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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1844
Page
1
The Washingtonian will be published every Saturday morning by James McCafferty at one dollar per year for a single subscriber, five dollars for a six member club, ten dollars for twelve subscribers. Postmasters may forward subscription money. Ad rates include discounts for early advertisers and various continuance terms.
In the second era of the tale Charles Morton and Louisa Staples face marital strain amid lavish drinking at Morton’s Buckeye hotel. A storm of generosity, debt, and betrayal follows as Morton’s ships fail and a clerk’s suicide reveals embezzlement, driving the couple toward ruin and the end of private schooling for their children.
The subject left for the East Indies to transact business a month after a failure. Charles Morton with wife and daughter followed by Hapgood Highflier Dashall and others to Newark, accompanying him as presumed friends.
The speaker urges young men to guard against vice during formative years. He emphasizes that character formed in these few years determines happiness, respectability, and divine blessing in this life and the next. He warns that failing to seize the season of habit will lead to lifelong undoing.
The article notes that the first U S flag showed thirteen red and white stripes with a rattlesnake and the motto Dont tread upon Me. It recalls John H Sherburne's defense of flag colors and narrates Paul Jones in battle aboard the frigate Alliance off Brest chasing and evading a British fleet.
A fable shows a drop becoming a noble pearl and crown, proving God exalts the humble. A child’s death prompts reflections on loss and the afterlife, while Admiral Trunson warns of approaching winter to his fleet. The New York Assembly moves to abolish mechanical labor in state prisons.
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