Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-01-20
Spirit Of 5etlerson.
ohsrlestown, jefferson County, West Va.
TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1850.
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.

Wisconsin.
= The american Manufacturer says tha.
tins country Is now making more than one.
third OF all the paper in the world.
- Kanawha county offers three candidates
for Attorney General in the persons of Mai
Thomas !. Broun. Hon E. ". Wilson ard
W. ". Watts, Esq.
= The people of Keyser have decided
against the sale of ardent spirits in that
place. by a vote of 90 to GI. aud Piedmont
goes favor of license. by 63 majority.
= The N'''0nal Democratic Committee
Will meet at Washington on Monday, the
z3d of February. tn agree upon the time and
place of holding the next National Conven>
tion.
= The Supreme Court of Appeals Of Vir>
e'nia has affirmed the Judgment of the Rich
mond HustiugS Court i'll the case of John f.
Poindczter. convicted some months since of
killing Charles Il Curtis, on the Sd of March
last, for which Poindcxter was sentenced to
the penitontiary for two years fo7 voluntary
mansaughter.
- Major A. NJ CARRIER, formerly Of
Staunton, Va. died Of congestive apoDIezy
recently in Dallas, Texas, whore lie had re-.
SIDED several years. Major CARRIER was an
"tlGr ~ the Confederate army, and after the
var established the I'nHeV J,rgisjon at
StaGnt0n, Of which he was editor ard nub.
Usher for several years.
The January number of the Southern
Society Historical Papers contains an article
By Rev Horace Edward Hayden, of Browns
vile, PennsJ !rnnia. which positively ,iircct>
Iy, and with irrefragnble evidence. contra.
d'cfs the assertion made hy Sir. Losing, in
ms Pictorial History of the Civil War, that
the Conicdera'c5 used poisonous and ezplo>
S've bu !!c's. But the records OF the Patent
Ohcc st Washington show that such barba
ror' missiles were patented by the Unitcd
States government during the war, and what
Is verse Tor the reputation of tho country,
the rccoFda of the War Department show
that they were issued to and used by the
troops in the Federal army. Time at last
sets all things even, :nd the truth about the
civil war is beginning to show itself grad.
ua!!y. 1t wGs well known, not only to the
officers, but to every private in the Conrcdcr
ate army, that when he went into battle he
MT only had 70 fight aga inst mer cucascd in
SNIrtS OF mail, bat that lis own naked breast
! was exposed, not merely to such bullets rs
he used, but to snch as would either tear
him 30 pieces, # they struck him, or. il
tHoy "id not Kill him On tho instant. poison
him TO death. And yet the history used in
tnc schools OF the North teaches the children
OF that section that the C3aralecato, wsra
hende in human shape, whose bullets were
OF two sorts, ono made to explode in the
body OF man, and the other to leave n
deadly poison in him. Some of the practices
OF the civil war were undoubtedly fondish,
but the truth has only TO be known to sptisCv
any j"ir~mIndcd man that the South vas not
guilty Of them. a hundred wears bencc,
when the true history OF the civil war shall
have been written, the student, when COM
p'rlng Gen. Lees campaigns north of tho
Potomac with Sherdun's south Of that river.
vii be puzzled to understand how two
modes OF warfare so essentially different. one
civilized, and the other borbarcus, could have
been conducted in the s4mo age and country
and by what had previously been considered
the s"mo people -AIc1o",1rta Ga=ct,c.
- E''SN US f'diCh StatCS mat. at Charles
( t"|n, .j"fters'n c"uuty, ". Va on last Fri>
day n'rht, E1wurd En!,ner shot john W ellis
/ ihTee tunes through the heart. Both had
been Griukiny. Faimer escaped
LSfanrton Spectator.
no such occurrence has happened in
Chor!esfown, but may probably be rightly 10,
/ cn'ed ut Charleston in Kana1ha county
I We think it more than sufficient that a large
/ portion Of the mail matter intended for this
/ place should be sent to Charleston. without
/ our quiet aud orderly town being saddIed
! with every breach Of TIE law that NAV occur
+ in The prospective capital city of the State
II ever the "capitai question" is opened
again, we pledge ourselves TO oppose Charles
. ten. unless its name be charged to "Kauawba
! City or some different cognonca from its
/ present one.
t We Hnhi;Sh the announcements in o;,r aGyer-
ilsi''E co um - for pay. ard seldom, trouble on
selves e'Qnirc as /" tie QrslItles or merits Of
t'e wares AZ Vel tl>rd, further than to assure
"uI selves tuat they al" legitimate and resncrt
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