The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-30

GOD AND MAMNION.

The Richmond Examiner publishes the. sub
joined letter % tho American colony at Jafa, and
4 comments upon it as follows: s. n
Laugh as'sse may, there is d SOLEMN and per-
vaulng rony1.tlon IN New England that Providence
mas that people under His peculiar kooping, and
tion OF the world are to be accomplished by their
assistance. Hence, whether Kansas is to be purg-
Cd q slavery or Oregon OF the curse OF Inequality
= among the sexes the South or States Rights or
Jerusalem of antiquity, the CHOSEN OF The Lord are
ever ready to migra,e to the field operations III
sufficient numbers to cke out the shortcomings of
OmInpotence.' It may be very properly inouired
now 80 selfish race can be induced to embark in
30 M sasnss We answer simply BY appealing
ls dtusdead N religion and piety goes up in the
fishing regions like gold after a lost BATTLE Tho
mon has mo: :terrorse for them-they regard thum-
selves much too manly to ,be bound by any max
:, inns, so ancient and green" saS. - 8lf'EE79
t.iaThus we have before us a handsome pamphlet OF
tTenty-one pages, published in 1866, entitled
Prospectus Tor the Church Enterprise and Silver
Mlnlng Company. wherein ore Rev. J. Lewis Trc-
fern proves conctlsiyely that speculation in Nc
sada mines s the surest and shortest way to spread
the area Of the Lord moral vineyard in that d.
s:compansation OF rpecuniary success. OF ike pur-
e pose WIS the great! emigration planned last Year
time was indeed, an object Of just ambition, hut
, carson Adams know his business much too vol to
base It on sEeh marrow grounds. 10 the venerable
mafrons Maiae, lie offered the resistless lure of
perpetual youth-tne famed fountain which should
rsupersede' Emast de4pdys and obviate the neces-
isity OF vinegar touge-whlle he turned The heads
/. q the more material males by the picture Of
Il Il bpundless deposits of Chiriqm ilnag IS, sixty
bushels to the acre, mid three crops per annum J..
y that pressure, and Parson Adams got his colony
,together without difficulty, and started for tho
Holy Land. g the latter we print elsewhere tells
) One thing, at least, is established thereby Mr..
ana Mrs Adams haLe made capital thing of it.
!conntl matter Of diamond rings and silver
while her reverend spouse affects the more
Y tarnal ~ comfort OF London Dock and illsops XXN.
The Mussulman; will be llkoly to imbibe exalted
ideas OF Christiunity, civilization and enlghten-
ment non these apostles Of the New tiSngland)
\; 1.-The follwoing is the letter: 4e-tf:.
.dl..'o?Ds dl..' WTigIt, Addison, DE. ,is1 '.' r;t,
slrE7Most pressing business has until now pre-
LIST instant, but you so earnestly inquire after
the condition Of the colony brought hers by. g. ~
ADAMS, from Maine, and also In1o the nature OF
: my own. transactions with him, which he has put
:. INTO doubtful light, L for your sake as well as
my own, and for the sake of those who might still
Re dupsa Dy this advensurer feel it to be my duty
= my time, viii allow me at the present moment.
"a the 22d Of September, 1866, the Nellie Ch ,pin
here, Of whom thirteen died before the expiration
OF two m2nths- Among those, deceased were four
hRSfsSSs s aRsaAldren When the
became more or less aware that 6Ir. Adams repro,
isentations were tar from being fulfilled Some Of
aasse qa,eanpusly mise assertions we're for
PIE iooked young aud blooming; that many treas
so bare eee na7d digging the groqnd that the
N one year, Without requiring much labor to
eutKath' it; that tlie oiang trees would also
Hear 1ru!S twice year; that there many
: tnaS these ;studts were sold for mere tride in
ais t9ao "a u man got ashore here with only one
sared n lpesfs Tpaa one
make the people sell everything they had even at
aaf price, because ne told them, theY could
that M,Iaoat It here Or get it very cheap
hands, no matter if they were left destitute after
Maras ~. needs no words Of mine TO contradict
has ever visited this country has experienced tho
aoas c9y oi:tnese alleged facts, as have also these
1aston peai 70 thsr great daay and saats
= most -e1nphatically, all the draw ,acks that
Taaa ae1S t. his al ths
1':be subjected t. from climate, people and gov
eminent; but he was most obstinately blind to
a. out what he wished to see, and just asdeaf be-
dents OF this country, and myself especially gave
MN concerning the most practical and most suita-
Houses So ha the soony RtHdn ta the
foE instance people only live stone houses, they
rs be,ng the best adapted to the climate. Wooden
against Mr.. Adams, however IN the face Of
iAasaou . e1petence, and against all proffered ad-
vice. has provided WOO zen houses for the coIorists
which already, in this wintry season. are the I
causes 81 much suffering, but which, in the sum-
! neT VII pe ,lnsupportable and the homes Of fever
Further as .to Adams, it Is really most trying
that this drunken, blasphemous, heartless impos-
ter should be allowed to call himself minister of
.tthe gospel This man has wilfully and Intention
ally led more than ~one hundred and fifty Of his
fellow creatures to misery and even death, in hav-
ing defudsd them to leave their comfortable homes
and TO risk Their own and their families lives and
4 some ont Of most OF: their small and hard earned
properly. he and his wife, who is still more de-
praved than hxnaef, attempt to alleyiats the
misery they have caused; they abandon the needy,
the sick and the dying, and those who by the
slightest opposition, or 6y their cutspoken disap-
their they most fouly slander and per-
.asecute. In his so-oalled sermons, which Adams
generally delivers when intoxicated, he prin-
! :cpaly raves about them, cursing them and their
native land thus parading them publicly and pri-
vately besides to every traveller they come in
The dssatiHfied party, consisting OF about fifty
Two persons, are now preparing to return to the
:, United States but ito accomplish this they must
walt TIL all their accounts are settled with Adams
and they have received the title deeds fo the pats
{ OF land bought by him, things which have contin-
1ally be enput of by Adams, but which the Consul
General OF Jerusalem, Mr.. H.,V. Beauboucher has
now uudertaken to see done: some Of the people !
hoWever, hre, am sorry to say, without the means
OF .deftaying the expenses OF the journey home,
nom Mr.. Beauboncher, pecuniasy assistance as
otherERlse they would have starved Adams knows
snothng OF keeping accounts nor Of any RESPONSE
btty With regard to the money entrusted to him.
poth ne and his vito spent 1t in most thought
1eas manner was aweI known fact to their fol
1oWAts raifhar, nF tfan, o1t,,n1 7n1,n -