Augusta Evening Dispatch in Augusta, Georgia

Albion’s Agent in the City and Noted Slavery Law in New Mexico

The article notes E L Lyon of the New York Albion visiting, praising the Albion’s standing as a literary periodical. It reports fire alarms from a locomotive spark at the South Carolina Rail Road depot and a kitchen fire at the American Hotel in Hamburg, plus Everetts Varieties entertainment and high river water hindering freight. It details a New Mexico legislature act recognizing slavery, defining enslaved persons, penalties for theft, aiding insurrection, and other controls, including bondage, marriage restrictions, and emancipation prohibitions.