Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-11-13
Yours Respectfully,
Z. CHARLEswuRTH.
OTsEso, Allegsn Co NJ ctigan,)
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OrsEso, Allegsn Co NJ cnigsn,(
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TKE Hon. d. S. CowEE-
DIR. Sir: In the early part of last month
addressed note to you. wishing you to
name a Gent. Ut the bar that would be will
ling TO carry on a suit in be islI ot my two
SONS against Mr.. James Weir. You are ac-
quainted with parrcul rs. As yet | have
not received reply to the note. On she
recpt. Of this will thank you to write 10
me, and you Will oil lrge
Yours Respectfully,
r. CHARLEswoRTH
These letters were handed by my father
to Gov. Shannon with the request that he
with Mr.. Pennington and myself, should
take charge of them and the case. The
Governor was making preparations to GO to
California, and huLded the letter TO Nj
Pennington and myself.
There lie a statement in your letter pur-
porting to come rom your iather after the
case Was settled, that We (Mr. Pennington
and y had, as he thought, acted premature
Iy, and that in his letters to US she made
no remarks about the suit" Let US see.--
Here are TWO letters from i'm to US:
OTsEGo, Sep. Sd, ls49.
GENTS.: You will receive enclosed R CHI
ard w. Charlesworth land warrant as reed
from Washing. 1t is sent to you as Sc
CURLY on his part OF The costs IN that suit
against james Weir. On the recps. oc it |
will thank You to adrise me of it pr. next
mail. Should the suit terminate against my
sons, | will furnish the cash for Richards
snare of the costs, so that he warrant can
be returned to me as :: is. Here follows
half page Of information concerning tes-
timouy in the same suit, which | deem it
improper to publish AS the case progresses
shall be glad to hear from you.
Yours Respectfully,
R. CHARLEswoRTH.
OTsEGn, Sept. 80, ls49.
MEssRs. PENNINGTON g. .CowEN-
Gentn: About the 2nd OF this month |
sent to you pr. mail Richard W. Charles
worth's land warrant, requesting you ut the
same time 10 aduise me of the rect vi il; n
my return home Yesterday, find that there
has no: anything arrived at this Post Office
from you for me. On the recpt of THE you
will pipsse inforr, ...s 81 .uu nave receive q
the warrant. Yours Respect uIly,
r. CHARLEswoRrH
Now, sir, why were these letters written
TO US. two months after you came 10 St.
ClairsvIlle, why was this warrant sent to
US, why this promise of your isther TO pay
Richards share of costs, why our Judgment
against you for fees, why this desire 10 heal
from Us as the case progressed, if, as you
falsely assert, we had no authority to carr,
IL Cd! You say that there vas nolhing il
the case but attorneys fees-and by you
showing only SIS OF them, for if the Gas,
was lost tn at is all we proposed to charge
But let us see whether there was "nothin,
in the case" In Book 80, page 4s9, OF th,
Records of deeds in the Reco der's office o
this county, is the deed OF yourself anu yo
brother to Gen. Weir, dated Nov. 81, lS4e
releasing your interest in lie land whic
Wa in controversy, and the considerable
named in the deed as having been paid I
YOU is $4,000 90. But this is only prlm
facie evidence of what was actually paid
and TO show exactly what was paid, ca
your attention to your own examination ur
der oatt before the Commissioner of Inso
vents, recorded in Law Record. Vol. 2.
page 81. 1t comes out by piecemeals, br
/ think it is about all there, and as tt,
same examination throws some light upo
the question of your intention to leave tt
State, and as you eonpain of my osth 4