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MESSRS. FOWLERS AND WELLS-Your prospectus for volume tenth was. thankfully received, though at a late period. I have procured a few subscribers for your valuable Journal. I believe the science of Phrenology is acting'as a great lever in bringing about the true form of government, and to the advancement of religion; though a few days since my ears were saluted with a sermon from the text, "Thy heart is not right with God," by a minister, a leader of the people, whose name I suppress, who firmly announced to the public that he believed the thoughts originated from the muscular heart, and not the brain. A course of lectures from some able phrenologist, would be of great service here. Truly yours,

J. W. SMITH

LOUISIANA, Pike County, Mo.

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GENTLEMEN—I hereby inclose you one dollar as a year's subscription to the American Phrenological Journal. You may send me the back numbers of the present volume. Phrenology is advancing in the west, and but for the malpractice of quacks, would progress rapidly indeed. It is no longer considered by thinking men as a doubtful science, and could you visit this western region, you would find much to interest you in the subject.

Yours, respectfully,

R. J. WATSON.

RAYMOND, Hinds Co., Mississippi, Sept. 2d, 1848.

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GENTLEMEN-Inclosed I remit $-, for which you will please send the American Phrenological Journal to the following persons: This makes forty names I have sent you, accompanied by the cash. I have five names for the Edinburgh Quarterly, and expect soon to have another five. Our country was never more healthy.

Yours, in the good hope of the ultimate triumph of ALL truth

S. R. JONES.

CHARLES HOSFORD.-Can any of our friends in the West inform us of the whereabouts of this gentleman?

ARTICLE LXIX.

PHRENOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF WILLIAM BLAKE-ILLUSTRATED WITH TWO PORTRAITS, A FRONT AND SIDE VIEW. BY L. N. FOWLER.

MR. BLAKE is a large man, well proportioned, with a predominance of the vital temperament, but is not defective in the motive or mental; he is consequently fond of active life, without its extremes or severities His organization indicates long life, a good constitution, and healthy ac tion of body and mind.

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indicate a sound, strong, comprehensive mind; one not so active, excitable, and irregular in development, as steady, firm, and straightforward.

His phrenological developments are distinct, and singularly combined. His character is more even than that of most men with so uneven a head. The controlling organs of his head-those by nature having the most influence are all large, while the stimulating faculties are all comparatively weak; his head is high, narrow, and long, particularly from the

ear to Individuality. Of his selfish faculties, Combativeness, Destruc tiveness, Acquisitiveness, Secretiveness, and Cautiousness, are compara tively weak, and have a limited influence, not enough to control, and stimulate other faculties sufficiently. He is peaceable, mild, candid, liberal, and confiding, to a fault. Appetite, connubial love, and locomotion, are his strongest animal propensities; and they are a stimulus to the other faculties. His moral faculties are fully developed, and have a modifying influence, particularly Veneration and Benevolence, which are large. He is particularly respectful, obliging, kind,

and disposed to do good, and avoid doing harm. Constructiveness, Ideality, Sublimity, Imitation, and Mirthfulness, are all full, and have a fair influence, particularly if excited. But the qualities for which he is most distinguished are, first, his perceptives, which are very prominent, as seen in the side view.* They, with his vital temperament, direct his attention to the study of the natural and physical sciences.

Individuality, Locality, and Comparison are very large, and form the strongest features of his intellect. These, joined with his large Form, Size, Order, Calculation, and Eventuality, give him unusual powers of observation, and disposition to study into the quality, condition, relation, and use of things. They lead to experiments, the study of chemistry, and the natural sciences; and with his large organs of Locomotion and Locality, they would dispose him to travel, explore, and make general as well as minute observations. Few persons have these faculties so large, consequently few are so well qualified for the study of mineralogy, geology, or discoveries in them; he could succeed in the sciences generally, improve machinery, and also make inventions.

In addition to the above qualities, he has large Concentrativeness and Self-Esteem, and very large Firmness, giving great powers of applica. tion, continuity of thought, independence of action, self-reliance, and unusual perseverance, and general stability of character and purpose. These, combined with his intellectual faculties, give the most desirable combination to enable him to discover, combine, and perfect. Comparing his developments with what he has done-the discovery he has madewe consider his case a strong proof in favor of the science of Phrenology. In presenting the character and likeness of this man before our readers, we do not expect to gratify curiosity, or give the developments of one who is generally known; for he is not a general, a statesman, an artist, actor, or wit. Yet future generations will look upon him as one of more value to community than either of them; for he is not only a benefactor of his race, by the production of a very durable article, which is of great value and use, but he has produced that which requires a certain development of the mind, such as he has, to make the discovery, and try the experiments necessary to perfect it. He begins with the elements of nature, infringes upon no one's rights, and exhausts nothing that increases the happiness or comforts of life. What by others was called Blake's daub, he from the first considered very valuable, and saved the first specimen picked up from the bed of the river; and for nearly three years, in the midst of scoffs, jeers, and ridicule, spending several thousands of dollars in ascertaining its real use and greatest value, which has resulted in the presentation of an article for general use worth to him hundreds of thousands, and to the community millions.

* Washington Allston's perceptives were equally large, but they were directed by his mental temperament, giving him a preference for the arts.

BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BLAKE.

The author of "Napoleon and the Marshals of the Empire," observes in a recent letter: "My first schoolmaster was William Blake, a man of a remarkable and interesting character; my second, Horatio Needham, now the leader of the Free Soil party in the Vermont legislature; and my third, Solomon Foot, for many years an able and popular representative in Congress from the same State. Blake had more individuality than the others, and I have watched with curiosity the budding and blossoming of his fortune in many a bold enterprise and strange adventure in which have been illustrated his sagacity, ambition, and indomitable will. In his way he is a hero; and if his life were written it would be as entertaining and twice as instructive as that of the bravest of the Seven Champions."

In the following sketch we design to show the justness of these observations, and for the confirmation it affords of Phrenology, we have had engraved the striking portraits of Mr. Blake with which it is accompanied.

William Blake was born in Williamstown, Oswego County, N. Y., on the 12th of October, 1803. His father, who was a native of Keene, N. H., was a man of strongly marked character, the promise of whose early life was blighted by habits of intemperance, which, thanks to the temperance societies, are now much less common than thirty years ago. He married a Miss Williams, and removed to the West, where his indulgences were followed of course by poverty. In 1815, in consequence of the badness of the crops and the demand of the army upon the frontier, the family really suffered for the necessaries of life. William was then about twelve years of age, but he was a precocious boy, and he perceived the downward tendency of affairs, and determined to arrest it. It was in the midst of an inclement winter, but he was nothing daunted. He had resolved that the family should return to Vermont, where his relatives were "well to do in the world;" and he formed and executed his plans for this purpose, in a manner that showed in the child "the father of the man."

The first question was, how should he proceed upon his preliminary mission? He had no money: but a will always finds a way. He made half a dozen splint brooms, and with these upon his shoulder, as a stock in trade, for the payment of expenses, started through the snows, a journey of three hundred miles. We have no room for a detail of his adventures. In some three months he greeted the spring upon the Green Mountains. The condition of his mother, and brothers and sisters, was laid before his richer relations, and means were adopted for their removal to Vermont. The father remained, with the design

to settle some affairs, and never returned. He died at Williamstown.

The children were separated. William apprenticed himself to a clothier, in Hubbardton, and served until he was of age. He then took the charge of a wool-carding and cloth-dressing establishment in Brandon, in which he worked in the summers; and having availed himself to the utmost of the common schools during his apprenticeship, he was admirably qualified for the profession of a teacher, which he followed in the winters. He gave abundant satisfaction every where, but was most distinguished for his success in schools that were in bad repute for containing refractory and ungovernable scholars. In these he received a salary twice as large as was given to any other teacher. He was one winter employed in a school that had become notorious for the riotous conduct of a few boys who attended it, apparently for no other reason, than to annoy the masters, whom for several years they had driven away before the expiration of their terms. The force of his character and his judicious management secured order for about six weeks, when a seditious spirit began to be manifested. An unruly boy was summoned for some misdemeanor to the master's desk, and instead of submitting to the punishment which had been prepared for him, he ran from the house uttering defiant curses. At the end of a week, having made a league with a few other young men, and induced an elder brother to accompany him, he re-entered the school. The clique had given notice