The New York Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1870, Page 8

8 NEW YORK DIAMONDS. five or six young mj Two ef ‘or 40, thom bankt erie, ‘They are Messia, Wood, Grice, . Seuningnel, "1 wou wees Bh ony Bad Ung mon Megara, Heys yn. News fro ja CAN | den and Ritohe- She f the tan ne aoe, Afrtean | ie ince Gta gue Diamond ends, ot tne Hole in the —nave ‘constituted them: solves @ Company to start a hotel on & Tl > ig Ng ab the ft ‘They are pow having male elds. building, which 1s to serve as a bowling alley aud a bihard room, ‘They take with them tWo billiard tables, voolle cooks, grog ad Wv., and all the neces- sarica for weir trade. Work and “Finds” Durivg Fourteen Days— The Sparklers Shipped in Large Quan. titiee—A Lucky Dutchman—Govern- ment Control—Society and Reli- gion at the Cape. The Firat Dini wile {From the Natal Mercury Sept. 24, Jn June, 1867, the first Known South African dia. mond was discovered, and purchased for £60) by the Governor of the Cape Ooloay. In co ees of several circutasiances Which need not 0@ detailed By way of Furope we have our newspaper files | from the Cape of Good Hope, dated at Cape Town | up until the beginning of tire present year. Last on the ath of October. The Journals supply news | May an oflicer of her Majesty's Twentieth regiment, é arrived in Maritzburg with a parcel of valuable dia from the interior of the colony fourteen days later. monds uneartued by & party of Natal diggers who vo — had been working quietiy on the banks of We The Diamond Fields, Diaginas, ard Finds, | Vai river ior some, month et auanenin ineae D u . | gems were not pndlicly ex was ai em he ngs pie Bayer Geod Hope) Sian- | Hod thse thoy gouprivel about forty stones, Ono lard, Oct. 4) | belng @ gem of abouy forty carats, aud tho whole ‘The events of the past fortnight have becn ex- | being Variously estimuted at a vaque of front Sih ee ceedingly interesting, whe we place on one site | ne iene Fe ation of South africa, the receipt of the war news, and the reports from | to the fact that there was, Indeed, withia thelr reach the diamond fleldson the Vaal river. The a tamond \ ® source of uutold, because indegnite, and tupslcy: Aiveoveries have been very large during that period, | 1abie, vine dope colony, wie has been aptly caited | ‘and the vaine of the diamonds shipped from colonial | 4 diamond fever” idly beake, ett, cause { ports convey better, perhaps, tan the detalls of the | every clas of the IMhabliauty, causing (he Mase Aiscovertes how valuable the nds have been. By | Pov tiie oficer to get Folouse, (x01 bis Fegunental the No@eman, which leaves for home to-day, was | Gites, the merehant lo discard his ledger, tho clerk shipped trom Algoa Bay diamonds valued at £11,000, | tool, the farmer to quit ms felds or ts | and } pa the erin me to abandon his calling, the | she has on board besides three boxes of | idier to take to toll—-causing al! hearts to bear with Giamonds, the value of wnich ts not stated. And | one common emotion—the desire 10 test the chances further than this we are told that there tsa con- { of “ils new lottery oF the soil. alignment of diamonds valued at £20,000 already at Port Elizabeth, and will be sent home per Northam by Messrs, Mosenthal & Co, The finds during the fort- as welearn from the diggings, have been, at The Vaal, a diamond of $0 carats, of superior quality, by @ Dutchman; one of 734 carats, and one of 20 odd carats by a man named Miller, a Bloemfontein wagonmaker. On the 8th of September, at the Ja retonvein digzings, eigut diamonds were dist red, one weighing 24% Carats, & perfect gem oO! octanetronal shape, valued at £1,600, Two days after this ten more Glamonds were fennd at tlie same piace, making in ali twenty-two diamonds for the three days. During the week no less than Ofty- three were exhumed at Jaggersfontein, amd there are only thirty diggers at work at the place, Mr. W. Burghoe, of Graaf-Reinet, found @ diamond valued ui £3,000 on the Vaal river, and reports that an 50 carat diamond and one of °6 carats had lately ween Fouudon the Pniel side. A brother of Mr. W. Webb has aiso pickea up & diamond sald to be of the valne of £200, and a gentleman writes trom the diggings (0 airiend under date September 12, 1870, ITEMS FROM AFRICA. The following Items of general news from Atrica are collated from our tiles from the Cape of Good Hope, dated to the 4tu of October, to hand by way of Europe:— . Rains have fallen ali over the *ountry, and the @rass is again springing up fresh and green, The Colonial Council stands prorogued to the Ist November, and if it is to meet then the elections will have to take place at once, They will be very spirited. ‘The “battle of the routes’ to the diamond fields is being we'i fougnt kere, A prize of ten guineas has been paid for an essay setting forth we advan- ; tages of the Natal route to the diggings. On the 20th uitimo a disastrons fire ocecurred on. the Waterloo sugar estate, The neuse ofthe man: ager (Mr. Johnston) was burned to the gronad and here, the discovery Was not syateiauically followed | ; ; HERALD, WEDNESDAY But a very few months have clapsed since the terary world was ringiag with the pame of a new work by “the author of ‘Comngsby’ "~ for such was the designation that the critics and reviewers pre- | ferred to giva to the sabject of onr present sketch, as | & tribute tothe ablest and most graphic of ‘his poltti- cal novels, The Right Honorable Benjamin Disraeli is now still betrer and more widely kuown ag the ook, since by that remarkable predacton he bas more powertully imMucness tho minds of his con temporaries than by al! ce rest of his wr.tton exforts | puttogether, So usiversally, indeed, Mas the mluence ‘of Lotnas’ bean folt, in tho politics | Literary circles of Rurope and America, that, in spite | of opposition hore, detraction there, and hesitating | incredulity everywhere, some of our wisest invel- ! jects are in doubt whether tho work was simply a | predietion or, in fact, & motive power in the sur- prising events whic haye broken down one great arwed empire and built up anether within the last five montns, However thar may be, “Lothate” how unquestionably made a deep impression on the mind of the reading public im every country to winch it has penetrated, end, to say the least of it, has proven to havo been a wonderful foreshadowing of what hung ominously ever the European sysiem as it existed in the winter of 1869-70, while at the saine time It 1s acknowledged by the majority ef Judges to be the crowning masterpiece of I¢ author's carcer a4 a writer whose fluent and graphic pen and most ably contested Parilamentary struggles of our age. WS PREPACE AND ‘THR CRITICS, ‘The interest which the success of “Lothar? has revived In the entire record of Mr. Dieraelits genius has indoced him to write a spectal preface to a re- cent collective edition of all Nis works, and In that document ne has again pro- duced @ genuine “sensation” by the candor and directness with which he tells the story of his Iiterary atns and struggles, At the very outset Mr. Disraeli brushes aside witha vivacity that mdicates the present or recent smarting of a ,Stiug semewhere in his own flesh that class of Pseudo critics whose only chance even for notoricty, Which most of them, in despair of anything better, are willing to accept im leu of celebrity, consists in finding fault, Mo consigns them to the Tophet of of others “whose public fe has not exactly realized that on tuat day a diamond was plc di all the Turniture destroyed, up by a atal company mplening. 83 Car, ‘The Natal Tiines reports Miteen bales of ginned and valued at £20,000, and a Mr. Shin | cotton, grown by Mr. Florey, were disposed of by Natal, bad that morning picked up a diamond | the market masier on Thursday mornlig, Sepiem- of 1M}s cares lt 18 impossible to give any | ber 1, at eight and a half pence per poumd. Other Uke a correct list of the jucky diggers, batthe abo will convey what the finds have been like. wive tn con m one or two extracts from the letiers Of diggers to shew the difference of feeling entertained by ‘hose Who have worked af tie ticlds, s 3. One of Mr. George Reed’s party writes to a rela- tive in Port Elizab der date Gong Gong Dig- | cotton offered was not sold, On dit that Major Erskine, our yenerable Celontal Secretary, awed nearly sixty, is avout to wed the daughter of a gatiane colon!st, a member of the late Legislative Council, The bride elect is sevencveen and a half years old. Sunday, the 4th ultumo, Durban and some oiber voust districts Were visited by a very severe hail- lugs, September ‘Lean tell you low of pecpia , Mt Wii te said they think to maké Lots of money up | STW. The ad fell thick and. fast, aud in a few bere. There ave some Who Will make money—per- | Moments had covered the ground to a depth of several inches. Some of the pleces of hal! were ) larger than plgeon’s eggs, ‘This was the most severe hailstorm which had been experienced In Durban | for many years. It gave people an opportunity of | enjoying teed champague, Iced wine, 1cod beer, | sherry cobbler and iced everything. Political excitement is very gre:t in the colony. | ‘There are two parties in ue country who are each | fighting for the upper hand. The one party is com. camp. J think th are about 6,000 people— | posed of those who approve Of the present policy of en, WoMEeR ans © niacindéed. I think all who } the Legislative Council, Which has resulted in a dis- ing io do down below shoula stay Where | solution of the House; which bas rendered all legis- they are; bul Uivre who have nothing to do, und | lation in the matters of harbor works, Inbor supply, Nothing vo lose, Unis Is he plage for them, and they | railways and such like reproductive works tmpos- veer to be ihe lucky iellows, There are many peo- | sidie, on account of the “dead lock” caused by taeir pic up ere who | know, 1 shali nob say louger | squabble with tle governwent over Lhe question of bape ene in a hiundred—vut We have to work very hard here. We wave Washed seventy-s.ve cart louds of ground and have found othing; but Jack Shep- part has found a smali dlamoud, worth about £3. A vary tne one was feund alongside of us to-day, ‘Worth about <100, Yesterday an eld woman went behind & bush, aud wate sivtug, discovered just beneath the stiriace @ diamond worth about £720. We about ties fom the main than the Ist or December, Newton and myself in- | retrenchment, aspiring youth would be most iikely te i ee oe home then. There we may have | A telegram from Durban, dated on the 23¢ of Sop- | refect from the new pageantry of iife itis very hot 1 the summer Up | tember, says:—The telegraplile news we have re- here. they ts You cab Cook Meat ou the sOLe4 | ceived of the first encounter between the opposing with the sun. There is nich drinking going 00 ot | ormies in Europe and the defeat of MacMahon has the vain dreams of their fussy existance,’ and of “the race of Dennises, Oldmixons and Carils, wifo flatter themselves that, by systematically libelling some emineut personage of their times, they have a chance of aescending to posterity.” The former of these the triumphant anthor and stateaman could afford to utterly overlook, and the latter kind he {eit &2 malicious pleasure in disappointing. HIS EARLY Works, Having premised this much, our author proceeds to invite us to the intimacy of his closet, and, once comfortably seated there, we are most candtly told the origin and aims of nis Mterary efforts, “Vivian Grey,” watch all of us recall with 80 much pleasure among the remembrances of our own early years of gay romance and giowing fancy, he, rather too dls- daipfully, we think, puts apart frein all the rest as puertle, even while admitting that it nas been one of the public's greatest faverites and still commanis continual fresh editions. It was written in 1826, and portrayed the frst glowing pictures of s ciety that the imagination of a gifted and and love unfolded to hiv. “Contariai Fleming” aud the “Wondrous Tale of Alroy,” pubiished tn 1852, “author of ‘Loubair,’” ram the title of bis latest | ad wellasin the Bas brilliantly seconded his eloquent and persuasive | j tongue th some of the most important, most varied those “who do notsapprove of successful books, | particularly if they nave failed in the same style;? | NOVEMBER 23, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, : neritetive | also obtained eave, | par guTHOR OF S“LOTHIR” AND BIS Chureh, but be not ate a oma ‘Catholic, wet STARTLING RELIGIOUS FANATIC and the ay! so whch i batons 3 wn #0 su) Sosa Ue eee RIE | sr” Sorcenlamn Mipiilinked jplscopal body, He hts friends from the Ry : be for, bu in South Africa. st paige A ll ten dlin'ol Sab baiiocen SBianih woe yon Gia ering Extraordinary Revelations Concerning a New ‘The ing on ub ik of ii tefoat at Gaile & re have found that instrumentality race, Beligious Sect, Called the “‘Chil- | ao organ Belg et fan eral dren of Jesus’—Blasphemy Run saly'the embodiments of pagan ceremonies and erecta, pea | AL thia pout the learned ua well as eloquent Mad—Mormoaiem Outdone. | guthor breaks off into a sition on THE DOCTKINE OF RACES, and in 4 manner which may be convincing to him- | peli, butis net, by pny means, clear to the gencral reader, endeavors to show that the confusion at pre- | sent existing in the minds of men on the Bub. (From the Cape Town (South Africa) Biandard and Mall, August 16.) The existence of religious seot at Wellington, i dect of | rel ber v4 s iy pena 3 ene commonly styled the Anabaptists, but uamed by Huis “Ske Diseacd ae veaconary, aud re. | themselves Children of Jegus, te not altogether un- ols, rather than wine, the sympathies of | known to our Engilsh readers. The case against ‘those who feel that German investigation, like ‘newond, heard in tl % tue vigorons baud shat burdishos pure gold,’ but | Sroenew ine ‘Boprenie Ooutt ‘about’ makes the truth shine out the more brightly, while | Jear go, hited the curtain which had hiaden from Belence a ery he ae Sieraaeay ee pe Publtc knowledge the proceedings of these fanatica, Hiumined depths o: universe hitherto beyond | pupitc morality and publio decency were shocked he Kan ot fee Sieh, eee alt GUUl- | yy tne revelations which then took "piace, but sluce )” For ali the reves and Eoxene eel vane see ‘nen the doings of these people have been more ed intercourse between men and nations; | Prominently shown up by the publication, by o1 ; ful appliances to cencentrate iabor, save waste of ) by one { po ee aud matetlat aid accelerate rapldity aud | Who had been a member of thie sect, of wnat takes ‘ope of set and ay ats Fy bbe sOnUpicaog < place among them under the cloak of religion, Pub- | Wants, and cousequently of products; « ion | lic journalists have sometimes duties to perform | of languages inte countrics other than those where pe } iene e mney tue diversity of commerce, the sub- | Palnfal to themselves, but which in tho cause division of wades, the relinoment of the arts, the | of soctety and propriety must be performed, It is ated not ealstn that a citetiod | Witt no pandering to sensationalism that we refer to nine-tenths of mankind, but above all for t] to the proceedings of these Wellington fanatics, but simply with the hope that by the publication of What takes place many who would otherwise fall Victins to the seductive prospectus scattered through the world te lure converts to the “City of | breaking down of all barriers between brethren, and | for the reauzauion of a geuuime brotherhood instead ; Of what is termed aliost satiric one weuld sometimes think, “the human family,” have brought about—to mee: ail this the noble author has “a4 RECONSTRUCTED TORY PARTY! : only to suggest for oytand, ‘and some strange by- Goa, South Africa, ” will be piaced on thelr guard. \ iia, Sahioteee shar it, 5er aw aoa to * ps ‘The history of this sect can be very briefy stated. would be, in ) a lame and imporeut conclu- | Beme four or five years ago one Groenewou, “ i ” - : § 1 sion,” were not the logic of the writers Liustrations, m4 | 93 the public iatnd pursues 16 for itsclf, sienzer | MA Who came out from Holland as a pedir; sousenin meg Sian ae own es ros Cree pes. married the daughter of a Dutoh editor, sixteen reader Who imbued wi H8-} years lis senior; became missionary of the Dutch spirlt of the time will dud that inLothai,” which is : | 38 some sort the grand epltomizing of a'! tho various | Reformed Churen; became dissatisbed, seceded, peaieee bri 4 tt aa ete peren [oa pie together with Van der Rijst, and became apostie to | Yaclt has “builde r than K1Le W??—S1CO the heathen; separated from Van der Rijst and bad | . ; | probing the weaknesses of medixvallsm on 3 the one hand aud rebuking the extravagances | D!msclf and wifo rebaptized; and at last fe bo oie Boel Ra PB became a sect-founder, revelator and prophet aps wnt gly, 8 he ‘ore us, im outlines | enjoying direct communion with God;” left somewhat misty a4 yet but beautiful, the temple of " so the future, in which God shail sit, the 5 in ‘and | this colony for Rurope. Consequent upon his 7 tho terror hh ge Sere. pong an ine artival there ‘tracts’? were sent from the press | no louger crouching, either under the lash of titled | painting in glowing pictures the new creed of | taskmasters, or the fatal, mevitable burden of hope- 7 : Jess, thankless toll, shall uplift his gave, alee. which he was the high prophet. His efforta were grateful, adoring, to a new heaven of Igit and | crowned with the greatest success. In Switzer- j moroy from @new and beauttited Harih. “Sic ur | Jand two merchants, whose philauthropy and piety a were known throughout the land, embraced the faltn, They were possessed of wealth, and 1m de- Voting that to the new creed they established a Soundation not dificult to build up almost any fabric on, It was thelr wealth which was to achieve this Fees revolution In the Christian world, and It was { but tatr that they should become Pu That A Scotch Professor on the “ Siznificance” and Inteut of the Wo: Professor Blackkie writes as follows to the editor of the Edinburg Seotsman:— EDINBURG, Oct. 27, 1870, Srx—In yonr paper of this day you seem to be perplexing yourseif and your readers about what uiwuys appeared to me a very simple matter, viZ, ie purport and significance of Disraeli’s tast nove). | It is certainly what the Germans call a ‘“Yendenz roman,” and tbe tehdency of it lies pretty much on | | the surface. Lotiair, the hero, Is a Scolch nebie- | | man, represented as & very pure-minded, sensitive and impressible, but, In voittion and action, saue- what feebie personage. This ts no fault of the novelist, they who were unacquainted with the Cape colony Should lave seiecied Welitngton for the New Jeru: salem cannot be conceived, but we trace in that. cholce vhe work of the master hand, under whose eos spirtt this new “church” has arisen. Where im the universe cowd 4% more appropriate spot bave been jound than Welliugtont A glorious climate, beyond the busy hum of nen, but with a perfect line of sicain communication with the world. Dut a wise design; for bad ” | With steamers bi-monthly, @ railway to the Mi OF snes Gotkateat ae one spot, the people of the country unobirusive and not he would not have been a fit person to be | Mwisitive, no better place could have been found for the purpose of the “prophet ctuef."” Wish those among Whom these seductive tracts circuited who knew of Wellington? and he knew full well how to brought under the operation of the agencies which ; i work upon him throagh tne book. — In this respect | you have a periectly analogous hero in Goethe's | vw eistel turn to account the climate, the scencry and the our stout cricketers and boaters ai ox- | 18 the manner in which the tempting bait was fora and would look down | ‘hYown out ‘that the Lord Jesus will gather his peopie in WeHington, as the country of God is for those who are born of Cod, and therefore hear His voice, & truth ax undeniable as that God jed His peopio Israel throughout the wilderness -to the mountain of God, Smal. Israel, after the flesh, 18 a Tnimatare likeness of the incourparabiy more giori- ons Israel] in the Spirit, On the mountain of God Comibrine upon as “extremely mild.’’ The object of the book 18 to show how certain mtellectual agencies, pro- minent m these thes, act upon such a mind. Virst in iis list ia Popery. failacy of authority and show, to which, from various causes, our anstocracy are especially prone; and with regard to this part of (he work J 1utux It cannot be denied that te novel- the the upper camp, Some fellows, when they thd a diamond, do not work wut they have drank it out.” ‘Two letters recerved from other Vert Elizabeth Giggers give rather gioomy accounts of the fields. One states thai he had been working avout two | rT and bad got nouning; the other reports that had met with be success, and tata good deal of Kickness wae prevalent at the flelda, A Queen's Town ‘igver writes:—“Most of the dig- gers look dispiited wad unhappy, end in reply to my query, ‘What luck have you had,’ the answer was io nearly cages the same—*We have scarcely paid expense Of course th are exw ons, Out they are very few. It ts estunaied that diamond @gging has bither‘o paid only ubout five per cent of hore enuaged In 1.” Mr, Kichard Impey writes ag followa, ucder date Vaal river, August 26, 1570:—'‘Nothing very partica- | Jar to report excepting that the sind of diamonds bas been upusuaily jarge. On the 23d a beautiful atraw-colored diamonu of 69 carats was found on | she Pnici side by oae De Kock. On the v4th one of 6 carats, siraW-colored, was turned ont by Parkes, | who jeft aimost immediately with his prize for Eng- | dand. One of 19), carais, also slaw Color or gpl | orange, was found oy Diggins. Many others of 16, 42, 1, and ali weights aud shapes have been found d@uripg the past week: in fact, the find bas been greater than in auy othe: week previous. Parties gull Keep pouring iu continually from all parts, | Fine fis.; are caugitin tue river, 1 saw yesterday morning a large barvel, about four fee: six lunches | been read with wbsorbing interest, It is in such cases as this that we feel the evil of our isolated po- sition. Here we are, a body of 17,900 Engilsh people, with the knowledge that a terri! war is beng waged in Europe, and yet we must wait for another were the fruit of two years’ journeying in the Kast and along the shores of the Mediterranean, tn these the breath of Judea and of the Italan clime suurs on every page, The land of prophecy and the land of | } Macrorie’s church, was married to Miss Addison, month before we can receive further details. We feel the want now of a telegraphic system by which we contd be brought into closer and more speedy communication with the mother country, ‘The Church and whe People—Bishop Colenso's Disciples and the Reguinr Clery. {From the Cape Town om Good Hope) Standard, , There has been snother ecclesiastical scandal. Some time ago the Rey. Mr. Rebinson, of Bishop daughter of br, Addison, district surgeon of this town. Bishop Macrorte formed the marriage | service. Captain ©., and Mrs, Har- ford, were present, they having been invited by the | bride’s friends to take partin the ceremony, ‘7 sacrament was dl by the Bispop, Captain and Mrs. Hart nsely When | Bishop Macror he ned away and | refused to administer the sacrament tothem. They are supporters of Bishop Colenso, Captain Harford demanded from Bishep Macrorie ag explanation of his conduct, and a long and somewhat heated cor- respondence ensued between these two geutiemen. Horsewhipniug and shooung were spoken of, and | the protection which a vlericat coat arforded to the | Jong, and iwauy fine yellow tisk. You have proba- bly uot seen a barbei. Itt: a fish with a very large bead, with four long pieces of sofi muscle on the upper and lowcr jaw. fhe head is the broadest art, from which it goes tapering down, giving it ¢ appearance of & large tadpole; has no rio bone ana — to ioe? a a and an s good eating and easily canght, The yellow a Bauch prether ten oo Fonte a Pare ia hs oll good ¢ “ing, but su of bones. There aré © eels, Nor are Uicre avy in any troutary of tue Orange river,” , pee ~w RRORITTS. ‘Mr, L. Dreyfus, of Port Elizabeth, lately received ci ry a parcel of very Une diamonds, One who had ihe pleasure of in hem reports that rhough none of them are ge, Be had never seen a finer of them being pure, well shapen nis, water. One vf them is a handsome etgne, which ts conside the Migst va. lof. esis ee ee mean Besides these diamonds it {3 teported that Mr. Frans Ross, of Philipstown, has made a great pace gain, having purchased a diamond of good shape and ine waier, weightog 65 cavats, froma Kafiy w map, for £250 /a mercuandise and cash. Th Much better than digging. The woman sio‘ed Bhe had picked it Wp in the neighborbood of bron. DHE GOVERNMENT OF THE FIELDS. The actioa of the coloniat government with refer- ence to the diamoue territory ha been une praised by te wicie of the colonial pre anticipated it wul be by a large mayoiity of diggers, They have refused most deck anything to do with the fransvaair magistrate sent there by that goverument w reughiy handled, and had ‘The latest news we have from the fields is that the Free State was proceeding with Its measures for an- mexation of the territory. Within this week we shall hear how the government notice was received by that republic, ‘The foliowing paragraphs are from the King Wil- Nain’s Town Gazette:—Mr. Babe, agent for the sale Of the celebrated Winchester repeaters, arrived in King Witiiam’s Town on Thursday evening trom the diamond ticlds. He brings with him seventy-five small diamonds, mostly weighing avout half a carat, and neariy all of the first water. Some of them are Pope ones gems—one of them straw color. in ition to these Mr. Babe has with him some duariz and a qui ty of valuable stones, among which are rubies and garnets. Mr. Babe's party has een and is still working on the Pniel side w tolerable success. indeed, he assures us that every ciaim on that wide of the Vaal has yletded diamonds of the smaiier sizes. Mr. Babe estimates the number of diggers (not the whole population of ihe felds; at about 2,000, AN NATAL. A letter from Natal, dated at Dorvam on the 4th of September, says:— We are diamond mad. Not as mad, perhaps, as the people of the sister culuny, but yet mad enougn In ail conscience. Every Saturday’s mat frou the Free State is iy looked for and its news ‘vora- clously devonred.”” When we have 80 devoured it we part among onr fellows with excited feelings aid hearts gearing fr the banks of the Vaal, Whit wonder that it should tugs OF euch huge diamonds—of fortunes p! mM amoment. By last Setucday’s mall we ud the felds, mr. further snecessful, and has atreaty, after only a few weeks’ work, picked up siX or seven Giamoids. | e | and Heutevanis, ‘The man on the claim next to Bim has upearihed o of seventy-seven carats. Mr. W. Marshali, of Maritz- burg, has been the fortunate finder of nine aia- hionds, ene value of which is not, however, stated. ‘The party known as Wolliter’s party (of four youug men from Maritzburg) have found more diamouds. Hat most siarting of all comes the news Urat Cap- lain Lucas, the resident magistrate o: Alfredia, Who is absent on icave, has picked up & diamond of 100 carits, vained at £60,000, This requires confirma- fen, bat it ia stated in a letter received in Durban from a Natalian at the diamond fields. What won- der that we are mad. . YARTIES OFF TO THF DIGGINGS. Several partics have left Natal for the fields since my last. ‘The iirst was one from the Polut, cunt of Jour or five individuals. hen followed Captain Bayiey and Mr. Waiyil partie: Mr. Gordge’s party; ana this young men js to start, parations for an immediate exoans. Mr, Miller, the ‘resident magistrate of Durban, has ob: tained leave of absenes, and about the ist of y month he will start with a party for the fields, Aly, Jicol, second tidewaiter and Joeker ta the customs 3 a party of Numbers are making pre- of siones, most | of the first | raw-colored | Notmany, however, were sick, and only two who of the | had the db imousty | go when we hear of find- | ings {rour some of the Natalians who are now at | Hickman, of this town, has heen | tuln Hartord has pubilshed this cor- respondence in pamphiet form. NAVAL INTELL News from the South Atlantic Squadron | items. | RiO JANEIRO, Oet. 25, 1870. month there has been no vessel of the American naval service in this harbor, At thal ume j the sailing sioop-of-war Portsmouth, Commander | Semmes, was here. She grrived here from Santa | Catharina, where sue had been lying a unmbs weeks, the smallpox having broken out on board, Por nea i ere form, All the ailieted ¢ whip until they had enttreay | vhen she came ip here no vestige of | ned. Commander Semmes re- and then sailed for Pernambueo | arly ia! and Ene | expecting their States, and will ; ve Paui, of the to the Uni Ny « return hone e ted edly Had tiem here when they come back | ownecounty. How in oligarchy had been substiuted for a from Halla. | ii and a ow-ininded and bigoted lunaziciam | The Lancaster, the fageh!p of Admiral Lanman, wished in the name of relly liberty, were problema comt Ing the United States South Atlantic | long to me insoluble, but which early interested mo. Bat 1 the | What most attracted’ iny musing, even as a boy, were the | Was in this port “Auge (Oy ter | time Lieute: detached irom the Laacaster anc p. ceerted to the United States by the United State, mas| sveamer Merrimac, Tae Luncaster sailed late ; do Angust jor Montevideo, where sie hus since re- mained, Adunra! Lanman «leemiug it pest to re- | | Inain there on recount ef the disturbances on shore | between the Blancos and the Coletados. Assistant | | Surgeon Bruby was lately a irom the dau | | caster and went to the United 51 3 in September | ! the United States mail steamer South Amertea. | By the North America Avsistant Surgeon Auilck has | | arrived, ordered to duty on the Laacaster, and he | | takes the next steamer for Montevideo, Jt I# un- | j derstood that propositions bave been made to the | Bragilian government to parehase the naval stores | | now in possession of the Unlted States government at this place, a8 orders have been received to close | ; Wp the American naval storchouse, Tain uot able to | say whether the proposition to tke Brazitian autho- | rities has been Iavorably received or pot. ‘hae United States nava! sieamer Wasp 1s at Montevideo. Vice Admiral Rowan has been detached from the Astallc feet and awalts orders, Licutenant Commander Kelis 18 detached from the | receiving stp Vermont and ordered to the com- | nana ef the Pawnee. |. The Navy Depariment has received @ telegram | from A. G, Clary, captain and senior officer, dated | Key West, Nevember 16, stating that M. Kellogg, a ; chief engineer in the navy, Was killed Ina fracas on shore by Dr. King, who was arrested by te civil | auinorities, ANY INTELLIGENCE, | The Army Recora Board, now in session at the War Department, Washington, will probably com- plete ite business im about two weeks, Upwards of one hundred and fifty officers, principally captains have been summoned for examina- tion on gestions touching Mielr qualifications for ofice, including the question of moral character, ‘The act of Congress increasing tac number of om- cers on the retired Het to three hundred, Instead of seven per cent, Is being carried intoeffect. there are three retiring boards ins New York, Leavenworth and applications for retirement w 80 uNmMeroens that ic was contemplated Lo ask Congress to enlarge the lst. in oraer to make room foe all the disabled of. cers; bul from the reports thus far the Board will not find more than eighty onlcers Incapacitated tor rervice from physical disabilities contracted in tite ling of duty. Cap! Sells has been relieved from duty as In- vt. Captain Kredertck ‘V. Bailey, unas is, at his own request, honorably discharged dian | elements of our ) yet he stirinks from the broad art are both present to the reader constantly be- cause their lore and thelr sanshine were in the heart of the author all the time while he wrete, Yotthe first ol Uhese works tell stillborn, as Disraeli himself so frankly tells us, until Gocthe, Heine and Beckford had given it the endorsement of their praist, and then the general public assented to what had all dlong been true, viz., that “Contarini Fieming™ 1s a book of rare artistlc beauty. after these came “Nenrietta Temple, the brightest, freshest, most enchanting leve tale In our language; and “Veneta,” a story of riper experi- ence and closer scholarship. With these 13 Indise solubly associated the memory of the author's two distinguished friends to wnom they were dedicated— Comte D'Orsay, the dazzling Alcibiades and Ad- Mitrable Crichton of his day, and Lora Lyndhurst, whose eloquence and erudition Disraell assures ug were, m the privacy of intimate friendship, no more carnestly treasured than were “the sweetness of his temper” and the “playiuiness of his bright and airy spiri These books were first given to the pudite in the year which saw the author launched on the high current Of politica! life in the Hoase of Commons, and tt was not long ere the rocking and buffeting of the billows there qnickened his active intellect to the Utterancs Of 14 Hopes and fears in that remarkabie series which at last gave to our author his most deci- ded literary distinction, TUB CONINGSBY SERLES. Here we deeid ttimperative to let him speak for Rimsclf as the surest M4 of guiding the readey to aa accurate comprehcis! Imjiortaiiee at loh of thé hat astilésman of undeniable power attaches to ilterary vehicles for even political thougut in our anxious, debating, changmg time:— ‘Coningsby,’ ‘Bybil’ and “ancred” form a reat that is to say, they treat of the same subject, and to complete that treatment. The orisin and ¢ political parties, thelr induence oj ple of this country, some pleture of the moral ani phy peo- sien! condition of that people, an some intimation of the means | by whied HHanleht we elevated wo Improved, were themes Whied a long engaged my mediation, a in o ibrary, and trained from early learned men who did hot shure the passions an diees of our pol And soclal life, 1 had wmiibi Bubjeets lidhood by presi n sui jons aliferent from’ those which geueratly prevail, and especially with reference to the hatory of our | po) and the br pur stiiions was national fn its c e my: tiou by witlel that whieh Keynote of the {resi song that was presently to attract the nnited chorus of a party which in various | forms and in various countries 1s dally acquiring foree. “Lhe derivation and character of political pares, the condition of the people which had been the consequence of them, dnd the duties of the Chureh as a main remedial agency in oui went state,’? were the chief ropics developed in vie oifrce | Works thus linked together, aud they established the influence of the writer beyond dispute. In these works, therefore, we wre enabled to detect the politico-phiiosoplical aims of Benjamin pisraelt ahd = measure the contour and calibre of his inteilect. The first are progressive and reforma- tory in one sense and conservative in another. The second are powerlul and enlightened, but not com. pretiensive enoough for the age in which they live und move, Brudition, experience ana a love of humanity have worked togethe eanthor ad prodaced great results. He 3 Lhe woes of mien aud nations eatailed pon them by mistaken government and the lack of real aonieal knowledge, ruth of codes an systems like those which, notwithstanding all their are solving the problem of human fat&in what is really “ihe New World.” He admits that | the ume fs “ont of joint,” and that the general aspect to those who have fati in the spirit- ual pature of man is dark and = distressful; he moans out that men “listen to doubts and even dentals of an active Providence,” and that what 16 styled as materialism fs In the ascendant, “while to those who believe unat an atheistical society, al- thongh it may be polished and amiable, hivolyes the seeds of anare'ly, the prospect is full of gloom.” TORYISM THE SALVATION OF THE TGR. Yet, even while not merely admitting but urging , Uns, ne Jears the settled ecclesiastical authority of the Roman Chiich on the one ad and the free spirit of What might be termed ‘American thoology?’ ou the other, Iu a word, after all his airy fights and all his golden phrases, he sinks pack at the last into British toryisu, There 49 hie high mountain, lis strong casile, the cloud. piercing Pisgah, from which he surveys the Canaan ‘of an English, and, consequently, a3 he would have At, OF A World-wid: Whar pis plains “f4 and with it the literary and political synitte of What has been written and periormed by Lie Kighk Jlon, Benjamin Disraeli, ‘The “fools on foots? who “still ask What Hainiet means” may cease their queruioud complainiag. The Octover mautlesto from Hughendeo Manor batuing, in one paragraph, against Chureh imaivotity andthe divine right of ariny. The Sopertutendent of the General Reerniiing Ser- w York is ordered to forward 700 reeruils ancisco, and the Superinteadent of the ervice is ordered to setid seveniy-mue Ww city. 4 We 6a or “Mary Au 10 spell it, J a8 ihe honorable Man presers ies pluiviy enough the rear bent fad Object Of uiiors niad, He is ihe Irena of established autherty, bur not in the oid few seURE; Le ts Joy wrOLress, WU us HY Fepublicaw; Le tie nsutntion had | become odious and that which was exclusive was presented | | a6 popular. “Coningsby; or, The New Generation,” was the | kings, and in ine other against that government | picture oi the Madonna, by Raphael; a large oi! puint- of the people by the people whicl is the seeret, after | Ing, Ife 4146, of the pastor, a pocketbook and valu- all, of Atadre Nacuera, and the mystoal “Mareune”? } able gold pen, together with a number of other ist has shown both knowledge and tact in the way in which tuls fallacy 18 made to insinuate ktse:f into the affections of tue sentimental young artis. tocrat. For this part of the Work, also, I thtok that the author deserves the thanks or all good Protestants, for he has shown here, better than many an experi theologian, how — an engine Romanism is whea cunningly sone to bear on a character of strong veneration, vivid imagination and hittle seli-assertion. The other agencies brought to bear on the hero are just What they ought to be as counteracting forces, Opposed to the sacerdotal absolutism of the Romisit Cuureh we have the worship of freedom and patri- otisuy combined with beauty in the heroine, Theo- dora. a character which may appear sirange to the frequenters of our fashionable saloons, but which was just as natural in Italy in the yenrs of the great italian straggle as Joan of Arc was in Krance in the days of our bellicose Henris. Alter the moral aud manly powers have been roused in is busom by the agency of this high-minded woman, ony hero is subtaltted to an altogether different treatment im the person of the beautiful Greek gins, who are al- ‘wats singlog when they are not laughing, and always laughing When they are not singmy. Than this embodiment of | Bree Hellenic sensuonsness and | Mlarious juveniiity of temper nothing could be more suitable to counteract the effect of the ausiere and celibate virtues which are the prime thems of Popish eulogy. Over and above all this the graud princt- ples of a Catholic human philosophy and piety are ; @hWaciated, 1a the third volume, by some Syrian Kage, If I recollect Ge deeaened section of the work which contains not a few passages which the best | theological and philosophical writers of the day | inight be proad to have composed. And the result | of the whole is that by these counter agencies the potent illusions of Romanism are dispelicd, and the rescued hero, now & professor of rational hnherty an ratiouat piety, marries, as a Britisa nobieman ough to marry, the fair daughter of one of his own title fraternity, aud worships, as many of the West men have worshipped, within the large liberties of the | Anglican Oh ‘TWENTY YEARS.” The Last of Gus Tristram—His Board Bill to be Paid by the Siate—A Home “By the Marain of the River.” Henry H. Wilson, alias Gns Tristram, aged about | thirty years, was placed on tial yesterday, in the Kings county Court of Sessions, before Judge Troy | and Justices Johnson and Voorhees, for burglary in | | the first degree, Tne prisouer is an old offender and a notorious criminal, who served a term in the Con- } | necticut State Prison for being implicated with some | of the Allen gang in the robbery of Adan’ | Express Company on the New Haven Railroad some years since, Affer bis release from prison he re- ; | turned to New York, ran round until the 19th of Oc- | tober fast, when he .o0k a trip over to Brooklyn for the parpose of taking his chances of making a haul ; here, At about half-past six o'clock im the | { the basement door, and shortly afterwards saw him | leave with @ bundle in bis possession. The officer | immediately PURSUED AND ARRESTED HIM, and found that the bundle consisted of a quantity of silverware, valued at $100, which Tristram had stoien from théhouse, Subsequent exanination re- vealed the fact that the burglar had forced open the basement door with a jimmy. As the family were in the upper part of the house at the time he was | enabled to “work’? unmolested and leave with hus pluuder, ‘Tristram desired to plead guilty to grand larceny, but the Distriet Attorney would pot accept the plea. He offered no defence, and, as the evidence was directly against him, the jury promptly returned a | verdict of guilty. Upon being arraigned for sen-.} tencoj the prisoner confessed that nis real name was ‘Tristram, and that he had served a term of five years in the Connecticut State Prison for the robbery of the Adams Express Company. dudga Troy sald that the prisoner had had an op- ortnaity to reform, but had not taken advantage of {e''The sentence of the Court was that he sould be | dmprisoned in vhe State Prison at Sing Sing for tue term of twenty years, Tristram, Who was visibly affected by the announcement, was remanded to jail preparatory to his being taken to Sing sing. ST. PATRICK'S CHUACH, LONG ISLAND CITY. The members of the Church of St. Patrick, Long Island Gity, met on Thursday afternoon last, at the houee of their pastor, the Rev. M. M. Marco, In order to express their appreciation of his services as a spiritual leader, and to present bim with ya- rious gills and @ me@re solid testimony of their good whl towards him. The first present was in tne Fbape of a handsome gold hunung case watch, of tn @ Vaine of $200, On the inside of the case was engraved “Presented to Rev. M. M. Marco, as a token of love, on bis virthday, by his friends from New York and Long Island City, November 17, 1870.” The other presents consisted of a large bronze statue—the Mether of Christ—a fine flower basket, a woagnificent silver fruit’ basket, with the articles. in the evening Father Marco was pre- sented With an address, elaborately eugrossed and miory. of the Lord was scen in visibie appearances, and it was like @ consuming fre on the top of the mountaig, and there were thunders and lighunings and a thick cloud upon we jonnt, and the volec of the trumpet ex- ceeding the _peopie that Was tn the camp trembled. And the Lord gave to Israel the law, Which Was the schoolmaster to bring them tu Christ, But i the city of God, which Jeho- ya has chose. before the foundation of the world for His spiritual peopie, mwhom 13 His deligat, there appeared the redection of Bis glory, uamely— Jesus, Who a8 @ spirit and the fulfiller of the law.” For two more extracts from these biasphemons productions, and We cast them away from us with loud; #0 that all ; Joathing:— ‘Blessed are they now, and bb goes weil wit them, ‘they work no more after the manner of the world; they gather uo more earinly treasures like the heathen; they troubie themselves no more Say like those Who have no Ilying God, What shall we eat? what shall we drink * aud wherewiin chal we be clothed? They do not any longer work in their telds with sorrow all the days of their lives; their wives, whe have become as fruitful vines by the side of thelr houses, have no pains when they are with child, and they are deiivered without sor- rows They are also nO more servants of their hus- bands, as if the Punishment of the transgression of Eve stilt rested apon them.” “And you, dear beloved brethren, children of Abraham uud of te promise, ye Messed of the Lord, Who stili smart under the bondage of Egypt, waiting in uprightness for the consolution of Israel, oar in the fetiers of civilization, in the fac- tories, the confined rooms, the garrets, or in work | eae 8 under the yoke of men and of sin; and who ong for the Iie with God m truth; free froin the bands of gm; Sree from the putrid breath of hypoc- risy; free from the heavy chains of the precepts of men; free in Jesus. Unto you the Lord says, and not wet Go out ol Babel, hasten! that ye be not par- takers of her sina, and ilut ye receive not of her prepared piagues. Pus on the power from on high, Which Is the gift of the Holy Ghost, after your old man, with tis affections and lusts, has been barred by baptisia, and if ye seek Jesus and only Him, then ye have noting to sear, Come! gather yourselyes with us around our exalted King, aittlng on the Throne of David at Zion, and ewoy with us his glory, @ glory as Of ine only begotien Son of the Father, fail of grace and tev “The Church of Jesus, ‘rhe Colony of God, Alrica, 8th August, b ‘threnghoot the pamphlets are quotations trom Scripture, turned with rare Ingenuity to suit we “prophets? anrumeat. Jt would nob pave been astonishing to wud that among the nncducate ignorant these plansible reasunings should Nave ob- tained converts, but It ig surprising to learh that the wealthy, the eda 1 the titled are the leadlug members of ius They profess happiness in them present extst aud that they do s0 can only be reasone:! gut b side. allon of the old pro- 3 Ing Olce placed 2 1000 ‘8 lug back. ‘to have be- dd to such ® Sect Once [3 to belong to it for- | for to go Inte the world to stand the Dram vf is repr 3 requires greater courage than many can and to enter society is impossible, One of the conditions, too, of meniber- ehip is that all converts must give up every worldly on the ladder tt Join “f ry thing they possess, and hand it to the prophets, | evening detective David Corwin, of the Cental | ty reenter th, world deni wound irave tobe fa the | Oflce, obser ved him enter the residence of Mr. | greatest poverty, without any prospect of getting | Robert M. Goodwin, No. 403 State street, py | Work where they are kuown, or without receiving & hand from any one, Under these circum- how wouid @ man with his family, having once fallen Into the clutches of the satats, escape from Welliugton. In all probabnity, therefore, if he left, he would perhaps live afew weeks in abject pov- erty, endeavoring to siruggie on, but at last give in, and from sheer distress returns to the ranks from which he deserted. 1018 this helplessness which is the propher's security and strengui, And we have a caso directly before na, A year ay! a haifago Mr. Augustus Schunke, al- lured by” the tempting ~ descriptions given, leit, his) employment in Switzerland, and with his wife aid daughter Jofed the fanatics, that Is to say, he joined them, but never took part In theie “revelations,” A few months in the colony, and he could remain no longer in their society, He lett them, and for @ whole year has been straggling on, dependent for his Hving on the sewing work done for the blacks, for the wnite peo- pie will not assisi them, or they are afraid to ask for Aagsistaice, because they are always held wp to scorn and scoffing as tncy paas throngh the atrects. It is to Mr, Schuake that the exposition of the goings on Of these sell-elecied saints ts owing. He tells ns that whcu he arrive in the colony he found the members of the gociety in a dreadful plight, and instead of ihe Paradise, Which he had so fondly anticipated, nothing but a large substantial built house, witha couple of acres of garden ground attached, Tee food given to the inmates varied according to the fancies of the prophets ex pro- phetess, and they ordered the meais as net sald they were commanded to do by “revelations. ‘They pretended that the commands were given them direct by the Almighty, tat they audiply helping AL heard His voiwe, and that He insiracted them -Whai todo, For instance, Groenewoud, sitting at table, would suddenly clove his eyes hysverica'ly, Yup the floor with his heels, and. thig would be the signal for two of the brother prophets to lay him on thon, while Kftking and groamng, be ve w pevell and paper handed to him, on b he would write what, he asserted was a ovi munivation from on high, It was only on the: revelations inat anything was done. No ore was al- lowed to work, except he sud he had ween told to do so, or some one else had been told to teil Lim to, The consequence of tits was that the: as great amomt of idieness as long a8 the other”? or “sister” was m favor with the prophets; but, at the siting time, food was given to them very irregularly and was always bad. ‘The meals of the day most frequently consisted of biack coffee and bread, and boiled pumpkin and fish, There are ho relationships existing. No such ties as brother, sister, tather or mother, ‘They ave all “sisters? and “brothers,” framed, seitung forth the views of lis parishioners { of his hany excellent aualities, both as a teacher 5 Wied MEDUCMAN, and they marry with any to whom it is by “revelauion”? commanded they shali be married. For instance, the other aay. gn a “revelation”? to was locke which she and why? Because s! as 5 ; With deranged, sunken, emaciated, fam snea countenances, more than slovenly clad, bothold and young shrunk about. As stated above, the wives refused to receive their husband, ‘Three of them had subjected themselves with one and the young man to the process of killumg the flesh, “The fame occurred with the wife of a member who bad arrived only a few days prevtously with bis famil: at Wellingten, and who, in despair, stabbed bh in the breast at so stra @ method of sanctificae Yon, A young girl had to submit to this operation, with @ married man in presence of the whole con- @regation, men, women and children, wile chanting hymns‘ of praise, They again, helore. exposed themselves the chiefs in & state of who did not confess mw breagen: of not .. Borrek nud aiiest alinost sins, was ct red an opstinate child of darkness; and a4 uttered the slightest doudt as to whether hy wh Greney and the hetess were je oo uote ~ in constant and direct ¢o And positively pretended to have received the ¢o! Mand to perpetrate such ore, and that were therefore Was atmly ejected trom the torture congregation after he had overcome prion tay te retin ealaral- les, since he had before bis entry 5 —s to fern bys ait +, t ey ‘head abommations retended to practise reot order of the God BP love, audible to the ortly ear. In order to understand better what ‘What follows it must be observed t ew ‘has not only discovered tke city of God (Welling. ton), but he has the privitege on hin- self of granting the Holy Ghost, and also for hix own use and that of the saints a living, loudly incor | God, whem, however, only himself, the. provler and his two apostles h ear (I do not say unierdiand), and he says that generally out of tho congrazation of Wellington no God at all exists. When one duy we humbly begged to remark that, Perhaps, possibly a few other pious and good men might be saved, 1t was shown us thet we were evi- dently filed with the spirit of Anti-Christ, aud im most pitiful darkness one of the members.even ae- clared that he could have no communion with a3 sq long as we maintained that erronceus opinien. 1 It was most severely prohivited from the very out- set to write letters. When the mother of one of the chiefs, a few months alter her arrival in Wellington, wanterl to send a letter to her sister in London, to send her money for ber return to Europe, the jetter was solzed, and the old woman, alinoat seventy years old, was, at the command of the Lord, cor fined to her room for stx weeks, To this very da all letters that are written or recelyed ay, opener and read by ihe chiefs; naturally only mn any then with much precaution, do bas avait then- selves of the liberty of writing granted to them some kK. Under such circumstances ft ts quite to publ.ab time bac that 1% 1s almost {mpoasilie ing concerning the dolngs of the s About six months ago the chiefs and other mem- bers followed Groenewoyd’s example snd have taken to themselves more wives (of course young girls). “The Lord has commanded them to do hings contrary to their wishes and feelings, yet im aplte of it and gladly did they obey the with of the Lord, a3 had also ocenrred with their wives without murmuring Sorin their absence.’ Tho following is one of these revelations: —“A serving sister chewed one day in the kitehen, im peice by the pangs of hunger, a few cold potatoes; his was immediately reported by other kind sts! both matrons, and by them to the chiefs, Sueh a offence could not be Jeft unpunished. Everybody alroa knew beforehand that the Lord weuld speak, and so it was. Inthe evening, in the mect- ing, It was announced that one of the members had committed a crime. With holy disgust the eyes of all wore directed to the miscreant, who cenfesked to hercrime with tears, and made Satan responsivie ie Bante nad succeeded in making her @ slave to u It 18 not necessary for us to give more of Mr. Schunke's sa4 story te show low great is the demor- alization whtch exists with this sect. Ibis a great misfortune that, 80 far as we can now see, the law is powerless to reach them. Grocnewoud, no doubt, will be allowed to travel, 23 he has done, from one country to another in the enjoyment of foreign scenery and comforts more agrecable than he hi: home, whiie his “sisters” and “brothers” at Ungton— ‘Wo, bolder e’en than Nimrod, think to rise, By nonsense heaped on nonseuse, to the skies, Will he left to carry on their impious acts. and he may go round the world happy in the thought ‘They sball have mysteries—aye, precious staf, For knaves to thrive by—-mysteries enough ; Dark, tangled doctrings, dark as frand can weaye, Which simple jes shall on trust rooe: While craftier feign beife’, till they believe. ‘There ts one satisfaction left, and that ta that they are not likely to work any mischief on the people of this country. Their blasphemy and ther pro- ceedings ire known throughout the Jength and breadth of this land, and they are not Mkely to have converia ‘in this colony, It ia to the peoses abroad we publish a warning. The inhabitants of Wellington sia‘e that we “saints” ave quiet and unobtrusive, They have about six houses In the village, two of which thoy ire, and the rest is their own property. The house of the prophets is one of the largest residences in the village, and 13 kept in very good order. The “sect” also owns a farm at Twenty-four Rivers, and | there, tt is sald, they intend to cultivate cotton, There are aliogether resident in the village about fifty of this persuasion, and they live in what they consider one perpetual Sabbath, There 1s no par- ticular day of rest and prayer, but they rest and pray, fast or eat, according to the “revelations.” ‘hat men and women stould live, as we have en- deavored to depict these people do, {3 almot beyond comprehension. Mormonism at the Great Salt Lake Otty, a8 compared with this sect, ts as ligt is to darkness, And m saying this we shall say no more, and with the hope that in publishing this article it ‘wiil be the means of preventing any further converts to this faith, we quit a sutyect we en on with regret, ean the consideration of which we gladly leave off. DOCK DEPARTMENT DOINGS. Forcibly Removing Odstractions on the Water Front. The Dock Commissioners have found a grent deal of trouble in persuading parties who have placed obstructions on the docks and piers that the city has the right to compel the removal of those obstruc- Uons in the imterest of commerce and without re- garding the wishes of private individuals or corpo rations, Among the obstractions frequently com- plained of was a shed buiit on piles at picr No. 23 North river, extending beyond the bukhead line,’ And In @ spot for which there was no pert given to build. The Commissioners notiiled the owners of the offending stracturgto remove the same. ‘This they neglected or refused to do, and the vivlation was continued, whotly regardiess of the authority of the Board of Docks, ) ‘The Commissioners, finding their authority aefied aud their orders disregarded, directed the Siatricé Superintendent, Mr, Duryea, to remove the evstruc- tious byforce. It was intimated that If this order were carried out there would be trouble, as the owners would have force to oppose to Jerce, and thus thore might arise A RIOT ON A SMALL SCALE, A sumMclent police force was detailed from the Third precinct, by order ef Superintendent Kelso, to- protect tho oflcers of the Department, aud ye-ter- day morning the work of demolition was coim- menced, Stout ropes were fastened to the supports of the shed, and with their aid the whole ediflce soon came tumbiiag down. ‘The débris was carted off, under the direction of the Superintendent. Before operations were commenced Mr. Coffee, the owncr of the shed, prodaced his authority under which the bailding iiad been ‘erected, vis. & resolution of the Common Council, and notified Superintendent .Duryea that he would take legal Measures to indematly himself for his loss. Mr. Coifes thereupon quietiy withdrew from the sceye of destruction. Alter his departure the stook of oysters was removed to the dock. The furniture, safe, clocks, &¢., of the oftive attached tg the build- ing were also removed upon the doc! it WAS Paine ing hard at the time, and mrainy of the articies be- came thoroughly soaked. ‘This may be regarded a3 a warning to the owners of obstructions on other docks, and will show wat the Dock Commissioners are in earnest: and wilh wage relentless war agaist ail violators of tho law, EVANSELICAL ALLIANCE. Breakfast to Dr. Carter at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel Yesteréay. The Rev. Dr. Cartor, General Secretary of the British and Foreign Systematic Beneficence Society, who ts now onavisit to the United States and Canada for the purpose of submitting to altevan~ gelical churches the proposal to lorm associations. Kimilar Lo that which he represents, was entertained at a breakfast at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday forenoon. ‘There were apout fifty ciergy- Men present, nearly ever one of whom, after justice to, took relative to whe the work the goctety has Of course the discussion afforded a flela of opinion as to the best means the breaktast had been gone | part in the discussions witci ensue best manner of forwardin in view, for a wide difvercne’ ffelical churches, but the mi little, f any, ditlculty woul: curing the co-operation needed, son presided at the dinuer, orily agreed that be encountered tu Be Rov. J, P. Thomyp