Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-10

wounded, and so after one is shot he will be left on the bank while the men go on and continue their hunt. After sufficient length of time the boat returns for the slaughtered saurians and the men remove the hide and teeth. The hide is salted and packed away in the boat. while the teeth are saved to be sold to some jeweler for few cents Apiece, and finally retailed to the progessional tourist at about dollar apiece. A hide brings from fifty cents to a dollar according to the length.'
 ''What is considered a good business in taken day, the men are well satisfied. A boat is usually out two or three weeks. Sometimes little something is also made by extracting oil from the gator
 ''Is not the alligator fast becoming exter- minateds" 3'They are not nearly as numer- ous as they used to be. You will find the small ones very thick in some places, but sizable ones are rather scarce"
 I strolled along the wharves where the'Ala- bama and Tombigby river steamboats were moored, taking peep at the interior of the Mobile ice factory. Despite the amount of natural ice consumed in the city, was told that this factory manufactures forty tons day. Water is obtained.from twelve artesian wells, each S5 feet deep. The water passes through the boiler, thus becoming condensed, and is then conveyed into the freezing vats. It takes forty-four hours to freeze by the am monia process. l inspected some huge blocks of ice in which there were specimens of that splendid southern fish, the red snapper, and the pompino, frozen bodily and ready for haust the attractions of the town in which I was interested, and was glad when the time arrived for my departure.
 I took train in Mobile intending to come to this city direct; but becoming interested in the lumber country tributary to Pensacola, I stopped off one night at small town en route. The place which the inhabitants dig nifed by the name of hotel was an amusing ly primitive affair. I slept on bed, the counterpane of which was made of political flags used in the campaign of Hancock and English, and adorned with the names and ikenesses of those ill-starred statesmen. That evening went out to a colored church in the country, and heard another typical negro sermon. I shall not attempt to give any idea of the nonsense contained in ii, be- yond saying that the preacher assured his auditors that Eff dis ain't so, may my right eye cleave to the roof of my mouthP' To crown my ridiculous experience in this town, hen flew into the open window of my room the next morning and laid egg on another vacant bed right before my face and eyes!
 I find Pensacola to be wide-awake town, with new gas works, new street cars, 8 new court house, a custom house being built, and a new hotel equal to any in Florida. The shipment of lumber is the great indus try, though some iron, coal, cotton and grain are exported via Pensacola The citizens claim to have as high as 200 square-rigged vessels in the harbor loading at time. Steamers are only rarely seen in the harbor. The exportation of fish by rail is also enor- nous, amounting to an average of 100 bar rels day of the famous red snapper and other scarcely less delicious fish during the winter.
 During my stay here I have been most in- terested in trip down to the United States naval station. party of us went over yesterday, going in small steam launch. A ride of an hour across the justly celebrated bay of Pensacola landed us at the govern mental piers, and we were left to spend the time as we chose in rambling about the en- closure of sixty-fve acres, with it's numerous fine repairing shops, magazines and various other improvements. Drifting into one of the main buildings, I fell into conversation with one of the officers, and elicited some in formation from him. Said he: Pensacola is one of the 'closed' naval stations. There are not fifty men all told in charge of the buildings now, and they are simply retained here to keep things from running to waste There is no other station south of Norfolk Va. In case of 8 rupture with Spain ol Panama this would naturally become tho depot of supplies and repairs for our fleet and it is admirably located to that end. Ii the Tennessee telegraphed that she was com ing in to secure six months provisions fol 400 men, we would order the supplies iron New Orleans Mobile by telegraph, and in a few hours they would be on ou1 wharves. We have built two wooden war ships, the Pensacola and the Seminole; and we are in position to build an ironclad with 8 very little preparation"
 'Have you dry dock?' fYonder is the basin of the dock, magnifcently walled with granite, and down there by the pier are two of the sections, the others being immersed al ready. It remains but to put the dock to- gether, work which would involve an out lay of s100, ,000 or so. Then we would have dock in which the largest ironclad in the world might be foated.''
 q see quite village lying about the sta tion. What do the citizens engage in for 8 living?" s'There are about 1 400 people re- sident here, most of them having been em- ployed in the government service in the days when Pensacola station was full of activity scarcely know how they live now. Some fish, few are pilots, and some manage to get odd jobs of work up at the city"
 I found one lone fisherman of dus y skin trying his skill in the piscatorial line at the mouth of bloody bayou" "What are you fishing for?'' I enquired
 tEFer 8 1vin', sah, ;" was the reply. and the fisherman baited another hook with piece of dough, mixed with cotton batten to give
 ''But for what kind of fish, T mean:" "Buf falo fish, sah. ;"
 ssAny lucka" ''Not much. Yo' see de moons too young. De moon rules every. thing with life, sah."
 ttDo you believe that!' 'tI knows it, sah. ,
 EMILE.