New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-05-24
The Icarian Community at NanvOO.

We had Yesterday the pleasure OF visit from
NJ. CADET, the founder and head of the Icarlan
Community at Nauvoo, ILL.,, and were glad to see
him looking quite as young and vigorous as
when we met him some three years since at
Paris He is now on his way to London, whence,
if the political atmosphere is sufficiently tran
quill, he will go to France to seek justice IN
respect Of the legal COMBINATIONS passed upon
him since his absence in this country. on accu-
sations and evidence which could only be enter
tanned in a time of public commotion d bitter
party feeling If all is quiet, VI CADET is conf
dent that the sentences Will be reversed on his
appeal
We learn from him that the Community at Maui
WOO is in a state Of prosperity and that he regards
it as successful; indeed, We're 1t otherwise, he
would hardly leave it tor so long a time. The
benefits of Association he considers are fully de-
monsrated by his expe rment. Greater cheap
ness Of living, social happiness and mtellec-
tual improvement, are among these benefits, and
although the Community suffers from the want
of adequate capital and means of organizing
the various branches Of industry, 1t has still made
satisfactory progress and is regarded by its foun
der and members as firmly established.
The Icarians, now about three hundred in num-
Der, occupy fifteen acres Of land in the town Of
Nauvoo, where are most Of their workshops and
residences There too they have a kitchen
garden of 10 acres At five miles distance is
their farm of 700 acres, leased lands OF this
they now have 100 acres in wheat $50 in Indian
com, so in oats and 50 in barley They have al
so in growth, nurseries, vineyards, &c, the whole
requiring the constant labor of six farmers and
gardeners with reinforcements from the OH
er trades in case of necessity They keep II
horses, yoke Of oxen, 30 cows and hefers and
a small flock of sheep. For fuel they use wood
procured on the islands in the rlYer belonging to
the government, and brought down to Nauvoo.
distance Of some FIVE miles, on flat boats, and
coal which they dig almost at their doors They
have a steam mill with two run of stone, which
enables them not only TO grind their own -four,
but TO accommodate the people in the vicinity,
and two circular saws. This, with a WHISKY
distillery ad DINING, occupies some Is men, The
Conn unity also numbers Is tailors, Il shoema-
kers. II cahinot-makers, 6 carpenters, coopers,
masons, 6 machinists, printers, rope makers,
weavegs, matchmaker, and tanner, so that
1t is well provided in respect to mechanics The
tailors and shoemakers not only make clothes
and shoes for the Community and It's neighbors
but send their products to be sold at St Louis
where the Community keeps 4 store. and where
the whisky Of the distillery and other surplus ar
tcles are also sent The machinists also
work as black>miths, and the men Of the other
trades find more OF less employment in repairs,
&c. for the people Of the vicinity
Tie domestic arrangements are far from CON-
plete, though, as Is the case with every other
department, they are constantly approving The
community occupy one large house with 10
apartn euts, in which 100 persons, married and
single have their lodgings There are also some
twenty smaller houses. four Of which are occu-
pied by tie Schools large edidce, $50 feet by
CO. is now nearly completed, the ground hoor Of
which viii serve IS tie kitchen and dningroon,
with apartments above, THIS dining-room will
accommodate above eight hundred persons at
table
The whole body now eat together except the
children 1t school, who are served in separate
building where they are also lodged, n some dis
lance from the common dining room. whittier
their meals are carried from the kitchen The
carr ing Of these meals being a comparatively
difficult and unattractl,e duty, owing to the dis
lance and 10 the fact that IN bad weather the
way is muddy. It is done by the leading men of
the Community The same persons also serve
the tables IN the dining room. There are three
meals daily, at An and and G. Pm. Meat
Is served al all, the severe labor Of the men be.