The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-29
CORRESPONDENCE.


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neruIar Annual Meeting OF thewes
virginia Conference OF the Mctho-
diSt EpiseopRl Chureh---Report of
ProceetIinsss, and BecOFd OF Appoint
ments for iIIe ensuinsyeRr. =.
Reported for the Intetf0e1ecr.
AIoRaANTowN, March %, 1860.
The West Virginia Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church is holding
As nineteenth annual session in this
ancient. Intelligent and h Ospitable city
of the mountains. need scarcely say
that 1t is entertained most magnificent
~. Well has the community been re-
mid in It's intellectual. and social cuI-
iIIre for tho outlay incurred in the OK
ceIIent schools and seminnries of learn
ing which were early established and
have been so liberallv sustained in this
place. Rarely does the itinerant, IN his
wnnderings, meet with y, people that
have about them and there surround
ings so many evidences of true refine
ment and nobility. Indeed, n friend
on his first visit TO Morgantown this
winter declared in private that certain
Iv the HHub,n or "Athens," or what
ever else il should be called, of the
new State, wns right out here In Mo-
mongolia county. He only feared 70
saw so publicly lest they should be
tempted 10 take on other airs than the
heaith-giving breezes of their own
benIitifIil hills. AS TO railroads and
steanIboats and such like and so-called
improvements, 1t Is to be hoped they
will be long absent, SO as to leave at
least one nook to which people may re-
treat from the noise and dust and COM
fusion Of sights and sounds and hurry
inSs 10 and fro of this too fast and sec
ulnr ago. ~ al
The Conference is presided over with
great ability and acceptance by Rev. ID.
w, Clark, ID. d., one of the Junior Bish-
ops of the Church. us territory en-
braces in length from the upper part OF
Maryland, near Cumberland, down TO
the kentucky line, and nine counties
of the latter State, and in width II
stretches from beyond Beverly to the
Ohio river. Much OF. the interior has
been fenrfully desolated by the march-
inc and counter-marching of armies
and guerilla bands-the ministers and
members OF this body being chief suf-
ferera us peculiarly obnoxious to
rebels on account of untlinching
LOYALTY. What some of them
dared and endured while stand
ing with their people as a wall OF fire
between the invader and the territory
bordering on the Ohio and beyond, can
never be FULLY known until the light of
eternity revealsit.
several of the brethren have not yet
reported themselves, and may not get
here at all. This Is owing to various
causes-chiefly difficulty of travelling,
illness and inability to incur, the ex-
nense of the Journey. To the lonely
Waterman on some outpost of lions
wallis. inability to meet with his breth-
rem in their annual session, from what
ever cause 1t may arise, Is a great de-
privation.
ON the first day of the session the
II nj
the Kentucky, and NJ. l.. King of the
Ohio Conferences, as transferred 10 this
body. The venerable fathers Boyd. of
the Pittsburgh, and Evans, of Bal
timoro Conferences, were also intro
dueed. The former, 81 years ago,
preached his first sermon as an timer
ant minister, in the Court House ofthts
county, and the-lRtter Is a-native- Oi
Morgantown. Rev. Mr.. Hooper and DR..
Scott. OF the Presbyterinn church,
Laishley and WestGall, of the NJ. p
Church, Prof. johnson, of the Morgan
town Female Collegiate Institute, and
DIR. Il. @. LOOMS, of the Wheeling fe-
male College, were also INTRODUCED &c
Tho Conference tluringi its session. Two
ministers, w. III. Shaw and X. Laugh
lin, were re-admitted, and two, w: ID
Sandford and II. II. Domain, discontin'
ued. Twelve-Chas. w. Swartz, w. ID
Carrico, John Il. Davis, Geo. a. sheets
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Vim. w. Kelley, Morgan w. Rider,
Gilbert Rogers, John Kelley, Edgar B
Rlnndon md j. NJ. Rife, were received
on trial. Four-Leonnrd Warman, A
Il. Wade, Jesse +. Snodgruss and Elisha
/. Snodgrass, We're ordained Deacons
Iwo-Ed. w. Ryan aud Jas. S. War
den. werO ordained Elders. Four
Ashy stevens, Geo. Monroe, J. IL. san
forl md Levi PurSc, We're granted I
supernumerarY relation. One-1tey
Paul Vandervort WAS reported as h0v
ing deceased during tho year in tn
midst OF his labors and usefulness.
Among other matters OF interest ant
importnnce, the conference took very
decided action in favor OF large in
crease OF its educational fund, Tn
following, from the report of the Cente
nary Committee, embraces part OF u
action in this direction. Resolved,
:. That next to the blessing OF Aimlsht
Cni in the spiritual enlargement OF IN
(Y6urch the establishment OF a Sontefetfc
7Eslucaiiunal Fund Is the most immediate an
prSSlng want OF our Churcn IN Wese. Y y y
y That In our opinion the Church within
our bounds during the present centenaL!
year may and should raise at least SlVO,UOy, .
a financial basis for the advanced dgcatioi
OF the youth OF our farniliesa and H4ends. !.
u That subscription books % pEocuIe.l, y
all tile circuits, stations and societies AM
that they be caTsfully preserved, aud y IN
whether more less, subscribed and paid
with the names and residences or the SeHeT5l
donors be transferred into n permanent rec
ord, 10 einbrace nlSS whatever donations ant
SAME object! 49, = . Iiiz ",
especially our brethren in the ministry, what
ever other enteTpttses they may have ot
nom this time ninth the Close Of the Centenn
Tyvelr 80 rs TO secure AT least something
fFuilS al our members and friends-h OPinl