to either
| OF the points mentioned, and the facilities
| afforded will be such that many families of
moderate means will be enabled TO pass
| portion of each summer upon the coast.
without mourning any great additional ex-
pense.
While these resorts will probably never
| rival the famous watering places of New
| port and Long Branch, they will furnish re-
treats that will attract thousands from the
| interior OF the State, who will leave the
|
| eXpanse OF their cotton fields, to inhale the
freshness OF the ocean breeZes, and to min
| gle In social pleasures with their friends OF
the city.
Only five miles of the st. Augustine and
jackson Ville Railroad remain to be graded.
This gap will soon be completed, and the
! iron and portion of the rolling stock will
shortly be forwarded from New York. The
work Of track-laying will be commenced in
a fortnight. The piling for the long wharf
across the river has been driven, and all in
! d1cations point to the completion of this
new outlet by the 1st of December, in am
| pie time for the winter travel. Our grow
| ing city can then boast of being the termI-
nal point OF four different lines OF railroad,
and can assume all the airs and importance
of railroad centre,
The influences of these great arteries of
trade is seen In the rapid growth and devel-
opment OF this city. In every direction
there are cheering signs of improvement,
Retail stores are enlarging their accommo-
dations and proposing to do a wholesale
business, new dwelling houses are rising In
all directions of larger size and finer finish
| than their predecessors, and our principal
business streets have lost the air of dullpess
and quiet that formerly characterized them,
especially during the summer season. The
increase of population upon the river and
| on the lines OF the railroads has been such
within the past few years that the home de-
msnd for supplies of all descriptions has
| grown TO very large proportions, and our
merchants are very well satisfied with their
| present and future prospects.
Business men are looking forward with
great nope and confidence to the improve
ment to the entrance Of our river to be ef
| fected by the jetttes now being constructed
bv the government. When stately yes.
sells, drawing twenty feet of water, can moor
at our WharVes, another immense impetus
will be given to the progress of our city.
For hundreds of milessthe banks of the st.
Johns are lined with dense forests of pine
| and cypress, and this port must become a
most important point for the distribution OF
| timber.
| Then, too, the early completion of the
road from Chattshoochee to Pensacola, will
bring US within day of New Orleans With
safe harber, of sufficient depth, and of
! easy access, what is to prevent jacksonville
from becoming one of the Atlantic outlets
| for the rich and vast products of the Missls
sippi vslley2 Capital will soon discover the
facilities and advantages to be found here.
and Its magical powers can soon establish
cotton commission houses, erect cotton
presses, and even induce wheat from the
fertile fields of California. This NAV be
| looking long way forward, but all these
things are legitimately within the possibili-
ties OF our ambitious and prosperous COM
munitY.
The progress Of the road Just mentioned
will not be retarded by the misfortune that
has overtaken our sister city of Pensacola
AS the road had been finished to Milton, a
large portion Of the material had been con
centrated at that town, and can be utilized
without entailing any delay. 1t is stated
that the work will not be retarded In the
least, but Will be pushed with all the vigor
which have thus far marked It's manage
ment.
The dispatch conveying the information
that Lemuel W. Livingston, the negro aDnli-
cant for admission to West Point. who was
recently appointed by Colonel Bisbee, had
failed to pass the examination, fell like
wet blanket upon the members of his race
In the city. They had apparently formed
some very exaggerated opinions as to his
| capacity and abilities, and were prepared to
accept MIN as a representative man and
future leader. Their disappointment is
intense, and theylwill attribute his failure to
race prejudice. No amount of reassuring
will avail to change their views on this sue-
ject. For myself, think Livingston is to
be congratulated upon his escape. Had he
been successful, his four years stay in the
institution would have been one long and
ceaseless punishment, and that too from
Northern cadets, whose aversion to such
association is more bitter by far than exists
among the lads from the South.
RumOr is now busy as to what Col. Bisbee
will do In the emergency. 1t is not known
whether he will make an appointment out
right or submit the matter to another COM
petitive examination. One thing Is sure.
and that is he will do whatever will best
serve his personal interests.
1t is somewhat strange that the matter
should have been deemed OF sufficient i'm
portance by the Associated Press as to call,
In their opinion, for some illusions as to the
causes Of Livingston's failure. Fourteen
white boys were rejected at the same time,
but they, being OF the unfashionable color,
attracted little attention. The officer in
charge was pressed to give the causes of
Livingston's rejection, and the movements
OF the unfortunate aspirant were flashed all
over the country. 1t is stated that he left
Tor New York on an evening train, where he
Will doubtless meet many sympathizers and
perhaps be induced to deliver lecture, as
that seems now to be the field for everybody
who have occupied for moment public at
| tention.
The candidates for Congress have started
| out upon the campaign. Gen. Finley opens
to-day at Orlando, in Orange county. They
are compelled to make long and fatiguing
canvass, as there are only two districts 10
the State, which is much larger than New
York, which has thirty-four. Each sue
ceeding year, however, makes the task
lighter, as the railroads penetrate the in
| terror
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