Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-08-15
THIs morning, ninety wears ago, the good an.


but gave him his mission aud fitted him COM
pletely for its accomplishment No life was
ever more complete "a success than that of
Scots He did not only what he could, but
all he was intended to do; he fulfilled his own
highest ideal. Now, looking back from almost
ccntury's distance, this is the fact which most
impresses us-of u perfected work. an accom-
Plished task. In the lives of those poets who
we're his contemporaries, though gifted with
higher genius, there is painful consciousness
of failure. What was Sheley's mad from soul
blindness; Burns, with its heroic depth of ten
derness, or
RH9a PsGRa R s s'5 sFs he
Fragments of diviner lives, it may be, than
good Sir Walters, but fragments still. There
is not one of them which does not recall that
saddest Of all outlines of human history
with sail the youth drifts int the
Silent in his .hpwrecked the old man drifts into the
But Scott pursued his summer voyage beneath
sunny sky, and even now his bright face sends
warm thrill of pleasure to every heart, as it
smiles on US from his pages. This trait-his
geniality-hs broad, warm sympathies, appear
to US to constitute one-haf of the magic of his
power. 1He OtIer, we uuIuUIy suggest, laws Ill
his artistic taste. For instance, in his Scottish
scenes, his quick, earnest feeling, gave life and
reality to any character. He sympathized with
and therefore could describe the heroic Mc!vor,
the avaricious Nigel, the gentle Rose; then his
eye for the picturesque in costume or scenery
came into play, and aided him to fling his dra-
mats personae into a brilliancy OF landscape
and action, unrrivaled by any novelist The
same traits account for the depth and extent Of
his popularity. His pictures Of character or
scenes, are irdelibly fixed upon the eye of the
mind, while the warm, earnest nature underlying
all, appeals to the heart. No wonder that with
these two powerful faculties he should have mo.
we'd and Chafed into life the dying spirit of no.
nance and chivalry. deeper than this--into the
profound successes of human nature Scott could
tpenetrate. He painted.the outward man in
certain circumstances ofthc struggles of the life
within he was ignorant. He was eminentlv
''objective"-never Subjective" in his writings.
His poems please, touch, az perfect pictures;
they rouse no hidden feeling, speak no magic
words to the deeper deep of the bitterness,
which every heart knows of ''its own" In his
own words
Full well he sang achievements high
And circumstance of chiVary."
Other voices there are in the world, frantic
cries of passion, prayers of infinite pathos from
weary hearts and wasted lives-voices which
his cheerful, bright nature never heard and
never echoed.
WE have had our eye, for two or three DAYS
past, on an item going the rounds, to the effect
that Mrs Timothy Bradley of johnson, Ohio,
gave birth on the I'd to three boys and five
girls, all living and healthy, but small. 1t
seems that she has been married six wears and
has previously borne two pairs of twins-l2
children in six years. Mrs B. was twin of
three, her mother and father both being twins,
and her grandmother the mother of five pair of
twins. Mrs. B. has named her boys after noted
and distinguished men: One after Joshua R.
Giddings, who has given her splendid gold
medal; one after Elijah Chaplin, who gave her
deed of 80 acres of land, and the other after
James johnson, who gave her COW. Mrs 3.
weighed 243 pounds on the day other marriage.
We read that her hus band is the envy Of all
her female friends
The Newcastle (England) Daily Chrcnicle
snys that well-known banker lately observed
that several of his clerks had adorned them
selves with moustaches He called into his
private all the moustached, and said,
Gentlemen, have no wish to interfere with
your private amusements or hobbies, but Unjust
insist upon the moustaches being off in bust.
ness hours. After P. N. indulge your hob
bies, if you choose"
A letter from Sandwich Islands of June
18th, says the eruption of the volcano is still
active. A party who left San Francisco touch
ed the lava stream at several points, roasting
their pigs and chickens over its glowing assures.
They speak of one cataract of lava as indescri.
badly beautiful and grand. 1t was sixty feet
high, and about the same in width.
----&'GDS$-
Hartford paper says while his circus was
entering the town Dan Rice was engaged in dis.
tributing religious tracts to a crowd on the side
walk. clergyman had obtained his promise
to distribute large number in Hartford and
other places If the good man had urged Dan
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