Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-06-02
lCorrrspondencs Of he wheeling 1n.elllseneer.l
BErnAMY CoLLEaE, ", May 8lst., l858.

| BETHANY COLLEGE, ' A., may OISb.t lOOo.
| MEssRs EDlToRs:-After long and painful
(no doubt to you) absence, l once more presume
to address you. Like Mr.. Micawber, l have
been waiting for long time for something to
turn up, but the longer wait, the less there
seems to be worthy of being chronicled
Rain, rain, rain pattering, splashing, soak
! ing rain has been our constant, never failing
daily visitor for the last month, and now it is
only necessary for you to set your truly lively
Imagination to work in order to give you fair
conception of the sad condition of this lovely
spot Mt this season of the year. Now, when
you have this picture of desoation before you,
mud three feet in the channel and still rising
could you not, in a spirit of philanthropy, in
ducc some company with ferry boat, to take
| voyage, by way of the Wellsburg and Bethany
turnpike, to the latter place and ply us rcgu-
lar packet between the different crossings in our
principal streets, say for the next three weeks.
1t was hoped that the new Town Council would
take this matter into consideration and charter
a craft for this especial trade which would have
been highly remuneFatve, but it seems, by re-
cent Developments that there are three dollars
and sixty-two and half cents yet due on the
Massachusetts, marble paving stones, and the
cost of laying said marble, which, as the pedes'
triap will readily perceive, are so beautifully
dovetailed together and reflect great credit on
the contractor, and as heavy tax had to be
laid on the citizens to meet the maturing bonds
for said contract further improvements for the
present were considered out of the question.
Speaking of improvements, it would not be
amiss, Just here, to mention that an enterpriSlng
firm have just opened Wholesale and Retail
Grocery, Forwarding and Commission Ware
House on Richardson street. few doors below
Main. If general knowledge of the business,
accommodating dispositions, and a plentiful
supply of the necessaries of life are to be re-
garded as recommendations, the firm have
bright future and an OVERLOOKING still" before
them.
You will remember that in former commu-
ncation, l remarked the probability of the
speedy erection of a musical garden on
Main street; but it seems that our pleas
ure loving citizens are to be denied the en-
joyment Of the dulcet strains which would
have been nightly waited on the gentle zephyrS
in undulating cadence. The cause Is to be
wholly attributed to the too tight lacing of the
trachea, of the principal tenor, which brought
on a greVious bronchial affection, and IN the
opinion of the most eminent physicians, his
prospects for future usefulness IN his peculiar
profession, are being much ciouded. His
friends are greatly alarmed, and are prepared
for the worst.
The election for county officers came off on
last Thursday. Politics were not made an issue;
on the contrary, which is very unusual occur
renee in Virginia, believe, men were voted for,
and in this instance triumphed over all party
prejudices. Some of the defeated aspirants are
loud in their denunciation of the "rascality"
which prevailed during the election. These can
didates, whilst seated around their cheerful fire.
sides the night after the election, no doubt, ex-
claimed with the poet:
"wen, there is another fool convinced"
The laying of the corner stone Of the build
ing for the use of the Societies and Libraries,
which was to have taken place on last Saturday,
was postponed, on account of the iuclemenoy of
the weather, until to-day. OF the proceedings
will advise you in my next. CHALYBs.