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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1836
Page
1
Published every Saturday with broad notices on land and Negro sales by administrators and executors. It outlines pricing for subscriptions and ads, payment rules, and required public notices including sixty days for land sales and forty days for personal property and debtors notices.
The Augusta Free School Society records a seventy five dollar donation from J Edward Calhoun of Abbeville District South Carolina. The amount was received via Benj’n Baird and is noted as the highest premium awarded at the Cotton Fair held in the city. Brunswick merchants plan to seek a charter for the Augusta and Brunswick Steam Boat Company and prepare for a May visit by a party of twenty five under Tos Burton.
A Augusta merchant cites delays and uneven delivery of Charleston Rail Road goods, arguing the line hampers rapid freight, while the Athens Southern Whig defends it as a public concern and notes it must balance freight with competing river transport.
The piece argues rail lines cannot outcompete navigable rivers and urges wider tracks and larger engines to move cotton freight more cheaply. It questions plans to narrow the Athens to Charleston route and warns against speculative use and price instability in Aiken and Hamburg markets.
A blaze from 6 AM to 10 AM consumed sixteen wooden stores and dwellings on Broad Street from Campbell to the Hanorn range, with most goods saved but later burnt in the street. Loss estimated at 75000 dollars with insurers covering about two thirds across several agencies. Firemen and citizens saved Planters Hotel and opposite buildings from further damage.
The piece discusses a Cincinnati steamer the Constitutionalist and its trade between Charleston, notes on a New Brunswick ecclesiastical trial for heresy, and a fire at the General Post Office with loss of many unsettled postmaster accounts. It also reports health on the U.S. President, a possible Buchanan Senate re-election, and latest Liverpool Havre cotton movement with prices and freight details.
Edgar and Carmichael announce five cases of blankets and linens plus other fabrics at below market prices. They open five cases of clothing cloths imported from England and receive Irish linens and damasks via ships Victoria and China. J. W. J. Service reopens the Augusta Seed Store with garden seeds, bulbs, roots, and plants, offering country dealers North discounts. a double dahlias and greenhouse plants sale is planned for spring.
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