30 May 1835
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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1835
Page
1
The item records a publication detail stating a weekly issue released every Saturday morning from Broad Street under the Globe Hotel, indicating a regular printing schedule and location of the newspaper office.
On May 27 1835 the State Rights party of Burke county appointed Dr Janes Warreman Maj Geo W Evans Col A H Awpensey and Maj M M Dre as delegates to represent them at the State Rights Convention in June. Augusta Free School Society invites members to a 10 o’clock meeting at the Presbyterian Lecture room Tafs Monarye to elect officers and conduct business.
We recommend Lang for a course of lessons in this important art. He brings respectable testimonials of professional qualifications and a commendable character and deportment to the venture.
An eminent statesman, famed advocate of Southern liberty, arrived Saturday from the Barnwell Camp and lodged at the Eagle and Phenix Hotel. He departed next day due to pressing engagements, unable to attend the dinner for Gov. McCurrin, yet he aligns with Gov. McCurrie on the Presidential question, likely sharing views with most influential Nullifiers save one.
An oversized issue of the New York Counten Exaquinen is described as 4 feet 8 inches long and 8 feet 9 inches wide with 64 columns and 1535 advertisements. The piece notes its liberal stance toward the South and opposition to Abolitionists, comparing it to the National Intelligencer and Courier in size.
Mr Durr Green announces a Providence series titled Sacred Classics republishing English divines. The first volume Jeremy Taylor’s The Liberty or Propersyrne argues against enforcing faith and persecuting opinions. An introductory essay and praises from London writers accompany the 500 page work priced at five dollars for twelve numbers.
Citizens of Hamburg host public dinner for Gov. George McDurrie of South Carolina after his Barnwell encampment visit. The event features a 1000-person crowd, toasts to South Carolina, the Union, George Washington, the militia reform, and State Rights leaders, with Gov. McDuffie delivering a long address on liberty, corruption in Washington, and defense of state rights.
Liverpool items show latest dates from navre a a rum with commercial notes and brief notices. The fragment mentions maritime dates and local trade hints without full context or clear events.
Augusta market notes describe little activity in cotton with firm hold orders as buyers hesitate. Prices hold near last week’s levels with rare load sold at 20 cents, while freight rates to Savannah and Charleston are listed and weekly sales totals and stock on hand are detailed alongside flour, coffee, sugar, and bacon price movements and other staples. Marriages and deaths noted at end.
On the first Tuesday in June next at the lower Market House Augusta within usual hours of sale a road horse levied on as the property of William H Grimes to satisfy a fi fa in favor of William Kibbe against William H and William G Grimes. William Moody.
Scriven county sale lists property of William C Wayne including two horses cattle timber lightwood and a timber carriage and chains to satisfy a fi fa for John Rieves Susan Beard and others. Listing appears in the Columbia Telescope Augusta Chronicle and Camden Journal with instructions to publish twice weekly for three weeks and to send accounts to the Mercury office.
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