13 Feb 1836
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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1836
Page
1
A Saturday morning publication entry shows the address 261 Broadestreet opposite Masonic Hall. The item records the distribution point and timing for the regular paper edition.
This notice lists subscription options for a weekly paper at five and three dollars annually with advance payments or higher end-of-year totals. Advertisements are priced by insertion frequency and size, with rules for limited runs. Legal notices require magazine gazette publication sixty or forty days prior to sales, and court motions for leave to sell land or enslaved people four months prior.
The item thanks several individuals for congressional documents and speeches, notes attention to the American Chamber of Commerce Liverpool on false cotton packing, and highlights stock activity in Augusta Bank and subscriptions for GA Insurance & Trust Company. It reports a modest fire on Broad Street, urging better police presence and fire watch.
A dense review highlights Mrs. Sigourney’s Recollections of an aged Pastor and the Norwich scene. It praises Mr Snowden as agent for multiple publications including the Boston Pearl and La Revue Francais. The piece notes Snowden’s Cheap Novelists project at 64 cents per number and references Southern slavery debates and Ashley Miller’s Charleston reprint with Attorney General Austin as authorial force.
An extracted letter from the Hamburg Volunteers dated February 2 1836 from St Augustine notes that troops arrived, Indians hover nearby with unknown numbers, routes for action are awaited, guards stand day and night, and the volunteers are grouped with courage and skill and are held in high esteem by local citizens.
An act passed at the last Legislature incorporated the town and scheduled an election on the Sth inst. for an Intendant and six Wardens. Marshall R. Smith elected Intendant with H W Sullivan J B Covington W A Young B J F Gouedy H E Simmons H L Jeffers as Wardens. Hamburg S.C. Feb 9 1836. Savannah Republican report.
A compilation from Savannah Charleston Raleigh and Philadelphia papers recounts military plans by William Schley on militia drafts and home defense, volunteer movements to Florida, mediation news with England over France, a Carolina Whig gubernatorial nomination, a Pennsylvania Masonry inquisition, and anti abolitionist accusations linked to Arthur Tappan.
Cotton has declined since the last report as the prospect of peace with France eased buyer anxiety. Prime and choice cotton brings 16 cents, good lots 15, middling and inferior 12 to 13 cents. Freights to Savannah 50 cents, to Charleston by river 75 cents, by rail 1 dollar.
Mrs Euizanera Lucy died in Wetumpka Alabama on Monday night February 1 after a lingering illness. She was 58 and formerly lived in Wilkes County Georgia.
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