Wilmington expositor. (Wilmington, Del.) 1831-18??, 1831-10-14
HAPPINESS.

Il rue happiness is OF retired nature. and
an enemy to pomp snd noise; it arises in the
hrst place from an enjoyment of ones self and
IN the next from the friendship and CONVERSE
ton OF few select companions: it loves shade
and solitude, and naturally haunts groves and
fields and meadows; in short it feels
every thing it wants within itself, and receives
no addition from multitudes of witnesses and
spectators. On the contrary, false happiness
loves to be in crowd, and to draw the ewes
OF the world upon her. She does not receive
any satisfaction from the appauses which she
gives herself, but from the admiration which
she raises in others. She hourishes in courts
and palaces. theatres and assemblages, and
feels the realities of existence but when she is
looked upon.-AdaiSon.
The dead akiUe-On Sunday night, Mfr.
Gallaher, the celebrated ventriloquist, observe
ed two simple looking fellows carrying coffin
out to Roundtown. When they got near the
bridge at Harold's cross. they stopped to rest
themselves. Mr.. Gallaher pretended to be
walking quietly by them, when he threw his
voice into the coffin, and Immediately loud
shrek of agony was heard to issue, followed
by cries of 'Oh! murther! is it inlthe canal you
are goin' to throw me? Isn't it bad enough to
Bury me but yoa must be drowning me too!'
9 What in the world is that" said person
who was passing. lis that the question
you're askin'?" said the voice from the coffin,
"let me out o. the coffin, you scoandrels, and
though l am half choked, I'll box the two
o. you-one down and the other come on"
ooh! good Christians" cried poor woman
who was now attracted by the noise, ''here's
dead man in the coffin that wants to fight his
two murderers." A crowd was Immediately
collected: the two poor countrymen were
fe1 -
until the coffin was opened and examined, that
they were permitted to proceed with their
burden. lust as the crowd was dispensing, a
voice from the coffin was heard to exclaim,
l''Now, bows, after all the trouble gave, you
won't forget to bury me decently. '-Dubki'
! Register.
A Masonry has consoled herself for the loss of
her great men by saying she could very well
4 spare them-that they were 'perjured wretches
the offscouring of the earth,' the meanest OF
Gods creatures, &c. Who are those vile crea.
!, sures that are thus designated. Why, they are
Richard Rush, John @ Adams, John Mclean
&c. d. Golden, Francis Granger, Governor
Lincoln, John C Calhoun General Porter,
Judge Rochester, William Writ, and host of
5 others whom the nation has in times past, de-
lighted to honour, but whom the lodge has de-
clared it would send with infamy down to the
grave. Truly masonry is the handmade ofre-
,lligon.
: s'The lofty pine is oftenest agitated by the
E winds-high towers rush to the earth with a
heavier fall-and the lightning most frequently
: strikes the highest mountains. THE proud
r and the exalted are more liable to the strokes
Y of adversely, than the lowly and humble.
Total gain of tolls on the New York Canal
lover the unprecedented amount of last year,
: reckoning to the first of last Aug. is $780,
dl665 90. This is not a small item in the reve'
niue of one State.