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direct application, I earnestly recommend the granting of a charter as he 
wishes, and the bestQwment upon the company of as many privileges as 
is. compatible with the public interests. The National Legislature, it is to 
be. hoped, will atford aid to so laudable an enterprise, and one which, if 
successful, promises to be of national benefit, by a grant of land sufficient 
for their use, or otherwise. I esteem, it, however, of paramount conse-. 
quence , that an interest shpiild be excited among the agriculturists; 
throughout the Territory, in relation to the introduction and adoption of 
foreign products. The tea-plant, those trees and plants from which arje- 
procured the olive, ginger, pepper, cloves, cinnamon, pimento, nutmeg, 
and cocoa, and many oth^er articles of daily use in our families, could, itds 
believed, with care and attention, be successfully cultivated in most parts 
of our Territory; but the practicability of every article mentioned being, 
readily produced by those planters favorably located, as it regards climate, 
cannot be questioned. The production of these articles, if only sufficient 
for our oM'-ii, domestic consumption, would be of immense advantage to 
our, citizens; and if experience should, prove that Florida might, in a few 
years, be looked to by our fellow-citizens of the States for such products, 
the benefits resulting to the Territory would be incalculable.” 
From the Washington Telegraph oj January 17. 
We publish to-day a highly iiiteresting extract from a letter of Dr. M. 
Perrine, United States consul at Campeachy, upon the introduction of 
tropical productions into the Southern States. It is time that the inhabit¬ 
ants of that region should be looking to some new products in the Soutii- 
ern States, to avert the evils of the present oppressive system upon their 
industry and resources. 
Extract of a letter from Dr. H. Perrine. 
“ I was much interested by the memoir of Doctor Mease on the materi¬ 
als for thread, twine, and cordage, which appeared in the October num¬ 
ber of Silliman’s Journal. By thus directing the attention of his country¬ 
men towards those foreign plants which produce these.materials, he has 
rendered an acceptable service to the public. The imperfections or errors 
which exist in that communication are his misfortune, not his fault. The, 
observations of transient travellers on such subjects must necessarily be 
very limited and very superficial; and the reports of thematives are still 
less to be trusted. The attention of such men as Humboldt, Bullock, 
Poinsett, and Warden, was occupied by too many objects to acquire min¬ 
ute intelligence on all; hence the inaccuracies in at least one portion of the 
compilation made by Doctor Mease. A residence of several years in a, 
tropical climate has enabled ; me to obtain a personal acquaintance with 
some- of its valuable fibrous plants. Of the highest importance, in my es¬ 
timation, are those species of the liliaceous tribe which are there prized 
on account of the quantity or quality of fibres obtained from the interior 
of their fresh leaves. Many of them, at first ranked under the aloes, were 
subsequently gratified with the title of agaves; and some of them are 
merely waiting for the aid of a botanist to become on independent genus- 
