14 Feb 1835
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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1835
Page
1
Published every Saturday morning at Broad Street under the Globe Hotel. Semiweekly and weekly subscription rates listed, with payment in advance or at year end. Notices include sales of land or Negroes by administrators, executors, or guardians with statutory publication times and court sale details.
Office hours listed for Northennx Mall Westerns Mall Savannah Matt Quantestoy Mail Atuexs Main Greenesville C Mail Cannesville Mall and general schedule. Mail due times vary by location and day with closing times from 5 to 9 pm. Regular hours run 8 am to 6 pm and extended 7 to 8 pm except Sunday. On Sundays brief morning and evening openings noted.
A correspondent urges Mr. Giumen as Union party governor candidate with editors approving. The paper details a cold spell with zero to two degrees, frozen rivers, lakes, lagunes, and widespread ice. The Merchants and Planters Bank case moves for a new trial while the court notes the bank as a corporate body.
The document argues Judge Clayton did not overthrow the Troup party but its principles were abandoned by anti nullifiers. It defends adherence to nullification, recounts clashes between State Rights and Troup factions, and asserts the writer remains a proud nullifier. It notes political shifts across counties and reports a horse race win and severe cold in Savannah and Charleston.
A reader reviews Monday's theatre in Augusta praising Mr. Cooren as an exceptional actor and Miss Cootan as Desdemona. Mr. Fownes earns acclaim for his Moor role, while Mrs Lyons impresses as Emilia. Critique targets miscasting and suggests alternative casts for Brabantio Cassio and Gratiano.
War Intelligencer notes Rep Stanony Jonses of Georgia has been seriously indisposed for days but improving and expects to reclaim his House seat soon. Other items report Geo. Bruck and Fravers Tentren sentenced to five years in the Penitentiary for horse stealing, Prof Dew declining U S College professorship, UNC president Dr Josnen Carowell dies at 67, and editorials on Leigh over Rives with narrow margins.
The Augusta market reports cotton demand yesterday strong with prices up about four cents from last week. Sales ranged from 14 to 16 cents for fair to good quality. arrivals light. Groceries well supplied aside from scarce high-priced mackerel. Freight rates to Charleston and Savannah noted. Import figures show higher Upland and American imports with total 1834 stock and trade movements detailed.
Liverpool Annual Circular dated December 81 1834 notes higher cotton imports into the kingdom with 78742 bales from the United States 3389 from the West Indies 3384 from the Mediterranean and a decrease from Brazil and the East Indies. It records year end stock 185563 bales slight decline from last year and an export rise to 86800 bales. Prices rise on reduced imports with Sea Island cotton at 19s 0d per pound and 30d 14d for 1833. The report highlights strong yarn and goods demand profits from production gains and expectations of higher imports from the United States and Brazil Egypt and the East and West Indies next year. It notes political changes temporary market effects and a general election. Sales since Friday total 10000 bags with prices up 4d per pound.
General Wade Hampton dies at his residence in Columbia South Carolina on the fourth instant in his eighty first year.
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