The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-16

III W. II. d., tnO lutoingouL JSCkSOuNltIo
correspondent of the Savannah Nesos,
has collated the figures of the census of
1880, as to the nativity of the popula-
ton of Florida and embodied them in
one Of his recent letters. They present
facts Of interest. 1t appears that of the
100000 persons enumerated in Florida in
1880, l7S,4sl were natives; S2,6O1 were
from Georgia; 1882 from South Caro-
lima; l2,O2s from Alabama; s,2s7 from
North Carolina; 1929 from Virginia and
s33 from Tennessee. Now these various
figures aggregate the sum of 247,Os6.
In addition, nearly 10000 were born in
foreign lands. Deducting the total from
the whole number returned by the census,
we have $4,000 as born in the remaining
former slave States, and the entire North
and West. New York contributes 1875
Massachusetts s62, and Pennsylvania s55.
It's thus shown, continues the cores
pendent, that the bulk of those born out
side of the State have been largely drawn
from those communities Immediately ad-
joining or contiguous to Florida. 1t also
goes to prove that the population, con-
trary to generally received opinion, is
almost exclusively composed of persons
of Southern extraction. 1t is often said,
and frequently admitted, that Florida is
being rapidly developed, and that to an
unusal extent by immigrants from North
ern and Western States. Yet the figures
given by the above high authority are a
complete refutation to such opinions, and
summarily demolish all of the fine-spun
theories formed on such basis.
=" When you think of the matter there
is nothing strange in the occupation of
Florida by Southerners. 1t is a goodly
land, and they appreciate its advantages
quite as fully as any others. They are
accustomed to the climate, the produc-
tions of the soil and its cultivation, the
usages and customs of the people, and at
once accustom themselves TO the change
of locality. What is odd to others is ia
miliar to them, and they are at once at
home with their surroundings.
"There is but little consolation in the
above statistics to those who dream that
Florida will ever become in its ideas and
sentiments Southern Massachusetts, OF
will ever coincide with those of the pres.
ent dominant party in New England
There is steadily increasing influx, Of
new corners from Florida's nearest neigh
bors, and the next census will show a
considerable number of Kentuckians.-
Over all the numerous avenues leading
into this State from Alabama and Georgia,
over all the many wagon roads, there are
constantly arriving vehicles loaded with
the effects of their owners, vending their
way to some of the lower counties.
"The facts above presented, from Off
cial sources, sustain me in the opinion
! which have advanced in previous letters,
that certainly three-fourths, and perhaps
four ifths, of the new blood now being
infused into Florida courses through the
veins of Southern men and women. The
dollars come from Northern banks and
safes, but the muscles are of Southern
origin. The contrary opinion arises from
the fact that this State has become the
popular winter resort for so many thou
sands of our Northern brethren that it is
forgotten that the visitors are merely mi
gratory birds. AND not permanent resi-