R.
Buchanan, have been carefully examined by the writer of this, and its
most important lessons shall be applied in the organization of our
schools; for the power of love can be unquestionably applied, not only
as a cure for the evils produced inevitably by the system of
competition, but also as a miraculous agent in aiding the progress of
society to an inconceivably higher plane of human life."

The newspaper in exposition of the society entitled, "The Credit
Foncier of Sinaloa," published at $1 a year, at Hammonton, New Jersey,
will be issued hereafter at Topolobampo, Mexico. A report descriptive
of the site of the colony and the surrounding country (price six
cents) and a map of the colony's site (price ten cents) may be
obtained by addressing the editor, E. Howland, at Topolobampo, Mexico.

While the Journal is going through the press, the colonists are
gathering in large numbers, and by our next issue we may have some
account of the commencement of this noble enterprise.

Its founder, Mr. A. K. Owen, is a gentleman of great energy and
enterprise, guided by noble principles, a skilful surveyor and
engineer. About fourteen years ago he made extensive exploration in
Mexico, especially on its Pacific Coast, discovered and reported
Topolobampo Bay, and introduced the scheme of the Norfolk &
Topolobampo Railroad, which he urged upon the attention of Congress,
winning the approbation of committees, but finally defeated by the
great railroad corporations. He took an active part in Mexican
affairs, forming gigantic plans for the public welfare, by a syndicate
at the head of which was Gen. Torbert, which were defeated by a
shipwreck in which Gen. Torbert was lost, and himself narrowly escaped
death. He then organized with the co-operation of Gen. Grant, Gen.
Butler, and other distinguished men, the "Texas, Topolobampo & Pacific
Railroad and Telegraph Company," and obtained a concession of 2,000
miles of railroad and a subsidy of $16,000,000. Hon. Wm. Windom was
president, and Mr. Owen chief engineer. In 1873 he located a hundred
miles of the road from Topolobampo eastwardly, and two years ago the
construction commenced. Thus in the midst of a life of great activity
and experience in engineering, finance, politics, reform, and travel,
Mr. Owen, as a practical and skilful manager of great undertakings,
inspired by a strong democratic philanthropy, has laid the plan of a
co-operative colony on the basis of liberal concession