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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1834
Page
5
A partial OCR fragment notes a Saturday morning street location near the Globe Hotel with unclear publication details. The readable text mentions a broad publication context but lacks complete names dates or actions for full summary.
Executors administrators and guardians are ordered to sell land and enslaved people on the first Tuesday each month between forenoon and three in the afternoon at county sale, with public notices required thirty days prior. Notices of sale must be posted forty days in advance to heirs and creditors, and court leave to sell land or enslaved people must be sought.
Fragmentary OCR shows irregular office hours with inconsistent times for openings closing intervals. The readable parts indicate morning and afternoon blocks with breaks and a Saturday note about shortened hours.
Fanny Kinane was married Saturday morning at 1st Church with Bishop Waite presiding. She now takes the name Mrs Purce Burren in a formal ceremony reported by the American Daily Advertiser.
The Raleigh, NC weather report notes a violent hailstorm on the 4th injuring cotton oats and wheat with eggsized hail similar to partridge eggs. In Washington a post office report reveals alleged immense mismanagement and possible solvency issues exceeding 800000, with crooked contracting and forged statements surfacing.
A Senate session centers on alarming Post Office Department finances including insolvency, excess costs on mail routes, illicit loans, and favored newspaper contracts. Critics call for accountability, citing secret service spending, false reports to Congress, and alleged corruption by the administration.
The House debated printing 30 000 copies of two critical Post Office reports detailing abuses, with supporters citing transparency and opponents arguing over scope. Senate amendments on presidential election districts were tabled. Tennessee constitutional convention met May 19.
Dr Jones letters prof Silliman describe Vere as a colony of Gipsies in Louisiana brought by the French, now settled and engaged in regular work. The New York Advertiser praises John S. Coconut for a bust of Sir Warren Scorr, traced from Shakespeare's portrait. A new post office, Grove Hill, Madison County, is created with William Avair as postmaster. Virginia Monier, a West Indies arrival, appears at Walnut Street Theatre Philadelphia as a noted prodigy. London bread adulteration blamed on bakers, with powdered pumice and alum consumption cited at 700,000 pounds yearly.
Liverpool reports heavy cotton imports from the United States this week totaling 73 322 bags with 47 717 bales offered. Prices remain steady with no change overall. Havre notes 13 600 bags received and a stagnant market. London Colonial market shows general activity with expectations of lower prices due to new harvests. Rice, flour, corn, and sugar markets traverse dull to steady moves with limited sales and ongoing imports across ports.
Market notes from Miscovado and St. Croix show coffee and molasses demands with prices near 200 bags weekly. Havana and Cuba goods sold at varying rates, spirits and bacon brisk with large weekly arrivals. freight rates to Liverpool Havre and other ports listed. Cotton export 10,583 bales in week, stock on hand 13,905 bales. sales around 11 to 12½ cents for various grades.
Arrived since the 30th ultimo 3610 bales with 11 882 bales cleared in annial time leaving on hand 2 sock of 5e070 bales. Liverpool classification omitted due to small Louisiana and Mississippi cottons. transactions show a decline of about 9 cents from last week with transfers of around 7000 bales and detailed lots by state including Tennessee and North Alabama. sugar and molasses markets noted with larger plantation and city stocks but limited demand and weekly clearances to New York Boston Philadelphia Savannah Mobile and Mid- town Conn.
Cotton arrivals and prices update with 1066 bales received on Monday and Tuesday, 185 bales from Charleston, 17 bales Mobile export at 14 cents per lb, 342 bales Upland at 13 to 14 cents cash, 60 days and 4 months terms, plus 27 bales Upland repacked at 12 to 13 cents.
The Cotton market shows limited transactions with recent imports flowing to manufacturers and moderate sales. Prices range from 14 to 16 1/2 cents per pound for Upland and Alabama cotton, with 80 to 100 bales moving at 14 to 15 3/4 cents. Stock levels are higher though few deals are definite.
Died in this place on the 1st inst Charles Williamson aged 50 years 2 months 26 days a long time Georgia citizen with a large family left to mourn his loss In Savannah on the 2nd inst John H Morel deceased Marshal of the Diniriel of Georgia tribute to his service in the state capital remains.
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