THROUGH NORTH FLORIDA.


country-once the water-wa
the Gulf-port of Appalachic<
is very fine, and the atm
clear. This is attributed to
of the Gulf, and is always
"Gulf-breezes."
 From Maranna, a long
us to Pensacola. The ride
but not really monotonous,


6y of an immense traffic-to
ola. The scenery thereabout
osphere noticeably soft and
the fact that it is due north
rs tempered by the famous


ride by stage-coach brought
was tedious and fatiguing,
for the scenery was very at-


tractive, except in occasional tracts. Vernon, Euchee
Anna, and Milton, passed en route, are all three county-
seats, and are small, drowsy-looking towns, old-fashioned,
and in all respects typical specimens of the better class
of representative Southern- county-seats. A square, an
old-fashioned tavern, a court-house, and a few shops, may
be said to compose each and all of them.
 On every side, in all that region, including Gadsden
and adjoining counties, were seen large old plantations,
and roomy, old, Southern-style planters' residences, giving
evidence of a long-settled region, that had suddenly been
arrested in its growth, and was in a state of suspended
animation. Yet it is a good country, and has, in fact, a
steady growth, though it is of a kind not strikingly per-
ceptible, being in crops and products, instead of houses,
factories, and such town improvements, that are more
likely to catch the attention.
 The great, crying need of all that portion of the State
is a railroad, and the series of causes that have pre-
vented the completion of the Jacksonville, Pensacola and
Mobile Railroad are disgraceful to all concerned. All
the parties-the moneyed cliques, railroad-wreckers, law-
yers, and agents-that have for years defeated the con-
struction of that road across this fine region to its natu-
ral terminus at Pensacola, deserve the honest execrations
of all who reside there; for they have greatly damaged
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A TRIP