09 Aug 1853
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Newspaper
Camden Weekly Journal
Location
Camden, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1853
Page
1
Classified notice shows old style terms for payment and advertising rates. It lists prices for advance and delayed payments, and per square charges for weekly and monthly advertisements. It notes that the number of insertions must be specified or ads run until discontinued with charges applied accordingly.
A miscellany of observations and anecdotes on dogmatic people, social civility, and travel notes. It cites Dr Robinson and Macklin in a critique of obstinate opinion, then shifts to railway safety, poetry, and social mores. It ends with diversions on manners, love of country, and a whimsical legal joke about grammar.
General Hens Astos of Warrranen's magazine joins with D. K. Whitaker and Professor J. J. Witten to launch a Southern Eclectic. The joint editorial team brings noted credentials, with the new periodical to begin September 1 and feature selections from British and European journals along with Southern writing. Subscribers of Whitaker's Southern Magazine will receive twelve numbers plus three already published.
A partially legible 1853 fragment discusses a Massachusetts patriotic call for a Union Party Convention in September. It argues for dissolving old parties, upholding the Constitution and national government, and questions the basis of a new party. The piece also covers New England railroad profits and European comparisons, with mixed editorial tone on economic returns and wear costs.
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