Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-09


By the latest advices from Richmond, we
learn that Mr.. Clemens was considered almost,
if not entirely out of danger. We presume
that he will be able to take his seat in Congress
about the LIST of the new year.
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WE see that it has been determined by one
of the denominations, to start new college at
Xenia, Ohio. Ifso, this will add another 10 the
catalogue of colleges with which the State of
Ohio is, at this present time, oyerstocked We
hope to be excused when we sincerely say that
we have holy horror ofnew colleges. It actally
makes US feel bad to hear Of a legislative charter
for one. We have had upon our table SO many
prospectuses-so many catalogues from pro.
jected concerns of this sort that have risen
Ianguished and blowed out. that we have actu.
ally, become nervous upon the subject We
had almost us lief see missionary subscription
paper coming into our Office as to see one of
these prospectuses or catalogues on our table,
with "please notice" upon it. Mr. Thurlow
Weed sometime ago made tho remark that he
would about as soon undertake to found State
as to undertake, with all his experience, the
founding and building up of a successful news
paper. We set Thurlow down as a man of hard
sense when we saw that remark. But hard as
that thing is to do, harder yet is it. in our hum
BILE judgement, to found and build up a new col
lege During these last few years they have
sprung upand covered the Western country for
awhile like the frogs of Egypt They seem to
us to have been the very ephemera of epheme-
raj things. The places that knew them yesterday
now have forgotten them. Without any knowl-
edgein particular of the scheme of thisnew Xenia
college. we may reasonably apprehend a similar
fate forit. Wethink that we may safely say, that
west ofthe Ohio river there are MS many, if not
more, 50 called colleges than there are eastofi it.
The difference is that east they call Institutions,
Academies and High Schools, which in the west
theyname Colleges. as easy inalmost any of
the western States to get a charter, and perhaps
State subscription to new college, as it is to
get.a divorcein several of them. These colleges,
for the most part, seem to grow out of personal
Piques- denominational jealousies, or factious
rami6cations ofreligious sects. As soon as tho
peculiar and passing prejudices which ushered
them into being have died out, why outgo the coll
leges. In the first flush of feeling the gctters
npacome down literally with subscriptions.
By and by they get tired of paying, aud so let
their founding die out. In the meantime the
new college has perhaps turned out several
patches of young men labeled Bachelors of
Art" who would, upon examination, be rejected
from entering the sophomore classes of eastern
colleges.
Weremember to have read that ut festival
0fSt Andrews college-an institution where
they wholesaled their honors both. s'in coursen
and outof course for so much per head-that
DR.. johnson being present inquired as to how
the college got on. He,was told not very well.
Well,repliedthe old "pun hater, t.you have only
to keep on as you have commenced and YOU will
get rich by degrees.
It strikes US that the only way scores ofthese
new. colleges are ever to keep in funds is from
the wholesale rates at which they sell degrees to
crude graduates. It is pity that it is SO, but
We suppose that by and by the laws of supply
and demand will make some sort of an adjust
ment of the collegiate system in the country.
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Mr. Lewis BUBwRlL, Of Richmond, wants to
study Theology. He is poor, like most theo-
logically inclined people. To raise funds he
ndvertises in the Richmond papers, we notice,
that the Harpers, of New York, Offer him 81 800
if heiwill receive and dispose of one thousand
SVFASN Va SIS'A M06AAule's 20 mr. 0uEWell Calls
upon the public especially the religious part
of ito get their Harpers Monthlies from him
instead Of from the news mongers. This ar
Eangement would seem to leave the Harpers but
one dollar head for their magazine, inasmuch
ashe BurWelD adyertises it for, s., 90. an b
We hope the. people of Richmond will lend
Mi. Burwell a helping hand. e.
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Aohesnut street gambling establishment was
broken into by the Philadelphia police on Tues.
day, and there was great s'hurrying to and
fro" among the crowd of surprised players.
One gentleman crawled into an ash box, several
others jumped out through 4 back window, and
lacerated their legs by falling into skylight,
while stout gentleman undertook e. conceal
bis entire person by crawling into a three.peck
coqlscuttle, from which he was tished out by the
coat tails, halfdead from fright The officers
arrested the proprietoFs and brought away a fine
gambling apparatus.
TnE Richmond Enquirer intimates that PRIV
or's paper Cthe South is going to be transferred
to WashinRtont and united syvitE Afai0; Eas,s.,s