Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-12-09

The PRoGREss OF FoURIEgIsM.-W W.
extract the following from an article in the
Baltimore American:
1--WE learn from the PiaIan,x, a weekly
Journal published in New YORK., arid devo.
ted to this system, that there are if Massa-
chusetts three associations upon the gene.
raj fundamental principles Of the Fourier
system. La the State Of New York there
are two associations upon a larger scale
than those IN Massachusetts, one at Water.
town. Jefferson county, the other In Herki.
mer and Hamilton counties. A larger as.
ISOLATION, to be called tie Ontario PhaI.
anx, is now org mining at Rochester. A
small association has been started in Der.
rian county, Illinois; and one upon a large
scale is in progress in Lagrange county,
Indiana. AT Ann .Afbor, in Michigan, an
association is protected to be called the
Wa,htenaw Phalanx. The largest asso-
citation yet commenced has been recently
started in Monmouth county. New Jersy.
1t Is to be called the North American Pha.
ianx. The association has purchased d,
tract of sin hundred and seventy three acres
of land, the CIVILIZATIONS of which has been
begun upon the Fourier plan. The New
York Watertown Association owns from
twelve to fifteen hundred acres, an asso-
citation has been formed near Cumberland
Ohio, by a number of farmers 10 one neigh.
borhood, who have united their farms to-
gcther. About one Hundred families are
interested in this movement" @aa
The following extract from the Pitts
burg Spirit o the Age announces the organ
ization Of a grand Foufier association In
the West. Our readers, we presume, are
acquainted with the principles Of this kind
Of association. The object is to give, to
all who join such an association, the bene-
fits of the joint tabors Of lis members, avoi.
ding the evils OF competition Which operate
constantly TO produce; iIneqaa lities of con-
dition. To those who enjoy competency,
nothing could be more absurd than to
merge their interests I'M this sort of ascot
alton, but it certainly offers great adsanta-
ges TO the poor. Under proper manage
ment it fnsures every substantial comfort
of life TO the poorest man who is able TO adj
vance the imitation Zee:
eft will indeed be gratifying TO the peo-
pie of the great valley Of the Mississippi,
to- learn that the model pifaIanxt for testing
the practicabiiity of tie FOURIER scheme, is
to be organized on the banks of the OHIO.
GA domain has bsen purchased, beauti-
fully situated ON this noble river, about Sc
ven miles below Wheeling, opposite Grave
creek, i'm Belmont county, Ohio. Fl pos
Sc ses as usanJ instural advantages as an
association cosHd desifei and has been
bought on sucI FERNS as will render the
payment of THE purchase nfoney anything
but burdensome or ANNOYING TO the phal.
anx. The domain contains two Thousand
and one hundred acres, principally bottorn
land,- and now IN good order and under a
high state of cultivation. fine coal, alum
slate, and limestone veins in the hill are in.
exhaustible. s sH
''Fhe association has been organized
temporarily; P. P. Grant. Esp, Is presi-
dent. and Rev. ]. P. Stuart, OF Medina
Ohio, holds an important office.
Not more than twenty families and sixty
men viii enter upon the domain in
April next, it being impossible to find she..-
ter for a greater number. The p~ha'ans.e-
ry will Be erected as soon as POI ,ib..e, and
its wings and sub.wIngs will co attain rooms
sufficient for about oHs thynsand persons,
the probable maximal number which viii
compose the phaianx, when It's complete
organization IS effected.
1.-THE stock is sa5pef share, on which
seven per cent. per ahnum is guaranteed
to The holder. much more than is offered
by stock companies generally, thus hold
ing out strong inducements to capitalists
to aid in the magnificent enterprise. Any
person NAV be a. stock holder, but that does
not enti.le one to admission as a resident
member. The door of entrance npon the
domain is veay narrow. None but hsen Of
intelligence and unitipeaehabie integrity
can be admitted. This is right. The I'M
tiaifess fee IS for a man with a family
800, for a single man $50. This. however
is but a temporary provision.
There will not be many members from
this city; the Western Reserve will pour in