Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1875 — Communicated. [ARTICLE]

Communicated.

The public debt statement shows a decrease of $3,081,210, during the smith of March.' Hon. Godlove 8. Orth was basquetted by bis fellow citizens in LaFayette, last Tuesday evening. There are $225,299.89 shown as a balance, Hi tbC report of the State Treasurer, Hr the month of March. A Missouri paper says General Cockrell will “make his mark in the Senate.” His constituency thought he could write. It has been decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that women may vote if the State iu which they live will permit them to do so. General Gordon, in his New Hampshire speeches, never mentioned that the Democratic State Treasurer of Georgia has a million dollar difficulty iu adjusting his accounts.

Lobby members never make a mistake in foretelling the exact vote on questions of temperance or prohibition. They count the eyes and nose of each mem. her of Legislature, and never fail. The nose in particular is a feature easily read. From the evidence of Mr. Beecher’s testimony wc are compelled to believe that he is not guilty of what he has been charged. No sane man, in th» opinion of the Republican, can read Mr. Beecher’s straight-forward testimony and believe him guilty. A potent has been taken out for an Invention by which it is claimed that glass can be used as a buildiug material for house fronts, floors, or pavements, superior to marble in durability and economy. It can be made plain or variegited, and its colors are indestructible. Mrs. Oliver Perry Rice, of Indianapolis, bas received from George H. Pendleton a legal opinion that she is hair to an estate worth $68,000,000. The -estate lies in Alleghany county, Pa.> and its heirship has been traced iu direct lice to the late Gideon Ritchie, father o Mrs, Rice.

The latest from Connecticut gives Ingersoll’s, Democratic, mamajonty at 6,500. It is stated that the Senate will stand fifteen Democrats to six Republicans—a gain of two for the latter. The Republicans have gained in the House, but there will be a Democratic majority of about twenty. The Democrats gain one Congressman.. Mr. P. T. Barnum, the showman, has 'been nominated by the Republicans of Bridg°port, Conn., for Mayor; and John Robinson, another showman, has been nominated by the Republicans of Cincinnati for Mayor of that city. Verily, the showmaa are looming np in the dim •distance. Mr. Barmum was elected, and Mr. Robinson was defeated. It is reported that the suggestion that Jeff Davis may be the next Democratic candidate for President, is received with much favor in the South. There is nothing strange in that, however, when the fact is taken into consideration that sixty-eight members of the Forty-fourth Congress will be composed of men who served in the rebel armies, while but “twenty-five Union soldiers will be there to meet them."

Jacksonville, Fla., Mar. 31, 1875. Editor Jasper Republican : As lam still in tbe sunny South I -*srill send you another communication, that my friends may have opportunity of hearing from me again. I said in my .other article something about the climate in Florida, and the city of Jacksonville. I will speak of some other matters this lime, I have spent the last four weeks twen-ty-five miles east of here, near where the St. John’s river empties into the Atlantic ocean. I stopped with an old [n.dianian. The land where he is, is pretty jgood for this State, will yield perhaps forty bushels of corn to the acre; he was planting last week, and I dropped some for him. There is a great variety of timber there that we don’t have in the North, such as magnolia, white and red bay, myrtle, cypress, palmetto. &c. The scenery is quits romantic and interesting. Most of the land where the timber bow b, was, a century or two ago, one vast plantation of sugar-cane, cultivated by the Spanish. The old furrows can yet be seen in tbe woods. The house where I stopped I suppose is near a hundred years old. was built by the Spanish) and is of qu-te ancient style. The greater portion of the land of this State is poor. There is, however, some pretty good land around the capitol—sWlahu*sa—and in the interior of the

State, which, before the late war, was in a pretty good state of cultivation, but not since. lam iolJ that sueh lands can be bought as Jo# as five dollars per aere, which would make ni§e forms. People from the North ought to come and settle on it, and make for themselves good homes in this delightful climate. The natives here seem to have no energy or get up about them \ they are laxy, very poor, and can hardly live. The country will never he developed, or brought into a sfctffcof cultivation until people from the Worth and elsewhere come and accomplish it. I think a few more eold winters like the past will cause them to think of making a change. Thousands have been here this winter to escape the piercing winds of the North, and I think some of them expect to come South. But if persons come here from the North expecting to find things <>« they are there, I think I can say to them, be at once disappointed. What I further add is the opinions and suggestions of others and not my own, for I am not posted ; so it will be from the words “they say,” First, they say that a person here with some capital can make money ; and that it is a good place for a poor man ; if he has enough to get fifteen or twenty acres of land, and enough to live on a year or two, he is all right He should put an acre or two in orange trees, —100 to the acre, —wlfich iu a few years will almost afford him a living; then he should put a few acres in vegetables, which will ana much to his living, for they always bring a good price, and they can be planted and ready for market the year mnnd, unless it is in the months of July and August—they are not so good to plant in. Hence, it is claimed that persons can make a living easier than in the North; and suffer no more from heat than in the North.

I wish to call attention further to what they say about orange growing. A person with a few thousand dollars can, in a few years, become wealthy; it pays largely, and always will; no difference how many engage in the business, there will always be a good market for all that are raised. The best places for oiange growing are along the St. John’s and Indian rivers. The vast crowd of people that has been filling the streets of this city for the last two months, is very much lessened ; while tee poor invalids, have to be contented a while longer. In conclusion, I would say to my old friends, that after being here nearly three months, I don’t think my health has been permanently bettered. Sly cough still continues. Sometimes I have almost dared to think it a little better* then by a little cold seems the same. Persons take cold here as easily as in the North. I hope, however, by remaining here a few weeks longer, the latter part of my stay may benefit mo more, and that I may then, if spued, be permitted to retorn in at least a better degree of health than when I left, and that I may awhile longer enjoy the society of my family, and many old and well tried friends whom I highly esteem. Respectfully,

J. C. CROUCH.