his name; but that, attending when the case of the contested election came on, he was surprised to find this same person counsel for one of the parties; and still more so when he delivered an argument superior to anything he had ever heard.' It was on questions before a jury, that he was in his natural element. There, his intimate knowledge of human nature, and the rapidity as well as justness of his inferences, from the flitting expressions of the countenance, as to what was passing in the hearts of his hearers, availed him fully. The jury might be composed of entire strangers, yet he rarely failed to know them, man by man, before the evidence was closed. There was no studied fixture of features that could long hide the character from his piercing and experienced view. The slightest unguarded turn of countenance, or motion of the eye, let him at once into the soul of the man whom he was observing.

"Or, if he doubted whether his conclusions were correct, from the exhibitions of countenance during the narration of the evidence, he had a mode of playing a prelude, as it were, upon the jury, in his exordium, which never failed to wake into life each silent string,' and show him the whole compass as well as pitch of the instrument; and, indeed, (if we may believe all the concurrent accounts of his exhibitions in the general court,) the most exquisite performer that ever swept the sounding lyre' had not more a sovereign mastery over its powers, than Mr. Henry had over the springs of feeling and thought that belong to a jury. There was a delicacy, a taste, a felicity in his touch, that was perfectly original and without a rival.

"His style of address, on these occasions, is said to have resembled very much that of the scriptures. It was strongly marked with the same simplicity, the same energy, the same pathos. He sounded no alarm; he made no parade, to put the jury on their guard. It was all so natural, so humble, so unassuming, that they were carried imperfectly along, and attuned to his purpose, unti! some master-touch dissolved them into tears. His language of passion was perfect. There was no word' of learned length or thundering sound,' to break the charm. It had almost all the stillness of solitary thinking. It was a sweet revery, a delicious trance.

His voice, too, had a wonderful effect. He had a singular power of infusing it into a jury, and mixing its notes with their nerves, in a manner wnich it is impossible to describe justly; but which produced a thrilling excitement, in the happiest concordance with his designs. No man knew so well as he did what' kind of topics to urge to their understandings; nor what kind of simple imagery to present to their hearts. His eye, which he kept riveted upon them, assisted the process of fascination, and at the same time informed him what theme to press, or at what instant to retreat, if by rare accident he touched an unpropitious string. And then he had such an exuberance of appropriate thoughts, of apt illustrations, of apposite images, and such a melodious and varied roll of the happiest words, that the hearer was never wearied by repetition, and never winced from an apprehension that the intellectual treasures of the speaker would be exhausted."

But to follow this son of genius through his eventful career, in this number, would crowd out much other matter requisite to render it a sample of our volume. In our next issue, therefore, we shall follow him into and through the Revolution, in which we shall see other coincidences between his organization and character quite as marked as any thus far presented. Yet we cannot close without calling the attention of skeptics to the extraordinary development of the organs already named, and their manifestation in character, as seen in these extracts, and in view of this coincidence, request them either to explain it satisfactorily on other grounds, or else to admit that PЯRENOLOGY IS TRue.

ARTICLE V.

WOMAN HER CHARACTER, SPHERE, TALENTS, INFLUENCE, AND CONSEQUENT DUTIES, EDUCATION AND IMPROVEMENT.-NUMBER V.

(Continued from p. 385 of Vol. VIII.)

FORMER articles of this series have shown the general influence of woman as woman, and her specific influence as a wife. We come next to her EDUCATIONAL influence. And here lies the secret of her power over the weal or woe of our race. That her natural and destined influences are indeed mighty, all admit; yet they center in that FORMATION OF CHARACTER Which her constitution compels her to mould. She is the mother of humanity, and her relations as mother oblige her to give the first and most efficacious direction to the plastic characters of the children she brings forth. Early impressions are universally conceded to be the most deep and powerful. Are they not so? Are not we all living witnesses of this great fact? "Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined." True, parentage determines the ORIGINAL NATURE of that tree, whether it shall be oak, or pine, or poplar-but even here, maternal influences fully equal paternal. Yet these aside-the heir of humanity born, and its constitutional character formed, it must next be Developed, and also DIRECTED. How much of the natural powers of mankind forever remain buried in obscurity for want of cultivation, can never be known, but my full conviction is that not a quarter, if a tenth, of the natural beauties and capabilities of the human character are ever developed. How much higher each of us could have risen in the scale of morality and intellect if all our faculties had been early and duly trained, it is impossible to say; yet I put it to the consciousness of every reader whether he has not felt pent up, as though his latent energies were struggling for vent, all the former portions of life, till these fires gradually died away within him? Most of us, if all our native capabilities had been brought out, could have been Franklins, or Websters, or Raphaels, or Arkwrights, or kindred stars in the firmament of intellectual and other powers. But our mothers "were careful and troubled about” too “many things" to study out and draw forth our natural genius. This is pre-eminently the business of the mother. If she cannot discover the genius of her children nobody can. Most that they say, do, and are, passes under her quick eye. If they possess a genius for drawing, or making, or speaking, or composing-a talent for mathematics, or philosophy, or painting, or any other science or art-they will manifest these capabilities in a great number and variety of ways, so that they cannot help seeing their natural bent of mind. Nor can any other one begin to see as early or as clear as she. Nor, seen, develope.

Their natural bias once discovered, who possesses opportunities anything to be compared with hers for drawing out and perpetually augmenting such capabilities? Their very play she can convert into schools and workshops for such development. Her conversation, too, so almost incessant with them, she can order so as to lead their minds from day to day and hour to hour onward in the road of such development. Not only can she begin with them in the bud of

their genius, but she can apply those DAILY and HOURLY STIMULI which no other human being CAN apply. What other facilities equal hers in this respect? How almost infinitely more she can do here than she does? Words fail to portray the extent of the power thus put into her hands for good. O mothers, how culpably negligent you are! How almost infinitely much, which you alone can do, is left undone for ever? Your time spent on dressing and feeding their bodies mainly their minds left to grow up naked and starving for the bread and the clothes which you alone can furnish. Not that you really neglect them, for most of you devote your undivided time and energies to them, but that you "do those things ye ought not to have done, and leave undone many things ye ought to have done." You do enough, but do not do the RIGHT things-do mainly for their BODIES—handing their intellects over to the care of the schoolteacher, and their morals to the parson, whereas your and their natures require YOU to be teacher and preacher as well as nurse. Now this is the fault I find with you. You spend weeks, if not months, every year in ornamenting their bodies-in rigging them off in the latest fashions, and pampering their palates, or else in augmenting your wealth, so that they may make a showy appearance in the world-yet leave their minds and morals almost a waste. See with what opportunities you are furnished for imprinting moral lessons upon their mindsopportunities proffered to no other, advantages secured by your and their physical and mental constitution—opportunities which your neglect leaves forever unimproved. See what a constant stream of knowledge-historical, experimental, miscellaneous, and highly practical—your opportunities almost perpetually for conversing with them proffers you. Talk to them you must. Now why not talk sense instead of baby-twaddle? If your own minds were duly informed or cultivated, it would be as easy for you to instruct and expand their intellects every day and hour, as it now is to talk baby-nonsense. Your and their natures have made you their constitutional teachers. And if you do not teach them, they must remain untaught. School-teachers cannot fill your place. Children must learn AT HOME, or not learn much at all. Mothers can teach more in one quarter than the best of teachers in years. But having urged this point elsewhere, I dismiss it for a kindred one

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR MORALS. To argue this point is useless. It requires only illustration. Take Benevolence. Does the preacher, do religious observances in general call this faculty much into action? Does hearing a charity sermon, or putting pennies into the contribution box, " to be seen of men" stir up within them whole-souled desires to do good, or prompt to deeds of charity? No; these must be developed in the family circle or not at all. Mothers must excite them by cultivating a spirit of mutual forbearance and selfsacrifice towards one another and their playmates, by persuading them to yield their childish toys and sports to others, and forego selfish infringements upon the rights of playmates. What better place on earth to cultivate mutual good feeling and enlarged philanthropy than the family, and who better than mothers? Children allowed and encouraged in DOMESTIC selfishness, will be always selfish; but brought up right at home, will do good wherever they go. Of all the other moral and religious virtues, this is equally true. How forcible an illustration is afforded in Conscientiousness! How multifarious a mother's opportunities for cultivating and impressing the most conscientious regard for RIGHT, DUTY, and uncompromising RECTITUDE of purpose and conduct

upon her pupils! And if she cannot detect and nip in the bud any propensity to deceive, pilfer, and the like, surely nobody else can.

The application of this principle to the formation of SWEETNESS OF DISPOSITION, and the subjugation of all morose, combative, ugly, and wrathful ebullitions of temper, furnish additional and most forcible illustrations of the almost creative power mothers exert-are even compelled to exert-over the forming characters of their children, yet the length of preceding articles does not allow us the room requisite to develop another important and even governing principle requisite to the full elucidation of this subject, which, however, our next issue will contain.

"MESMERISM IN INDIA.-A work published in London, gives an interesting account of the use of Mesmerism, or Animal Magnetism, in the army-hospital at Hoogley, in Bombay. Detailed reports are given of seventy-three cases of surgical operations, some of them of the most difficult description, performed without the slightest pain."

It is also gaining converts rapidly all over EUROPE, and institutions are being formed in almost every city. Who will refuse to EXAMINE this subject? We may cry out delusion and humbug without ever having given the thing a moment's attention. Examine it, examine it.-ED.

MISCELLANY..

A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT

TO VOLUNTARY CO-WORKERS, AND FRIENDS OF THE CAUSE. WITH this number we commence the Ninth Volume of the AMERICAN PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL, with prospects far brighter than any by which we have ever before been blessed, especially so far as the rapid increase of su> scribers is concerned, as may be seen by the following statement.

In 1842, there were only six hundred subscribers to the Journal; in 1843, twelve hundred; in 1844, two thousand five hundred; in 1845, five thousand two hundred; in 1846, TWELVE THOUSAND; and there is at present every prospect of a still greater increase during the present year, which will amount to at least TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND.

Reader, is not this a reasonable estimate? Much, however, will depend on you. We will do all in our power to merit YOUR efforts in extending its circulation, until it is placed in the hands of every family in the land, and its influence felt by the whole world. Who will not help on this mighty engine of reform ? Young men, we appeal to you for action in this noble cause, you who have already felt its elevating influence. Many of you have done much, for which you have our most hearty thanks, and doubtless the thanks of all into whose hands you have placed it. Estimating our subscription list at 24,000 we may calculate on at least 100,000 readers, as there are not less than four readers in every family where the Journal is taken; nor will it be long, at this rate, before we shall record the names of more than ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND REGULAR

SUBSCRIBERS.

Very many of our last year's subscribers have promised to send us a club of twenty or more for the present year. By a half hour's time and a little effort on the part of each subscriber, a club of from fifteen to twenty names might be procured. Sample numbers will always be furnished GRATIS for this purpose, when desired. Some of our friends have sent us upwards of one hundred subscribers for 1847. Who will go and do likewise?

THE PHRENOLOgical Cabinet in Clinton HALL, 131 Nassau street, New York, contains a vast number of Phrenological Specimens, which have been collected from all nations and tribes, including the skulls from a great variety of animals the whole number amounting to several thousand, to which a constant addition is being made by travellers in our own, and voyagers to other countries.

Of our own citizens, we have recently added casts from the heads of the Hon. SILAS WRIGHT, Governor of the State of New York, and that of HORACE GREELY, Esq., Editor of the New York Tribune, also of Mr. J. T. HART, the Sculptor, the phrenological characters of whom, together with their likenesses, will be laid before the readers of the Journal.

Besides the above, we have been presented with several skulls of murderers, and other peculiar characters, including cannibals, idiots, etc. etc.