sale publishers are doing a glorious work, but they would do little without him. They are his waiters. They make all ready, while he does the ACTUAL work. I honor all manufacturers of useful commodities, because they are promoting human comfort. I honor all manufacturers of good reading, most of all, because they make what develops mind, and puts the human soul—that greatest of all— upon a higher plane of happiness and of being. But I honor those who circulate these works from house to house quite as much. The book pedler is as essential as the author, because he carries the work to those who would not otherwise have seen it, so that all the additional good done by all the books he scatters abroad, he does, and the honor is his. I of course include periodicals and papers. And every number they circulate entitles them to that honor which cometh from God, and is connected with doing good. They are national benefactors-race benefactors. And the more there are of them, and the more zealously they labor, the more this work of all work goes on to gather the harvest of humanity into the garner of happiness and heaven. We honor them. We not only shake them mentally by the hand and heartily thank them in the name of man, but we cordially bid them "God speed." And thus it is that the editor feels toward every one who circulates any one of his man-perfecting works.

Nor can any one engage in any work more profitable to himself, than in going from house to house with good books, for it brings him in direct communion with human nature in all its forms and phases. It soon teaches him men, and exactly how to TAKE men-how to OPERATE on them-how to persuade, move, and MOULD MIND, and this is the greatest and most valuable power mortal man can possibly possess. Besides, it wears off his own excrescences, and polishes his manners, at the same time that it is the very best sharpener up of all his powers which the world affords. It is the VERY thing to fit a young man for the practical duties of life, at the same time that it confers the greatest blessing on our nation which it is in the power of the sons of liberty to confer. Would to heaven we had a thousand book pedlers and subscription solicitors to one. What if some oppose and ridicule; every book left will shed a beam of honor upon you in after years. What if you no more than make expenses-and he is a poor one who cannot make good wages—you enrich your MINDS, and this is your greatest good. We then submit to young men, almost entreat them, in view of all these motives-that of patriotism, most of all-to turn aside from other callings and enter this; or, if not for life, to take it up nov, and then, say winters when other work is scarce, and do for your country, your race, and yourselves, the greatest work it is permitted to mortal man to do.

PHRENOLOGISTS say, and say truly, that, contrary to the general sentiment, the mass of mankind have not self-esteem enough. Few have confidence to attempt a tithe of what they might accomplish, in any pursuit or vocation. Intellectually, we are grovellers all-" poor and abject as the miser amid his money-bags not from lack of wealth, but as wanting energy and self-confidence to use it."

PHRENOLOGY IN THE SOUTH.-We are receiving cheering accounts from all parts of the extreme South, in relation to the progress of Phrenology. May it secure the attention of every resident in this fair clime.

MISCELLANY.

OUR PHRENOLOGICAL TRACT SOCIETY is not yet fully organized, so that we are not yet prepared to communicate any thing more concerning it in this number, further than that it has awakened a very considerable interest in its formation and prosperity.

PHRENOLOGY IN ARKANSAS.-"The cause of Phrenology meets with many zealous supporters here, notwithstanding the great scarcity of your valuable works. A deep interest in this matter is beginning to manifest itself among our intelligent and liierary men, and doubtless will soon create a new demand for many of your works upon this great study, which should be paramount with every rational man.

"I am, respectfully, yours, etc.,

"WM. R. RIGHTOR."

ANIMAL MAGNETISM.

CHARLES MORLEY, in his introduction to the "Elements of Animal Magnetism,"* says:

"Mesmer was the first who reduced the principles of Animal Magnetism to a system, and he employed it very successfully as an auxiliary of medicine in his extensive practice. This was in 1774. In a few years he was assailed by numerous enemies. The curative effects of animal magnetism excited the jealousy of the medical faculty in Paris; hence the Academé Royal Medicine, in the exercise of its royal prerogative of intolerance, decreed: No physician shall declare himself a partizan of animal magnetism under the penalty of being struck from the list of members. In 1745 this same Academy had condemned inoculation as 'murderous,' 'criminal,' and 'magical.' Peruvian bark shared the same fate; also against the circulation of the blood. In 1784 this Academy appointed a committee from their number to examine and report on animal magnetism; but instead of confining their attention to the facts which were laid before them, they sought the cause by whch they were produced, and inquired into the existence of the fluid described by Mesmer, but it escaped their research. They could not see, taste, or touch it; they could not collect it in masses, and could neither measure or weigh it; therefore they made a leap in the dark, and concluded that animal magnetism did not exist. How ridiculous would such tests now seem to determine whether the mind exists or not; but it is equally so with regard to animal magnetism. But the decree of the Academy was assailed on all sides, and their sophistry detected by some of the most learned men of Europe, and the science spread, in spite of persecution, through France, Germany, Holland, and many members of the Academy became believers and practicers of it, as an auxiliary of medicine; and in 1825, a new commission was appointed to examine and report to the Society on the subject, and in 1831, they reported unanimously in its favor, although when first appointed several of the committee were opposed to it. In Europe, Cuvier, Laplace, Humboldt, Dugald Stewart, Coleridge, Prof. Kluge, and Dr. Elliotson are advocates of it; and in our own country, Doctors Bartlet of Lowell, Flint and Buyard of Boston, Cutler of N. H., Cleaveland of R. I., and Payne and Hof* Price twelve and a half cents. Fowlers & Wells, New York.

fendahl of Albany, use it with great success in their practice as an auxiliary of medicine; besides the president and professors of Union and other colleges, and a large number of the most intelligent men in our country, are either practical magnetizers or advocates of it.

"We are aware that it has numerous opposers. Every new discovery has had its opposers, and the more important the discovery, the more numerous were the opposers. Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was persecuted by the most learned physicians, and they so prejudiced the people against him, that he lost his extensive practice and had to flee his native country. Galileo was condemned to the inquisition. Fulton was persecuted. But like every other truth, it will triumph over opposition, and hold up to shame and contempt those who oppose it through ignorance and prejudice, as opposers of this and every truth are among those who never have examined it; for it is the universal result, that every one who carefully examines it, by experiment and observation, becomes convinced of its reality.

"Animal magnetism is introduced with success into the hospitals of Paris and London. At Berlin is a professorship of animal magnetism in the Medical College. The learned Dr. Kluge now fills that station.

"Some charge the whole phenomena of animal magnetism to the devil. Admit this, and we must also admit that he is a clever sort of a fellow after all, to thus relieve distress, and reclaim the drunkard from the intoxicating bowl, to become a good member of society; to change hatred into love, so that the subject can pray for his enemies, and be saved from premature death. Magnetism does all this, and if this is a work of the devil, the poor fellow has heretofore been awfully slandered.

"Animal magnetism, like every other blessing, has doubtless been abused by some; so has religion."

ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE REFORMERS.

THE following, from Dr. Buchanan's reply to Rev. N. L. Rice,* will interest our readers. Let those who are obliged to confront opposition and bigotry, look back to the days of Galileo, and take courage-"Better times ARE coming." Dr. B. says:

"The whole of this opposition to science and free investigation-the assaults upon Phrenology, Geology, Political Economy, and Astronomy-the attempts to array sectarian prejudice against their cultivation, and to revive the dark ages of witchcraft, murder, and religious intolerance-the attempts to resist and denounce radical reforms for the improvement of the healing art, and radical reforms for the improvement of society, for the diffusion of liberty, for the enlightenment and elevation of the people-originate alike in the same great deep and everflowing fountain of evil-the animal nature of man-the selfish and stubborn passions which continually resist all that is good and progressive. The struggle of the FLESH against the SPIRIT-of the animal against the moral nature, and the progressive triumph of the latter, constitute the great outline of human destiny in which we are now acting our parts, for the benefit or injury of mankind. The anti-reformers of all ages, who in Judea cried out, Crucify him, crucify him—who, in subsequent periods, erected the stake, the gibbet, and the dungeon, all over Christendom-and who, in the present day, shorn of their physical power, carry on a fierce moral war of hatred, denunciation, sophistry and misrepresentation, against all that tends directly to a higher and better future-toward the great millennial era which in due time must come- -these anti-reformers of all times and countries, are collectively classified as the CHAMPIONS OF DARKNESS, and their relation to the HERALDS

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OF LIGHT has been so felicitously expressed by the poet Charles Mackay, that we could not read a more graphic sketch than in his beautiful lines :

"The man is thought a knave or fool,

Or bigot plotting crime,

Who, for the advancement of his kind,
Is wiser than his time.

For him the hemlock shall distill ;

For him the axe be bared;

For him the gibbet shall be built;

For him the stake prepared:

Him shall the scorn and wrath of men

Pursue with deadly aim;

And malice, envy, spite, and lies,
Shall desecrate his name.

But truth shall conquer at the last,
For round and round we run,
And ever the right comes uppermost,
And ever is justice done.

"Pace through thy cell, old Socrates,
Cheerily to and fro;

Trust to the impulse of thy soul
And let the poison flow.

They may shatter to earth the lamp of clay
That holds the light divine,

Bnt they cannot quench the fire of thought
By any such deadly wine;
They cannot blot thy spoken words
From the memory of man,

By all the poison ever was bruised
Since time its course began.
To-day abhorred, to-morrow adored,
So round and round we run,
And ever the truth comes uppermost,
And ever is justice done.

"Plod in thy cave, gray anchorite,
Be wiser than thy peers;

Augment the range of human power,

And trust to coming years.

They may call thee wizzard and monk accursed,

And load thee with dispraise;

Thou wert born five hundred years too soon
For the comfort of thy days.

But not too soon for human kind,

Time hath reward in store,

And the demons of our stories become
The saints that we adore.

The blind can see, the slave is lord;
So round and round we run;

And ever the wrong is proved to be wrong,

And ever is justice done.

Keep, Galileo, to thy thought,

And nerve thy soul to bear;

They may gloat o'er the senseless words they wring
From the pangs of thy despair;

They may veil their eyes, but they cannot hide
The sun's meridian glow;

The heel of a priest may tread thee down,
And a tyrant work thee woe;

But never a truth has been destroyed.
They may curse and call it crime;
Pervert and betray, or slander and slay

Its teachers, for a time;

But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,
As round and round we run,
And truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done."

"And live there now such men as these-
With thoughts like the great of old?
Many have died in their misery,

And left their thoughts untold;

And many live, and are ranked as mad,
And placed in the cold world's ban,
For sending their bright, far-seeing souls,
Three centuries in the van.

They toil in penury and grief,

Unknown, if not malign'd;

Forlorn, forlorn, bearing the scorn

Of the meanest of mankind.

But yet the world goes round and round,
As the genial seasons run,

And ever the truth comes uppermost,
And ever is justice done."

"The spirit of liberalism, he remarked, was rising in this age, as a mighty power, before which the despotisms of Europe, the power of Mammon, and the spirit of bigotry, were trembling in their strongholds. In this free country political despotism had been crushed, and the tyranny of opinion in science and religion was meeting the same fate. The whole army of reformers (of whom many were present) were marching to a sure and brilliant triumph. Medical and scientific reformers were leading an important section of this army, and they, with the reformers of morals and religion, would march side by side— their standards floating together and often meeting in the great crusade against evil and ignorance, for the redemption of the race."

A SPOTTED NEGRO.-The Raleigh Standard, of the 13th inst., published in North Carolina, has the following: On Saturday last, we were invited by Mr. Northam, of Johnston County, to examine at Lawrence's Hotel a negro boy he had in charge-and a very strange looking boy he is. He is as black as the negro ordinarily is, and has white rings around his arms and legs; the skin upon his breast and abdomen is white, and there is a white streak commencing at the top of his forehead, and running an inch or so up his head, the hair on this part of his head being as white and as soft as lamb's wool. The white is remarkably clear, and contrasts singularly with the black skin, which covers the other parts of his body. This boy is three years old, was born in Johnston county, this state, and seems to be smart for one of his age.

For the American Phrenological Journal.

THE PRESENT.

How oft does thought on busy wing ascend,

(And by its power are earthly things surveyed ;) The Present, Past, and Future scenes all blend, A varied landscape, in its light and shade. And oh, how oft bright Hope, with golden beams, Tinges the scenes that Fancy's realms supply,While Disappointment o'er its passing dream

Throws its dark shade as with the past they fly. 'Tis thus that men will oft at times descry,

This world is one of woe and misery,— Forgetting this, that all true pleasures lie Neither in Past nor in Futurity;

But in the Present, and in that alone,

Is where contentment ever can be found;
What is there more that we can call our own,
But what's embraced in that one simple sound?

The Past is gone, its scenes return no more,-
The hour that's fled returneth not again;
The Future's veiled, and to all human lore,
To pierce its portals, will the task be vain.
Then he who always looks for future joys,

Or wishes oft for those that's past and fled,
Was not one single hour without alloy,
And every day in bitterness is sped.

But oh, how oft, e'en when this truth we know,
Do all our efforts seem to turn to gall,-
For what's called pleasure is not truly so,
And thus misguided, sacrifice our all;—
Yet hug the phantom closer to our breast,

As each embrace its parting pang has given,
And every effort made to lull to rest,

Serves but to make the point still deeper driven. Then wake, O mortals, rouse thy mental power, And cast away upon the ebbing tide Thy ignorance—which even at this hour,

Amid its folds doth half thy pleasures hide. Let Reason guide, let her bold, steady ray Illume the darkness that doth yet remain, And boldly follow where she points the way, If you the realms of happiness would gain. When will you learn to study nature's laws,

And which infringed alone gives pain to thee,—

That this infringement is alone the CAUSE,
Not the EFFECT of all men's misery?