30 Jul 1836
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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1836
Page
1
An old newspaper notice states publication occurs every Saturday morning from the address 261 Broad Street opposite Masonic Hall.
The notice details semi weekly and weekly newspaper subscription rates in advance or end of year, and annual prices for a like period. It outlines ad insertion charges, minimums, and rules for limited insertions. Executors and guardians must publish land and slave sales by law at specific intervals in a public gazette. Notices for estates, debtors, creditors, and court applications have set publication timeframes.
The Federal Union notes on July 19 that all current state Representatives in Congress are seeking re election. The column implies an incumbency advantage and ongoing campaign dynamics in the state for the next congressional term.
Judge Loxesmeer has disposed of his interest in the Office of the State Rights Sentinel to Winciam EB. Jones, Reg., for a length of time favorably known to the public as the able and spirited editor of the Southern Whiz, published at Athens.
Letters received in the city report the death of Rhuann Tausay in Lincoln County North Carolina. The July issue of Foreign Literature Science and Art appears enlarged to 9192 pages, offering table of contents from European sources and added illustrations. Subscriptions remain unchanged with each number now equal to a full octavo volume.
Extract from a Tennessee letter dated Memrenis July 8 1836 discusses presidential election opinions. It notes Tennesseans favor White over Missouri Restrictionists and mentions the Kansas Kinderhook figure. The writer contemplates Georgia alignment and railroad plans linking the Missouri River to the Atlantic via Athens Road, assessing regional impact on the South. The letter also challenges Milledgeville Federal Union's claim that Georgia’s Congressmen have ably sustained Southern rights and questions their actions.
A reader questions how all representatives can claim to have ably sustained the rights of the South. The letter asks the Federal Union to reveal whether the ticket would drop a current Representative for his alleged achievement and questions whether others have acted in concert on this issue. The tone presses for candor and clarity on party stance.
The Formosa arrives New York from Havre with $600000 in gold and valuable cargo. The 120 gun Pennsylvania Ship of the Line, ordered by the President, faces delays from the Navy Commission’s ten hours system. Volunteers for the Frontiers: Gaines orders ten mounted gunmen from Louisiana for six months. Gossip in Washington cites a high‑life marriage between Van Buren and a distinguished literary lady, with General Jackson pushing the match. State prisons yield profits from inmate labor. Texas pronunciation debate mocks Texans. A quip about Kean’s burial reflects theatrical wit.
July 25 consignors include Jackson, Way, Ganahl, Walker, Poe, Dewelle, Wray, Frederick, Force, Richards & Stoy, Holcombe, Peck, Adams, Parmelee, Barber, Kerrs, Cooke, Rankin, Evans, Woodruff, Stovall, Simmons, Kneeland, Ramsey, Frederick, Beall, Clark, McTier, Bryson, Setze, Baudry, Plant, Jarrett, Cooper, Parrott, Smith, Benson, Urquhart, Taylor, Sibley, Usher, Richards, Sullivan. July 26 consignors include Clark, McTier, Bryson, Plant, Beall, Parrott, Benson, Smith.
There is no change in the cotton market since the last report with good demand for prime quality and recent sales at 184 cents per pound. Imported Upland stock is modest but increasing, with 661 bales sold at various prices including 18, 19, 16, and 14 cents. Coffee sales reached 320 bags from Cuba, and Havana receipts of 135 bags. Molasses and sugar shipments from Porto Rico and Havana arrived. Cognac Brandy sold at 1.50 per quarter cask. Domestic whiskey and rum prices noted, with freight rates for various ports. Transactions in stocks limited, rail shares scarce, and a July 18 note from Verccury Purnamrenuta Manker reports moderate coffee demand with 9 to 1000 bag lots in Rio at 11 to 12 cents per lb.
The report shows fair demand for good green coffee with scarce supply. Laguayra at 125 cents, Havana at 124 cents, and St Domingo at uncertain cents for fair to good quality. Cotton demand fair with some advance on fair quality. Upland sales 19 to 24 cents, Florida 20 to 21 cents, New Orleans 17 to 18 cents per pound. common grades weak.
Captain Joan Campreld of the Jefferson Hussars explains the dispute with Capt. Chantes J. Maroon of the Washington Cavalry. She recounts enlistment, movements, engagements near Fort Cooper Tampa Bay and Tarver's plantation, the Indian attack, and the ensuing efforts to settle the matter publicly and privately.
Subscribers offer about 16 000 acres of land at the fork of the Alabama and Tompebeekhee Rivers with a 12 mile riverfront on Tompebeekhee and 4 a mile on Alabama. 50 miles from Mobile, cane brake lands suited for cotton, some cleared and under cultivation, healthy sites for summer residences with springs. 500 acres cleared. rest wooded with Poplar Linn Ash Hickory. Easy inland access by steam boats year round. Terms via McCloskey Hagan & Co Mobile May 17 1836. Administrators Sale. 166 acres in Burke County to be sold September at Waynesboro Court House for the estate of Charles Jones deceased. Terms known day. John M. Jones Adm’r.
The Augusta Races in Georgia announce a match race between Hickory John and Miss Medley on December 6, followed by a colt sweepstake for Colts and Fillies three years old this spring with a fifty dollar entrance. Additional races include four mile heats and two mile heats with substantial purses, to be run before and during the regular March meet.
On the Tuesday in October next a sale at Lower Market House Augusta will offer Thomas Cumming estate property. It includes a large vacant lot opposite City Hall on Green street, a Sumnerville lot with improvements, and a Columbia County plantation of about 2300 acres along Euchee Creek on the Appling road, about sixteen miles from Augusta. Sellers include William Cumming, Robert I Por, Peete Henry H Cumming.
A bundle of imports from Paris features jet black bombazines, grass bleached linens, fine cambrics, damasse linens, and damasse fil. Also listed are sewing silk, gloves, handbags, scarves, lustring ribbons, combs, powder, waters, soaps, and cosmetics.
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