Wilmington expositor. (Wilmington, Del.) 1831-18??, 1832-04-06
From Bulwers' Eugene Arain. ;
EXTRACTS,

There are seasons, often in the most dark
or turbulent periods of our life, when, why we
know not, we are suddenly called from our
selves, by the remembrances of early child
hood: something touches the electric chain,
and 10! host of shadowy and sweet recollec-
tons steal upon us. The wheel rests, the hour
is suspended, we are snatched from the labor
and travail of present life; we are born again
and live anew. As the secret page in which
the characters once written seem forever effa-
ced, but which, if breathed upon, gives them
again into views SO the memory can revive
the images invisible for years but while we
lgaze, the breath recedes from the surface, and
all one moment so vivid, with the next mo-
nfent has become once more blank
| We do indeed cleave the vast heaven of
truth with weak and crippled wing; and Of
ten we are appalled, in our way by dread
sense of the immensely around us, and of the
linadequscy of our own strength. But there
is rupture in the breath of the pure and diff
cult air, and in the progress by which we com.
pass earth, the while we draw nearer to the
stars,-that again exalts us beyond ourselves,
and reconciles the true student unto all things,
--even to the hardest of them all,-the con-
viction how feebiy our performance can ever
initiate the grandusr of our ambition! AS you
see the spark fly upward,-.sometimes not fall
ling to earth till it be dark and quenched,-
thus scars, whether it reeks not, so that the
direction be above, the luminous spirit of hin,
Iwho aspires to Truth; nor will it back to the
vile and heavy clay from which it sprang un-
til the light which bore it upward be no more!
\ Stephen 7. Mason of KY. the minor, or in
liant in law, whom the President appointed
ISecretary of the territory of Michigan, lately
lmet the Junior editor of the Emigrant in the
street of Detroit, and demanding of him wheth-
Ter he wrote certain article, published in the
) Immigrant, on receiving an affirmative answer,
struck him with violence. This youth was, al
: the time, acting Governor of Michigan! And
the offensive article merely declared that for
his o1un benefit. and not,for the good of the
people of Michigan, he had been appointed to
this responsible Office. Emigrant.
d A Frenchman having violent pain in the
breast and stomach, went to a physician for
relief. The Doctor inquiring where his trou-
lble lay, the Frenchman, with a dolorous ac-
cent, laying his hand on his breast said. IVY,
saire, have one very bad pain in my portman-
teau," (meaning his chest.)
Married and Singie--A certain lodging
house was very much infested with vermin. A
gentleman who slept there one night told the
landlady SO in the morning, when she said
La, sir, we haven't single bug in the house,
No ma'am,' said he, they are all married
and have large families too
When Sam Foote was once at Bath, he was
: asked what company he usually met at DIR, De.
'lIacour's table. I" Sir" replied the satrist, swe
have always piece of beef, saddle of NUT,
ton, couple of chickens, and Captain Mat.
z; thews."
Ailitseration Of P for Polisics-Proprietor Of
Parliament plunderers ofthe public purse, pro