The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-01-09


Weso organised under the general incorporation act the
Line Canal and Transportation Company" with
caIAtatf 100000. Active operations commenced in
Noycb last by the construction of suitable dedge,
whchw carried from ST. Augustine the South end of Ma
taDxs er where commenced operations and has already
cut caEs 80 feet wide and averaging over Deep
the ne Of township S. R. 10 E. the mouth of Malta
CoJapa GEEK distance of four miles, cut through
the arSN borders of Malta Compa creek for distance of
three an half miles due south. and distance from that
point of mile in easery direction makes the
sion Creek which flows south into Halifax river
and or the connection which gives steamboat navigation
the lower end Of the lagoon to the Haulove where cut of
less aa mile gives the desired entrance into Indian river
The inheritance of this great improvement has long been
krowd and well be oveated The Trustees of the
Internal Improvement Fund approaching this withdrew the
and belonging the Fund along the route the benefit of
the entese If the evidences of earnestness and vgor
maifst by the company having the work in charge
oAn Of the future will be long before that entire tro
ca scn of State will be supplied with transportation,
and atge population gladden. and render productive the
splendid Glands adjoining various Even
in is aed condition. the number of thriving settlements
aosg M the value of the various locations And
thus aher great enterprise has been naugurated illus
ave q the great progress and development made the last
two wears
RAILROADS
Nohg certainty increased pros
pe ara development of State than the increase her rail
roaf As have before remarked Florida has every
cause congratulaon in having miles of railroad
strueosn her limits in the last years. than her entire
former tory West Florida that has for many years
been off from direct communication with the remaining
portion f the State has practically rail connection with
oursvstm of roads, and Pensacola the Queen of all Gulf
por nwe the interior western counties, will in few
weeks have direct communication with Atlantic ports
Theap y with which the Pensacola and Atlantic Road has
been bu connected with its superior and equip
ments speaks well for the company well for the efficient
Superintendent The time is far distant when through
trains freight and passenger travel from the golden gate of
the Pacific will find their exit by this line through the ports
of Jacksonville and Fernanna. The Florida Southern
also ccpleted and has in operation, hundred miles of
road AMI informed has made arrangements for further
and greatly increased extension The road chartered from Live
Oak to sowands Bluff has been finished the latter point
and is vigorously pushing forward in the direction of South
Florida The roads from Waycross Jacksonville and from
FenSn jacksonville have been completed Jacksonville
and ST augustine will in short time have road complet
cd hus be furnished with direct rail connection The
road ~ Waldo has been pushed Silver Spring and Oca
la letting there with the Tropical which has been built
Is in operation far south Wildwood Sumter
ty, wtha branch graded and crossted from Wildwood
Leesug The South Florida road has been built from Or
lando Kssmmee City, thus giving the Kissmmee valley
drec Communication with the ST. Johns The ST. Johns and
Halifax Paatka and Indian River Green Cove and Meroe
and the Jacksonville Tampa and Key West roads, all have
portions graded and the former eight miles of iron laid
While these improvements unparalleled in the history of
the State it is Of deep regret that neither of the
several tines leading Tampa and further SOUTH have yet
desirable section The Trustees of the Internal
Improvement Fund.- approaching the great advantages of that
highly vored section and with desire
it racd facilities, reserved lands for different lines
ming tampa and further SOUTH through the counties
of Herpando Polk, Hlsborough and Manaee. From nfor
nation eceved however, but believe that the time
and when these facilities long need will be secured
!. EDUCATION
Ther subject of Importance than popular educa
tion which is being fully recognized by all enlightened
tries IN Republican form of Government where public
questions settled by the popular WILL that will must be
educated the Government will later prove fail
Tree Government and ignorant suffrage in har
Universal suffrage demands universal education its
protector, for while the ballot potent weapon when
wee by ignorance there is dangerous to free
GoNern,nent The Government which enjoy to-day
be tfansmed only to the rising generation which must be
educated perpeuate it, ignorance with her landmarks
coraoeon and vice-wl it to lapse into dcspotsm
kdeeaton commends itself to also in economical
Acl demonstrates that intelligent labor worth
eas fifty per cent than iterate while the terates
frnsh fifty times their proportion of paupers and many times
than their proper proportion of criminals Ignorance
the fruitful mother of public burthens but contributes little
theplc wealth veal Hence every commonwealth should
encourage the education Of her youth the best safeguard
for The future Florida particularly interested this ques
the reveals the fact that 1880,
2ssls iterate voters in the State The large increase in
school facilities and in the attendance of pupils there
fore Subjects of congratulaon The number of schools in
1872 yas $50, with attendance of 2967s pupils In 1880
there 3l schools with 393l5 pupils and for the scho
year beginning October 1882, have 1926 schools
vita I'll ,s45 pupils.
THIS principal of our common school has increased
ost satisfactory Indeed the increase in the
Lass years has been unprecedented in the history of the
a of $246. in 1881. have