A TRIP


THROUGH NORTH FLORIDA.


shire,


where he long


ago learned, the


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trade, he


came to this State


in the
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editor:
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printer


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he had work
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at long period


1839, and
e Floridia
d his way
that year
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at once found a
n," established in
up from the case t
assumed control o
so ably conducted,
ress" regularly each
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'job"
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o the
f the
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Florida editors, he has for many years been State's
; and his office, close by the State-House, is a


favorite consultation-room for all State officials, who, as
a rule, have always placed implicit confidence in his
opinions and advice. He is undoubtedly the best in-
formed upon all matters, political and legal, pertaining
to Florida, as a Territory and as a State, of any one
living. For upward of forty years he has been the in-
timate friend, confidant, or adviser of nearly all public
officials. Knowing all the secret and unwritten history
of the State, his stock of historical and personal remi-
niscences is very great, and, if "written up," would make
a volume at once interesting and instructive.
 One of the pleasantest resorts in the capital at the
 time of our visit was the official apartments of Governor
 W. H. Bloxham, then Secretary of State. An unusually
 genial, off-hand, sociable gentleman, utterly free from
 ostentation, he is the favorite of all the State officials,
 and of a large circle of life-long, intimate friends. Gov-
 ernor Bloxham is a native of Florida, and is the first
 gentleman elected to that position who has been able to


boast of such
within sight o
ernor; and his
ing in the mid
dred carefully


a distinction.
f the capital, w
comfortable old


He was
here he
home ne


born
now
ar th


very nearly
sits as Gov-
e city, stand-


st of an immense plantation of several hun-
cleared and cultivated acres, is one of the


genuine, old-style cotton-plantations of the most hospita-