New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1841-12-17


The locality chosen for this institution is one OF
the most delightful IN the south of France. The
sbbey, which is about to be converted to uses so
alien from the intentions OF its founder, is one OF
the oldest in France, having attained 10 great emf
hence at the period CT the war against the Abb
genses at the commencement OF the twelfth centu-
~, being then most richly endowed, and governed
by mtred abbot, whose cruel saving at the siege
Of Beziers is recorded in MS history - How shall
We know said the orthodox soldiers engaged in
this iniquitous crusade how shall we know the
heretics from the sons Of the church? Stay ali,
replied the sangunary monster, and Heaven viii
know It's own
On the above, the London Phalanx remarks:
% Ne copy this article from the Times Of Thurs
day; and though ii contains some inatured pert
ness with regard to Mr.. Arthur Young, the NOBLE
minded aad intelligent founder OF this practical at
Tempt realize the theory of Charles Fourier and
show humanity the way practical Christianity,
We shall otter no remarks. but tha' II is error 70
con ound the system OF Fourier with that OF Owen.
Perhaps these gossiping wits will not deem Mr.
Young so great novice when they learn thai he is
10 have eight per cent. interest for III, money be
fore the laborers divide the profits, AM that the
estate is valued at two millions OF france or go
| 600, though 1t has been bought for 90, 900
SclEsrGrIc ExcHASGEs.-Some eight or ten
years since tt Juvenile Lycesrn in Boston prepared
small Geological Cabinets for all the towns in the
State which they sent out by the hands OF the le-
gislator., to be circulated among the Schools. Tie
Legislature at its next session ordered Geologi-
cal Survey OF the State, and with it, a surrey for a
Map, not only of the State, but of every County
and Town in toe State Following Mr.. Hitci-
cock the Geologsi, was Commissioner OF Agri
culture, Mr. Coleman, who made an Agricultural
Survey of the State, for which he visited the va
riOus Counties and Towns, and many farmers and
farms, of which several valuable reports have been
made, and extensively COPIED in agricultural and
other papers in various sections OF the Union.
Some five Yeas since, the members 81 Schools
and Social Lyceums in PhiIadelphia, sent Geoogi-
cal Cabinets and other specimens Ct Nature to s'in.
liar institutions in nearly every County in the State
among which was a collection to the capital Of the
State during the session of the Legislature. Al
the same session Geological Survey OF the State
was ordered and at the next session eight hundred
thousand dollars appropriated for the use OF Schools
during the then current or succeeding year a
knowledge of the Natural Historical Sciences is at
this time, proboblymore generally diiiused in Penn
-yvania than in any other State in the Union. In
! Chester County. Pa Botany is so generally studied
and understood in schools as to call for TWO edi-
lions of treatise on That subject, confined 10 the
plants of that County. 1t is thick l2mo., pre-
pared with great care and research, by DR.. Oar
lington Of Westchester.
a school in Wostcheytcr prepared forty-four
hrrbariurns, of one hundred plants each, which
were sent to the schools in the iorty-tour towns in
that County. Another school in the same place,
prepared go Geological Cabinets, for the so
schools in the County of Chester. 1t is common.
not only in Westminster but in most sections Of the
County Tor children len OF dozen years of age,
to speak of the varieus plants and minerals found
in the County, as old and familiar friends.
Within two or three years past several thousand
Geological Cabinets and other specimens of Ma
;are have been collected for and by the Schools
and families in the city Of New-York, which, there
IS good reason to believe, have had no inconsider
able agency in exciting the spirit of scientific en-
terprisc so prominent here. In the progress
of this enterprise it would be strange if specimen,
Of Nature and Arr should not be sent cut from the
Commercial Metropolis Of our Country, not only
to the Counties and Towns of New-lors but to
Cities, Villages and Schools in other State. and
and other Countries