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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1845
Page
6
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A 19th century notice urges statewide thanksgiving on a February 13 with warnings against intemperance. It argues virtuous enforcement of anti-grog laws, denounces liquor venues, and calls for public moral action to restore prosperity, referencing Pierpont and local trade impacts.
Opinion stresses that reform of the drunkard should rely on moral suasion, rejects coercion or pledges, and endorses letting majorities in towns and counties decide liquor traffic bans. It cites Cincinnati as model and urges nationwide adoption of letting the people choose.
A Virginia social item notes Governor McDowell hosted a government house party with legislature members and fashionables. The refreshments were strictly water, no wine or spirits, reflecting abstinence chic preferred by the governor and peers.
J H W Hawkins describes Father Mathew’s vast temperance campaign across Ireland and England. He details medals and printing costs, lodging poor signers, and a Dublin pledge arrest resisted by the mayor and alderman. A Cork relief meeting seeks £5000 debt clearance and £20,000 for future work.
J H W Hawkins travels a temperance lecture circuit from Ohio to Cincinnati St Louis New Orleans Mobile and Charleston. The note of encouragement hopes he is well received and fairly compensated for his labor.
A speaker urges parents to abolish liquor use to prevent their sons becoming despised drunks. Mr. Gough emphasizes choosing death from disease over a life ruined by alcohol and calls for parental aid in prohibition.
J H W Hawkins writes to the Corresponding Secretary of the American Temperance Union dated December 21 1844. He describes meetings in Baltimore on December 8 and 9 and on the Eastern Shore where many signed or re signed pledges. He mentions gatherings in churches and halls with large crowds and notes attendance at Methodist Episcopal and Baptist venues.
Mr. Cecil teaches his daughter the value of faith in God by swapping beads for a greater reward. She discards the beads on his instruction and receives a box of treasures later, illustrating trust in parental guidance and divine intent. The tale urges lifelong faith in God’s wisdom and goodness.
A reflection on how admiration for outward beauty can curb moral growth and promote vanity. The writer argues that true disinterested affection lies in modest hearts whose warmth serves the suffering beloved, with ambition aimed at lasting happiness beyond beauty.
Nedl s Saturday Gazette argues for a New York Legislature session to grant female patentees sole control over their inventions and profits. It condemns coverture and cites injustices where a wife’s earnings become her husband s debts, urging enlightened, era defining reform.
The passage muses on personal beauty as a subjective trait and notes extreme standards in various places. It cites Tunisian practices of fattening women and recounts Mungo Park’s tale of Bondouin women approving external traits while forgiving a milk-bathed, pinched nose born of his mother’s influence.
A 19th century essay urges young women to cultivate practical virtues and a graceful bearing. Education should fit them to perform society’s expected role, manage households, and support happiness over mere literary achievement.
An excerpt on remembering one’s own youth to foster patience with learners. A teacher recalls correcting past expectations after finding an old boys’ copybook with poor handwriting. A sign painter’s critique of an apprentice is countered by the painter’s own imperfect lion drawing, hung as a reminder to be patient.
The English bride Nollekhem known as Strong Winds, who recently wed a Objibbeway Indian in London, has returned to her father’s home as the couple could not live together. The Detroit Advertiser disputes the tale and reports seeing the pair shopping for housekeeping goods at local stores, noting she appears fashionable.
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