OUR memoirs of the Phalanxes and other contemporary
Associations, may as well be arranged according to the
States in which they were located. We have already
disposed of the Sylvania, which was the most interesting
of the experiments in Pennsylvania during the Fourier
epoch. Our accounts of the remaining half-dozen are
not long. The whole of them may be dispatched at a
sitting.

This was a Community founded by Andreas Ber-
nardus Smolnikar, whose name we saw among the Vice
Presidents of the National Convention. Macdonald says
nothing of it; but the Phalanx of April 1844, has the
following paragraph:

"This colony of Germans is situated in Limestown
township, Warren County, Pennsylvania; it is founded
upon somewhat peculiar views and associative principles,
by Andreas Bernardus Smolnikar, who was Professor of
Biblical Study and Criticism in Austria, and perceiving
by the signs of the times compared with prophecies of
the Bible, that the time was at hand for the foundation
of the universal peace which was promised to all nations,

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