Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-09-11
From Our Own Correspoldei

From Our Own Correspondent.
The New Trce-Loyc Enterprise Ia Lake Chamglair
MORE ABOUT TIE vALCoUR CaNHUNITY-l>Tr
VIEW WITH LEADING NiNBlR or TIE Asso
CIATloN.
CEICACo, Au-. @4th. le7l.
To the Es.t " the Free FIRES and g...os.
Since my letter Of yesterday. containing
information in regard to a lrce-ioye or-aHi
zation being transp!antod from ale tarreI
soil Of Chicago to the beautiful island %
Yalcour. many additional facts in rcsarc
to the matter have been communicated t.
ne. 1t seems the spiritualists are separate,
into two divisions, or grades, the first being
the class commonly known as spirituali-t-
the second being designated as advanced
spirituali-t,' or E" free lovers" of which
Woodruff j. the leading spirit. These two
divisions are antagoni~,ic, the former claim
ing that the latter uses the cloak Of spirit
uali>m 20 cover gross irregularities Of a
social nature, while the latter claims that
the former practices these irregularities
clandcstineiy. Representatives of both
these factions, learning that your CORES
poudcnt was about to communicate to the
leading newspaper in the vicinity Of Val
c)urth fact Of the establishment ofthe Val
cour community, were naturally anxious to
have their respective factions correctly rep
resented in such communication. Among
the representatives. Of the former who have
volunteered their opinions Is Mr.. 5 ;.
Jones, formerly OF Barre. Vt, who i- eii-
tor and proprietor Of a spiritual paper pub
lished here, called the Beigio-P Philosophical
Journal and a magazine named the LHH,
Bouquet Til man regulates the Naic3a-
community in the bittercst terms, says they
are not true ~pirituali-ts, and in reply to
the question, " How Is this s5-ca,lej Val
cour community to be compared 70 the 0nei-
ia community On moral and social stand
ari?" said 1T is n far beneath tie Ouci-
da community, a the Oneida community
is beneath the highest plane Of social nor
atty"
The representative of the yaieaur com
munity who seems the most c5mmunicl-
tive IN the matter, j. MIR Il. Woodhou-c.
he has called twice to day and brought /
yoluminous documents t. prove that Mr /
Jones AMI hi, faction practice Gco-lye in /
its fnllet seEse. From Mr.. Woolhou-e the .
following particulars Of the origin am pro- I
gress Of the Nalcouf community are OBJ
tanned. February lat, 1874, band Of aI-
vanced 4pirituali-t- united to form com
munity, and for two months lived at n.
SIS West Madison street, Chicago. Then
they were composed of thirteen persons
April lst the community moved to 3 Depuy-
ster street, receiving an accession of thir-
teen Others to their number, including Mr..
Woodhousc At this place they lived and
held everything appertaining to them in
common, up to the time of the departure
to Nalcour Island. July 2lth Owen Ship
man, Col. John Wilcox and 0. C. Hall
published lengthy circular, containing
plan of the organ zati1n of a
community On Yalcour Island, soliciting
aid by way Of money and recruits. direct
ing communications to beaddressei to I. O.
Box -, Winooski, Vermont, a c.py Of {
which circular Will accompany this letter !
These circulars were distributed through +
)ut the States Of Wisconsin, Illinois, and
iowa, among spiritualis:s, and were backed !
Up by Col. Wilc9x's personal representa- /.
ions and earnest solicitations The result S
has been to awaken quite an interest in the 1
among farmers Of these States.
nd Col. Wilcox says he has reason to think Fl
hat between forty and fifty farmers from \
he west with their families, viii join the Val !
Onr community. The number that Las 4
lready left Chicago for the land Of promise b
seventeen. viz: g. E. Charles, wife and ST
hid who went by rail, John Bentley. vile =
nd child. Nelson, wife and three children. "
lyman and wife, Mrs. Waters, Ms Il D.
ugusta White and her two brothers Tie :.
ist fourteen named sailed by steamer Civ e.,
New York, OF the Central Vermont line. I.
hursday, Aug. goth, expecting to arrive y
Winoo-ki, Friday August 2sth. Namcr- b,
Us Others are expected to join the party l.! ~
Try soon, among them Mr. WoJdhouse. of
no j. 4 man of education and polite man pl
RS, aged - who is the affinity. or, as he IN
rms it, the - companion of II. Augusta -
'hite, now supposed to be near the happy tn
land, and anxiously looking forward to pa
&c time when Naleour viii be gladdenod ne ne
: the arrival Of her " companion" unless ", ~
he Is superseded by some other Iii
imirer before the three weeks pass in co
hich he is to prepare to 20 to her side. sII
our correspondent returning to ask what T.,
: feelings and action would be If he found to
] his arrival there, that such sad calami- OF
had beiallen him, as that Augusta had in
iosen Mr.. Bentley for her companion. he be
plled that he might be very unhappy, vet I'M
elr principles were purely democratic. ian
Id II Augusta and Mr.. Bentley happi- SEE
IS depended upon the - companipnshin'- str
, (WoodhoUsc) being in the minority could tw
1t let has own selfish love outweigh the ri,
ippiness Of two, aud lie must submit OF
rs. Bentley interest Just then appeared wi
the MIND OF bIS hearer, bat the picture OF
came too complicated for your CORES rul
'ndent's bewildered vision and be de,istcd
ON further questioning Oh that point an
g then asked the following questions the
Suppose nj some future time his ques- be
Dner should revisit old Champlain and my
Uu
autful child playing near Augusta should Dir
ace his hand on the head OF the innocent iro
d ask irho his father ,rds. what would the ne,
lid be expected to reply ?'' Mr.. ". an on,
cred, proudly initiating the child's ges- the
re by describing an horizontal seini-circ!c, tor
if covering a mGltitude OF imaginary val
e-l0vers before him. The child would ind
Z, these are HlyJdthers. - He Was then bee
zed how he explained their statement ma
1t the community would do nothing in of
'lation Of the laws of the State governing of
, island. He replied that the Supreme qua
urt OF New York had recently decided All
It a couple could marry themselves, in ma
Ter words that a man and woman living rec
ether as husband and wife are legally it i
rried, and this was precisely the way pill
gusta and he were married. lie was then the
ed if the same court had decided that
b couple could legally divorce themselves
EASILY and marry again. lie replied ped
( it had not, but if their people were T
SIZED with such rules it was not the bust tbr,
8 of The cold, hypocritical outside world. Ion,
his mans affinity, besides being besuti smss
is highly educated having graduated at cali
of the leading colleges Of our land. the star