Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-08-12
Tn. LOYAL status OF Lewis County
Defended.
Editors Inteliqsaaer:

Editors IntslHgszSer:
- Ia, y9uf daily issue OF Friday last, you
notice the leader OF the State youTnqI pub
Iisbed at Grafton, in which reflections are
cast unon the Ioyaityof the county OF Lew
Ia yh;ch are calculated to do I'M justice to
great majority of the people of our county
90 much so that l deem it my duty az
Ioval citizen of said county TO notice some
nortion of the Journal mans article, which
otberwise would have gone unuotlced' hao
nat YOU have seen proper to have notlced
the article in your widely circulated daily,
thereby giyingit prominence and DONG in-
Justice to ourselves demandtng response
rom asl The editor of the Journal (Mr.
Shrineri appsars to be i'll pleased With the
snccess atteudiog his efforts to establish 8
naner in the county of Lewis. Mr.. Shriner
came here eight mouths ago unsolicited,
nerfect stranger TO us ell, and announced
his PURPOSE of establishing paper. He took
possession of the Office ofSthe Virginia Led
1sr. a defuuct rebelsheet, issued prospec'
tus. foIlowiDg il Immediately with the hrst
number of the We& Virginia State Journal
Our loyal citiEenI subscribed for j., paid
$3.50 per year 10 advance; our mer-
chants gave him job work aRd advertising.
| We had doubts Of our ability to sustain
paper for various reasons, among which,
the lack of mail Communication with diff
ferent portions of cur county, 800 of our
citizens absent in the army and govern
meut employ The press was liable to be
sold any day, under trust deed that was
upou it, With all This We did our utmost
to sustain the pape: and extend its circu-
latiou aud would have succeeded, bad Mr..
| Shriner By good moral character inspir-
ed our citizens with confidence, which l
am sorry to say he did not possess.
Mr.. Editor hourished, gloriously flourish
ed for q few months. So long as advance
nav was coming in "the County of Lewis
was the most loyal of any county in the
State :" scent more soldiers to the field !"
"Westou bound TO be the capital" &C., &c.
But as money ceased to flow to his pockets,
murmurings and mntterings began to be
heard in the columns of the JOHrHdL.-
Complaints of not being supported. Reb-
ell ! Rebel This cry of raw head aud
bloody bones, begsn to be his key note; he
abused the most loyal, even those. who
gave him his bread and bntter. Gross and
obscene language, written daily under the
inspiration of bad whisky, found its way
into the columns of his paper. We en-
deAvored and succeeded, we thought,
in having change of editors Mr..
Hall, the present associate editor of
the Journal, With funds furnished by
| some of our best and most loyal citizens,
purchased Mr.. Shriner's interest in the es-
adjustment, not with the view of changing
in the least the political status of the pa
| per, but simply to give it character, which
| Is about as essential in conducting pa
per as brains. But contrary to all expec-
tations, Mr.. Hall kept Mr.. Shriner, conse-
quently, even with the new impulse given
the paper, by the generous contribution OF
one hundred dollars, the paper closed
doors here, and now turns up ip the town
of Grafton, where hope the good people
will foster and nourish it. Thus you have
brief history of the career of the State
JottrnaEin the county of Lewis. AS to the
loyalty of the county of Lewis, it is unques-
tiouable. Look to the poll books in the
afshiEes a. our new State. Look to her
roll OF n6nSr, her soldiers IN the held
LEWIS.
WESTON, W. Va. Aug, 9th, 1854.