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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1836
Page
1
A terse notice states publication occurs each Saturday morning at No 261 Broad Street opposite Masonic Hall. No further details or dates provided.
The notice lists Whore Ms semi weekly and weekly newspaper dues, ad rates for various insertions, and legal sale notices. It details payment in advance or at year end, minimum charges, and the schedule for land and negro sales by executors or guardians with required gazette publications and time frames. It references post and remittance precautions. It also covers notices for debtors, creditors, and applications to the Court of Ordinary with publication periods.
Report on Richmond county elections shows Gen Watten as Senator with State Rights and Union ticket wins. Roeves Jenkins Mitten represent a divided vote with strong opposition labeling Glascock as traitor. State Rights supporters praised Glascock’s Congress victory while Union critics claim desertion.
A fragment lists names and numbers such as Seaton Gnanteann 377 Cons. E. Horses 375 Horxiss Houser 268 Januz Jackson 369 GronoE W. Owens 379 Gro. W. B. Towns 372 with no clear context or complete sentences. The item appears as a partial directory or index entry from a historical page.
In Burke County a contest feeds into a broader battle with lawmakers and State Rights factions. Senator Lawson leads a slate including Buxt Hanns and Hansr as candidates for Congress amid regional party alignments and gears toward national influence.
Senators and representatives including Surra and Caruzn push for state rights policy as lawmakers debate authority and governance. The group argues for increased autonomy and local control in regulatory matters.
In Wilkes County the Van Buren slate for Senator and Representatives, as well as for Congress, carried the vote by a 150 majority confirmed by local returns.
The Hon. Joan Fouskin Secretary of State arrived Sunday evening from Charleston by rail and lodged at the Planters Hotel in this city.
Sexton reports the burial of seventeen persons in the city during the month ending 1st instant. Among the interred are five whites and twelve blacks.
An advertisement states cars for Charles ton depart Hamburg each afternoon after Tus Day except Sundays at 3:30 PM. Passengers traveling to the south sleep at Aiken and arrive in Augusta about 8:30 AM the next morning, with northbound riders also sleeping at Aiken.
Charleston health board reports for the last 24 hours cholera cases by race with totals and deaths. From Sept 30 to Oct 3 the board records daily tallies, with whites and Black and colored patients, and the number of deaths, plus ongoing treatment.
This morning's issue notes the reported death of Gen Corrie, a Union ticket candidate for Congress. The Georgia Journal slip reached local readers Saturday, with rapid reprints to nearby counties. The Constitutionalist denied receiving the news on Monday, while Federal Union had circulated from Milledgeville. The Sentinel rebukes the Constitutionalist for implied reflections on Gen Coffee’s death.
The piece questions the timing and truth of a Federal Union report about Gen Coffee’s death. It accuses the Union editor of falsifying dates and delaying mention to impact an election, claiming the paper printed early to suppress the fact.
The New York Mirror is extolled for Inman's portrait of Fitz Greene Hallock and a discriminating notice by Wintram C. Errayt. The issue features travel writings, poems by Haynes Bayton and others, original engravings, extensive literary notices, and a low annual price of five dollars. The notice confirms strong value, entertainment, and music in each volume.
Oct. 1 consigners include E B Beall A Cumming Clarke Mc Tier & Co Dalby & Houghkerk S Tenney Moise & Cohen B Bustin B Baird V Durand & Co Edgar & Carmichael Matthew Nelson Adams Parmelee & Co Benson & Urquhart G W Mayson Geo Parrett
The report traces cotton trading from Havre to Charleston and New Orleans with daily figures. It notes nine days of sales totaling thousands of bales, price ranges in cents per pound, and mixed demand across long and upland cotton.
The text notes that stock will remain on hand as the new crop arrives and argues that high prices due to last season's short crop reduced consumption and brought in substantial foreign sugar. This kept demand dull across all sugar products and related markets.
The column lists multiple deaths across Georgia and South Carolina including Mrs Susan McWhorter at Sand Hills wife of Dr J G McWhorter editor of the Georgia Courier. Maria Dawson Atkinson aged 3 years 8 months at Beach Island. Tomas W Onivan of Scriven county. Wil Urquhart of Summerville. and Anous Rusu son of Dr Charles M Will in Waynesboro after brief illness.
The subscriber offers for sale his tract of land in Columbia County on the Big Kiokee Creek twenty five miles from Augusta. It covers 1235 acres of pine land with about 400 acres improved, including a dwelling house kitchen Negro houses barn stables gin house and other buildings. The tract lies near the railroad and stretches two and a half miles from section twenty eight to thirty one. Timber is suitable for cross ties and railing. Call early to secure a healthy location. The owner may divide into three or four hundred acre lots. THOMAS REEVE. 3in 3 Oct. 5 Georgia, Columbia County: HERIAS William Borcum applies for letters of Administration de bonis non with the will annexed on Martha W. Collier’s estate. Notify kindred and creditors to file objections at the clerk’s office within legal time. Given at Appling Oct 5, 1836. GABRIEL JONES, Clerk. 3 Ort. 5 HERIEAS Peter Knox applies for Letters of Administration on William Fletcher’s estate. Notify to file objections at the clerk’s office within legal time. Given at Appling Oct 1836. GABRIEL JONES, Clerk.
AVES and GRISWOLD RE now offer a broad Dry Goods assortment at low prices through auction and importers. Includes 6 4 French Merinos Thibet Cloths English Circassians silks linens lace bonnets shawls gloves purses mantles and a range of fabrics domestic plaids flannels and osnaburgs with ladies cloaks linen and cambric goods. Also steam packets Norfolk and Charleston shipping offered.
A notice from J Henry Augusta sole agent announces exposure of a counterfeit The Genuine Tonic Mixture on October 5. The item is advertised as available in Augusta and surrounding area with an explicit warning regarding imitation products.
Mercuant RE now opens a broad assortment of goods for the public on favorable terms. The article lists broadcloths and other goods as part of the splendid new stock, inviting friends and the general public to inspect.
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