 Extant issues of the Virginia Argus and Hampshire Advertiser are maintained by four known institutions . The American Antiquarian Society Newspaper Project in Worcester , Massachusetts , maintains a 1852 issue of the newspaper ; West Virginia University Libraries in Morgantown , West Virginia , maintain issues dating from 1852 , 1853 , 1856 , 1857 , and 1859 ; the West Virginia State Archives in Charleston , West Virginia , maintain an issue dated July 5 , 1851 ; and the Duke University Libraries in Durham , North Carolina , maintain issues dating between 1858 and 1861 . The Library of Virginia in Richmond , Virginia also maintains microforms of issues of the Virginia Argus dating from 1852 , 1853 , 1856 , 1857 , and 1859 . 
