AN OLD NEWSPAPER

THE CHENANGO UNION

   The Chenango Union says: Ira Scott, of this village, has handed us a copy of the Chenango Patriot, published at Oxford, April 2, 1811, by John B. Johnson.  Its news columns are mainly filled with news from Europe, nearly two months old, and from New York, of two weeks previous.  A meeting of Federal Republicans was called at Erastus Perkins' hotel, April 10th, to choose delegates to a general meeting of Federal Republicans, to be held at Sharpe & Miller's Hotel, in Norwich.

   Its advertising columns are well filled with mortgage sales, in which Runyan & Tracy and Garnsey & Buttolph appear as attorneys; Sheriff's sales by Isaac Foote, Jr., Sheriff, and William Munroe, late Sheriff; Livingston's Land, by Jacob Morris, Butternuts.  

   Ransom Rathbun advertised dry goods, groceries, crockery, hard and hollow ware, and would take clean house ashes and all kinds of grain in exchange.  Abijah Lobdell, Jr., called attention to his elegant assortment of dry goods, and a general supply of groceries, among which were sherry and Malaga wines, brandy, Holland gin, spirits, loaf, lump and brown sugars cigars, long and short pipes, etc.  He also kept hardware and crockery, books and stationery, and paid cash for pot and pearl ashes, black salts and fur.  

   Levi Blakeslee, of New Berlin, kept a general assortment of goods kept in a country store, including whisky.  Ransom Rathbun advertised for fifty tons of broken case iron ware, for which a dollar per hundred in goods would be given.  Morris, Truman & Co., carried on carding and clothing, and advertised for two apprentices to learn the business.  David M. Waring manufactured ladies' and gentlemen's boots and shoes.

   The cards of R. Monell, of Greene, and Harry Starr, of Sherburne, attorneys at law, appear.  One advertisement reads:  "The highest price given in cash or Philadelphia snuff, for any quality of linen and cotton rags, (from one pound to 500,) at the Chenango Patriot office."