Broadestreet Sat Morning Paper No 261 Item
Publication line notes weekly issue details stating street address Broadestreet No 261 opposite Masonic Hall.
05 Nov 1836
Page 1
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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1836
Page
1
Publication line notes weekly issue details stating street address Broadestreet No 261 opposite Masonic Hall.
The notice sets rates for semi weekly and weekly papers with advance or end of year payments. It details advertising charges by insertion, limits on insertions, and rules for notices by executors administrators and guardians. It specifies sale notice timing for land and Negroes and related debtor or estate notices with publishing windows.
Augusta report lists Col. William C. Dawson of Greene as candidate to fill Gen. Coffee's congressional seat. Health column notes Savannah records fourteen weekly deaths, fourteen in total: six whites and eight blacks, for the week ending the 25th.
A Saturday Colt race over the Lafayette Course one mile out featured two entries. Gen Thomas's grey filly, ridden after a fall by her rider, surged from rear to win with ease in 1m 51s. Weights 87 lbs. each colt three years old.
A political clash over an abolitionist editor prompts a heated letter from 1836. Thomas Evans receives a missive from S. C. Atkinson accusing subscribers of arrears and urging payment, while attacking the editor’s perceived insolence and the paper’s cheapness. The missive frames debt recovery as a matter of honor and threat.
A 1836 notice records Tuomas Evans and To 8S C Arxisson owing a six month subscription from March 14 to October 14 1836 totaling 150 dollars. It notes Evans paid Sept 8 last when the paper stopped and mentions 25 cent postage and a claim of defrauding. Agent John Coskery signs the receipt.
A Texas citizen warns against foreign interference in Mexico and urges unity at home. The writer laments injustice, defends slavery as a policy, cites divine guidance, recalls Poland and Rome as lessons, and urges justice and restraint to preserve national honor and peace.
A 1836 Philadelphia military manual review extols the Militia and Volunteers guide by Brevet Captain Corcoran under Major General Alexander Macomb. It cites its concise 282 pages covering Company, Battalion, Light Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and garrison duties as a necessary reform for effective local defense.
The article discusses military manuals and their systems for infantry artillery and cavalry. It critiques Tone and Horr works, notes deficiencies in sword exercise, praises certain fractions for cavalry and urges broader access to the Tone and Horr systems. It also cites local meetings about abstinence and political commentary on candidates and agriculture.
The Richmond County Temperance Society met at 7 P M in the Presbyterian Lecture Room. Rev Rem and Rev Suita and Davis led the session to discuss total abstinence from intoxicating drinks and urged greater energy among temperance advocates. The report to the State Society at Milledgeville was read highlighting lukewarmness and the need for stronger action locally.
Oct. 31 consignments include E B Beall Stovall Simmons & co 8 Kneeland & co WJ Hobby Collier Hill & Lebuzan J W & IT Heard Rathbone & Baker Gibson & McLaughlin Aldrich & Shove Clark Meier & co Turpin & D Antignac J Leverich B Bustin Kerrs & Hope Mainland Risley & co J M Cooper & Son W H Mahaney B W Force & co R Barber F H Cooke Holcombe Peck & co D L Thorpe A Greiner A Fox E Skinner W C Way A Boggs A Cumming N Smith E Teed Geo Parrott A M Wade Benson & Urquhart G W Mayson G H Taylor Young & Greene H L Jeffers & co Yarboro & Merriwether
Reports from Charleston and New Orleans detail a sluggish week for cotton trade with declining wagon prices for common and middling grades while prime remains firm. Freight costs and low river levels restrict barge movements, boosting warehouse stock and delaying sales despite ongoing demand from France and domestic buyers.
A fragment lists Col. George W. Summers and Sam S. M. Thomison as acting adjutant on November 2, indicating a wartime or unit roll call. The brief entry preserves named individuals and a date for archival reference.
The subscriber offers to lease his farm near Augista adjoining the Race Course for several years. Description is considered sufficient with location well known. Those who build may obtain further information from the under signed on the premises.
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