Smyrna times., 1856-08-13
Coffee.

IN'Sdi'--N NFUSH0tT.
Coffee.
A Brazil correspondent of thn Now VorL
Journal ot Commerce gives an lntercsrinU
sketch OF the history of this universal hn, rra,r
so popular among all nations, whether ciy,li2nd
or se!nl-cIvIl Zed, which have became oro,,.i,t
ca WIN ITS properties Wherever il has ,r,in-
ed footho!d It's advance has been most surn
II mas never made retrograde movement
though assaI"d by ecclesiastical bodies mr. Lr
colleges of physicians of cverv school Nn-
lammedan mnttIs thuudcred anathcmos ,pairst
IL more than three centuries aro; the wIttiast
writer's OF the Court of Louis NV. souibbed il
ne niuStr:ous Dr. Murray, (Allopatbic.l re-
Proiched coffee. when iudnI9cd tin too frrelv
WIN producing vertigo, trembling Of the limbs
cuaheonS crnp'.o on the the face. MYSTERIES
h!pochondria, &c. liahnemlnn, the great hIuh
P-"st vi homeopathy, accuses 1t even of caus-
i"2 Tue uecitnc Ut the German (hls OWN race.
NouGe Is native of Aby>srnla, and not of
Arabia, as many believe, and abounds in the
province of kaiia, whence 1t derives It's namc
ne collee tree WAS not transpuntrd from All
yS'IhIa INTO ASA until the fifteenth centurv.
"hch us culture was begun in Arabia FrliX
Whcrf' IN the enYirons OF Mocha, it crows tn
perfection. The Western world learned tLo
use ol coiiee irOm the OrIentaIs: but how tLe
Or'ehtaIS l"arneC to use il is IA difficult ou,,s.
lion To solve. An Arabian author of the ff
'e'nih century records that it was a Mptti nf
Auth' Wh" III the ninth century was the firsl
10 use coffee. At this epoch 1t was already
Hho"h III Persia, where common tradition as
criOea lis discovery TO one Molnh Chadcllv. =
ploiIs MusSuInIan, who was much troubled wnL
drousiac$S during hIs nocturnal meditation,
lie invoked Mahomet to come to his aid. who
cSuScd his faithful Molldh to meet with a uoat-
nerd, who led hiln to colce tree, and inform |
ed hIIn that whenever his goats ate OF The berry
ot mat tree, they passed the Whole night wide |
awake lcaping and caprrng
The devout Mollah prepared an Infusion of
the perry which, alter drinking, gave him for
'ac Wh"'e hI9ht "A most drlcctable state OF
Siecplcsncss. lie made known his discovery.
which was adopted by all the dervI>hes and
doctors OF the land, aud the new beverage ran.
IDLY became popular over the whole ORIENT
lherc are other versions of the discovery Of
the use of coffee as a BEVERAGE. n * b.Ii,vad
that The derviShcs learned tins means Of over
coming sleep from the Eenuhte CHRISTIANS of
hr"'s and fth"PIa, Who adopted the practice
ni drinking cotl'e. The Mohamncdan pr,rSl,
soon became enemies ot the new beverage;
as u Tea The people To tursake the mosques and
H"cR 10 III" c"iiee-hou>cH, aud they hurled til"
hcTcest analhcHlas against II, but without avail
Before the Seventeenth century coffee was
only Known by name in France. and it did not
become fashionable until Soloman Ara. the
turkish Ambassador to the Court of I,ouis NV /
gave an "cclat y to coffee by Offering it to the
hGh-horn DANES OF the realm Curiosity and
vanity led them in the Agas residence, where
he received them with oriental marnifcence
and Coffee was the ragc. About the same time
II became tavnrte in Vienna, the method Of
ITS Preparation having-becn learned from some
Turks captured in battle Twenty wears be-
lore II was introduced into England by Brit
lsh m"rchant, returned from 'Corstantlnople.
In France ia" cofltc.house became exceed
lngiy popular, and not withStaudinr the I'M
mcnS" quantities of vine drank in France. there
Is probably no country, except Turkey and the
United States, :" thoroughly given to coffee.
Tea Is hcardly known outside ofthc great cities.
y significant index of the universal use of cof-
fee is the fact that, what we call tea-sp, ON.
the French invariably call collee-spoon.
Up to the 18Th century all the coffee which
was consumed in Europe came from Arabia.
but 1879 the Dutch introduced the plant into
BATAVIA where 1t grew to perfection, and in
lIlo plant was sent to the botanical garden
oi AhlS'er"aln, WhPre IL 1nurIShed. An oHsh0Ot
was prcsented To Louis XIV. who sent it to the
Garden des Plants. and it became the ancestor
OF all the coffee plantations in the West Indies:
the French government succeeded in lS20, in
it into Martinique
1t is uncertain when the coffee plant was car
red to Brazil, but nowhere has its growth and
cultivation been So extensive and ra pld There
are merchants living who saw the first small
cargo shipped from Rio Janeiro, and now that
port is the largest coffee mart in the world
The exports from that port, for the year ending
June 30, 1850, were 2,352,2Si bags. (of 100
lbs. Portugupse) nearly one-half of which inn
mense amount came to the United States.-
Good old washed Rie" is said to be equal to
the best Java.