The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-05-08


of the Mobile Register, recently made a
flying trip to Florida, entering the state
bv way of Thomasville to Tallahassee.
Much To our regret. his stay here was
very brief, but sufficiently long to enable
him /" carry away "agreeable remem-
brances of the place. An account OF
his visit is being published in the Register.
OF Tallahassee he says
She is still city of the Old south The
old time people with all their old time hospitality,
are Slll there, and though greatly cut on from
the advantages which they once enJoyeu, thcN
have not dropped even one OF their ohl-tlme
customs, From HE very moment when yoh
have been introduced to them, with proper re-
concentrations, they begin 10 plan tor your com
fort and enjoyment. lou are invited TO teas,
and Ia carriage rides in the country and to hunt
ing excursions, and The invitations SAVIOR none OF
the fashionable article oil modern times, made
under the conviction that it will he politely de-
cllned with thanks and a worthless excuse; but
they are made in dead earnest, with the strongest
Kind ni desire tor YOU to accept. Indeed, You
must accept if you wish 10 avoid the wOundng
Ut feeling; that is unless your excuse tor declln
ing can he made To stand out plainly as a valid
one In a word, ii an od-timc Southerner, still
holding To good old ways, wants to get home
once more before he dies let him make pill
9rlmagc 70 lallahaSSce-dt Il time rhfH the FG0T-
<dd LrqtSldt"Te Is MT IN ~Sston Certain il is that
We who claim 10 be an Old-tmer OF the kind
above named, teh more at home in Tallahassee,
while We kept away from the neighbOrhOod of
The State House, than we felt al any other city
since the eventfLl year of 1861. We brought
away with us m1ny agreeable remembranccS OF
efforts on the par OF old time TallnhaNeeeans Il"
make pleasant (" ourself on stay in their city.
From Tallahassee Mr.. STEELE went to
Jackson county, where he expected to find
some growers Of Cuba tobacco and was
disappointed:
But fol all We had failed in finding what We
specially hoTed 10 find, we did not regret having
visited Jackson, which, in our honest opinion, Is
The very best agricultural county in the State OF
Florida This We write not from mere impress
>iOns noted down at the time of our visit but
after having since aiken notes from almost every
part of the State Like all The counties in the
Tallahassee Country this has IA great variety
OF soil "a to Character such as the rich, low
hammock, the higher red or chocolate lime lands
and the still higher pine ridges. Each variety is
fully up TO tirst-Classo OF its kind; yielding together
great deal OF cotton, corn, oats, sugar cane up
land rice and some wheat. The last named, it
is thought can be made to do very well As yet
the county is very hinly settled though il foots
up Il population Of lear fifteen thousand. The
new railroad already referred to runs through
The centre of the cornty.
As already Unlimited, Mariana sits upon
high hill, and has, we'd say al a rough guess, a
population OF about one thousand. 1t is AN old
town, and like Tallahassee it saw nothing of the
late wal consequently 1t may be pointed out as
living relic OF the good old times ante heNum
Many OF its citizens are Of the old school, 50 to
speak, hence the place Is still famous for its So
clahility, hospitality and refinement. Just at this
time ii slight arrangement has taken shape in its
quiet old ways, on account of the new railroad
which has broken in upon its retirement, and
started everybody 10 talking about progress and
Improvement And II will not be all talk and
no cider, either, a> We are fully convinced after
due consideration OF he many natural advan-
lagos attaching 10 the place, such AS the fertile
country surrounding, the advantageous situation
on a great railroad, and the proverbial health
FITNESS OF the location.
Another of Mariannae great advantages is to
be found in her superior building materials
white stone very much like that ont of which
san Antonio, Texas, Is mainly built, completely
undcrlics the town, and nay be had with great
convenience When first taken from the quarry
il i almost as soft as chalk and being entirely
tree from grit, may be readily cut into blocks of
the desired size, W tn An ordinary cross. cut saw
precisely rs is the case with the San Antonio
stone both hardening on exposure to the at
mospherc. Several houses have already been
put mp OF this material, and near all the chin
ncys in the place are built OF IT,
This soft stone don't make good lime but there
i an abundance of hard lime stone out OF which
i made most superior quality of lime, aud
when il comes 10 brick, can state that the
Mariana clay makes the best brick we ever saw
oi course we need SAY nothing about wood ma
tciials when We say that the town is bordered
on the west by almCst bOundrss forests of long
leaf pine
Marianne is Il few miles north of Mobile, as To
lalludc, hut the northern curve of the isOtherma
lines Al This point, puts her about in the same
climate. She makes no prctensiOns to orange
culture, though We some large bearing
sweet orange trees in the place; they stood near
the south walls of buildings Fig and peach
trees were quite plentiful.
The correspondent is misinlormcd, for Mari
anna not only saw but felt something Of the
war, and that right sharply, as thus: General
Asboth, Federal commander AT Pensacola, left
that post with about one thousand men, more or
less, on an expedition of which the destination
was then unknown, out which became known
as the Marianne rad He reached the town
on the 21lh OF September, 1864, and though the
able bodied men of the community were off at
the font he encountered brave resistance His
forces were met in the outskirts of the town by
two companies of Old men and BOYS who had
organized rs home guards " and were armed
with Shot guns. A brisk engagement ensued in
which numbers wee killed and wounded on
both sides, General Asbolh being among the
severely wounded. The Federals occupied the
town and held possessp IN for twenty-four hours
The Episcopal Church and several large build
ings were burned. The invaders returned to
Pensacola by the way of Point Washington,
taking with them over seventy persons, some
Of them citizens who were not engaged in the
fight These unfortunates were sent to North
crn prisons and only twenty-ti of them sur
vived TO return to Mariana. The raiders carried
off all negroes, horses, mules and cattle from
about Mariana, and on their line OF march,
that they could capture and manage to drive
ED FLoRIDIAN.
Memorial bay In Monticello.
From the report of the Constitution
we learn fh at IN Memorial Dav tho moo.