06 Jul 1833
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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1833
Page
1
A garbled historic notice outlines weekly and semi weekly newspaper payments and rates, estate sales rules for land and enslaved people, and sales notice timing. It mentions administration guardianship actions, post paid conventions, and sale notice requirements by law, with months and deadlines implied but unreadable.
The publication outlines plans for a Fifty seven Independence anniversary celebration in New York with a parade from the United States Hotel to the Western Church. It lists processional order including Volunteer Corps officers clergy and city magistracy and invites attendance. The piece also notes a poetic entry about Lafayette and discusses journalistic ethics in naming private individuals in court and jury contexts.
A lengthy critique challenges jurors who recanted their prior positions, urging public disclosure of their names and reasons. The piece defends the integrity of those who stood by their oaths and condemns perceived evasions as public moral wrongs. It also reprints a controversial Yankee critique about employment of schoolmasters by auction and its heated Southern response.
The piece blends a Revolutionary era denunciation of tyrannical government with mid 19th century commodity reports. It critiques taxation and military control while listing local market activity in cotton rice flour and freight rates, noting scarce stock and varying prices in Charleston and Savannah markets.
City Sheriffs Sale advertised for the first Tuesday in August at the lower Market House Augusta. Property levied includes the Globe Hotel corner Broad and Jackson streets owned by Shannon to satisfy multiple fi fas, a building on Ellis and Elbert streets owned by Boulware, and the Reynolds Jackson corner dwelling belonging to Williams. Actions to satisfy judgments in the Court of Common Pleas and other cases.
The proprietor explains his mortgage burden and the failed sale of his lands through a lottery scheme. Creditors pressed claims, property was sold, and imprisonment followed. He seeks legislative approval to redeem ticket holders with cash rather than slaves, to satisfy creditors and restore credit.
A Macon lodging house named Bewin’s House in Macon is offered for sale with first of October possession. It is run by a capable woman in Georgia and invites visitors seeking watering place accommodations. Potential buyers can purchase on accommodating terms.
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