New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-06-09
VOL. Ell. NO. SO.

in which they must primarily engage it Will be
strange indeed if they do not meet with obstacles
and perplexties Almost every thing they need
which they cannot Immediately produce must be
brought from New-York or Albany, including
the means Of subsistence and the implements OF
labor, and communication by the Canal is very te-
dious. Teams, tools, etc. must be needed
before they are sought, and then obtained as
they best can-wth some loss Of time, of course
Skill in most outdoor avocations is to be acquired
by practice. Probably five backwoodsmen would
clear as much land of wood and bushes in day
as twenty of colonists can door rather
could at first; since every effort fits them better
for the next the blunder OF this week is the in
struction of next; and the aching WEAKNESS of to-
day is the preparation for increased strength and
endurance on the morrow. At this moment, the
group engaged in chopping and bush-cutting, for
instance, can effect twice much in day
they could fortnight ago, and with far greater
ease and comfort
Commencing too late in the season MAY 5th)
to clear off wild land for much use this year con-
strained to collect aftcrward with much difficulty
the teams, implements, &c. necessary for the out
set of such an undertaking; with few among
them who understood clearing or farming and
with no possibility of applying the complete Sys-
TEN Of Fourier to arravocation so exceptional and
transient as that of subduing wild Nature, pre-
pairing lands for cultivation, &c. we believe the
realized advantages of Association arc already
perccptible and gratifying to all those embarked
in the undertaking. Tho checrfuness and ala
Gritty with which men labor in company, engaged
in common enterprise, and knowing that they are
working for them:elves and not for q master, is
very evident. Set any one Of these men into that
wild region by himself, to clear off, fence and fer
tillzc fifty acres, and he would soon give over in
despair, or become hstlcss and idle as the mass of
the settlers around t'cm. Very different from this
is tho spirit which prevails on the Sylvania Do
main; different, we are sanguinc, will be its re-
suits.
But the true and beneficial Division of Labor
begins also to be sensbly realized The chopper
who breaks an axe the tcamstcr whose horse
casts shoe, the farmer who needs pillow sharp
cncd, Is not compelled to suspend his work and
travel three to ten miles to black smith the
smith is at work within sight, and has iron at
command. The sawyer the carpenter the ply
stefan, is ever at hand-though happily there is
little need Of the latter in his official capacity so
he is a chopper with the rest, gaining health
to himself by work, instead of taking it from
Others by pills. In short time several branches
of Manufacture will be organized; and every
man initiated into some one or more specific de-
tail; so that each may change from active out
door to more scdcntary indoor employment as
fatigue, nccmency, or choice may dictate.
These and other branches like the Silk Culture
will absorb any amount of Female or Children's
labor which may be otherwise unemployed, so
that every one able to work shall have something
to do, and each reflect with proud satisfaction
that he lives by his own useful excrton and is not
a barrca cumberer of the ground.
Moral, Religious and Intellectual culture are
not forgotten A School for children is in ope-
ration, where there was none before for miles
class for instruction in Music has been formed,
mot your five. dollars for twenty lessons prin
ciple, ether;) and meeting for Divine worship
and mutual cdtcation Is held every Sunday,
which is attended by the people of the vicnage,
who have had little of the kind before. Last
Sunday, one resident and one visiting clergymen
took part in the exercises, which are entirely
practical, and embody nothing of sectarian
character
All this is very little; but consider that we are
speaking of little colony of eighty persons, not
taken in the main from the educated class, and
SCARCELY a month planted in the wilds of Pike
County, Pa colony struggling with Difficult,
ties, fully aware that it has much of embarrass-
ment and hardship to encounter, and that proba-
bly, years Of stern cxerlion must be experienced
before II can attain to that external condition TO
which ii aspircs That with ordinary fortune and
the sympathy of the philanthropic, it will accom-
plish more in three years than the same persons
going separately into the woods with equal means
divided among them could do in fifteen, we Go
ardently trust.
Such is the Sylvania Association, as we left 1t
on Monday evening last That many should
deem It's undertaking visionary and impractical
bic we can well believe since we know it to be
arduous and difficult with the slender means it
has yet al command; but that any should regard
it with hostility or aversion, we can hardly realize
Ii wars upon no mans Party, Church or personal
consequence; it asks of the unsympathising only
its portion of the common air and sunshine. Many
of It's members have for months yainly begged an
opportunity 20 labor for livelihood from street TO
street OF our Cities; they have at length endeav
orcd to win livelihood by honest, useful labor in
a different manner Why not? They cannot at