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196 LITERARY. WILLIAM W. MANN, Editor. SATURDAY, NOV. 12, 1859. TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS. We have received during the past week: The Captive Brothers; A Tale of the Revolu tion —by a son of William, the younger. An Essay on Taste—by a Lady of Augusta. Nature and History—What they promise us in the future —by J. D. P. The Relic of the Crucifix—by ludamird. Essay (No. 3) on Common Schools. A Ghost Story—by “James." Autumn Musings—by Jove. Home Awakenings—by same. The Enchanted Mountain —by Mrs. L. A irgi nia French. A Life History—by Laura Lincoln , and the Sister of Chanty, by same, have been accepted, and will be published soon. MASTER WILLIAM MITTEN. Our readers generally, will, we are s'‘ re > lj e sorry to learn that this interesting aD« instruc tive story of their favorite, Judge LONGSTKEET, will bo brought to its conclusion in our next number. It has occupied ow fi rst P a £ c > with out interruption, from tb* fi rs l number to the present; and has contented very largely, wo do not doubt, to the success and popularity of The Southern FitW and Fireside. The Judge we understand .neans to publish it soon in book form. We lope that it will have, as it deserves, a gloriou’ success. It is as complete a daguer reotype from nature, as anything we have read for a bug while. Every body, even those who have read it in our columns, will want copies for their private libraries. NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. We find laid upon our table since the last no tice, the following new works —pamphlets and periodicals: Almost a Heroine —a Romance, by the author of “Chas. Auchester,” “Counterparts," he. This book is for sale by W. 0. Barber, 219 Broad Street, sole Agent for E. D. Long & Co. Indian Remains of Southern Georgia an Address, delivered before the Georgia Histori cal Society, by Charles C. Jones. Me propose hereafter, to transfer into our columus extracts from this interesting pamphlet. The Glory of Georgia, as illustrated in the History and Chivalric Spirit of her people an Address by A. Alexander Franklin Hill, A. M., M. D., before the Society of the Alumni of the * University of Georgia, at the last commence ment. The Knickerbocker and the Eclectic Magazine, and Southern Literary Messenger , for November, each with their usual freight of excellent matter. The Savannah Journal of Medicine —Juriah Harris, M. D., and R. D. Arnold, M. D., Editors. The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal— H. L. Byrd, A. M., M. D., and Holmes Steele, M. D., Editors. The Advocate of reace, for September and Oc tober. The Southern Teacher—a Journal of School and Home Education, published bi-monthly, in Montgomery, Ala.—W. S. Barton, Kditor. The Aurora— A Monthly, for the Mothers and Daughters of the South and West —Mrs. E. M. Eaton, Editor. The Kennesaw Gem— By the Young Ladies of Marietta Female College: “Devoted to Improve ment in Composition, the Promotion of Female Education, and the Eleyation of Woman.’ Pub lished quarterly in Marietta, Geo., at $1 per an num, in advance. OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENCE. Paris, Oct. 20, 1859. A treaty was signed at Zurich, by the I rench and Austrian plenipotentiaries, on Monday last past. This is a fact—about the only authentica ted fact that the public has como, as yet, in pos session of, out of all the so wearisomely talked-of doings at Zurich. The fact, as stated in the Moniteur of Tuesday morning, belongs eminent ly to that class known as naked facts, being de livered to the world in three or four short lines, without note or comment. And so the gossips went right to work to dress it up, each one ac cording to his guise. Some adopt it as a brand new set of likelihoods and fantastic possibilities; others wrap it about with second-hand conjec tures, that have been in use ever since the ar mistice was signed; others cut their comments out of whole cloth. All that we-really know is, that Austria and France have signed a treaty of peace. What its provisions are, we only guess at. The statement that the Villafranca preliminaries are incorporated in them, is grossly improbable. It is worth noticing that General Dabormida, the Sardinian Minister of Foreign Affairs, arrived in Paris at the close of last week, had an interview with the French Foreign Minister on Saturday, a long conversation with the Emperor on Sun day, another closeting with M. Walewski on Monday, at the close of which a telegram was flashed out to Zurich, on the arrival of which the treaty was signed. The treaty next in or der, is between France and Piedmont to arrange the cession of Lombardy, (confirmed to France by Austria in the one already signed,) by Napo leon to King Victor; then is to come the tripar tite treaty, completing and confirming the con ditions of the first two instruments, to which, by the way, a treaty of peace between Austria and Piedmont should perhaps be added. All these, it is augured, will now soon be signed. And when they are all signed, the Italian Question will remain to be settled! For, even were the Villafranca preliminaries incorporated into the first treaty, that would not settle it. Austria, then, must come back to the point she ran away from six months ago—to a Congress. Whether , that body will be composed of representatives '* Trom the five great powers only; whether repre sentatives from Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Naples and Rome will be permitted to take equal or any part in the deliberations and decisions; whether it will meet at Brussels or at Paris, are the ques tions now in agitation. Whether England will take part in the Congress, is also a question with some ; it is not with your correspondent. Many difficulties are yet in the way of a meeting of the Congress. The preliminaries are proba bly not yet agreed upon among the live great powers, and weeks may yet elapse before they can agree upon the terms and bases and limits of their congregated deliberations and decisions. For all that, the Congress will meet; it is the only means of preventing a new war. In Italy, the crisis grows more critical. Vio lent manifestations are apprehended from the populace of Parma, if the assassins of Auviti 'ewm mwwmmMM in yxbssxns. are subjected to a capital punishment. The peo ple feel that they were right in acting as the ex ecutors of a universal sentiment of vengeance, so brutally and constantly provoked through a series of years, by that cruel wretch. The ru lers saw that they had committed a fearful politi ' cal blunder, to the great delight of all enemies of the Italian cause, which canonly be corrected by excessive severity of punishment; and now are forced to see that such excessive severity is likelv to revolt the people. In the Legations, too, the rational revolutionary authorities expe rience great and growing embarrassment from the activity of revolutionists of the Mazzinian school. Pecuniary embarrassments are also daily growing rrore serious. The Neapolitan government, which one would think had more than enough to do to control the rising discontent within its o»vn territory, especially in Sicily, is setting ar army of 30.000 men on the Papal frontier —a movement to which, in spite of com mon sense, it is difficult to assign any other pur pose than that of a junction with the Pope’s mer ceiaries, to act against Garibaldi. Garibaldi, riean time, who seems to be beyond most men in or out of Italy in these days—a man with his mind made up, is nothing daunted at the pros pect; on the contrary, rather enjoys it. one would say. The subscription started by him for the purchase of a million muskets, gets on well. The municipality of Milan has just set itself down for 100,000 francs. While the Pope, or rather his keeper, Antonelli, encouraged un doubtedly by the recent political pastoral letters and protests of many of the French bishops, the importance of whose constraining influence on Napoleon’s fixed purpose ho has probably overrated, obstinately opposes all reform, and re fuses, as of old, to recognise that the world does move, thousands and tens of thousands of the Roman world move toward the residence of Della Minerva, the Sardinian envoy to Rome, and leave their sympathetic cards. You re member that on occasion of Victor Emman uel’s answer to the official request for annexa tion to Piedmont, presented him by the Romag nol delegates, Pope Antonelli gave his Majesty’s Envoy “ notice to quit.” The Romans desired to make a sympathetic “ demonstration" at his de parture. The envoy desired naturally enough that they should. General Guyon, commander of the . French garrison at Rome, still more naturally if possible, desired that they should not, and told them as much in a printed proclamation. Though every line of the warning was emphasised to the sense of every Roman reader by a French regi ment of the line, and pointed, so to speak, with bayonets, he felt, though considerably more ad monished than amused by the excess of the use ful ingredient in its composition, that Horace was an old fogy, and as to General Guyon, non “omne tulit punctum." In fine, the day pre ceding Della Minerva’s departure, there was a constant procession to his residence, amid watch ful and numerous French and Roman soldiers and police posted along all the approaches to his door, of, some say twenty, the most moderate say ten thousand Romans, who went to leave their cards or inscribe their addresses at his door.— Most of the cards bore, besides the name of the political visitor, the letters P. V. Here permit me to note the curiously noteworthy fact that, without newspapers, public meetings, or any of the ordinary means of communication and unison of action, the Italians from Venice to Naples have some way, which no police can obstruct, of arriving at the most singular unanimity of “man ifestation” without apparent concert. Their readiness to give and catch double meaning, and allusive meaning, is an old characteristic of this quick-witted people, that need not be dwelled upon. Tho oabttlistio t‘. V. may signify pro It sita or Pro Voto! or Pro Vittore !! I have given above but a few of tbe crowd ing indications of the critical state of things in Italy. They all of them are of a grave nature. Even this pasteboard “demonstration,” when considered, at least in connection with the cir cumstances under which it was made and with antecedents of a like significance, would seem a demonstration to any one not clerically blind, (compared with which judicial sand and stone blindness are sharpsighted,) that reform must come sooner or later. Yet there is a party here in France, made up of the more violent legitim ists and ultra Romanists, led on by certain bish ops and certain journalists, who resist change of any kind, except backward to the state things were in in Rome and Italy generally a year ago. Government has, by “ invitation,” just put a stop to the further publication and discussion in the newspapers of the political manifestoes of the bishops, that have made so much noise for the past three weeks; but the printing and circula ting of these episcopal “ articles” still go on in other forms. They all drift one way, (that is backward,) are all filled with “ Strange screams of death ; And prophecyine, with accents terrible Os dire combustion and confused events New hatched to the woful time,” when the Vicegerent of the Prince of Peace, the successor of poor Peter, shall have his mili tary force diminished by one soldier, Swiss or French, or his landed possessions reduced by an acre, or his theocratic pretensions in purely worldly affairs qualified in the slightest degree by human legal restrictions. Os course they do not admit that the Pope’s government is not the best in the world —Monseigneur Dupanloup, the ablest of the Bishops, has recently declared that it is the best —but the direct inference from their argument is, that though it were the worst, it would be still be sacrilege to attempt to change it. The sincerity of their opinions, I do not question, though they admit no sincerity of opinion in their opponents. The violence, not to say vulgarity of their rhetoric, is patent. [M. Dupanloup characterises M. About’s entertaining Question Romaine as a“ vomiting of base calum nies.” Their lack of practicality, however, is remarkable. They are liberal in curses upon Victor Emmanuel, Garibaldi, liberal journalists, and whomever else they can charge with the damnable guilt of shaking the temporal power of his Holiness; they are unanimous and ardent in their demand that the shaking should be put an end to; but oddly enough, not one of them proposes, much less demonstrates tho practical possibility of a plan to stop the shaking. The Emperor’s Bordeaux speech the other day, in evident allusion to this logical weakness of theirs, plainly hinted to them that they were making a bad business worse ; that the best means of saving the Papal temporal power is by reforming it. That it will be diminished largely, possibly restricted to a nominal sovereignty in the Romagna, is an end to be hoped for. That it will be preserved with some enforced reforms, with the territory west of the Appenines, I have not a doubt. That it should be so, is eminently the interest both of France and Austria. Nei ther of those great Catholic powers would for a moment expose itself to the danger of seeing a homeless Pope fix his residence in the domain of the other —and in the domain of one or the other, once ousted from Rome, fix himself he must. But supposing that Franz Joseph and Louis Napoleon should both show themselves so strangely careless of their own and the Pope’s in terests, no nation represented in the coming Con gress would more strenuously advocate the lat- ter than Protestant England. None of your his- j torical readers will doubt the correctness of this assertion which, therefore, I will not go about to prove. . . . I come now again to the actual political crisis \ in Central Italy. I have already mentioned the presence here of Dabormida, the Sardinian Min- ; ister of Foreign Affairs. Although the signa j ture of the first of the series of Zurich treaties j followed directly upon his conferences with At a lewski and the 'Emperor, it is thought that his j sudden journey to Paris was more closely con- ; nected with the crisis than the treaty. Treaties do not reach the case, and the Congress will be too latetoreach it. The sensible Italians of the centre discover no support against their falling into anarchy and whatever worse may follow, no escape from the thickening imbroglio already referred to in this letter, than a real annexation to Sardinia, or what comes to much tho same thinng, a Sardi ian regency in the person of the Prince of Carignano and the occupation of their chief towns by Sardinian troops. They have urged these measures upon Victor Emmanuel, who is nothing loth to meet their wishes in this respect, but has good reason for desiring first to consult those of his formidable French friend—; and hence M. Dabormida comes to Paris. He had a long talk with the Emperor on Sun day ; the Parmesan and Tuscan delegations had a short one with him the same day. AA f !iat pas sed between the interlocutors is a secret, but eye witnesses of the “ smiling countenances" of the Italians as they retired, judge that they were well satisfied with the interview. These may seem to you literally laughable indications to cite in proof of the tendency of grave policy.— My own persuasion of Napoleon’s favorable in tentions toward Italy is based on the broad his torical ground strewn with his acts from that participation in the Ancona affair of 1837 to his last Bordeaux speech. And yet it may be no surer foundation, than the smiles on schooled di plomatic faces. It is amusing to see, however, how much is made of these facial signs nowa days. When Lord Cowley, the British Ambas sador, came back from Biarritz the other day, watchful “ our correspondents" interpreted into all sorts of peaceful meaning the smiling lines of his Lordship’s countenance. Had his Excel lency, at the moment of alighting at the door of the Embassy in Rue Faubourg St. Honore, been seized with a stomach ache or struck with a peb ble on his “ favorite corn,” the Bourse might have gone down on the strength of his very face. It is the curse of the present “ situation," and the radical condemnation of this much-admired Napoleonic autocracy, that the rights, wishes, sacrifices of whole nations of men weigh less, in our deliberation upon the immediate issue, than the scowl or grin of two or three men. But I am at the limit of my letter —my Trav els in Paris, of which the first chapter is written in hope of amusing your readers, and all notices of current literature, crowded out by these weari some political matters. I will make room for one advertisement, which occupies a largo place in several of the daily prints this week. Like the advertisement I cited last week for the bene fit of your lady patrons, this, which should in terest your readers of both sexes, must lose much of its effect by losing the typographical ornaments of the original: “ Protin, Propagatem Initiatem Matrimonial. Persons who desire to marry, may apply with entire confidence to M. Protin. They will always find in him an incor ruptible morality, and the most scrupulous dis cretion. His numerous advantages enable him to satisfy all requirements of fortune or social position, without his intervention ever being ap parent. A large apartment in the second story, with numerous outlets, permits customers to enter and reiiie without ever meeting each other. Five years of brilliant success are a sufficient guarantee against malpractice on the part of M. Protin.” m AVe extract from the late Report of the Comptroller General, for record in our columns, the following information relative to the endow ment, funds, property, and appropriations for The University of Georgia, from the date of its origin to the preseut time: University of Georgia—Franklin College. —This institution, although first endowed by, and belonging to the State, in consequence of there having been so little legislation in relation to it for many years past, has, in the popular miud, at least, almost lost its distinctive charac ter of being a State institution. The first act, in relation to the University of Georgia, was passed in 1784, at which time forty thousand acres of land in two counties, (then AVasliington and Franklin,) were author ized to be surveyed and set apart “ for the en dowment of a college or seminary of learning,” and which said lands were vested in and granted in trust to the Governor for the time being for that purpose—and in 1785 anoiher act was passed “ for the more full and complete estab lishment of a public seat of learning in this State.” This act incorporated and organized the body known as “ the Trustees of the Unh versity of Georgia.” It provided for a boarcl of visitors to act in conjunction with the Trustees in the management of the property, &c., of the University ; provided for its government gene rally, and organized and constituted the “ Sena tus Academicus.” In 1798 it was provided by the Constitution of the State, that “ the arts and sciences shall be promoted iu one or more semi naries of learning, and the Legislature shall, as soon as conveniently may be, give such further donations and privileges to those already estab lished as may be necessary to secure the objects of their institution; and it shall be the duty of the General Assembly, at their next session, to provide effectual measures for the improvement and permanent security of the funds and endow ments of such institutions.” In the meantime, as the site of the University had not been settled upon. Governor Milledge proposed to donate six hundred acres of land to the University as its site, provided it be located at Atheus. This proposition having been accep table to the Trustees, in 1802, the Legislature passed an act appropriating five thousand dol lars as a loan to the Trustees of the University in aid of the funds of said institution, for erect ing the college buildings, &c. In 1803, the j Trustees were authorized and empowered to sell certain land for the benefit of the Univer sity ; and also to “ dispose of all such lots and lands situate in and adjoining the site of the University, as they might think proper, reserv ing nevertheless the quantity of thirty-seven acres of land for the college yard"—and in 1815, the Trustees were authorized to sell the other lands of the University, but the proceeds were to be vested in bank stock. In the event said lands were sold upon a credit, and bank stock could not be immediately obtained upon the bonds and mortgages for said land, by tho Trus tees of said University depositing the whole amount of said bonds and mortgages in the State Treasury, the Governor was authorized to advance two-thirds of the amount of said bonds and mortgages to the Trustees to purchase bank stock; the Trustees being prohibited from dis posing of said bank stock, unless by consent of the Legislature: but they were authorised to use the proceeds or dividends of the same for the support of the University. It may be pro per here to remark, that in consequence of a portion of the University land being found afterwards to be within the limits of South Car olina, only about thirty-five thousand acres were made available. These thirty-five thou sand acres sold for about one hundred and forty thousand dollars in bonds and mortgages, and upon which, (besides other loans,) the State advanced one hundred thousand to purchase stock for the University in the bank of the State of Georgia. In 1816, a donation of two hundred thousand dollars to build a Grammar school-house was made, and a loan of ten thou sand dollars, (six thousand of which was paid back,) was authorised tc be made by the Gover nor—the State to be reimbursed, (for the same, and the five thousand previously borrowed,) out of the proceeds of the bonds and mortgages for the sale of the University land. In 1821, the Trustees were authorized to re ceive ten thousand dollars arising from the sale of fractions previous to 1821, and the State Treasurer was authorised to pay the Trustees fifteen thousand dollars more out of the first monies which might be paid on account of the sale of the University lands, said sums to be applied to the building of a new college edifice, and a permanent annual endowment of eight thousand dollars was guarantied to the Univer sity, to be made up to that sum from the State treasury when the dividends furnished by the bank stock belonging to the University did not equal that sum. In 1830, another loan of ten thousand dollars was made, and an additional annual appropriation of six thousand dollars was made to the college, but it was repealed in 1811. It appears by the books in the Comp troller General's office, that for several years da ting back from 1839 to 1819, the bank stock of tho University did not yield the annual endow ment of eight thousand dollars as guarantied by tho Act of 1821, consequently the State treasury had to make up the deficiency. The deficiency in 1839 was five hundred dollars; 1811, two thousand five hundred dollars; 1812, eight thou sand dollars; 1813, six thousand dollars; 1811, four thousand dollars; 1815, six thousand dol lars; 1816, two thousand dollars; 1817, two thousand dollars; 1818, two thousand; and 1819, five hundred dollars—no call having been made by the trustees since then upon the State treasury for the deficiency. The following then has been the appropriations by the State to the University, viz: 1805 $ 5,000 1816, (balance,) 6,000 1816, bank stock 100,000 1821 25,000 1830 10,000 From 1831 to 2d May. 1812 63,000 From 1839 to 1819 33,500 $212,500 In addition to these appropriations by the State, in 1802, Gov. Milledge gave the Univer sity six hundred acres of land, which, (after re serving thirty-seven acres for the college,) yield ed the sum of thirty thousand dollars, which is now vested in permanent stocks, bearing inter est. During the same year, General James Gunn, of Savannah, gave the college one thou sand dollars. In 1817, Mr. John H. Marks, of Jasper county, gave it one thousand dollars to purchaso philosophical apparatus; and in 1854, Dr. William Terrell, of Hancock county, gave twentv thousand dollars in six per cent, bonds to establish a Professorship of Agriculture. The total endowment of tho Institution (not including tho rent of the University lands, which went to its support before the lands were sold) is, there fore, as follows: Amount received from the State $242,500 Governor Milledge’s donation 40,000 Gen. James Gunn’s donation 1,000 Mr. John 11. Marks’ donation 1,000 Dr. Terrell’s donation 20,000 Total $304,500 PRIME COST OF COLLEGE BUILDINGS, &C. Old college... $20,000 Ground, 37 acres New college ... 15,000 with enclosure Philosoph’l Hall .6,000 fronting, cost, Library Building.4,ooo 3,000 $13,000 Chapel 9,000 President’s liouse.6,ooo Tot'l real est. $156,500 Prof. Mell’sliouse.s,ooo assets, interest used Prof. Johnson’s. .5,000 for support of ix- Prof.Rutherford’s.3,ooo tiox. Prof. Easter’s... .2,500 Bank Stock.. .100,000 Demosthen’n ha 11.4,000 Proc’s sales 10t5.30,000 Phi Kappa hall. .4,000 Terrell endwm’t.2o,ooo Libraries 40,000 Philosophical ap- T0ta1,.... 150,000 paratus 10,000 Cabinet 4,000 Total value of Astronom’l inst’s.3,ooo buildings, &c., Chemical appar’us.3,ooo and assets, .$306,500 -111 55 NEW BOOKS. [We publish, often, under this head, a liet of new publication «, carefully selected from all our exchanges. The list embraces all works, Foreign as well as Domes tic, which we think may be valuable, or to whieh cir cumstances may give general or social interest, wheth er Literary or Scientific, History or Fiction, Prose or Poetry, Religious, Moral or Political. The notice simply gives the title of the book, name of the author, place of publication, and name of Publisher.] The Crucible; or. Tests of a Regenerative State. De signed to bring to light Suppressed Hopes, expose False Ones, and Confirm the True. By. Rev. J. A. Goodhue, A. M. 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Illustra ted by Plates, in which all the Species and Varieties are represented, accompanied by their respective Caterpil lars, and the Plants on w hich they feed. London ; Jer rard. THE COFFEE TRADE. Fifty years have elapsed since the first cargo of coffee was shipped from Rio de Janeiro, and now Brazil supplies two-thirds of the coffee of the world. In the province of Ilio de Jeneiro trees are generally cut down every fifteen years. As a general rule, they are not allowed to exceed twelve feet in height, so as to be in reach.— When the berry is ripe, it is about the size and color of a cherry, and resembles it or a large cranberry. Os these berries a negro can daily collect about thirty-two pounds. There are three gatherings in the year, and the berries are spread out upon the pavements or a level por tion of the ground, (the lereno,) from whence they are taken when dry, denuded of the hull by machinery, and afterwards conveyed to mar ket. Nothing is more beautiful than a coffee plantation in full and virgin bloom. The snowy blossoms all burst forth simultaneously, and the extended fields seem almost in a night to lay aside their robe of verdure, and to replace it by the most delicate mantle of white, which ex hales a fragrance not unworthy of the descrip tion of Eden. But the beauty is truly epheme ral, for the snow-white flowers and the delight ful odor pass away in twenty-four hours. [See Brazil and the Brazilians, by Kidder Si Fletcher.] It takes four to five years after planting them before they will yield a crop of berries ; hence the sudden rise or fall in prices cannot so suddenly influence production, as is the cause with annual crops from new plantations of sugar and cot ton. At the present time, owing to the high price of slaves, no new estates can be formed, and none have been Tor several years ; and it is sta ted that there are not hands enough left in the country to pick out a full crop. There are some curious facts regarding the preservation of coffee. It is said that the ber ries readily imbibe exhalations from other sub stances and occasionally acquire an unpleasant flavor. Sugar placed near the berries, it is said, in a short time impregnates them and injures .their flavor. A few bags of pepper on board a ship, bound from India to England, spoiled a whole cargo shipped somo time ago by Messrs. Maxwell, Wright & Co., of this port, was completely ruin ed by having been in a vessel which had pre viously carried creosote. The process of roasting berries requires care and skill. If burnt, the coffee is spoiled, impar ting a bad taste, and making it heavy and indi gestible when drank. Again, if underdone, the water fails to extract the nourishing material of the coffee, and its infusion is so weak as to prove unpalatable. In all Cairo, in Egypt, there was said to be but one good coffee parcher. The berries should be roasted until they be come of a uniform brown chestnut color. No family should ever purchase ready ground coffee, which is liable to adulteration with chick ory, beans, corn, rye, See., Sec.. The berries should be bought green, and parched and ground at home as wanted The climate of Brazil is highly favorable to the cultivation of coffee, the trees yielding near ly double of those in the garden of the Convent of St. Antonio. Brazil was then governed by tke Marquis de Lavadio as a Viceroy. The first fruits of the tree were next presented to the Marquis, who distributed them among the most respectable planters, explaining to them the ad vantages of adding another valuable article to the produce of the country; but, being strong in their prejudices in favor of sugar and indigo, few took pains to cultivate it, and hence its pro gress was slow. In 1808 Don Joas VI. fled from Portugal to Rio de Jeniero, and soon after opened the port to foreign trade. The annual crop then did not exceed 30,000 bags of ICO pounds each —or 480,000 pounds. Although the revolution in St. Domingo had overthrown its culture there, Cuba and Jamaica continued, to some extent, to supply the trade. In 1820, its increase in Brazil had swelled to 100,000 bags. The decrease of supply, by the desolation of St. Domingo, caused it to reach the enormous price of 148 s. per cwt., or nearly 37$ c. per pound, in London, in the years 1817 and 1821. This great price stimulated the production in Brazil. The growth of Brazil, by 1854, reached the astounding quantity of 400,000,000 pounds, while the production in the British West India Islands has rapidly declined since the emanci pation of the slaves in 1834, as will be seen by the following table: In 1848 the British West India Is lands yielded - $10,000,000 In 1853, 1854 and 1855, they yield ed only ----- 5,"000,000 Jamaica, in 1834, (the year the Emancipation Act was declared in the Islauds,) amounted to - £1,8,268,183 The same result will be seeti by this as that which followed emancipation in St. Domingo. The first import of Brazil coffee into the United States was made in 1809, which con sisted of 1809 bags, landed at Salem by the ship Marquis de &>meriutus. In 1856 the whole sum paid by the United States fbr coffee was $21,514,916, of which Brazil received no less than $16,091,714. —A. ' 1". Times.