23 Feb 1833
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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1833
Page
1
Public notice and advertising terms outline subscription prices for weekly and semi weekly papers with various payment options. It notes rates per square for advertisements and deadlines for legal notices including sales of lands and enslaved people and required publication periods. It also covers post office handling and duties of administrators guardians and executors.
In Augusta race news the first day featured Collier defeating Hornet in mile heats amid very wet tracks. Nomination chatter names Charles Henry Williams as a possible governor candidate for Georgia. Reports from Charleston note a large warehouse fire destroying about thirty buildings valued around $30,000.
Clothing and a child’s possessions of Afr. and Mrs. N G Nouty were found, with their trunks bloodstained along the road near a field. Planks from a fence and signs of a scuffle suggest the robbers were involved. Stage proprietors Rersing and Funen offer a $70 reward for thieves’ capture and conviction.
Excerpts from letters and reports show Georgia figures and towns reacting to nullification and tariff battles. Citizens discuss President Andrew Jackson, a proposed tariff, and calls for state unity, with references to militia, public meetings, and editorial rebuttals.
A public meeting in Warginsville Clark County on February 13 1833 elected a five member committee to draft a preamble and resolutions. The draft denounces the Proclamation of the President as subverting rights of states and claims the people must assert their will against government action.
Reports from Savannah and New Orleans dated Feb 16 and Feb 9 1832 describe cotton sales near 9 to 11 cents with various lots and brands quoted, freight affects prices, and noted weekly totals around 1000 to 7500 bales with reductions in some descriptions. Prices for corn flour and rice are listed, and freight rates to several ports are provided.
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