21 Jun 1834
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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1834
Page
1
Fragmentary notice lists a weekly Saturday morning street location near the Globe Hotel for publication. Readable text mentions broadside posting and location but lacks complete dates or event details.
The document outlines court ordered sales of land or enslaved people by executors administrators or guardians. Sales occur on the first Tuesday of the month between the forenoon and three in the afternoon at the county seat. Notices must be published sixty days prior, and notices of sale or personal property must appear forty days prior. Applications to the court or guardians for leave to sell must be made four months in advance.
A garbled OCR notice outlines office hours with multiple time slots listed in inconsistent format. It mentions openings from 10 to 11 AM and various half hour intervals through the day, plus Saturday adjustments and evening closures, but the exact schedule remains unreadable.
Fanny Kinane was married Saturday morning at 1st Church with Bishop Waite officiating. The Philadelphia American Daily Ad viser notes the bride’s change of name to Mrs Purce Burren amid a ceremony led by the venerable bishop.
A Raleigh weather note recalls a violent hailstorm on the 4th, damaging crops including cotton, oats, and wheat. A Washington dispatch reports a scathing Post Office Department inquiry, detailing misstatements, losses, and alleged malpractices and extravagance affecting contractors and mail service.
Debates in Congress unfold over the Post Office Department’s alleged corruption and insolvent finances. Critics charge secret loans, inflated contracts, and favoritism to newspapers, threatening Jacksonism and press freedom amid costly abuses and misleading reports.
Lawmakers clash over printing 30 000 copies of two inspector reports on Post Office abuses. Graspys and Ewixas testimonies highlight extra allowances and editor payments while partisans dispute evidence and scope. Senate and House leaders push adjournment as Tennessee convention outlines revisions.
Dr Jones writes on Vere described as a Louisiana colony of Gypsies now settled and employed in regular work. The New York Commercial Advertiser praises a bust of Sir Warren Scorr by Col. John S. Coconut. A post office opens near Athens at Grove Hill with William Avair as postmaster. Southern Banner notes Virginia Monier to perform at Walnut Street Theatre Philadelphia. A New York Courier Enquirer profile highlights Virginia Monier from Petersburg va amid West Indian fame. London bread adulteration blamed on bakers with alum and lime powder. consumption estimated at 700000 lb yearly.
Liverpool reports strong week for cotton imports from the United States totaling 73 322 bales with prices steady and sales at full prices. Havre notes 13 600 bags of cotton received and stagnant market. London colonial trade shows limited price advances as new crop expectations widen declines. Rice and flour markets soften with light sales and cautious demand. corn imports rise with ships delivering cargoes for local retail.
Prices and sales for coffee molasses spirits bacon and freights amid weekly receipts and shipments. Cotton trade shows export 10 583 bales with stock on hand 13 905 bales and weekly sales around 2500 bales with mixed grades from Mobil Classification including Good and Middling at 10 to 13 cents per pound.
Arrivals and stock figures for cotton show 3610 bales arrived since the 30th ultimo with 11,882 bales cleared, reducing stock by 8272 bales and leaving 2 sacks of 5070 bales on hand including ships. Liverpool classifications to be omitted due to small Louisians and Mississippi stocks. weekly transactions indicate a decline of about 9 cents from prior week with many price details broken down by state. Sugar and molasses volumes remain high, with limited current demand. weekly clearances for sugar include New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Savannah, Mobile, and valid molasses clearances across several ports.
Purvapecruia Manger notes the stock dwindled to about 100 bales in first ana e. By Monday and Tuesday arrivals totaled 1066 bales. Since then 185 bales arrived from Charleston, 65 bales from Mobile export at 14 cents, 17 bales ordinary at 13 cents cash, 342 bales Upland held at 13 to 14 cents cash, with 60 and 9 days and 4 mos terms. 27 bales Upland and samples repacked at 12 4 to 13 cents.
The dispatch notes imports are steady for manufacturers with limited sales. Upland cotton trades range from 14 to 15 3 8 cents per pound, Alabama at 15 to 15 4 8, and New Orleans around 16 8 per pound. Stocks hold ample levels with uncertain definitive sales.
Me William son aged 50 years and two months died in this place on the 1st inst with a large Georgia family left to deplore him. In Savannah on the 2nd inst John H Morel aged 64, the marshal of the department of Georgia, also died.
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