07 Sep 1834
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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1834
Page
1
A brief notice indicates a weekly Saturday morning publication located at New Broad Street beneath the Globe Hotel. The card notes a recurring schedule tied to the Globe Hotel area, with emphasis on regular Saturday timing.
Executors Administrators and Guardians are warned to attend first Tuesday sales at the county courthouse. Public notice must appear sixty days before sale for real estate and forty days for creditors. Applications in court may seek leave to sell enslaved people, with penalties of four months.
Gov Robert A Beall and colleagues listed for a state ticket amid a cholera outbreak report from New York detailing 21 cases and 16 deaths on the 23rd and rising figures through the 26th. Theatre notes praise recent performances and announce The Iron Chest and Mr Fitzy’s debut as Sir Edward Mortimer tonight.
The Engineers report the distance from Columbia to Branchville as 61 miles and estimate total cost at 553000 including engines cars depots and contingencies. The route is largely favorable with a section needing an inclined plane with stationary power.
A message to the Georgia Rail Road Company outlines efforts by the Atlantic and Mississippi Rail Road and allied groups to promote a Tennessee area railroad. Subscription books open August 15 under the charter, with surveys by engineer Co. Long expected to begin and a prior survey by Mr. Thompson indicating costs not exceeding $6000 per mile. Preparations hint at a Jackson Mississippi and Atlantic Railroad collaboration forming the Mississippi and Atlantic Rail Road.
The Savannah Georgian reports a cholera outbreak discussion at an August 31 1834 council meeting. Health officials and doctors planned to convene to coordinate responses as sporadic cases continued along the river above the city. The health officer noted five deaths from cases since yesterday morning and two more were improving.
Dr Habersham and colleagues report multiple cholera cases between 9 and 10 am, six new, five deaths within three hours of onset, and attribute fatalities to the disease on plantations. City committees are formed to provide temporary receptacles and a hospital for cholera patients, with orders to restrict plantation-city communications and publish proceedings.
A long letter to Republican voters denounces Union and State Rights factions and urges support for the Constitutional Union ticket. The writer recalls Georgia politics, condemns religious bigotry linked to Dr Beecher and Baptist leaders, and pleads for unity and liberty under the Constitution.
A Chronicle editor comments on a Columbia Times article about Rev. Dr Beecher speaking at a Colonization Meeting in Cincinnati Ohio. The piece critiques Beecher’s stance as zealous abolitionism and predicts conflict with prudent Christian pacifism.
A few weeks ago farmers faced poor outlooks due to drought across the state. Rain then arrived and appeared general, lifting hopes. The note from W. G. Sima mentions a novel contract and payments, while Charleston Courier reports about a silent tornado bringing violent wind in Charleston with extensive damage including a wooden market building.
A scaffold at a new University building on Washington Square fell after being overloaded with stone. One man James DicCormick died instantly and others, including Daniel Broder, James Callahan, and Charles Denson, were seriously wounded.
The Augusta Market notes favorable Liverpool accounts and brisk trade with cotton bids from 11 to 14 cents per pound for uplands. Prices for cotton vary, with several new crop bales sold near 14 cents, and grain and flour markets showing mixed activity. Exchange rates, bank notes, and stocks are listed, while rice, sugar, and freight prices are reported with regional detail, including Charleston and Savannah measures.
The report notes strong storage of coffee and high receipts at 491 bags with Havanna direct and coastwise cargo. Prices show firmer mackerel and cotton bagging raised to 28 cents, with exchange rates for Europe and domestic banks cited. Cotton demand remains brisk with rising prices and a heavy speculative component, multiple vessels arriving from the US and Brazil.
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