The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-08-01

we sought in vain some level locality. Rome
with her seven hills, came to our mind Talla
hassee is tiding the current to fuller nrosper;tv
than she has experienced in twenty years, one
may judge from what their eyes see and their
ears hear. Real estate in and aronpd tho citv 10
rapidly advancing. Old houses here and there
are being repaired; new ones, in late styles are
being enterprised. Among the latter is grand
hotel, not yet leased or named, and one well mn
IN modern arrangements and appointments. II
IS OF its kind "a thing of beauty" Only one
criticism like our Waverly and Mitchell. il is
too near the Jail. But this obstacle is soon TO
to be removed. The observance of one preccnt
would render such institutions as jails useless
"All things that We would that men should do
TO you, do ye even so them"
There are five churches in this city with pas
tors Some of the churches excel anything we
have; some are common. There are quite n
number of elegant brick stores, and they seem
well filled. There are fruits and flowers literally
all over the city. Such speaks we'll for the taste
and enterprise of the citizens But we felt like
laughing when some one told us that another
man had some LeConte pears that would not bear
And we ventured to guess that they will AS GER
tanly bear rs the sun shines, when old enough
And what shall we sav OF the peOple there
Ii we should talk il rs they made us feel and inn
pressed MS, some ineredubus ones would accuse
us OF having some sinister motive Pnlitenrss
aud cIvIlIy do not express il all From the Chief
the Oldtc UOWn I'd the humbltrSt artI
san, there was uniform kindness. We met mer-
chants, bankers, farmers and planters, and our
hostess as well, and ingenious kindness was uni
form. Where there was 20 much il would seem
invidiOus 10 discriminate, but we venture to in
stance MIR. q. w. s. and his book-keeper The
former took us in tow and told OF persons pa-
ces, enterprises, business and pleasure in frank
way that made us feel nj once at home The lat
ter in one respect at least, isl man to admire -
lie has clear head, an educated mind and is so
frank that you feel like you know precisely what
he thinks of men and things, when You have
heard him talk of them. We went 10 see The
clly, and we saw it early and late went 10
church, to market, State house houses of cduca-
ton, and the lonely, lonely resting place of their
dead They do not die fast there; or else they
do not bury them in their cemetery. Indeed
they have only two or three doctors there
though they have as many inhabitants as our
city. They have four papers, all spry and spicy.
And lawyers, lawyers, lawyers But it is the
Capital, and is some fit1y-fve years old, and the
learned professions naturally gravitatc To the
head quarters OF literature and especially the law
factories.
HOmeward bound. we took in Moccasin GAP
what name for place of no snakes or even "A
snake story-and thence tn Mcssrs Browns
barrassed us with his kindness and politencss
Once man said he wanted To live Il hundred
years, just to talk about some delicate attentions
he received; so We feel about Mr. b. and SO of
all the clever people we met Till the sun
grows cold gratitude will come welIing up.
THoMAsvII.LE