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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1845
Page
8
A devotional voice laments crime and calls for mercy toward the fallen, warning of divine judgment. It urges readers to resist temptation and recognize accountability for those who entrap the innocent, while affirming God's omniscient justice.
A fragment from Camden Journal presents a satirical verse urging a loafer to stay or depart based on money and temptation. The poem references themes of friendship, temptation, and finances, with a narrator identified as TOM.
The article argues that drunkenness among naval officers and midshipmen weakens the service and demoralises crews. It calls for strict enforcement of existing laws against officers to model temperance for sailors and curb intoxication aboard ships.
A long critical essay condemns officer drunkenness in the Navy, detailing abuses where punishment harshly falls on sailors while officers escape with mild reprimands. It calls for banning rum rations, laws from Congress, and a national temperance system to reform naval discipline and public morality. The piece cites religious arguments against intoxicating wine and urges readers to sign the Washingtonian pledge to join the temperance movement.
A fable depicts rats gathering in a cellar to outwit a steel trap. After many plans a witty rat suggests using one spring path to subdue the other and safely take food from the trap. The assembly erupts in loud squeals and tail snapping.
A three legged rat limps into a ring and presents a cautious plan to escape a trap. He warns the elders that the method proposed failed, urging a simple rule to avoid entrapment: Do Not Touch IT. The scene unfolds as a fable about seeking safer paths amid predation.
A stubborn customer persuades a barkeeper to make another gin toddy as an experiment to determine if it will make him drunk, with the banter highlighting the humor of casual drinking in the scene.
A notice invites boarders to the Young Ladies Seminary in Augusta Georgia. Applicants may secure advantages by applying at the seminary on Broad Street, first door above the Bridge Bank Buildings. Signatures include Reverend M. M. Dye Reverend E. E. Ford and Dr. D. Hook dated September 28.
The prospectus asserts phrenology as a guide to reforming humanity by revealing innate faculties and aligning ethics, society, and religion with natural constitution. It promises new departments, notably Physiology, to explain how diet, sleep, and bodily health shape mind and character, asserting improved health under its laws.
A prospectus style notice promotes a new monthly phrenology and physiology journal. It outlines aims to uplift women, improve health and happiness, and advance human reform through phrenological science. Subscriptions offered at 1 dollar single, 2 dollars for three, 5 dollars for nine, 10 dollars for twenty, with Nassau Street as the address.
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