Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-11-26

agencies are majestic, or minute; palpable orpn
perceived; plain OF imperfectly understood nstru-
ments of government too mighty for us to fathom-l
of administration too vast forus to comprehend
they emprace the universe, and not to be judg-
ed by subjects, who may wonder al, but neth-
er scan nor change them, whose Office, and whose
duty is
"To kneel, tremble, and Adore"
But must do Lord Byron the justice to adj, that
from one, himself famler with grief, and tried in |
affection. T., the companion ofmy visit to CO.
rnne, who knew his Lordsbip well, in aftertme,
invenice; 1 had many ehecdotes indicative of
warmer and better feelings than have usually been
accorded him, and t., kind and afTectionate in his
own dispositions often grew warm in praise of Lord
rs, and ofhis senSibiIities where these have been
most doubted. He had seen him weep over the very
desolation he appeaId to court and to exult in, and
had found him man, while he affected the stole
when wife and daughter knocked at his heart and
nature, revolving at alienation Ifrom those sacred
ties, which fame may repress, but cannot conquer,
demanded and received atonement, as he poured
into the ear citizenship these lamentations for his
bereavements, pride enabled him to conceal from
the world; or to color with irony; TOO often the
mask of misery and regret-too often this reckless
ness of heart, which would rather guild its ruin
than compreSsit.
Peace to his asheS,-
.'To err is human, to forgive Divine" ..a.
and may we not hope for him, as Tor other bright
creations, to whom beauty, whether of mind or OF
body is often fatal dowry, that its element does
not perish with the mperfectons that deformed it,
but may yet rise superior TO its dross, purified of
its alloy and as an attribute Of its Maker, though
misused on earth, too precious and too lovely in its
nature TO plead at Heavens gates in vain.
Ofthe productions of Byron, it would indeed, be
assumptions in me to attempt an analysis. 0ccu
plying, as he undoubtedly does, the third place
among the great poets OF our language, his beau
ties are beyond my powers ofillusraton, his faults
defy my criticism. With genius nearly equal TO
Shakespeare's he was deficient in that happy tenn
permanent which enabled the great dramatiSt 10
look on the material and spiritual world as on n
book; wherein every object, animate or inanimate;
painful pleasing distinct in its own peculiar at
tributes and TO transfer theseto his page with the
truthfuluess of the Daguereotype, embellshed by
his touch, but violating surprising nature
With perception of the properties of poetry, equal
Iy acute; twith powers of embodiment and of
verrifcation equally elevated and wonderful,
our modern Bard was. his inferior. in imngna-
l
it exists but through the mists Of his own morbid
susceptibilities, and the mood of the moment gave
tone and coloring to his delineations. Ii was ma
ture, not as she displays, and exercises herself in
the universe, but us seen in his own moral vision,
rr felt in his individual idiosyncracy. The storm
was beautiful, or terrible; the sky canopy,
Shroud; the eartha garden, or grave; the world
paradise, or the reverse, according as the ele-
ments in his bosom were harmonious and peaceful;
or otherwise; and varied as these were in their
hues and their emotions, the roblest agencies of
his art were circumscribcG in their action, and suf
fered by triturntion in medium that left an i'm
press often foreign 10 their general character while
it restricted them in their application. Essentially
an egolist, Byron's heroes were all drawn from
self oil alike in their moody passions of melan-
choly, misanthropy and revenge, as he had expert
enced them; and deficient in those varying shades,
modified, us they are, by change of position aud
circumstance; in porrnying which, Byron was de-
fectvc. His province was with the feelings, rath-
er however in their social than in their heroic re-
latons, and TO these, description, and all the ord-
nary instruments Of poetic imagery and embellish-
ment, are made Su bservient, that moral might be
deduced from the flower; passion illustrated by
the cataract, the boSOm's desolation figured in the
ruin and the heavings of ocean represent the pet
ty agitations Of humanity. On the feelings he has
concentrated his talent and his inspiration, and
never have they been dealt with in more mnsterly
STYLE or drawn with skill and taste more exquisite,
than in his fourth Canto of Childe Harold; where
we may find clue TO every emotion, probe and a
balm to every wound; motive and consequence
for every affection in the catalogue of moral &C.
ton. 1t is metaphysical, without being obscure;
dldactic, without being dull; truthful, yet not
trte. In word, for, despite my best resolutions,
1 am grow ng prolix, and treSpassing where only
intended 10 amuse; though Milton may surpass
him in grandeur of conception, and sublimity of
diction and Shakespeare remain unrivalled for va
riety and cham of incident, for ingenuity of in
vention, and playfulneSs of narrative; we must ac-
cord Byron the palm of knowledge in the impulses
which govern the sensibilities; quckening them 10
erceness, or subduing them to pathos, of talent
in the Development of all that pertains to those
mysterious influences which agitate the human
heart, and make it
ga Heaven. or Hell. Within"
EHendoIe, Va. w. BIB,
HoGs.-The Louisville Journal of the 18th re-
marks:
"One house was killing on Saturday. If the
weather continues cool. the business will be en-
tered into with spirit this week. One of our pack
ing houses contracted last week for about 5000
Kentucky hogs, averaging from DOS TO 300 pounds,
at 81 per cwt Some other contract fer lighter
hogs have been made at the same, the seller deliv-
cring them here" - ,
The Danville (Ky.) Tribune of the 18th says:
awe have recently heard of several sales of
hogs at 1915 gross, but within a lew days the
prices have advanced, and holders now demand
81, at which figures sales are now being made"
The Huntsville (Ala.) Advertiser says:
''The opinion seems to be general that pork this
season viii be moe plentiful than it was last
The supply of hogs is not equal to the home con-
SUMPTION but the corn crop was so large that the