Local Sketches from the Southern Rose Bud on travel and city life
A Charleston style travel sketch describes dawn scenes in Charleston, rail travel to Augusta, and urban life with observations on slaves, architecture, and the new railroad era. It includes notes on the guard, street activity, and reflections on improving the city while noting river and plantation life nearby. The piece quotes a comparative railroad receipts table and ends with correspondence about mail delivery delays and a suggested remedy.
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Cuarcesroy Ar Prum Peat
Scott
Augusta
St. Michael's
Broad Street
Meeting-street
Charleston
UN 1
Our Boys
Intel
Jessamine
Wagoner
Woodstock
Aiken
Twitcht
South Carolina
Constitutionalist
Cuaresrox
Mobile
New Orleans
Rail Road Company
Patton
New-York
New York
Alfred Huger
Political essays clash over White candidacy in South Carolina
The Columbia Times and Winyow Intelligencer publish critiques of a Charleston Mercury pamphlet urging South Carolina to back White. They call the argument flawed and warn voting for White would harm liberty and constitutional principles. Also reports on Barnwell encampment events, color stands presented, a public dinner for Gov De During and Gen Hayne, and a fatal fire amid relief efforts.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
National Intelligencer
Carolina
Board of Baptist Ministers
London
Bolles
American Baptist Board of Foreign Missions
United States
England
West Inders
Congress
Intelligencer
Supreme Court
West India
Union
Court of Justice
Executive Infallibillity
van Buren
Ephraim
Columbia
8. C
Charleston Mercury
South Carolina
Confederacy
Crassus
Caesar
Judge White
Winyow Intelligencer
White
Virginia
Judge W
Barnwell Court House
Barnwell C. House
Barnwell
DeDuring
Haxne
Manrin
E. Bettineer
Barnwell C. H
Cole
Hayne
Mercury
Branch Mint site eyed near Dahlohnego in Georgia
The Auraria Recorder notes Mr Few, Superintendent of Branch Mint buildings, visited Dahlohnego to survey a suitable site. It argues for a central location in the Gold Region, predicting economic benefits and stable currency, while criticizing late party mobilization ahead of the Baltimore Convention. Severe hail in Monroe and Jones counties damages crops. a stage accident injures a driver with 12 passengers aboard.
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Georgia
Few
Dahlohnego
Dahlohnega
U. S
Forsyth
Union Party
Baltimore
Wayne
Macon Messenger
Monroe
Jones
Monroe County
Clinton
Egypt
Macon
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Napoleon
Death
Spain
Moscow
Wilde
Messenger
William Aiken
Gores
Jority
Charleston Courier
Opews
Auraria Recorder
Breedlove
Mill. Standard of the Union
A. P. Aldrich
P. J. Allston
J. W. Blakeney
W. H. Duncan
E. W. Jones
J.M. Taylor
Geo. I. Taylor
J. Watson
Court of Equity
R. Gourdin
Geo. T. Taylor
S. C
Harrisburg Intelligencer
Globe
Exchange
Blair
Columbus
Farmers Bank of Chattahoochie
Jackson
Dougherty
Gen. Jackson
Alabama Journal
Montgomery
Alabama
J.daniel
Swinemer
Floyd County
Cassville
Burke County
Waynesboro
Robert
Davin Tarzon
Ben
Davin Tarton
WM. B. Douglass
Norfolk
Smithville
William Seabrook
Walter Dubois
William Patton
Fitzsimons
Savannah
So. Ca
Fayetteville
No. Ca
Columbia County
Mary J. Wood
Jas
J. W. Burroughs
R. Elizabeth Burroughs
Louisvillle
Middle Circuit
Jefferson
Washington
Tattnall
Emanuel
Burke
Scriven
Robert Watkins Flournoy
William H. Connelly
75Th Battalion
10Th Regiment
G. M
Robert W. McKeen
10Th Reg
M. Frazen
Adjt
General Stage
Globe Hotel
Ongstreet & Gurmney’s
Horo, & Co
Warrenton
Sparta
Milledgeville
Knoxville
Joan McLeay
Washington City
Camdenn
Raleigh
N. C
Tate & Newland
Gainsville
Appling
Wrightsborough
Athens
A. Mand
Lonestaesrt
Millhaven
Jacksonboro
Greenville
Warm Springs
Ashville
N.C
G. T. Scott
Savannah Georgian
Office of Transportation
Rail Road Co. Otick
Hamburg
A. Cumming, Esq
George Parrott & Co
WM. Robertson
Skinner’s Bluff
Brier’ Creek
Beaver Dam Creek
Watkins and
E. Sapp
J. Smith
McCarty
Henry
Watkins
Kemp
A. Bound
William Graver
Bound
T. Shields
Jands
John Bryan
Bryan
Herrington
T. McKinney
Charles J. Jenkins
Seaborn Jones
Wid
Locust Hill
Wrightsborough Road
B. Bouyer
Catholic Church
G. P. Turpin
Estray
James H. Bostick
James Fleming
Jefferson County
John Stevenson
Richard Hudson
D. E. Porawe
Court House
Waynesborough
Jesse P, Greene
John Fryer
Samuel Player
Fryer
C. Td
Bourke
E. C. Glisson
Evan C. Glisson
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