new start, and grow finely. Why? Because furnished with some essential ingredient of growth not supplied by their former regimen. Farmers are beginning to derive great benefit from studying their soils, and thus ascertaining what they require in order to produce great yields of given crops. Then how much greater crops of talents and virtue in their dear offspring might parents secure by studying physiology, and thus seeing what simple or compound elements their children require to promote their growth, and what kinds of food will furnish the lacking material? Or, if they cannot study so as to ascertain this by science, let them find out, by varied EXPERIMENTS, on what kinds of food and regimen their children thrive best, and then see that they have it. Especially let them try fruit, and particularly swEET APPLES, eaten with their meals. This article of diet, known to be first-rate to fatten stock, will even more effectually promote the growth of puny children.

As the state of the brain is reciprocal with that of the body, and that of mind with that of the body, of course, whatever promotes or retards the latter, equally strengthens or weakens the former. Hence, whenever the school-room impairs their health, it equally enfeebles, instead of strengthening their minds.

This palsying influence of stunting on after development applies with redoubled force both to juvenile intellect and morals. Any arrest in the growth of either of the latter causes the same pull-back to them that it does to the body, and should therefore be guarded against with as much more assiduity as they are superior to it. Hence, instruction should be CONSTANT, and vacations in the true educational system are pernicious. Not to prosecute this subject, most important as it is, in its application to the intellect, will parents be entreated to ponder its application to their MORALS? Their Conscientiousness, Benevolence, Veneration, Spirituality, Ideality, or Hope, are each governed by this same law of arrest of growth, already illustrated. This should by all means be prevented, by taking the utmost care to allow nothing to shock or stunt these higher and finer sensibilities of their plastic souls. On the contrary, every possible means should be employed to KEEP THEIR MORAL FEELINGS GROWING, from the very cradle to the grave. Thus, witnessing the butchery of animals will effectually check the growth of Benevolence, and produce a stunting of its development as much more fatal to all after development of this divine sentiment, than a similar stint of a plant is to its subsequent growth, as this godlike sentiment transcends a tree or shrub. And thus of all the other moral faculties. Hence, if you must slaughter animals, either send them or your children from home at the time, nor allow any thing to sear, or harden, or reverse any of their fine moral sensibilities.

ARTICLE LXVII.

CHARACTER OF GEORGE KING.

BERKSHIRE, OCT. 12, 1847.

MESSRS. FOWLERS AND WELLS: Pursuant to promise, I now write you the real character of George King, which you phrenologically delineated in the Sept. No. of the Journal, (Drawing No. 44.) His mother emigrated from England when he was a small boy, with a brother some two years younger. This is all that is known of his ancestry. They were very poor, and George was indented to a shoemaker in Petersburgh, Va., which trade he learned to great perfection. After arriving at manhood, he commenced the business of overseeing, which he pursued for some thirty years with as much renown as any man, perhaps, in Virginia. During that time he volunteered under Gen. Green, and was at the battle of Guildford Courthouse, and has often described that battle, the personal appearance of Green, the manœuvreing of the troops, &c., at that place, in a more lucid manner than has been given in any history I have seen. He was likewise at the surrendering of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, and has often vividly described the works, appearances of the officers, &c., so vividly that I have often fancied I saw the town, intrenchments, and officers, and heard the cannonading. He married and settled in Henry County, Va., raised and educated a large family, removed to Cumberland about thirty-five years ago, lost his wife and married again when about seventy-five; was then as erect and elastic as most men of forty-five; was fond of the chase at that age, and years after often shouldered his gun and ranged the mountains without tiring or losing his way. Honesty and integrity were his strong characteristics. He was strictly honest in all his dealings, and so very cautious that he probably never owed fifty dollars in his life. He never in his life gave or asked security. He was fond of telling tales, and told them with much effect. He was full of wit and humor, even down to decrepid old age, and his good recollection of what he had seen, and his happy way of telling it, made him universally listened too. His truthfulness was proverbial, so much so that whatsoever he said was law and gospel. He was a kind, obliging neighbor, an affectionate parent, and a consistent and efficient member of the church, though decidedly old school in all his feelings, conversation, and actions. He was one of the most genteel and polite of men. I never saw an improper action, nor heard a vulgar word from his mouth. Although he was homespun to the letter, and despised all innovations upon old customs, he dressed with the most exact neatness, and strictest order reigned throughout his whole farm and household. One of his faults, if fault it be, was, that if he believed a man to be a liar, or rogue, he told him so right out, insomuch that I have frequently been put to the blush while he lived with me for his matter-of-fact way of dealing with men. He died in his 105th year, not from any disease, but merely a wearing out of nature's wheels. His going out of life was perfectly easy. This is his real character. I leave the coincidence between his life and your account of his Phrenology for an impartial public to decipher.

J. M. BAKER.

NOTE.-The character you gave from the profile likeness, was universally acknowledged to be correct; but the old cry of collusion was got, up and still prevails: "but if they hear not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one arose from the dead." Suffice it to say, that Phrenology has been on the ascendant ever since the appearance of the Sept No.; only one man has opposed the correctness of the character, but he is an uncompromising foe to the science.

J. M. B.

This charge of collusion, made without even pretending to furnish the least proof, I pronounce utterly groundless. Besides, if this case is col

lusion, all my examinations of heads must be equally collusive; and if they were, somebody would know it-those certainly who furnish me the collusive facts. Now let that man who ever knew of my attempting such collusion, during the almost quarter of a century of my professional practice, be produced. Either make no such charge, or produce proof, or else bear the brand of a slanderer. But again; his likeness shows those organs which would produce just such a character as I ascribed to him, so that the coincidence between his real and phrenological character is perfect, even if irrespective of all collusion. The shape of his head, as seen in his likeness, is proof positive of the truth of the science, as far as one head can prove it.

Will doubters, then, please to compare attentively together his Phrenology as seen in his likeness, and Mr B's summary of his life and character, and then say whether so perfect a coincidence does not require them, as lovers of truth, to admit the science to be founded in nature.

For a phrenological description and likeness of Mr. King, see page 278.-ED. Jour.

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JENNY LIND AND THE MESMERIST.

The Manchester Courier contains the following:

"On the 3d instant, Mademoiselle Jenny Lind, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Schwabe, and a few of their friends, attended a seance at Mr. Braid's, for the purpose of witnessing some of the extraordinary phenomena of hypnotism. There were two girls who work in a warehouse, and who had just come, in their working attire. Having thrown them into the sleep, Mr. Braid sat down to the piano, and the moment he began playing, both somnambulists approached and joined him in singing a trio. Having awakened one of the girls, Mr. Braid made a most startling announcement regarding the one who was still in the sleep. He said, although ignorant of the grammar of her own language when awake, when in the sleep she could accompany any one in the room in singing songs in any language, giving both notes and words correctly-a feat which she was quite incompetent to perform in the waking condition. Mr. B. requested any one in the room to put her to the test, when Mr. Schwabe played and sang a German song, in which she accompanied him correctly, giving both notes and words simultaneously with Mr. Schwabe.

"Another gentleman then tried her with one in Swedish, in which she also succeeded. Next, Jenny Lind played and sang a slow air, with Swedish words, in which the somnambulist accompanied her in the most perfect manner, both as regarded words and music. Jenny now seemed resolved to test the powers of the somnambulist to the utmost, by a continued strain of the most difficult roulades and cadenzas, including some of her extraordinary sostenuto notes, with all their inflections, from pianissimo to forte crescendo, and again diminished to thread-like pianissimo; but in all these fantastic tricks and displays of genius by the Swedish nightingale, even to the shake, she was so closely and accurately tracked by the somnambulist, that several in the room occasionally could not have told, merely by hearing, that there were two individuals singing --so instantaneously did she catch the notes, and so perfectly did their voices blend and accord.

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Next, Jenny, having been told by Mr. Braid that she might be tested by some other language, commenced Casta Diva,' in which the fidelity of the somnambulist's performance, both in words and music, fully justified all that Mr. Braid had alleged regarding her powers. The girl has naturally a good voice, and has had a little musical instruction in some of the Music for the Million' classes, but is quite incompetent of doing any such feat in the waking condition, either as regards singing the notes, or speaking the words, with the accuracy she did when in the somnambulist state. She was also tested by Mademoiselle Lind in merely imitating language, when she gave the most exact imitations; and Mr. Schwabe also tried her by some difficult combinations of sound, which he said he knew no one was capable of imitating correctly without much practice; but the somnambulist imitated them correctly at once, and that whether spoken slowly or quickly.

"When the girl was aroused, she had no recollection of any thing that had been done by her, or that she had afforded such a high gratification to all present. She said she merely felt somewhat out of breath, as if she had been running. Mr. Braid attributes all this merely to the extraordinary exaltation of the sense of hearing, and the muscular sense at a certain stage of the sleep, together with the abstracted state of the mind, which enables the patients to concentrate their undivided attention to the subject in hand, together with entire confidence in their own powers. By this means, he says, they can appreciate nice shades of difference in sound, which would wholly escape their observation in the ordinary condition, and the vocal organs are correspondingly more under control, owing to the exalted state of the muscular sense; and the concentrated attention, and confidence in their own powers, with which he endeavors to inspire them, enables them to turn these exalted senses to the best advantage.