The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-20

correspondent of the New York Journal of
Commerce furnishes the following account of the
high-priced Jamaica coffee. His assertion that
Jamaica coffee is the hghest-priced grown in the
world is verified by the quotationssssprces in the
ho"do" Price Current, which places It higher than
Mocha coffee:
have at length learned some particulars of
the growing of the fine kinds of Jamaica coffee
of which spoke to you. The best produced on
the island, and in fact the highest-priced grown
in the world is from the Port ROYAL Mountains
in the Parish of st. Andrews. These mountains
are spur from the Blue Mountains, and run down
nearly to the sea coast, at Kingston The old Span
ish name for Them (and by which they are yet
KNOWN is "Lguana;" and the coffee grown on
them is known in commerce as "Liguana Coffee
1t is small blue regular berry, and was worth
last January from 90s to 1905 per one hundred and
twelve pounds in bond.
The Port Royal Mountains range from two
thousand to four thousand feet above the sea- and
the cultivation of the cofee-trees ranges to that
elevation. Above four thousand feet the climate be-
comes too cold and below two thousand feet the bios
SONS are apt to be blighted by the hot sun. Even
when there is good "set' on the lowands the
quality is inferior ] have seen small patches of
coffee, planted not more than five hundred feet
above the sea, and occasionally such pieces yield
heavy crops; but the berry is always large coarse
shriveled. and of low valu..
There is great difference, without seeming cause
in the value of coffee of different estates; Just as
there is in Cuba on their tobacco properties, when
one planter will grow product worth twice as
much as that of his neighbor.
The Port Royal Mountains are not extensive and
the amount of coffee grown on them does not
ceed million OF pounds. Next in reputation to
the Liguana coffee comes that from the parish of
Manchester, worth from sos. to SOS. per cwt. A
large proportion of the lower grades of the Man
chester coffee is prepared by small settlers, free
coored people, who hold from ten to twenty acres,
but who have not capital enough to purchase the
proper machinery for hauling and drying it.
The poorest samples produced in the parish
es of st. Ann and st. Thomas, in the Vale, and are
not worth more than Ass. to Sos. 1t is this kind
which chiefly comes to America. There being
high duty on coffee in England none but the best
kinds go there, while the poorest kinds are sent
whore they pay no duty. There is another kind,
known as Quart Pot Coffee 1t is bought in by
the storekeepers throughout the island from the
negroes, who sometimes cultivate few rods on
their acre of ground, but often steal it from the
neighboring coffee properties. In either case,
! whether they grow it whether they steal it.
they are too lazy to dry it well. 'EQuart Pot Cof
fee is therefore very inferior, and sells much
lower rate than the plantation kinds. 1t is not
worth paying the duty upon in England, and all of
| it comes to the United States. 1t is this that has
! given the Jamaica coffee such bad reputation
| here.
! Seven American astronomers have been elected
! associates of the ROYAL Astronomical Society of
London. We subjoin list of names, with the dates
of their election
Prof w. c. Bond, of the Cambridge Observatory,
January |, 1850
Prof A. ID. Bache, of the Coast Survey, April
| II, 1850.
Prof o. NJ. Mitchell, of the Cincinnati Observa-
| tory, April II, 1850.
DR.. b. A. Could Jr., of the Dudley Observatory,
January T. 1865.
DR.. Brunn, of Anne Arbor University, January
! IL, 1855.
Lieut.. NJ. F. Maury, of the Washington Observa-
| tory, January II, 1855
The whole number of the Associates is 50.
new Historical Quarterly Review, edited by
Professor Won Sybel, is about to be commenced at
| Munich. Several of the most learned historians o
Germany, among them Ranke, will contribute to its
pages The King of Bavaria is forming, at his own
expense, society for the discovery and publication
of historical documents.
Mr.. w. Terwellinger, of Woodstock, McHenry
county, Illinois,. passed through Dubuque yester
day, on his way to Waverley, Bremen county, with
his wife and child, the last two being in house on
wheels drawn by three yoke of oxen. He had al
his furniture within, including box-stoye as wei
as cooking stove.
The contract has been awarded for the building
of a new Court Hall and Jury Rooms in Hagers
town. the cost not to exceed S7,250. The work i
to be completed in time for occupancy by the Cour
at the July term, 1859.
Nineteen persons were drowned by a recent col
lision of two steamboats,, on the Lake of Geneva
| Switzerland.
Mr.. st. John Lipscombe Englishman, ha
challenged Phelan, the billiard player, to play
match for the championship at billiards.