Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1867-05-03

Horses are rather small mere ana arc
sllirS fUm 5000 down tn any price you
ara.c. A pretty good one can be had for
Ms Mules are about the same price OF
itorecs Go1.s aud sheep are selling from
s!to6 each Donkeys are selling from )
q 50 Dolls; CalncIs 5000 or more; Cows
s3O to 50; Fire wood we have to buy by
he Donkey load for Is to I5 cts. which
will last 10 nsc for cookiny (only) from to
days; Coal u about o5 cts. Bush: WOOL
~ clothes are cheap. you cnn buy the best
Broad Cloth fur 800 an Eng. yd.; Cotton
is plenty here hut is net manufactured here
I" all cotton goods are about as high as they
we're in the States when we left there.
sim is cheap beth the thread and Cloth.
Sewing .ilk for ab,nt is as much as in the
States :s,y the skeins we get here for ct
in the States would sell for ) cents.
The Grunge gardens arc all within the
range Of three miles from the city Of Jaffa;
Around among the gardens are spots for
vegetables aud some places for wheat and
gras. anl some fs and grape gardens.
Outside this range of three miles is a
plenty of land for cultivation for the rent
Of which the owner will want a quarter Of
what is raised on it. This land runs back
to the East and South. to the hills or noun
tains, say Is or 90 miles with here and
there a village, or lone garden, and when
It is not cultivated looks like lain OF
san.l. and is in reality covered with sand,
which blows from the sand hills which are
quite plenty.
The clisuatc his been so mild this winter
thu: roses have been in bloom all winter.
George has just brought in some wild
Poppy flowers and wanted me to put them
in my letter. Potatoes have been growing
all winter; (The Orange AMI Lemon trees
arc evergreen but the stormy days and
nights have been rather chilly. but | expect
it will be pretty warm in the summer
through they say we have the sea breeze
about all the time i'll the summer. Almost
every thing will grow here that we raise
in the United States. Sugar Cane grows
well. but no sugar is made from it. nor
1nnlasscs bat it is used ouly to cut up and
suck the juice.
When We first landed here there was
considerable sickness in the Colony and
.l:...,, l;..l Ill .,l,;l,l-or, Inf ouo Coma
Of these were sick before they come from
America. Some were very careless in
eating and drinking the had water. Three
Of the grown persons died under the water
cure treatment Of Dr.. Saith and l never
saw them till the day they died aud
never was called to see at all.
Almost all Of the colony were sick or TN
we'll in some way or another. They were
all exposed more or less, for We had to
camp ON the beach all the time that the
barque wa. unloading because The agent oil
Mr.. Adams, Loucnthal d. United States
consul at Jaffa had not purchased single
foot of land which he had sent word that
he hal bought he had received more than
ten thous,n dollars from Mr.. Adams to
pay for the land; and the first lot of land
which he was ordered to buy and received
the money to pay for lie did by screwing and
twisting round. after we had been on the
t---i. -~--->i --.-i- s>>ei-n onf tn Uct q decd
but he has not paid for it yet, though be had
the money from Mr.. Adams. more than
eight months ago. ana he. (this consult has
tried to cheat the colony every way that he
could and has succeeded in many things
ana has been suspended from his office.
but still continues to tell lies and circulate
the lies of others concerning the colony
and We have some reasons to believe that
he is assisted in his rascality by the consul
some in the colony that are too lazy to
work and too proud to beg that are trying
10 injure the colony by lying about the rest
of the colony to the consul and writing
home lies such It's would shame demon to
tell.
They say they are starving and yet arc
growing fat as pigs in their llziness, it must
be that they fat on growing aad telling
lies for they certainly have done enough OF
both to fat a fiend and yet these are piou.
religious devils that cane OH. here, expect.
ing to direct ever; body and be the heaC
AMI tail to everything and have their living
ont OF other people. and have been disap
pointed in both these things and have turn
ed against their friend and seduced som,
Tiers to follow their examples in lies ane
ialless and are now askin. government;
10 carry them back 10 ole Virginia-tt
ole Virgini.'s shore" Two men that came
in the ship and brought more lumber than
any body. have had their lumber piled NJ
and have not built any houses and woult
not let any eac else have the boards ant
Lad SOM five or six Hundred dollars wortl
Of FIRE III, oi! a.. on board The ship under
sand that tl,cy have goIc to the copsu
.,nd sworn that they had nothing to get
home y it'll and wi=he.l to go home Oh roy
.gnme:e expense, Wien they have lumber
enough to build ii large house and store
and several hundred gallons of kerosine
Gil, here on the building spo; ofthe colony
and boastel Oh board The ship, that they
had more than one thousand dollars in
gold with them. Now what dependence
should be put in the stories Of such men
even ifthey swear to them on Il stack OF BIZ