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United States. Mr. Bonynge has spent fourteen years 

 in the East, and describes a variety of coffee acclimated 

 in a region so high above the ocean, that the tree bears 

 well in a climate subject to pretty severe frosts. It 

 should be borne in mind that cotton itself is a tropical 

 tree not naturally an annual plant, as we cultivate it in 

 the region of frost. There is nothing improbable in our 

 finding coffee trees that will flourish in all our Gulf 

 States, as far North as 150 miles from the coast. Man- 

 goes and other fruits are also worthy of trial. A chest 

 of tea has been brought from Shanghae to the White House, 

 for the President, in sixty-five days, via San Francisco 

 and Panama. Once it took nearly three years to circum- 

 navigate the globe ; now, with good luck in meeting 

 steamers, one can go round the world in 140 days. In- 

 deed, sailing vessels have come from China to California 

 in thirty- three or thirty-five days. A man must be slow 

 if he cannot live a century in the next thirty-three years. 



From the Charleston Courier. 

 TEA CULTURE, ETC., IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. 



WE received, yesterday, a visit from Mr. Francis 

 Bonynge, a gentleman who has spent fourteen years in 

 the East, actively engaged in the cultivation and manu- 

 facture of indigo, sugar, saltpetre, tea and coffee, and 

 whose present object is to introduce into the Southern 

 States the culture of the Tea plant, the Mango tree, 

 Date tree, Coffee plant, &c., and the melons and vege- 

 tables of the East Indies, and to carry out the manufac- 

 ture of the tea leaf, and also of the indigo plant, and to 

 give a full and fair trial to both tea and indigo. 



Mr. Bonynge informs us that the soil and climate of 



