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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1834
Page
5
Published weekly Saturday mornings with subscription terms for semiweekly and weekly editions. Advertising charges include per square rates and minimums, with deadlines for land, negro, and personal property sales notices. Portrait and miniature painting offered by J H Mirrix with strong local reputation and recommendations.
An OCR readout lists daily office hours with fragmented intervals. The schedule shows openings from 8 to 10 am and 1 to 2 pm with additional blocks through the afternoon, a large midday closing, and Sunday hours from 12:30 to 1 pm and 5 to 6 pm.
The Augusta Chronicle announces its new dress and typography completed with a unique engraved title and scroll design. It critiques legibility and shading, promises corrections, and lists inscriptions advocating education, liberty, and state rights alongside anti tariffs and free press principles. It also notes two steam boat company boats carried light cotton cargo and reports a gubernatorial nomination discussion from Milledgeville Times.
A long excerpt praises John C Calhoun as a great, sincere public man and defender of Nullification. It contrasts Northern criticism, quotes the Richmond and Charleston papers, and notes allied Carolina and Georgia figures. The text also reports Georgia and South Carolina legislative notes and Polk era congressional moves, plus local market and port developments.
A convention will be held in Charleston in February to fix race times across Georgia and South Carolina circuits, plan a regular sequence of races, and standardize rules. Delegations from Augusta Columbia Charleston and Savannah clubs are expected. more may join. The effort seeks unity and higher turf standing.
A Charleston Mercury reminiscence recalls a warm eulogy for Mr Caznoux by a loyal Jackson man. The speaker, well acquainted with Mr Calhoun and Washington affairs, travels to Washington yearly and maintains contacts with many distinguished officials. He asserts Jacksonian views and rejects nullification.
A Milledgeville correspondent reports that the bill creating a court of Errors and Appeals was lost yesterday in the House, re-considered this morning, read in journals, and passed by a constitutional majority. The correspondent sees strong support across Georgia and expects swift legislative approval. Both branches of the General Assembly were noted as acting on the 19th inst.
The Augusta market reports cotton prices up about a half cent with firm holding and limited arrivals. Upland sales total 8356 bales with varied lot prices from 14 to 17 1 2 cents. exports to Europe show 146,731 bales of Uplands and Sea-Island totals, while futures drift and New York opinions predict more fluctuation as receipts compare to last year. Flour and spirits demand soften, molasses and salt show limited sales, and freight rates to Liverpool adjust amid broader market uncertainty.
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