Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-06-03
BETHANY COLLEGE.
LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF THE
NEW EDIFICE.
MDDrEss OF PRESET CAmPBELI'.
[nsrortsa for ,he wAll.llDs IntslllEeaes,.l

rReported for the whsins Inteiligence'.l
The readers of the IateUigeneer will, no
doubt. remember that on the night OF the luth
of December last Bethany College, by some, as
vet unaccounted for misfortune, was ohihen |"
/ the ground and with it collections OF literary,
historical and mechanical valnables, many oil
which it will be impossible ever to replace. ne
Inconvenience under which the institution mas
iabored from being burned out in the dead oil
winter can easily be Imagined; yet, win Ihci"-
terruption of we believe, but single uaN' 'he
routine ofstudy has goneon. This credlu!ole ma
ferry of uutoWard circumstances, Is uue "utl
IN the energy of the Faculty, and also 10 lne
C,onerops Performance and cooperation OF the
Students. who called meetings and resolved 10
admit themselves willingly and jealousy 10
vboteyer of accommodations could DC procuTtu
| for them. And now, although so short tlhie
has elapsed since the seeming catastrophe, yet SO
nro,nnt has been the action of the management,
ap+J 20 hearty the responses to their appeals
nv the friends of the College throughout the
country. that large fund has already been Sc
cured So soon as sufficient means we're IN hahu,
preparations were made for the rebuilding OF
the institution, and accordingly, we ma t'ial
by Monday last, operations had so lar progress
ed as to have called forth the ceremonies, whicn
beautiful and approved custom oil lnmeInoiial
usage has prescribed as incident to laying the
corner stones of such cditices.
The new College building, now going up Is but
one of other additional buildings projected, e"ch
one of which will surpass the old buildingln point
of area, convenience and general inside and out
side equipment The present building, IN de-
sign, is Il very beautiful and happily arranged
strncturc-and is in progress under contract
with Mr. Coen, OF Wheeling, aud under hIih
again, with 8Ir. Bennett and several other me
chanics also OF Wheeling.
Monday last, as everybody who happened ont,
like YOUR reporter can testify, was n CeiY RAINY
day. [ emphasize CcIy--because to say that 1t
was a rainy day. would be common, PLAIN and
not intense enough by half The ceremony was
to have taken place at half past one, when II
was found that Il storm had arrived just pre-
cisely on schedule time, aud had opened out III
a display of thunder, lightning and general out
pouring, calculated to distance all competing
demonstrations. It held up, however, by aud 10y,
for awhic--loug enough TO let goodiy sized
auditory of men, women and children assemble
round the (oundatons-when slowly and Steadl-
lv. AGAIN, the "rain desccnded-the floods came
and beat upon that (cmbTyo) house, and more
especially upon the people, but neither the one
nor the other fell or gave way. our reporter
takes occasion to say here, that III his eyes inc
CompIacency of the audience boTdered upon the
Spartan.
The venerable President, his hair white as
snow, his brow wrinkled and his cheeks PaIiid
and fIrrowcd with the unwOnted labors, RESPONSE
bitics and anXieties Of his seventy years, open
ed the ceremonies By prononcinS the su9Jo'h-
ed remarks.
There we're three other speeches, by repre-
scntatives of the different societies, all good ones,
TOO, but, making together, too much for THIS re-
port.)