Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-23

sorrow, at The sacrifice of life, terrific IN
amount, and d6ubly so for the cruelagonies
with which in many cases it must have
been accompanied,) and OF Christian sym
pathy with suffering survivors and bercaV-
ed friends, 1t is our duty 10 cherish a SEN
tiuleut of devout thankfulness to the
Gracious Providence, by which limits
were placed to tine work of destruction,
and hundreds were snatched from the
very jaws of death. Nor can we fail to
take melancholy pleasure IN rejecting
that the indiscribable horrors of the scene
were relieved by displays of Christian
resignation and srint-like heroism, in the
humber walks of life, not 20 he surpassed
in the history OF our race. The poor child.
who, cheerful and Grselish,' refused to bc
rescued till Mr.. Nash WAS saved, and vino
was crushed before her turn came-the
little girl, who, when she perceived that
her own escape was impossible held out
her due bill to her more fortunate COM
panion, amidst the scorching aomes. say
ing, You will be savGd-I shall not; carry
this to nv oor,'-needcd no further pre-
paration FOR the company of the angels, to
which, like the prophet of old, they were
caught up in chariot of firc. Nor will
you blame me if, in connection with this
| calamity at cur door, l alludc to the mel
auchuly tiGings. which have Just reached
US from abroad, of the death of the most
brilliant writer of our own or of any age;
whose works for thirty years have been
the wonder and the delight of all who read
the English language, beneath the circuit
of the sun an author who, as it seems to
me more than any other. ancient or mod
ern. was clothed with the magic power of
re-crcating the dead past. and giving to
The mon and things of other times the form
and color of an actual reViving presence (;
Al writer eminent not among ordinary asso-
ciates. but unsurpassed, If not unequullcd,
III company of historians-Scvcral Of them
our honored countrymen-two of them
with himself mourufully signaiizing the
wear that has just closed: any one ofwhOm
would have conferred sufficient honor upon
the age in which he lived. That in the
intensity with which he threw himself into
the scenes described by him. and took part,
so to say. III the great contentious of the
times. he never fel! into an error of judS-
mcnt. or made false estimate of chGractc-
need not be maintained: one such has
been kecnly fell in this country. I'm hon
est AMI fearless thinker and writer, he
could not avoid collision of opinion and
feeling with those who differed from him.
But lis errors were spots on the nOontide
sun Better than this. in Lord Iucnulay
| truly nobleman by Heavens nateut) the
writer was less admirable than the maa I;
the splcndor Of his page was eXcelled, if
possible, ny the briliiancy OF his cunversa-
ton and the charm of his personal inter
course. All the world admired his gor-
.eou5ness of Imagination, The magniicence
Of his diction, his miraculous range OF
memory which graspcd the literature ri
every language and every age, and held all
its stores of illustration prompt at CONF
mand: hut those who knew him, loved him
for the unaffected mrekness V it'll which, he
bore his transcendent hcnors. the sunny
cheerfulness of his disposition, the gcner-
Gus warmth of his heart