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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1844
Page
3
A fragmentary meditation contrasts childhood hunger with adult disillusion. The speaker recalls summer heats and youth’s vigor, longs for meat and drink, and imagines refreshment in dreams, only to wake to nausea and faintness.
We awoke about 11 to a sobbing boy of ten saying a drunken father beat his mother and barred them out on the porch. We directed the child to seek aid and pondered the bridal hour betrayed by the husband’s cruelty, a sad vigil in the American Eagle reporting.
An elderly man afflicted with infirmity would not sign the total abstinence pledge until urged that it could save the nation. He finally signed, renounced ardent spirit as medicine, and his ailment disappeared. The piece recalls past scenes of temperance valor and a boy’s resolve to refuse drink, urging steadfastness against liquor.
The Dahlonega Times notes a temperance procession at the courthouse leading to the Methodist Church where 47 names were added to the pledge. Various items follow: Christmas services and temperance addresses by Rev. P. Smith and Col. G. D. Rice. a New England tour claiming no intoxicated persons. German princes promoting temperance in Bavaria. claret and wine production linked to New Jersey. jokes and anecdotes about gin cocktails and a lamppost. warnings about tardiness in repentance. a cancer remedy via egg yolk plaster. Kentucky cotton bagging loom activity and regional mills. a discovery near Ojaca and ruins at las Juntas. gold and copper mines in Cuba. Pennington’s steam balloon progress. England-China trade volumes. Tennessee moves to grant married women property rights.
A moral sermon cries against selfish living and asks who benefits from a life of luxury and neglect. It cites Rev George B Carever on nations built on pride and sin and warns that empires fall when they do not serve God. The note laments past monuments and pleads for national repentance to avoid another voice of wailing.
On the deck I watched the steamboat ready to depart as hundreds of passengers boarded in a rush. The vessel strained against the wharf, paddles dipped, and the mate’s order rang out, All on board All ashore before a hack disappeared from view.
The prospectus advertises a debate between Alexander Camp Bell of Bethany Virginia and Rev N L Rice of Paris Kentucky in Lexington on six propositions about baptism infant baptism church unity and conversion. It notes stenographic reporting delays discounts for bulk orders and a February 1 1844 deadline for orders to D S Burnet Louisville Ky.
Cornees prices show little change since last report with modest holiday business and dimmed demand from large operators. Principal sales quoted at 7 to 9 and 8 dollars per bag range. Steamer from Liverpool expected end of month. no major price shifts anticipated. Bagging demand remains light as planters are stocked. Groceries sales also very limited after Christmas.
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