The Portland daily press., 1867-11-05

follows: - -ss-a.s-a.asasa.s
The American excursion steamer Quaker
Guy arrived here to-day from Jaffa, in Pales-
Tine. All the passengers are well.
The Quaker City brings about 80 or 40 ofold
Adams's American Colony dupes. Others
have deserted before, and II have died since
the foolish expedition landed in Palestine a
year ago. Fifteen still remain outside the walls
OF Jaffa, with Adams, the prophet. These Is
are all that are lett of the original 160 that
sailed from Maine IL months ago. to found a
new colony and a new religion in Syria, and
wait for the secoud coming of Christ The
+ coonist have been sadly d ssappointed The
! colony was failure, and Christ did not come.
The Colony failed on account Of heavy taxes
and poor crops77a discrepancy between the all
nanac and the Book of Revellations interferred
with the Second Advent Adams, the Prophet
of God got drunk in September, 1866, and re-
mains so TO this day. It is to be hoped that
ne Will see the error OF his ways when he gets
sober. ~ thstAl t.it .aiEWHi7tf va. + ~ ,
The famous Adams colonization expedition
may be considered as finished, exiting uished,
and ready for its obituary. The 15 want 10 90
home badly enough, but they have got no MON
ey, are in debt to Adams, and must stay and
work for him. SO ends one of the strangest
chapters in American history. This man
Adams Is shrewd man, aud a seductive talk
or. He got up new religion, and went about
preaching it in the State Of Maine and there.
aboutsa-I have asked several of these COLOR
lsts on board the ship what its nature was, but
Ghey are singularly reticent on the subject
they speak vaguely Of a food which was prom
lsed, but turned out to be drOuth; they do
not say what the flood had to do with their
salvation, or how it was going to prosper their
religion. They talk also of the long-propbeei-
ed assembling of the Jews in Palestine from
the four quarters of the world and the restora-
ton OF their ancient power and grandeur, but
they do not make it appear that an immigra-
toni OF Yankees to the Holy Land was con-
templated by The old prophets as a part of that
programme; and now that the Jews have not
fswarmed,' yet one is left at q loss to under
stand why that circumstances should distress
the American colony of Mr.. Adams. X can
make neither head nor tail of this religion, L
have been told all along that there was strong
free-love feature in it, but glance at the col
onists OF both sexes on board this shin has
swept that notion from my mind
I Mr.. Adams preached his new doctrine, and
gathered together a little band of 100 men,
women and children last year, and sailed for
Jaffa, in Syria. They were simple, unpretend.
ing country people, nearly all from one county
i Washington in Maine, and received Adams's
extrayagant account of the beauty of the para
disc he WIS taking them to- and the richness
of the soil with full confidence MANY of the
colenists brought horses.i and all manner of
farming implements, and all seem to have
started with fair amount of money! Adams
became custodian OF all .the funds. 4 They
could not have selected a better--he has got
them YETI He had no money when he Started
out as aprophet, but now he is in reasonably
comfortable circumstances. and his colonistsl
are reduced to poverty The first crop of the
colonists did not return them even the seed
they put IN the ground. This year they raised
what is considered in Syria very good crop
seven bushels of wheat TO the acre (the natives
call season like this a "Biessed yeaf'')--b,it
they had sowed twoa bushels of seed To, the
acre they had to save two bushels out for next
years planting, rents and taxes took rather
more than the balance, and so no fortunes were
made. In Palestine the Government takes
one fourth Of the the gross yield, and what Is
left must be saved for seed. Forei eDers Jnnst
rent land, they cannot own it. Thecolonist
who raised the best crop this year lost $500 on
it, He thinks if he had raised better one il
would have beggared him. Irrigation would
make the rich plain of Jaffa yield astonishing
crops OF wheat, but at the same time it would
make it yield still more ASTONISHING erons of
thorns and thistles seven feet high and. there
fore, on the whole, it would be unwise to irri-
gate, even if one had the facilities for it. "a
For one year, under the flaming sun of SYRIA.
the eoionists have struggled along, lnoneyIess.
disheartened and hopeless The
prophet treasurer, Adams has had to support 4
them mostof the time, becaaseo he could not \
help himself He is glad TO get rid of any that 1
leave him, no doubt, and they are glad enough
to get away from the filthy, thieving, miserable
horde of pauper Arabs that have infested their
paradise" like vermin for so many months
Poor Adams himself has suffered much
Our Consul at Jerusalem has been obliged to
imprison him twice for various reasons; his
lambs, whom he was trying SO hard to lead
to heaven by a new road, have grumblad
sore and sighed for the fiesh-pots of America;
his crops hays come to naught and even the
wife of his bosom, instead of comforting him in
his season of affection, would deprive him of
the poor consolation Of getting drunk. He
has had a harder run of luck than almost any
prophet that ever lived, because, in addition to
his mere ordinary sufferings, he has had the
humiliation of seeing all his prophesies go by
default 1t cannot be otherwise than disgust.
ing to prophet when his prophesies don'tfit
the almanac. t9f eEaynr .gta - .7r
The Quaker City has now become an emil
grant-ship for fanatical pilgrims from the Ho-
ly Land. What Is to be the next chapter in
her eventful history,
What have said about the Adams expedi-
ton gotfrom the Adams refugees themselves,
and have no doubt it is entirely correct. The
names Of those who are passengers by the
Quaker City arc as follows: ifa9 tiIH
Mrs. p. w. Tabbutu,r -.A-Tabbntt Miss
Drusiila Ward, Moses w. Leighton, Mrs. Nan
cy s. Leighton, M. B. Leighton, G. w. Ames.
z Corson, Misses D., d., and L. Corson. Leon
ard Corson, Mrs. G. M. Corson, Mrs. c. H.
Witham, f. M. Witham, E. X. Emerson, John.
A. Briscoe, Mrs. Charlotte A. Briscoe, Misses
Lizzie @. and Julia Briscoe, Charles E.. Burns
j. B. Anes and wife, A. Norton and wife, RI
Norton, q, c. Norton, e. Norton, L. P Norton,
2 r. Emerson, Mr.. Rogers and WIFE ias M
z About half of the above list pay their own
way The other half are provided with funds
raised for the purpose by various United
States COnsuls in the Levant. The refugees
propose to go by English steamer to Liverpool
and thence home to America. ~
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