Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-05-18

FOURIERISE, FACE LOVE AND FREE
LOVERS.
The Oneida Community Of Chrfi
-. PeEfeetfOnists.

[From the New York Tribune.l sw !
Four miles from Oneida, MAJ =
county, N. Y, class calling t1w .
selves Christian Perfecticnists, tww t
years ago organized a community. sw
leader was J. III. NOyes. Others W /
held similar views. These are the@
inators. From long visit to this -w
munity, and from a mass of puse
tions | have condensed full aces !
Some will be entertained, some stene t
and others will be appalled,. The sS " I.
Der is about two hundred and ! by
twenty-five are under fourteen yes w
age. Property and persons are hsw !
common. No one of himself Sc
anything. They commenced poorFpss
they are rich. Their location inv
most beautiful in the land. Isw
braces six hundred acres in the q Sc !
Oneida Valley. The principal n /
deuce is brick, three stories highnnse,
as expensive as neat and as eleganw
are buildings erected by the statsso~ !
benevolent purposes. The grOnw'
are laid out by scientific rural anw
tect. There are evergreens, heSs !
clumps of trees, shaded winding wnw
bowers, summer houses and boIhse !
and gardens of flowers. The mo Sc
fined taste is gratified Last suTne t
they had six thousand visitors. To,
Beside the central mansion are ne J
large buildings, one for a genera NV
ing hall, one for doing baking ~
washing by machinery and for caIne I
fruits, and others for various INDUS Sc
Most of their cooking is done by stne i
Large Quantities of seasoned woodnw,
at hand. In short, whatever is feq&Irt
by comfortable livers and to meet pre-
ent and future wants are in abundanc
They have vineyards by the acre, ras
berries, strawberries and other sms
fruits by ten or twenty acres, aud lars
pear and apple orchards. Their barr
are as extensive and complete as any
the land. There is stabling fer hu
dreds of horses and cattle. They ha'
various manufacturing establishment
One is saw and planning mill. Or
where travelling satchels are made, en-
ploying thirty hands and yearly pr
ducing $50,G00 worth. of goods, I'll
foreman of which is lady. The buili
ing, without machinery, cost $40, 90
The value annually produced is aboI
$4,000. During ten years they mad
half a million of steel traps. They hay
invented machines for emitting or staml
ing the various parts, which, in nj
ment do the hand work of ten or fiftee
men. Hence the work good and the
are able 10 monopolize the business
Formerly traps were imported fro
Germany. Their government tax
Sc, 900; state and county, $4,000. b
sides they have a furnace where the
cast for themselves and others, an
they have silk machinery of their ow
construction, on which they large
manufacture sewing silk. These M
chimes are costly, and they are maxim
them for sale. They can all kinds
fruit, and prepare iellies to the value
$4,000 q year. The foreman is a lad
All their productions are In good 4,
pute. They have improved Ayrshil
and other stock. noticed a complef
hedge of the barberry. 1t is as good
the Usage, but 1T wants more time;
far more hardy; it is beautiful in VIII
ter. r4t ~
at Wallingford, Conn, is branch
this company, not. quite, so large, al
where education is a chief feature.
Another branch is in Broadway, in I'll
Moffat building, which is a busine
house. At Wailingford they print
weekly newspaper. All eat In one larI
hall, at many tables. They proviC
neither tea nor coffee, and seldom mea
Vegetables, fruits, milk, butter, chees
cakes, pudding and pies are abnndan
Rarely have eaten meals so we
cooked, SO neat and SO good. The
equal, to my taste they excel, those
the best hotels. They have fine
brary, and they take the leading dai
and weekly newspapers. They publ:
. minute daily paper, which none bI
themselves see. A handsome hall, fu
nished with chairs and small tables,
occupied by the members In the eve
ing, IN the same manner that h FAM
gather around the hearth. All room
are heated through registers and pipe
At each table are lamps the womt
knit and sew, and I saw men ilnittin,
Meanwhile one will read daily pape
or letters from friends or short al
dresses Then they talk over their q
fairs. In this way their time is spel
until bedtime. They employ no PHI,
stefan, for they need none; no lawye
for they are peaceable; no preache
for they are perfect. They never pra,
Musical instruments sound through I'll
halls. They do not work on Sunda,
but they do not call the day sacred
They neither haptize nor partake of Il