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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1844
Page
5
The Washingtonian will be published every Saturday morning by James McCafferty at one dollar per annum for a single subscriber five dollars for a club of six ten dollars for a club of twelve subscribers with payment in advance. Postmasters may receive subscription money for Newspapers. Discounts offered for early advertisers.
In this second era the tale follows Charles Morton whose marriage to Louisa Staples prospers despite a lavish lifestyle. A wild party at the Buckeye hotel ends with heavy drinking, a crippling financial loss from a wrecked ship, and Louisa’s vision of a bleak future. Morton's mismanagement mirrors his clerks' ruin, a clerk's suicide, and a sheriff sale that collapses their fortune, forcing Mary and William from schooling and home.
The excerpt notes Charles Morton, his wife and daughter, Hapgood, Highflier, Dashall, and others leaving for the East Indies to transact business, then moving to Newark one month after the failure. A mercantile associate hired a college student to sail east.
A preacher urges young men to guard virtue during their formative years. He warns that few years in youth shape eternal destiny, promising happiness, God’s favor, and social respect if they cultivate virtue and avoid vice, while neglect leads to ruin.
The article recalls John H. Sherburne’s reply on Revolutionary war colors, noting the flag showed thirteen red and white stripes with a rattlesnake, mouth open, tail to staff, and the motto Dont tread upon Me. It cites the frigate Alliance under Paul Jones attacking a British fleet in the North Sea and steering for Brest at ten knots while under heavy fire.
A collection of short pieces includes a fable where a water drop becomes a pearl and crown jewel, a solemn reflection on a child’s death by Leighton, a World War II era naval quip about winter, and a New York Assembly bill to end mechanical labor in state prisons.
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