National Republican., 1883-04-04

with great delight, a huge gar fish, with pro-
boscis q foot long, which the hotel clerk was
requested to have weighed and cooked for his
graces table. He could scarce be made to be-
lieve that his fish was worthless and when
he did comprehend this fact he no longer in
sisted on having it weighed or cooked.
The young Italian, Marquis d'Agrogna Pal
lavicini, with his English tutor, Mr.. Hartley,
was also soiourning at the Brock house, En-
terprise. The boy marquis is carrying his
right hand in a sling, having wounded him
self by the accidental discharge of his gun
while on q recent hunt Mr.. Hartley, the
tutor, and for the time guardian of the mar
quis, is said to be greatly chagrned over the
painful mishap to his charge, The marquis
is handsome, unassuming young gentleman,
| perhaps 1S years of age, quite unspoiled by
his rank and position, and when about che
hotel is almost constantly reading, quito OBJ
livious of all his surroundings.
Ex-Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, with his
| family, arrived at Enterprise on Friday last
ON tour of the southern winter resorts. The
one time candidate for the vice presidency is
suffering with erysipelas in one of his feet,
from which he is seriously lame.
| To show you what southern Florida can do,
while in Washington you are yet lingering in
the lap of winter, will aggravato your dis
comforts by telling you that ON our return to
| Enterprise from New Smyrna last week we
| found them Illustrating in ripe mulberries,
new potatoes, tomatoes, string beans, and
Strawberries, whilo in the gardens the corn
stalks were of full growth and had tasseled
out. We have fond yearning for Enterprise,
and i still maintain that a good, average,
healthy, two-hundred pound man has no show
at table with these invalids.
| At st. Augustine, one hundred and fifty
miles north of Enterprise, we feel decided
change in the temperature, and readily note
the difference in vegetation, yet it is com
fortably warm here bother on land and water,
although Floridians all say this is an ex-
tremely backward and cool spring.
st. Augustine, the oldest city in the United
| States by forty years, has mad its founding
by the Spaniards in the year 1865; the build
ing Of tho walls and gates about the city
| its seawall; the cathedral, and the grand old
fortress castle San Marco-all constructed of
the curious coquina stone composed of small
petrihed shells; its quaint aud extremely
narrow streets and quainter buildings, with
their overhanging balconies that almost meet
in midstreet-so frequently written up that
i shall not attempt to give detailed account
of them. My purpose has been, in compliance
with the requests of numerous friends to
describe the fishing and hunting in Florida,
tell something of its climate and resources,
and also to give my impressions as to some of
the different health resorts of the state and
| will therefore not touch upon the rich and
interesting theme which the antiquities of
the ancient City" have furnished TO so
many pens. At every turn hero you meet
with something to remind you that the city
was built and inhabited for time by a
mighty and warlke people, who excelled in
the arts and sciences, and who transplanted
to a country similar to their own in climate
and productions their habits, laws, and re-
ligion, and attempted to perpetuate them
here, but who in submission to the incxorable
fate of bloody war, were obliged to leave to
others these walls and buildings, which stand
as monuments to their daring enterprise and
perseverance.
st. Augustine, delightfully."- situated on the
coast at the mouth Of the San Sebastian river,
is claimed by its inhabitants to be as healthy
a city as there is in the United States, and l
cannot see why the claim is not we'll founded.
The sea wall, built of tho peculiar coquina
stone protects the entire front of the city
from exposure Of shore surface to the sun at
low tide, by which means pure salt water
remains constantly at the wall, and there is
nothing in the appearance of the dry land in
any direction to indicate liability to malaria
even in summer. And certainly as a winter
resort the place is well nigh perfect and it is
fast being improved by fine cottages built by
wealthy northerners, who spend large share
of the year here in the quiet old Spanish city
by the seaside. B.