14 May 1850
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Newspaper
Columbus Times
Location
Columbus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1850
Page
1
The notice lists John Forsyth and R. Ellis & Co as proprietors and announces a weekly publication schedule on Broad Street near Winter's Exchange. Subscription is Texas Dollars and a half per year in advance, with different rates for end-of-year payment.
The Court of Oxprany adjourned at the appointed 10 o clock A M due to lack of a quorum of judges. The session is rescheduled for Wednesday at 10 o clock in the morning.
Engineers Department lists invited Board of Visitors for Cadet examination at the Military Academy beginning June 1. Names include B Haddock New Hampshire, George W Benedict Vermont, Gen Potter Ohio Indiana, Gen Cadwalader New Jersey, Capt H Du Delaware, Vincent Witcher Virginia, Mathew J Williams South Carolina, Richard Hawes Kentucky, Dr George Bay Tennessee, James P Milikin Indiana, James S Rollins Bedsoune, Capt James D Cobb Arkansas, Samuel A Roberts Texas.
The correspondent expresses warmer confidence in an upcoming compromise report, aimed at illustrating his optimistic view while the publication reflects its own stance rather than neutral concurring opinions.
A digest of random notes: Cana dian independence efforts fail at the Toronto Independent after six months, Oxford University numbers and students, Paris straw bonnets in fashion, May Day activities in Mobile public schools, and Telegraph posts capped with gilded eagles in Albany. Reports include Savannah fire losses, a Jersey City fatality from a train collision with a telegraph post, and a deaf and dumb couple’s wedding in Pittsburg. Additional items reference Bible amendment debates, library holdings of Barton Cox and Ticknor, and varied anecdotes about politics and cotton crops.
A Southern voice argues disunion would devastate Northern trade and real estate while the South, with slave labor, fuels exports in cotton, rice, tobacco, and naval stores. Tables show three year imports and exports, warning that Northern collapse would follow from lost Southern markets and a shift of capital and manufacturing to the South.
The passage argues the North profits from Southern commerce and would lose wealth if the Union dissolves. It contends the South could become its own shopkeeper, building ships, exporting cotton, rice, and tobacco, and importing goods from foreign markets, while northern merchants and shipowners would suffer.
The Lewisburg Chronicle reports the marriage of John Johnson and Mrs. Maria Miller in Chillisquaque township after a dramatic tale of survival. A Charleston widow was saved from drowning in Liverpool harbor by her former sailor rescuer, who later married her. The Atlantic steamship's maiden New York to Liverpool voyage drew crowds along the Hudson as the vessel sped past the Battery and Castle Garden.
Georgia voters polled 8722 votes for delegates to the Nashville Convention, far below expectations. The Southern Recorder outruns Chronicle and Sentinel with sharp rebuke of opponents and defense of Southern rights amid looming sectional conflict.
A column discusses Columbus Georgia as a cheaper and stronger manufacturing hub than Macon and other cities, noting lower cotton prices and higher manufactured goods prices in Columbus. It argues planters should reconsider hauling cotton to Macon and urges comparing market data from January to May to settle prices truthfully. The piece also recalls prior debates about rail expansion and local trade.
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