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THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH--
DESTRUCTION OF THE CORNER
STONE--MEETING OF THE TRUS-
TEES--DETERMINATION TO GO ON
WITH THE WORK--THE LOTS TO
BE LEASED.

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Correspondence Union and American.]

An interesting meeting of the Trustees of
the University of the South, was held last
week at Sewanee, convened by order of Bishop
ELLIOTT, of Georgia, the present Chancellor.
When the late war commenced, this great
enterprise, inaugurated by the distinguished
Bishop POLK, of Louisiana, had so far pro-
gressed that preparations had been made for
the erection of the permanent buildings.
The corner stone of the central building, an
immense block of variegated Tennessee
marble, beautifully wrought, was laid on the
10th of October, 1860, in the presence of
thousands of spectators, the interesting
services of the occasion being participated
in by some ten Bispops and a large number
of the clergy of the Episcopal Church.
Among the documents deposited in the cor-
ner stone was a copy of the Constitution of
the United States, which as laid in the box
by Bishop ELLIOTT with an emphatic esta
perpetua.

In the progress of the 'war the temporary
buildings of the University, as well as some
private residences, were destroyed by the
federal troops. The vault attached to the
office of the Engineer was forced open and
its contents carried off, and the beautiful
corner-stone which had been laid with such
impressive ceremonies, was forced from
its bed, the Constitution of the United
States torn from its place of deposit within
it, and the corner-stone itself shattered into
thousands of fragments by a brutal soldiery,
and carried off as mementoes of its destruc-
tion.

By the death of Bishops OTEY and CABBS