I give here, in a convenient tabular form, figures showing the present and past numbers of the different Shaker Societies—males, females, and children—the amount of land each society owns, and the number of laborers, not members, it employs:

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| |No. of Families| Adults. |Youth Under 11.|
| Society. | or Separate |______|________|_______|_______|
| | Communities. | Male.| Female.| Male. |Female.|
|____________________|_______________|______|___ ____|_______|_______|
| Alfred, Me………| 2 | 20 | 30 | 8 | 12 |
| New Gloucester, Me.| 2 | 20 | 36 | 4 | 10 |
| Canterbury, N.H….| 3 | 35 | 70 | 14 | 26 |
| Enfield, N.H…….| 3 | 29 | 76 | 8 | 27 |
| Enfield, Conn……| 4 | 24 | 48 | 18 | 25 |
| Harvard, Mass……| 4 | 17 | 57 | 4 | 12 |
| Shirley, Mass……| 2 | 6 | 30 | 4 | 8 |
| Hancock, Mass……| 3 | 23 | 42 | 13 | 20 |
| Tyringham, Mass….| 1 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Mount Lebanon, N.Y.| 7 | 115 | 221 | 21 | 26 |
| Watervliet, N.Y….| 4 | 75 | 100 | 20 | 40 |
| Groveland, N.Y…..| 2 | 18 | 30 | 3 | 6 |
| North Union, O…..| 3 | 41 | 44 | 6 | 11 |
| Union Village, O…| 4 | 75 | 92 | 20 | 28 |
| Watervliet, O……| 2 | 16 | 32 | 3 | 4 |
| White Water, O…..| 3 | 34 | 51 | 6 | 9 |
| Pleasant Hill, Ky..| 5 | 56 | 114 | 25 | 50 |
| South Union, Ky….| 4 | 85 | 105 | 15 | 25 |
|____________________|_______________|______|_______ |_______|_______|
| | | | | |
| Eighteen Societies.| 58 | 695 | 1189 | 192 | 339 |
|____________________|_______________|______|________|_______|_______|

______________________________________________________________________ | | | | Acres | | | Society. |Total Population,| Greatest | of | Hired | | |1874.| 1823. |Population.| Land. |Laborers.| |____________________|_____|___________|___________|________|_________| | | | | | | | | Alfred, Me………| 70 | 200 | 200 | 1100 | 15-20 | | New Gloucester, Me.| 70 | 150 | 150 | 2000 | 15-20 | | Canterbury, N.H….| 145 | 200 | 300 | 3000 | 6 | | Enfield, N.H…….| 140 | 200 | 330 | 3000 | 20-35 | | Enfield, Conn……| 115 | 200 | 200 | 3300 | 15 | | Harvard, Mass……| 90 | 200 | 200 | 1800 | 16 | | Shirley, Mass……| 48 | 150 | 150 | 2000 | 10 | | Hancock, Mass……| 98 | — | 300 | 3500 | 25 | | Tyringham, Mass….| 17 | — | — | 1000 | 6 | | Mount Lebanon, N.Y.| 383 | 500-600 | 600 | 3000 | — | | Watervliet, N.Y….| 235 | 200 | 350 | 4500 | 75 | | Groveland, N.Y…..| 57 | 150 in | 200 | 2280 | 8 | | | | 1836. | | | | | North Union, O…..| 102 | — | 200 | 1335 | 9 | | Union Village, O…| 215 | 600 | 600 | 4500 | 70 | | Watervliet, O……| 55 | 100 | 100 | 1300 | 10 | | White Water, O…..| 100 | 150 | 150 | 1500 | 10 | | Pleasant Hill, Ky..| 245 | 450 | 490 | 4200 | 20 | | South Union, Ky….| 230 | 349 | 349 | 6000 | 15 | |____________________|_____|___________|___________|________|_________| | | | | | | | | Eighteen Societies.|2415 | — | — | 49,335 | — | |____________________|_____|___________|___________|________|_________|

The returns of land include, for the most part, only the home farms; and several of the societies own considerable quantities of real estate in distant states, of which I could get no precise returns.

THE PERFECTIONISTS OF ONEIDA AND WALLINGFORD.

THE PERFECTIONISTS OF ONEIDA AND WALLINGFORD

I.—HISTORICAL.

The Oneida and Wallingford Communists are of American origin, and their membership is almost entirely American.

Their founder, who is still their head, John Humphrey Noyes, was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1811, of respectable parentage. He graduated from Dartmouth College, began the study of the law, but turned shortly to theology; and studied first at Andover, with the intention of fitting himself to become a foreign missionary, and later in the Yale theological school. At New Haven he came under the influence of a zealous revival preacher, and during his residence there he "landed in a new experience and new views of the way of salvation, which took the name of Perfectionism."

This was in 1834. He soon returned to Putney, in Vermont, where his father's family then lived, and where his father was a banker. There he preached and printed; and in 1838 married Harriet A. Holton, the granddaughter of a member of Congress, and a convert to his doctrines.