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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1836
Page
5
The notice announces publication frequency, pricing, and terms for the Broadestreet paper. It sets semi weekly and weekly rates in dollars, arrearage terms, and ad insertion charges. It also details legal notices for land and negro sales, and required publication timelines for estate notices and court applications.
The Constitutionalist notes the Augusta Free School Society treasurer acknowledges a seventy five dollar premium donation from J Edward Calhoun of Abbeville District South Carolina. Benj’n Baird receives the funds as the donor’s messenger from the Cotton Fair in town. Brunswick merchants plan to seek charter for Augusta and Brunswick Steam Boat Company and may charter a steam boat while twenty five guests will visit Brunswick in May invited by Tos Burton Kine Esq.
An Augusta merchant rebukes the Charleston Rail Road for delays and high costs. The Athens Southern Whig republished the critique, arguing the line’s bulk freight approach and cross-compatibility with river transport hinder timely shipments and fail to meet expectations.
The piece argues rivers outcompete rail lines under current designs and urges widening rails to carry larger freight and fewer engines. It notes Aiken and Hamburg as market contrasts and questions a proposed narrower Athens Charleston alignment, urging practical improvements over speculative gains.
A morning blaze starting in Derry cooper shop spread along Broad Street, consuming sixteen wooden stores and risking Planters Hotel and surrounding buildings. Loss estimated at 75 000 dollars with two thirds insured across multiple local companies. Firefighters and citizens saved the Planters Hotel area. A new steamboat Cincinnati arrives, prompting thoughts on diversifying markets away from Savannah trade.
The report discusses a Norfolk Post Office fire with possible arson and loss of third story records, a Charleston-New Brunswick contrast on religious views, and cotton market notes from Liverpool Havre and New York with daily sales and prices, including upland and long cotton trends and freight rates. It also cites health updates on the U.S. President and possible Buchanan re election in Pennsylvania.
Edgar and Carmichael advertise five cases of blankets and linens imported from England and Ireland at below market prices. They reopen the Augusta Seed Store on Broad Street with a large stock of seeds, bulbs, and plants, offering discounts to country dealers and listing new garden and flowering stock for spring.
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