The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-06-03
WHEELING, MAY 81, 1870.

.reit WHEELING, May 81, 1870.
The hospitality Of the good people of this
city has been handsomely illustrated by
their entertainment of the clerical and lay
delegates to the Council, which has just ad-
journed. Most were guests in private fami-
lies, while some citizens who were not in
condition to have company at their homes
entertained at hotels If a single one of
our hundred and thirty delegates paid
reckoning, we have been unable to ascer-
tain the fact. There is, indeed, but one
sentiment as to the kindness of this people,
and their generous hospitality will not soon
be forgotten. Feeling allusion was made to
the subject by The Bishop in his parting
address. It has been always said, and
we suppose truly, that there was large
'Union element" !" in Wheeling during the
war, and that there are many Radicals now
in the city; but If we have enemies there
they have a queer way of showing it. To
say sooth we do not know, except in the
politics of single citizen we met. We took
Some pains, by the way, to ascertain the
prevailing sentiment in West Virginia as to
the possible refInion Of the State. While
few seem disposed to commit themselves alb
solutely on the question, many thought that
il put to the vote retinion would be carried.
The people, they say, want to come back;
the politicians, for obvious reasons, do not.
~ The two Episcopal churches in Wheeling
are beautiful edifices. Both are of gray
stone, and. Gothic, and both have been built
since the war; neither, indeed, is yet quite
finished. st. Matthew's is very spacious,
full as well as elegant. 1t has no side galle-
ries, itself an important. condition of SYM
metry, while q recessed chancel with oval
enclosure), elaborately carved reredos, lee
tern, and pulpit, complete a fine effect. The
yestry-room is on one side Of the chancel
the organ, n capital instrument, on the
other. The entire cost Of. the church is
about $70.0GO, the funds necessary to its
completion being already In hand. st.
building, having cost something less, than
$25, 900. 1t is in all its appointments as
fine specimen of church architecture as
the diocese contains. 1t appears that both
the Wheeling congregati tionS are particularly
well pleased with their present 1ectors-;Sts
Matthew's with the Rev. c. George Currie,
st. Johns with the Rev. III. nj. Benton, Jr.
The latter has been but a few months in
charge, SO that the fruits of his labors are
scarcely yet apparent; the other has been
by nearly seventy confrmations
Roman Catholics yare very numerous in
Wheeling. They have two 1'or three lares
ichurches, one of them exceed edingiy ithpoaingf
lin appearance. No religious eaifics In the
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