Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-08-28
M MORN AUGUST.
THE INTELL IGEiNCER

H-EI-NIEI4LIGEMCE,R
TAXING up TIE CuDeR1s N FAVOR OF .birrsa.
RY Ma AGEs. "A paragraph having been for
some time past going the rounds of the papers
10 the effect that literary marriages. J" fromJob
to Dickens, have boen unhappy, which We be-
lieve we copied, the Boston Traveller takes up
the cudgels, in good earnest, to defend the SIM
stitution,' thus: IS
Sir Walter Scott was literary man of the
highest class; man who tried many depart
lnents of writing, and succeeded in them ALL
and he was married for thirty years, made
love match, and was happy in the marriage
state. Sopthey was a fortunate and happy
husband. Home was all in all to him, whereas
it can be nothing, or worse than nothing, to the
man whois miserably married. He married
second dmes his second wife being a5lady 4oftlit4
erary stundings and both were happy.a Mr..
Cooper, who was one ofsthe most successful of
writers, was happily married, and his domestic
life was slngularly free from trouble. Lamar
tine is well known. to have married fortunately
in all respects. Moore's wife was one of. the
noblest creatures that ever lived. She made
her husband's s home happy. He was never tir-
cd OF writing OF her excellence. If Shelley's
hrst marriage-the marriage of boy and girl
who knew nothing ofhuman lfe-was unfortu7
nate his second marriage can bes6quotedl as
mode. union. Wordsworth made q loyematch,
and his love was lasting as his home was bless.
ed. Professor Wilson, of BEack.o00d memory,
made happy marriage, and his wife is said to
have exercised more Influence. over him than
any other person. Her death was the greatest
misfortune he ever knew DIR. johnson, whose
wife was old enough to be ismother, with some
years to spare, found nothing unpleasiDg in the
marriage state. His last biographer says he
continued to be under the illusions Of the we'd,
dipgday till the lady died, in her sixty fourth
year, the. husband being but forty three. Sir
Walter Raleigh was the first literary man of his
day, after Shakespeare and Bacon! andat middle
life he married beautiful woman eighteen
years his junior; and the marriage was itproduc-
tive of much happiness We know but little Of
IShaksPeares life-Ta very strong presumptive
proof that he lived well; but what little we do
know is sufficient to show that, though he
married, when q boy, a woman eight years his
senior, he was notpnhappy us a husband.
YIhe! list OF happy. marriages made by litera-
ry men might be,almost indefinitely extended.
Many living Americans could be named who
have had no OCCASION TO regret that they have
given Hostages to fortune,n but the matter is
too delicate to be pursued in detail with regard
to the living. The reason why tits so generally
believed that literary must be,miserablel
husbands, is to be founGtin the unpleasing fact
that some few of theirnumber have married un.l
happily, and that there has been a great deal.
said about their domestic infeicities, either by
themselves or by otbersn.I ssaisst. 7s,sst3.
We think the 7TGoeler about right. The
idea that the marriage, of writers must be un.
happy, or have; generally been So has doubtless
originated from the fact, that when a circum-
stance of this sort has occurred, it has made a
great deal of noise; while, when any thing of
the kind takes place with other people it occa-
sions very little talk and is ofteen soon forgot
ten:9 Happiness or unhappinessin the marriage
relation DnHOuhfa6Iu " RO0
of temper and the sense of the parties; and as
either one or both of these may sometimes be
found wanting in sliteraTy marriages, it fol 4
| lows that they may sometimes be sinfelicitous;
butwe do not believe it. holds good, ,as gene
raj rule, that such marriages are,less harmoni-
Gus than those of other people. Logic, indeed,
| would lead to diametricaly opposite opinion
| Literary or intellectual men are sometimes
| eccentric 1t is true, and sometimes make very.
odd selections for matrimonial partners. Robt.
Halls the celebrated English preacher, for in.
stance, married a. servant girl and fell in love
4 with her while she was putting conls upon the
lhre! lie was not unhappyin the married rela-l
ton, though one would think that, under such
circumstances he would have been. But such.
Elnstances are exceptions than the general
rule; andtbeceuse one literary man is eccentric,
marries foolshly, and is unhappy,lit by no
means follows that, the majority ares either &C.
Icentric, marry badly, or are nfecitous in such
tPly, substantially, to literary women--M o.
i l.buttetfn. a4 10 isJ ..55i4 s.tlt 6t8. IS, /:
ENcouSTER WITH a RATTIEsxAKE CORES
pondent of the Salisbury, NC. Watchnan,
writing from Lenoir, Watauga county, narratss
the following incident. 5s
As ar. James II. Spainhbur, Of this place
was riding along near the foot of Blue Ridge on
1 the North side, in Watanga county, and near
Nf
had the following very singular and rather dan
gerops encounter with q fattlesnake
As there was d light mist, Mr. S. had his tlm..
Ibrella spread above him. He was riding near d
bank on the right hand, higher than his head,
occasioned by digging away the earth below in
lgrading the road. s.
\ Suddenly he heard the ring of the rattlesnake
/ III the direction of the bank, and on looking
around saw the snake in the ac1of springink
towards him. Italighted, however, on the top
lof his umbrella, fastening its tapgsi in the cloth
land ltearipgout its hold. His weight bore down
THE umbrella and he fell off so near the lover