24 Oct 1835
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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1835
Page
1
Published every Saturday morning No. 261 Broad Street opposite the Masonic Hall as the distribution point and masthead location for the community newspaper.
Advertisement rates for semi weekly and weekly papers are listed along with deadlines for notifying sales of land or negroes by administrators or guardians. Notices require gazette publication sixty days before land sales and forty days before personal property sales.
Want of room obliges us to omit our general table of election returns. We present results up to this time from 86 counties for Governor and 82 for Congress. Schley leads with 80,272 votes. Dougherty 28,570. Cleveland 29,717. Wilde 27,658. Genos W. Svsarens, Esq. elected Colonel of the 10th regiment Georgia Militia to fill the vacancy from Col. R. W. McKeen. Also notes on New York papers via Charleston Mercury and a large pear weighing one pound six ounces from Alabama.
A collection of notices includes a Polish Revolution and emigration prospectus with subscription signatures, praise for The Southern Rose edited by Mrs. Gillwan, and reviews of foreign literature and art. It notes the October issue with Beranger portrait and biographical sketch, plus Georgia Medical College lectures starting with promising prospects and high regard for faculty and students.
Community notice praises the Medical College of Georgia and invites citizens to daily introductory lectures at noon. Speakers include Dr Cosxonaw on Monday, Dr Ayrony on Tuesday, Dr Forn on Wednesday, Dr Josten A. Eve on Thursday, Dr DuGas on Friday, and Dr Paci F Eye on Saturday.
The Sparta Female Model School, directed by Rev Serena Taylor, now has 131 pupils. Annual board and tuition total 211 dollars, cheaper than similar instruction in Philadelphia New York or Boston. The library holds 800 volumes. extensive music equipment includes fifteen pianos, organ seraphine aphonia guitars flageolets and harp. There are 110 piano forte pupils and next year promises abundant music as students prepare to sing and play.
The Richmond County state of polls is examined as the Chronicle and Sentinel clash over Nullification and Federalists. A heated defense of principle, critique of policy, and call for reform highlight the struggle between Unionists and State Rights factions in Georgia politics, with broader warnings about national decline.
The Georgia Courier notes a bright comet visible after sundown with a tail rising at about 30 degrees. It also reports Huntsville Alabama fire losses of at least one hundred thousand dollars, and discusses election legality and territory issues, slavery debates over Arkansas and Missouri, railroad robbery timing, and regional Confederate sentiment.
The Augusta cotton market shows fair demand at 14 to 15 cents for good lots with futures unsettled. Liverpool and Havre accounts weigh on traders as New Orleans and Monete Manner report large stocks and a torpid market with limited sales and lower asking prices.
The market remains inaction with no sales likely unless prices drop by about two cents from prior levels. Traders await broader intelligence and possible North factory buyer interest. Early sales report lists Louisiana and Mississippi bales at 194, 85, 19, 55, 19, 108, 195, 71, 19, 124, 194, and 9 cents per bale and Tennessee at 17 cents per pound.
Coffee sales show 4 0 600 bags St Domingo export at 11 cents cash and 399 Brazil 114 a 12 10 Laguira 13 and 200 Cuba superior green export at 14 cents. Cotton sales 10th to 13th total 1500 bales with 900 Upland at 14 164 cents old crop and 17 a 18 new. New Orleans 400 17 a 174 and 200 Alabama 15 017. Flour market closes firm with Western Canal Ohio grades at 60 6 1245 Troy New York city 66. Southern unchanged.
The weekly cotton transactions reach 18 996 bales with 4500 uplands 9 a 9}d and 7330 Orleans 8 f a 13 1 4d, exports and speculation active though today’s dull market pulls quotations down. Imports total 8284 bales with mixed Upland Orleans Alabama classes, while Britain's 1835 import totals and Liverpool stocks show large flows. By Sept 7 to 8, demand cools, prices slip 14 to 14d from May highs, with inferior grades near 74d and limited buyers amid heavy supply.
Marriages reported across Georgia include Ruinann C Munenrra and Launa Asw Roara of Norwich Conn in this city by Rev Geo Pierce. Gannet T Scorr of Augusta weds Baily F Ginprat of Milledgeville. Amos J Aveny weds Susan Pace of Columbia County. Wintram Wallace weds Setina M Suita of Savannah. Lesners Exawourn of Savannah ties with Amy F Wixsoun of Newport R I. Hoon H Cox weds Many M Monsuana in Athens. Ginzs Mrrce- Bit of Jefferson weds Sanan A E Lowe of Danielsville. Grance Wahiser of Greensborough weds Lucinpa Canrisis in Hancock County.
Died in this city on the 17th Susan Burza- Beth six months and fifteen days child of Benjamin and Susan F Brantly. At the residence of Mrs Franklin in Athens on Saturday the 10th Mrs Ann McDonald wife of Hon Charles J McDonald of Macon daughter of late Col Abednego Franklin.
The Address on Female Education is issued in pamphlet form and for sale at 25 cents per copy with discounts for bulk purchases. Supplies will be added in Augusta Milledgeville Macon and Columbus where it may be obtained. A separate notice records a stray sorrel horse described as thirteen or fourteen years old, blind in one eye, about fifteen hands high, appraised at thirty five dollars by two residents.
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