THIS Association, originally called the American Pha-
lanx, commenced with a very ambitious programme and
flattering prospects; but it did not last so long as many
of its contemporaries. It belonged to the Pittsburg group
of experiments. The founder of it was E. P. Grant.
Mr. Van Amringe was one of its leaders, whom we
saw busy at the Trumbull. The first announcement
of it we find in the third number of the Phalanx, as
follows:

"GRAND MOVEMENT IN THE WEST. --The friends of
Association in Ohio and other portions of the West, have
undertaken the organization of a Phalanx upon quite
an extended scale. They have secured a magnificent
tract of land on the Ohio, have framed a constitu-
tion, and taken preliminary steps to make an early
commencement.

The projectors say: "We feel pleasure in announcing
that the American Phalanx has contracted for about
two thousand acres of land in Belmont County, Ohio,
known as the Pultney farm, lying along the Ohio river,
seven or eight miles below Wheeling; and that sufficient
means are already pledged to remove all doubts as to

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