Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, GA) - 04/02/1823
1823; Gale Group;
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Miscellaneous: Published Every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday Morning, by T. S. Hannon, Terms. Classified ads: Multiple Classified Advertisements. Arts & Entertainment: For the Chronicle & Advertiser "I Met a Fool in the Forest". Editorial: From the Richmond Compiler Cultivation of Cotton, We presure the following ancedote, copied from the New York Statesman, is true, in part at least, as the correspondent of that paper in Washington is too respectable a person to exaggerate, or to hazard such a statement upon loose information, Our readers now are made acquainted with Mr. Smyth, and if they are not tired of him, we are, and therefore take leave of the subject, having done justice to our opponent, and placed him in full view before a discriminating public, enabling them to draw a comparison between his merits and services and those of the distinguished man he has assailed. News: One of the old Revolutionary pensioners of Dover, Windham County, Vermont, in his schedule of property returned to the war office, includes the following uncommon article, Multiple News Items, The steam galliot Sea Gull, which arrived at the navy yard at Gosport on Thursday night last from New York, (says the Norfolk Herald) has been found upon trial, to require some important alterations and improvements, both in her rig and construction, which are now making with a celerity which would astonish those who are accustomed to the mode of doing things in civil life, Anecdote, In the Legislature of New-York, it has been attempted to abolish the usual titles of "Honorable" and "Excellency," attached to certain places in the State Government, As General Alexander Smyth is figuring away once more before the public, in a manner somewhat different, but not more diguified than at a former well remembered period, we think it no more than due to him, to republish, in substance at least, a sketch of his civil and military career, In 1635 the General Court of Massachusetts prohibited the currency of Brass Farthings and ordered that muskct bullets should pass for farthings, The House of Representatives is yet seriously occupied (in committee of the whole) on the bill for regulating the collection of the duties on imports, &c., A charge has been made in the Washington City Republican against Messrs. Gales & Seaton, as printers of Congress, of suppressing such parts of certain public documents, ordered to be printed by the House of Representatives, as second to reflect somewhat pointedly upon the Secretary of the Treasury, For the Chronicle & Advertiser, Communicated.
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