The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-11-28

sleeps here; Madam Le Vert, near Augusta.
Georgia Where are the other Literary We.
men Of the Southy' Most OF them have passed
away, and live only in the books OF poems they
wrote. ~ Hs tsN s8S1s ~ sNe
Ny visit to Mariana was brief bat pleasant !;
saw the town AND Its surroundings, but the mos,
pleasant recollections are the Long Moss Spring
and the charming granddaughter of the lady
who made it famous. Left on the morning of
the 9th, coming on the construction train to the
river, where waited until next day for a boat
And Just here desire to return thanks to the
railroad officials, Capt. T. r. Bates and conduc-
tor Bobert B. Alexander, for courtesies extended
me. In The language Of Rip Van Winkle, may
they I" live long and prosper" On the 10th
took a steamboat bound for this town, near the
sea- Touched al Bristol the capital IF Liberty
county, and at Blountstown the new capital Of
Calhoun county. When / saw these places,
felt much like one of our American humnrists
when he saw Pollard, Alabama With sigh,
he exclaimed: Well, I'd rather live in cain
than TO live in Pollard T" The scenery along the
Apalachicels is monotonous the numerous ali
gators attracting more attention perhaps than
anything else Indeed they are more numerous
here than on the st. Johns where they have
been thinned out by repeated attacks from The
northern incGders
Our steamboat reached the wharf here about
P. NJ, and soon after had found home, for
the time in the old and dilapidated town of
Apalachicola. 1t looks as if General Sherman
and his army had passed this way in their march
to the sea Formerly there were quite num-
Der OF brick houses, but not more than halt so
many now, some being leveled with the ground,
while others remain only in broken and dis
manted walls few were burned, but most
of them fell through decay and the fury of The
winds. Many of the wooden buildings look
sadly weather beaten. and need the touch of the
painters brush. Before the days of railroads
Apalachicola was an important shipping point
for cotton, having a number of congresses and
some merchants of enterprise and capital but
the railroads changed or diverted this trade TO
Savannah and other points. The compresscs
were removed, and the merchants followed so
that the town was literally deserted. The pop
ulation left had no profitable employment for
time, and hence the decline of the town Since
the war, however, the lumber and fish trade
ho' sprung up, SiNiuS tIlHIrytHcHt 10 many
and the place seem TO be reviving and the sigus
OF new life are quite visible. The population
now is about 2000 one third being colored
There are three white churches - Catholic,
Methodist and Episcoptl; and two co!orcd
churches-Metlolist and Baptist. There are
about dozen stores, one spapcr, and other
places of business; two large saw-nills employ.
ing many laborers, not only about the mills bu.
in transferring lumber to to the ships in the bay
which convey it North and to Europe
Saturday night there was 4 sort Of utilization
here over the news of the Democratic victories,
not only in Florida. but in a number of other
States, especially New York and Massachu 5etts
A procession paraded the streets with band Of
music, transparencies with notices aud other in
scriptions, and most amusing of all, "A coffin Cor
the dead body OF the Republican pariy Ben.
Butler, Democratic Governor of Massachusetts!
Well, let the good work go on. The recon-
struction of the North has begun, AMI there is
hope for the country yet. The reelection of Mr.
Davidson to Congress seems to do the people
good all-over down here There is life in the
old land yet, and the triupmh of the Democratic
party in 1884 is less doubtful than before.
JV D.