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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1836
Page
5
An old style publication notice states the paper is issued every Saturday morning from 261 Broad Street opposite Masonic Hall. The line confirms regular weekly frequency and the paper's street address near a Masonic hall.
The notice lists subscription rates for semi weekly and weekly papers with advance or end of year options, states no discontinuation until arrearages are paid, and details ad rates per square for various insertions. It also prescribes notice periods for sales of land or negroes, personal property, debtors and creditors, and applications to sell land or enslaved people, with publication timing requirements.
The Savannah sexton reports seven interments in Savannah for the week ending the 6th instant, comprising five white individuals and two Black individuals.
The August number presents a varied table of contents for the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine. It notes a handsome portrait of Grencor, the celebrated English horse, purchased by Mr. James Jackson of Alabama and soon to arrive in the United States.
The Telegraph editorial department will be led after September by Brennan K. Craree, Esq. formerly Richmond Whig associate editor, with a preceding appeal from Gen Curr Green to patrons. Richard K. Cralle, Esq. has taken command and will assume duties by September 1, heretofore praised for editorial experience and party knowledge.
Extract from a Florida letter dated August 2 describes troops evacuating Fort Crane to a healthier post near Micanopy. Half the troops at Micanopy and Fort Crane are unfit due to fever and ague. The writer doubts a Summer Campaign and contemplates Gen Jessup’s fielding with better country knowledge and fall troops. They praise militia bravery but note homes and crops distract soldiers. Also discusses Congressional election and State Rights ticket prospects, praising Gen Glascock’s slave question stance.
Manison Sparinas urges Georgia State Rights supporters to stick with the Glascock ticket to avoid handing victory to opponents. He warns a split vote could drop the entire slate, harming lawmakers and the party, and calls on supporters to consider broad consequences for October and November races.
In Scriven county on Sunday the 7th instant Dr Aurxanven Spenesa aged 23, M D since 1834, judged a promising son of our institution. His brief career showed moral deportment and unobtrusive manners. He has fallen in the morning of life, and earthly hope is crushed. Friendship mourns, affection weeps over his grave. He being dead yet speaketh, be ye also ready for the son of man cometh.
On September 20 at the residence of William Gross in Columbia County the perishible property of the late William Gross will be sold including Horses Hogs Cattle and Household and Kitchen Furniture. The growing crop of Corn Cotton Potatoes and Peas will also be sold. The estate’s Negroes will be hired out. Terms of sale declared the day of sale. THOMAS H. BURNS adm. wtd 92 Aug 17. Convenis von Aveust 1836 Glencoe.
August 13 Shipments listed include A Cumming Bustin Kerrs & Hoye S Hammond May & Burnett 8 C Kirtland & Son F & H Clark Stovall Simmons & Co Rankin & Evans Collier Hill & Labuzan Geo Anderson N Smith & Co Moise & Cohen F & Nichols B Baird C Willey C Hall Richards & Stoy TH 1 Plant Benson & Urquhart G Parrott. August 15 E Skinner A Cumming TH 1 C Plant B Bustin W E JU Jackson A Boudry Stovall Simmons Kerrs & Hope Morgan & Wyatt Sol Kneeland & Co W Muller Dortic & Lee Benson & Urquhart R An derson. August 15 E D Cook Isabella Coskery H C Bryson C McTyre & Co Mathew Nelson B W Force E B Beall A Sibley Robertson & Benedict Stovall Simmons Sol Kneelan & Co W Way Richards & Stoy W & I Bryson TH & TC Plant W Carter L Gibson A R & CE Latimer P Golley A Cumming A Gould E Bastin G W Mason M R Smith Geo Parrott Benson & Urquhart August 16 Dortic & Lee L Richards A R & C E Latimer 8 Kneeland & Co Rathbone & Baker P Carre P Setze & Co FE Bastin M Nelson B Goldsmith Geo Parrott Benson & Urquhart B Winding M R Smith W M Frazer.
Commercial notes from August 13 detailing cotton arrivals and clearances in Upland bales, limited sales with mixed prices, and stock concentrated on lower Uplands. Groceries show Louisiana sugar and Muscovadas selling, Cuba coffee imports, Havana molasses quality concerns, and weekly import totals. Flour prices in Howard Street remain steady with store and wagon quotes, city mills sales noted.
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