noise for an hour, I'll punish you," or some similar threat or imperious command. As well punish them for breathing, as for talking or playing boisterously. They cannot avoid the latter any more than they can stop the former. They should not stop. They are but yielding obedience to an irresistible law of their natures, and should be encouraged and facilitated rather than repressed. If they are in your way, let them go out of doors to romp and prattle there: but do not, I beseech you, continually irritate their tempers, by requiring of them what they cannot and should not perform, and then blame or punish them for disobedience.

A child takes hold of a table spread, and thoughtlessly pulls it along till a dish or two falls off; for which he is severely punished, though he intended no harm. Or it is told to bring a tumbler of water, or something else, in doing which it slips down and breaks a dish, or does some other damage. Your own Acquisitiveness is wounded by the loss, and your Combativeness excited, which makes you scold, whereas you should pity. Thus it is that children are blamed for a thousand similar things constantly occurring, when entirely innocent, or deserving commendation. This finding fault just because they do not know how to do things exactly to suit you, or because it is not done exactly as you wish, excites their Combativeness and reverses their Conscientiousness, hence they, too, grow up to find fault, and be ill-tempered. Their Combativeness is kept in a continual ferment, and consequently becomes morbidly and permanently active, and so breaks forth continually upon themselves and even upon inanimate objects.

Or, it may be, that a child hits its toe against a stick, stone, or chair, and falls down and hurts itself. The over-tender mother catches up that which caused the child to fall, and whips or scolds it for hurting "itty sissy." The next day, another child occasions pain to "itty sissy," and she, following the example set by her parent or nurse, of punishing what gives it pain, beats the other child, and gets beaten back again, and a regular quarrel ensues; whereas, if the parent had but taught lessons of forbearance and forgiveness rather than of revenge, the disposition of the child would have been sweet and amiable.

Some, whose Mirthfulness and Combativeness are active, take pleasure in teasing children, just to witness their angry and saucy retorts. This is most pernicious. Children should never be plagued. Parents, if you love your families, remonstrate with those who provoke your children, and if they do not desist, dismiss them. On no account should you suffer the tempers of your children to be permanently soured, and their moral feelings lowered, by being tantalized. Children get much of their illtemper from being plagued.-SElf-Culture.

"The duty of the legislator is simply to conform to natural truth. He is the mere minister and expositor of nature.' If Infinite Goodness has ordained the employment of the human faculties for the attainment of happiness, and invited their activity by surrounding them with the means of employment and gratification, human wisdom has but one work to perform, and that is, to reduce the means of happiness to possession according to the natural design.”Hurlbut.

ARTICLE XLVI.

REPUBLICANISM THE TRUE FORM OF GOVERNMENT: ITS DESTINED INFLUENCE. NO. VII.

ANOTHER department of the evils of presidential patronage, exposed in our preceding article on this subject, is the prevailing subserviency to PARTY. Men do not seem to know that they can be any thing but a whig, or democrat, or "third party man.' They think they must necessarily espouse a specific party, and then follow that party, wherever it may lead them. And how strenuously the various parties insist on this course. How they protest against all splitting of tickets. How party catch-words are caught up by the whole clique, and resounded throughout the land. How every partisan feels bound to defend every party measure, "right or wrong," and vote for it at the expense of conscience and common sense. Indeed, it has come to that pass, that the voters-the only ones whose will should be regarded-must have no wills of their own, but must submit to be led, blindfolded, by the nose, whithersoever their sovereign lords please. And to this self-abasing requisition our party voters submit like whipped spaniels, and even lick the hand which brandishes the rod in their faces. Fools and cowards all! Have you no wills, no souls, no opinions of your own? Are you such tame poltroons that you do not know how to vote? Must principle-must supreme JUSTICE-be trampled under foot, and that by mere PARTY-ism? Wherein differs party domineering from kingly rule? In what consists the life and soul of republicanism, but in allowing every freeman to cast his vote according to his best judgment? Do the parties allow this? They may, of right, try to persuade one another to vote given tickets; but does it end here? Do they not hold a rod-half a score of terrors, even all they can muster— over voters, and pour out vials of fierce wrath on all who dare to break the "rank and file ?" Let the voters of both the leading parties-let the entire machinery of party tactics-answer this question, and then let those who are not mere party pack-horses and abject serfs rise up and resist this crying evil. It is a virtual overthrow of every principle of republicanism, and a practical substitution of monarchy in its stead. It is an appalling evil, against which every true freeman will rise up, and which MUST BE arrested. Who want party leaders to think for them? Those who do are not worthy to be admitted to the blessings of freemen, and are virtual slaves-VOLUNTARY slaves-the most despicable form of servitude. Shame on them! Call yourselves freemen, yet hug party trammels! Great liberty that. Yet those who love their chains are welcome to wear them.

So general has this course become, that party leaders not only count their votes beforehand, as well as afterwards, but impudently thrust upon their parties measures the most barefaced and unjust, and men utterly unprincipled and unworthy. Nor do their tame followers often stop to inquire what they voted for, but, shutting their eyes and opening their mouths, they obediently swallow whatever is put into them. Such voting is worse than monarchy-as much worse as a swarm of little flies is worse than one big one. This "blind-buff" voting has already led us into national sins almost, if not quite, enough to effect the overthrow of our institutions, as the next twenty years will show. We may survive, PROVIDED the honest of all parties open their eyes, and at once forsake party for honesty. RIGHTEOUSNESS alone can exalt a nation. Injustice alone can overthrow our national fabric; and every political act founded in injustice will proportionally affect our national ruin. How much it will require to complete our ruin, need not now be said; but this going for party, right or wrong, will just as surely break our nation to pieces, as it is persisted in. God will let No sin go unpunished, much less such monstrosities as our own eyes have seen enacted by, that very party subserviency we are condemning. As surely as God is just, will these outrages bring national calamities in their wake; and I confess I fear the Rubicon is already crossed. Yet of this in another connection.

One thing let me urge upon every voter, and that is, to put RIGHT above party. Go with your party just as far as it proposes HONEST men and measures, but not one whit farther, for, as far as you do, you are effecting your country's RUIN. Let politicians understand that they must propound only wholesome measures or they will be left in the minority. But as long as they can continue, as now, to succeed, notwithstanding they pursue unjust ends by wicked means, so long will they continue on * from one moral outrage to another, till they swAMP THE NATION, and make shipwreck of the ark of liberty. O, my countrymen, by all the love you bear to liberty-by all the blessings it is showering upon us and our children-be entreated and persuaded to VOTE FOR THE RIght. Do not assume those momentous responsibilities without wielding them ARIGHT. Our descendants look to us to steer the ark of liberty into the haven of happiness. This can be done only by voting FOR what is right, and against all that is wrong. God forbid that we should help our rascally politicians wreck this blessed life-boat of our race! O, rise above party, and let every vote be a deposite of intelligence and integrity. Then shall we restore our institutions, and save the world!

MR. GEORGE COMBE, by special invitation, is now lecturing in Germany, on the science of Phrenology. Scarcely an individual who listen's ot his profound discourses, fails to become a convert to the glorious science.

This man's character was strongly marked. one of the most flexible and enduring to be found.

His temperament was

As the muscular or

motive greatly predominated, and was most conspicuous, and the mental was also well developed, he had always been remarkably active, and a most extraordinary worker. All his motions were easy and flexible, so that he was not fatigued by labor. He was also very strong and spry, and

very smart, even in advanced age.

His brain partook of the same elasticity and power which character. ized his physiology. He was remarkable for his strong common sense, and the originality and correctness of his opinions. His conversation abounded in pithy and witty remarks, and he retained his faculties to the very last, little impaired by age. His memory, especially of olden times, was extraordinary. He excelled in describing what he had seen, and especially persons and places. Few men of his means knew more than he did, or could use their mental powers to better advantage.

He was as methodical as a clock, and always retired, rose, ate, etc., at set times, and departed from his fixed habits with extreme reluctance. He also excelled in mathematics, and in measuring by his eye. If a farmer, every fence, and furrow, and row, must be straight, and every thing true. I think Constructiveness was large, so that he excelled in the use of tools, and could make any thing he set himself about. He also excelled in setting men at work advantageously, and evinced much more than ordinary skill in adapting ways and means to ends. He had a strong and clear mind, was quite witty, and often told humorous stories with much effect.

He was exceedingly cautious, always erred on the side of safety, made few moves, and those always with success, and possessed superior judg ment, so that his neighbors flocked to him for advice.

He was a man of stern and unflinching integrity, and always maintained the cause of RIGHT and TRUTH with the utmost steadfastness. Stability and steadfastness were his strongest characteristics.

He was not selfish, not acquisitive, and was no hypocrite, but spoke out his honest sentiments. He was hospitable, but homespun; friendly and cordial, but despised modern ceremonial politeness, yet was one of nature's noblemen in all which appertained to moral worth and true gentility of manners.

He was an eminently social and affectionate man, a fond husband, tender father, most excellent neighbor, perfectly upright in deal, and every way a truly worthy man. This is his phrenological character, as far as this drawing warrants us in detailing it. Will Mr. B. please forward his real one?

P. S In the Editor's work on "HEREDITARY DESCENT," after proving tt longevity is hereditary, he proceeds to show that tenacity of life