The Abbeville Banner

NOT SO. It is a little remarkable what an appetite some people have for promulgating sensation news without reference to its truth or falsity. We have had some startling exhibition of this delectable human passion from the various telegraphic announcements, which have been rehearsed before the public as genuine stuff, but have had to shrink back to the recluse of falsehood when the light of truth has been made to glare upon them. The Richmond Enquirer thus speaks of some of these feats of telegraphic legerdemain: "We are constrained to guard the public against imposition by telegraphic despatch. All manner of exaggerated accounts of affairs at Charlestown are circulated through the telegraph, for the purpose of increasing the excitement that already exists throughout the country. There is no truth in the despatch that Gov. Chase had informed Gov. Wise of men now arming in Ohio, nor of Gov. Wise's reply. Nor is there any truth in the despatch that Gov. Packer had tendered 10,000 troops to the Executive of Virginia: nor is there any reliance to be placed in the reports and despatches that now flood the papers, relating to military affairs at Charlestown."