The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-12-01
The Nnme SnMrnal.
PROF. NICHOLS.

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Canada--that den Of abolitionists-
and he claims to DO a professor Of
Phrenology. BY feeling a persons
head he says he a tell their defects,
their excellencics, their natural tai
ents, and in what spheres and pur-
suits one can best succeed, show
wherein you are liable to errors and
excesscs, direct you specifically, what
faculties you require especially to
cultivate and restrain {; give all nee
ded advice touching self. improve
ment, and the preservation and res
toration Of health show, throughout,
how to develop, perfect, and make
the most possible out of your own
self; disclose to parents children's in
ate capabilities, natural callings, dis.
positions, defects, means of improve
ment, the mode of government espe-
cialIy adapted to cach-enable bust.
ness men to choose reliable partners
and customers; merchants con(iden
tial clerks; mechanics apprentices
having natural gifts adapted to par,
ticular branches the friendly, desir.
able associates; guide matrimonial
candidates in selecting congenial life.
companions, especially adapted to
allow for and conciliate, and do many
other wondrous things we have not
time or inclination to name. Now,
all this the Professor says he can do
just by feeling your head-feeling it
very softly. Whether he ever felt
his 0wn Uranium, is a matter of doubt
with us. If he did, he certainly made
a wide mistake in supposing that he
was fitted fora Phrenologist, '.unless
he believed that a humbug was best
suited to practice a humbug science.-
The Professor didn't tell the people of
Winchester that he fixed clocks, or
run saw mills, yet he does do both
those things. He is at present en-
gagged in a Jaw mill, for A. N. Rut-
lodge, down about Salem. He seems
to be- Jack of all trades and good at
none. He fixed a clock for Davy
Robertson, in this county, and by the
time he had gotten fairly out of hear.
ing distance, the clock stopped, but
he, Professor, had gone off with his
pay. A like result followed his tin
kering with a clock for our clever
friend, d. J. Martin, OF Salem. Mr..
M. paid him a dollar, also. MIR. Hatch.
cit, another good citizen, suffered an
imposition by the Professor, and had
ii clock fixed, but whether it runs or
MOI, we have yet to learn. The Pro-
fessor run, however, at tho rate of
$40, after getting his pay. The last
we heard from him, he was, as before
stated, at a saw mill down about Sa-
lem. He is there yet, we think, but
il We had our way he wouldn't stay
there longer than il takes a clock to
stop after he Gres 1t.
The truth is, Professor Nichols
won't do We know two things on
him, which we forbear to tell, as they
would undoubtedly reflect much to his
discredit-would impress people with
the belief hat the Professor, by way
of change, would stake little things"
besides tell base stories. And as the
Professor gave such a good chart of
our head, we are disposed to be leni-
ent with him. He gave US a mighty
good chronological chart, and now we
are giving a pen and ink chart of the
Professor, by way of returning the
compliment.
But the worst feature of the Pro-
fessor is his abolitionism. We can
have some sympathy for mean, ras
cally men-can feel for a pick-pockct
even-bnt an abolitionist--good Lord
deliver US! A mar who comes from
the North and makes it convenient to
utter his diabolical sentiments in re.
gard to an institution he knows moth
ingof-we want nothing to do with
him, except hang him. Now, we don't
say that Prof. Nichols is a second Pal.
mer, but we do say that he is another
travelling mountebank that had better
he watched, for he may feel thick
of some of our darkies, and
not understanding his science well
enough, may cause them to believe
that they are adopted to a Northern
cline. and give them a chart of the
way to get there. He is an abolition.
ist, and we can prove it by his own
words.
1t was because we believed this
that we refused to publish a long com.
munication he wrote for the Home
Journal, advocating and explaining