Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1876-03-14
Spirit Of Jeacrsoll.
CharlestOWn, Jefferson county, West Va.
TUESDAY HOREISG. M4RcH IL, 1876.
OUR SPECIAL NEW YORK LBFrBR
NEw YoRK. Marcb 4 1S76


Dear Mr. Editor: Having given you
6lrds,eye>visw of the World, Trsbune aud
Herald, few words about the n. Time,
Is perhaps IN order. CBut let me say here,
by way of parenthesis, that You made me talk
some bad grammar in my last letter..
This paper was established in 1851 as a
Free Soil Whig organ by the late lsmeated
Henry j. RAYMOND. He was Both Journals.
and editor, equal to Dickens as a swift re-
porter, and second only to Horace Greeley as
crisp forcble political writer. In politics
ne was trimmer, but tried to do party work
decently and orderly. lie was sort of
Glrondist after the war, and as the revolution
didn't go backward Raymond lost his iufu-
encs and never regained it. His sudden
death lett the Times without head Jones,
the chief owner, called the stocLho!ders
together. aud Hon. John Bigelow, late Min>
lster to Francs, and now our Democratic Sec
resary of State, was chosen by virtue of his
distinguished abilities as Raypluud's 5 successor
his moderation proved hmttuI, for Southern
reconstruction was in full -l.last- anil a trr,a-
llcaO party. Mr.. BiCelOw resigned in disgust.
Thus ono Louis Jennings, an English soldier
of fortune. whom Col. John Il. Fellows, late
assistant Distrct Attorney, charged in pub
lie speech with having beaten his wife, was
hit upon ss combining the requisite amount
of radca!ism aud newspaper ex perionce to be
made editor. He has held the position fur
several years. aud has proved himself the
most unmiti2ated rufiian in doing the dirty
party work whom Radicalisni has yet brought
to the surface.
This scamp has had a chcckered career,
and while he is COED writer he is utterly
devoid of principle. lie is an English cocks
ney; was attached to the staff of the I.ouden
Times; was sent over here by that paper to
succeed Bull Run Russell as its war re porter
came cut iu his letters as full blown Con-
fcdcrsse sympathizer (tho London Times you
know decidedly Southern in sympathy;
he pitched into the North, denounced the
Yankees, predicted tho destruction of the
Union, eulo%ized Lee, Jackson, JOhuson
Davis, aud everything and everybody South;
returned to L"ndon brought out n volume
there q have hoard) celebrating tho views
contained in his letters; and finally lost his
place on the Landou Tones. He turned up
next in New York, aud presto the ardent
secession advocate becomes n malignant Rad
ical aud piiau, tool of the Republican party
The conservatism of Raymond and the re-
spectnbility Of Bigclow were qualities which
damagod the n. Y. Times; tho elastic pen of
the Eugli=h adveuturcr was vastly preferable
to either Of them for the work in hand.
The Jennings methods have been public
SANDER aud brutal assault; defamation of
character and cumulative ingenuity in lying
au adveuturer's stake in tho public interests,
(uamely: his salary reg saarly paid), and i'll
concealed Eag!ish sueers at TIE American peO-
ple especially last year when the Concord
and Lexington Centenary celebration took
place, and Jennings der;ded the poetry,
laughed at the clrqucncc, and finding
nothing to admire even in the ryrotechnics
When Car! SchuIz was in the United States
Senate he once declared iu burst of admira
tiou that this fellow vas master Of the art
Of Intrepid cumala;iys lying"
1t is reported that Jones, the owner of tho
Times, has grown tired of Jennings, and th at
he will soon be dismissed from the place which
he has dsgraoed. The next con genial field
for this precious soldier of fortune would un>
| doubtediy be the Herald, aud l should not
be surprised if he is soon found mp to his
arn-Pits in the nastiest operations Of Bennett 5
'Intelloctual Department"
Yours, &C.,
PETEE PoRCUPINR, JR.
p. S.-Since inditing the above the rumor
has become accomplished fact, and Jen-
Diugs' occupation is gone. I'm told he rO~
turns to Euglsud in few weeks.