Expose on Kitchell as Swindler and Abolition Rumors
The Richmond Enginer reports Aaron W. Kitchell’s brief Oakmulgee Academy tenure ended by dismissal amid alleged swindling forgery and perjury. It recounts accounts, receipts, and forged documents, and notes surrounding his suspected abolitionist influence and flight from justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aaron W. Kitchell
Kitchell
Oakmulgee Academy
Mr. Kitchell
Elis
Thornton Perry
Perry
Daniel Adams
Tarversville
James Solomon Esq
Marion
Adams
Hillsboro’ and Jasper Committee
Hillsboro
Seminole War Echoes and a Tampa Bay Report
A December 31 charge by a unit led by Capt. Smith is cited as crucial for Clinch’s men. The Meridian from Tampa Bay returns with no recent fighting while a deputation to Osceola fails. Osceola and around 3500 Seminoles in the Withlacoochee Swamp refuse to lay down arms, vowing to defend their land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capt. Smith
Tampa Bay
Meridian
Apalachicola Gazette
Tampa
Harjo
Withlacoochee
Osceola
Dawon for Congress in Greene County fills Coffee vacancy
Augusta reports health notes and mortality figures for the city. Col. WM. C. Dawson of Greene announced as candidate to fill Gen. Coffee's vacancy. City sexton records thirty three deaths in October. nineteen whites and fourteen blacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Richaro M. Johnson
van Buren
Kentucky
Congress
Gen. Jackson
Washington City
Senate
Johnson
Scott County
The
Georgia Journal
Col. Dawson
Union Wesses
General Coffee
Gen. Coffee
State Rights
van Buren Press
Georgia Journal “Extra
van Buren Party
John Bates
Hall County
Dawson
Coffee
Col
WM. C. Dawson
Greene
Augusta
Sexton
Health of Charleston Deaths by Race and Cholera Toll
The Charleston Board of Health reports thirty-one deaths in the city for the week ending Sunday the 31st. Fifteen deaths were due to Cholera and thirteen of the cholera victims were black. White deaths numbered eleven and black deaths twenty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Address on Education by Channes J. Jexxins at Franklin College
The 1836 address delivered before the Phi Kappa and Demosthenian Societies of Franklin College is praised as chaste instructive and eloquent. The Demosthenian Society resolved to thank the author and appoint a committee to obtain a copy for publication and future reading at leisure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phi Kappa and
Demosthenian
Franklin College
Channes J. Jexxins
Denosthenian Society
Athens
Southern Banner
Demosthenian Society
Abolition Debate and Southern Slavery Commentary
A Southern newspaper column reprints a New York Express letter praising Northern kindness to slavery and criticizing abolitionists. It quotes Van Buren views against abolition and contrasts North-South sentiments, then reports a Baltimore lodging incident and concludes with Camden and Philadelphia Race Day results and standings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Express
Conunnia
8.C
North
Norturns
Washington
Baltimore, Fredericksburg
Petersburg
Kendall
New York
New Orleans
Camden and Amboy Road
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Richmond
Raleigh
Columbia
S. C
New York Courier & Enquirer
van Buren
Fousyra
Milledgeville
N. Y. Courier & Enquirer
Mr. 'L'Appan
Mr. van Buren
Georgia Insurance and Trust Company offers 60 day to 12 month deposits
The Georgia Insurance and Trust Company advertises deposits for terms between sixty days and twelve months with transferable certificates at six percent interest. The article notes the firm can serve both rich and poor, accepting five and ten dollar sums, with capital of $500,000 and stock originally $100 now selling at $145 per share.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Essure
Columbia
Spinney
New York
U. S. Bank
Newark
N. J
Market
State Bank
Messrs. Mitchell & Headenburgh
Capt. Gillespie
Washington
Mr. Turnbull
Ward & Haff
Alderman Kinny
Mr. King
Johnson & Cory’s
Market Street
New York Journal of Commerce
New-York
Ohio
van Buren
Congress
State Senate
Messrs
R. R. Fenton
C. Campneut
J. B. Camener
Toronto
London
St. Lawrence
Point du Law
Lake St. Peters’s
Poupard
Raymond
Rogers and Thompson
Perth
Jeremiah Campbell
The Florida War Reports From Tallahassee
War updates portray a stubborn Florida campaign with Gov Catt and Gen Armstrong planning a six week mounted volunteer tour. Troops rest three weeks before renewed moves toward Fort Drance and forks of the river as Indian forces concentrate there. Tennessee Brigade leaders vow to stay until victory. About 600 horses lost for lack of forage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Tallahassee
Gov. Catt
Fort Drance
Call
Indefatigable Warnie lauds journals and new Watper project
Waldie's Library and Portfolio with The Journal of Belles Lettres continue to attract readers. The Maison de Sayre tale opens in The Journal while Wraxatt's Memoirs begins in the former. Watper's Limmany Omnisus plans a weekly publication mixing novels reviews travel and science at $3 yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waldie
Warnie
Karx
Journal of Belles Lettres
Wraxatt
Maison de Sayre
Grattan
Porto
Mr. Watnre
Rees
Also Mentioned on This Page
Southern Recorder
Ira E. Dupree, H. H. Tarver
Henry Bunn
United States Telegraph
United States Bank
United States Gazette
Butler
Fies
Albany Advertiser
Tory Party
Washington Mirror
State Rights Sentinel
Memners
Coneness
Georgia
Union Party
Democratic Union Party
Federal Union
Richmond Enginer
Washington, &c
Otte
Boston
Cincinnati Whig
Extra
New
Third Street
James H. Caldwell
Richard Russell
Caldwell
James McIntire
Jordan
Orr
Market House
Lower Market Street
Lower Market St
P. S
Martin
Cincinnati
Charleston Mercury
Jacksonville
Tennessee Volunteers
Maj. Pierce
Fort Drane
Garey's Ferry
Black Creek
Governor Call
Fort Crane
Health OF Charleston
Democratic Republican Party
Liberty
Happy Land
Columba
Chronicle
Camden
Jockey Club
W. R. Johnson
B. m. Atalanta
Rattler
Y R. Tillotson
Henry
Duroe
James F. Garrison
Mark Anthony
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