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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1836
Page
6
Readable excerpts recount General Scott's Florida campaigns and early Creek War tensions. The missives describe troop movements, river patrols, and supply plans, plus Alabama Creek attacks and federal responses, with vivid civilian casualties and frontier violence.
Colbrinbus Engrer reports five days of racing near Columbus. Bolivia wins two mile heats. Acacia takes three mile heats. Miss Medley defeats Lady Nashville in a four mile clash. Emerald dominates the fifth day’s handycup. Bets and times noted across events.
Messrs Howard and Keffan were offered five thousand dollars for Miss Medley by Lady Nashville a day or two after the race. The offer was refused due to her match race with Hickory John per the Columbus Enquirer.
The latest Paris accounts up to April 8 state M. Serrurier would sail for the United States to resume the role of Charge d Affaires. The note is dated Augusta May 21 1836 urging impartial conduct and courage.
The May issue of American Turf Register Ind Sporting Magazine arrives with diverse sporting intelligence and a fine engraving of the famed racer Wild Bill owned by Jeux Birvixs of Huntsville Alabama. Table of contents available in advertising columns.
The Western Mail notes mails for South Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana will use the Florida route through Hawkinsville Chatta hoochee and Pensacola. It runs every other day now, with effort to increase frequency. Maj Plitt, a Department agent, is absent and Creek Nation disturbances may push the route to daily service.
The May issue of Littels Museum of Foreign Literature Science and Art is recommended for its European literature and science articles and its United Service Journal piece on drunkenness among British soldiers. The notice invites attention to the periodical’s contents and urges readers to consult the table of contents in another column.
The Farmers Register touts the May number as vital to Southern agriculture and invites subscriptions. The American Monthly Magazine is praised for quality, updated content, and superior engraving, with editor names and publisher details, noting its $5 annual price and monthly release from New York and Boston.
A report from a Hudson passenger via Key West details Col Lindsay’s Alabama Volunteers and eight Fourth Infantry companies sent to Fort Alabama to break up the fort and move the sick and provisions. On return they engaged four to five hundred Indians at Thronotosass Creek, near a lake, under Col Chisolm. The fight began at three and lasted an hour with the army routing the raiders after bravely defending the rear and van guards. casualties among whites remain unreported.
The account notes three killed and twenty two wounded with many Indians killed, exact count unknown. The battle occurred April 29. the army returned to Fort Brooke on the 28th of last month and has since disbanded, awaiting opportunities to go home.
At a May 16 1836 meeting of the Bank of the State of Georgia board in Savannah, new directors for branch offices were elected for Augusta Milledgeville Washington Eatonton Macon and Athens. Names of new and continuing directors across branches include Phinizy Turpin Tuttle Morgan Carmichael Moise Johnston Dye Beall Grantland Sanford Payne Stubbs Stovall Greene Newell Alexander Robertson Lane Wemines Harris Brown Bolton Mason Dunn Hudson Branham Flournoy Clark Branham Seymour Baker Holt Eckley Carter Sims Humphreys Hancock Cobb Thomas Hamilton Dougherty Lumpkin Mays and others.
The letter reports Maj Cooren's Battalion of Georgia Volunteers arriving at Savannah from Black Creek Florida by steam, with the Michigan Guards, State Fencibles, and Hancock Blues aboard the Cherokee. Further messages say the Cherokee and Santee carried the battalion home via Macon, with JMacon Volunteers and Monroe Musketeers possibly in transit.
The Milledgeville-printed General Orders invite Georgians to form volunteer militias to defend the Chattahoochee line from Creek incursions. Three battalions of militia, four companies per battalion, and mounted units are planned for a three month term. Citizens statewide urged to report to Head Quarters promptly.
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