New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-02-01
r. HE T r / B u n E !.
The Associations.


that Association formed with the view ofrealizing
the advantages Of a Scientific arrangement of In
dustry of complete Education, and the Social
Relations. These letters, many of them requiring
sheets for their satisfactory answer, we have not
time to reply to in detail; often, indeed, we have
not nearly all the information required in our pos
session We propose instead to give general
outline sketch of what is doing in each case, so
far as we have knowledge. We begin with
THE WEST RoxBURY COMMUNITY.
This was commenced some two years ago, by
few idealists and scholarly persons who had be-
come dissatisfied with the usual way Of life, hav-
ing at their head Rev. Geo. Ripley hitherto
popular Unitarian pastor of large Society in
Boston. The location is near the Western border
of Roxbury, Mass, and three miles from the Provi-
dence Railroad at Dedham. This Association
was started without any clear method, by people
little fitted for any kind of work but Teaching, to
which they were mainly addicted. They have
since swelled their numbers to some seventy per-
sons, of whom about thirty are pupils in their
School, which is one of rare excellence, conducted
with perfect success on the plan of avoiding and
rejecting all corporal punishment and even angry
words. Their farm of two hundred acres has been
put in excellent order and greatly improved in
value; several houses have been built-(a capital
error-as the money spent in one would have
given them twice the room, convenience and COM
fort, with large saving of labor and fuel in all
tmes.) They have at length been led by expert
ence to the conviction that the Industrial mechan-
ism of Fourier's System is essential, and they
mean to adopt it forthwith. They are now ready
and eager to receive new members-mechanics,
artisans, &c.-who can bring skilful hands and
willing hearts to cooperate in their undertaking.
They hope to make a complete transformation
within year, as to exhibit the basis at least of
a Fourier Phalanx. There are probably more
cultivated and enlightened minds here than at
any other Associations the Social circle is de-
ightful, and the advantages for Education and
Mental Culture superior, but their Industrial eff
cheney has not hitherto been adequate to their
other good qualities. address Geo. Ripley, West
Roxbury, Mass
THE NORTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION.
This Association was formed nearly at the
same time with the West Roxbury by few per-
sons who purchased at a bargain the SIX Estab-
lishment and Farm, on which Mr.. Whitmarsh
had recently failed. The purchase included mul-
berry plantations, sk-worms, &c. with build
ings, apparatus and machinery for manufacturing
the Silk This Association, without much sclen-
tifc organization or fixed method, has been quite
successful in It's industry, its members beng
mainly serious, practical working men. Most OF
them were extreme Anti-Slavery men IN rell-
gon Come Cutters or protesters against what
they esteem the tyranny Of the popular Church
organizations. and arc said to have little rever
ence for any religious formulas Their govern
ment is pure Democracy, though their property
is held in Joint stock. They have not hitherto
been Fourierites, though they have practically
adopted some of Fourier's suggestions Consid-
cradle accessions to their numbers and capital are
already assured for the Spring, and their course
is evidently onward. address David Mack
President, Northampton, Mass.)
sYLyANIA PHALANX.
This Association was organized IN this City
last Spring, with branch IN Albany selected
lands for settlement the last OF Aprll-the late
Spring delaying all its operatlons-and Its pioneer
corps reached the ground in May. Its purchase
was a tract, or rather five tracts, Of 2,30O acres
of mainly wild land in Pike County, Pa. IS miles
direct n w from this City, 80 miles by Milford
Stage, and ITO by Erie Railroad, which will utl-
matev pass within FIVE miles, but Is now Mid
dlc.own) IS miles off. The daily stage to Homes
dale and Owego passes within two miles, at
Dccker's tavern or Darlingsvllle, II mules west
of Milford, the County seat on the Delaware
The Sylvania settlement is FIVE miles from the
junction of the Lackawaxen Creek with tie Del
aware River where the Delaware and hudson
Canal passes, affording daily TRANSMISSION OF
freight at Sc per ton to and from thus Clty.
good portion of the Sylvania lands are within two
miles of the Canal and River. The whole 2,3GO
acres, with so or more cleared, three old houses,
barn, saw-mill and grist-mill except the works,
was purchased for $1,000, of which 81, lou was
taken in the stock of the Company, $2,oOO is to
remain on mortgage, and the balance has been
paid i'll cash and deed taken. The land is up
land but easily cleared of wood, much of it read
ily cleared Of stone also, gently rolling hills with
a fair soil, which BY cultivation and science will
be rendered very productive There is any
amonnt of water-power, springs of living water
are abundant and excellent; and the climate is
unsurpassed for healthfulness. There IS plenty
of wood and considerable amount of pine and
oak timber on the premises.
This Association has labored under great diff
culties, owing to the scantiness of It's resources
the lateness of the season Of its commencement,
and the utter inexperience in the ways of pioneer