Simm's Southern and Western Monthly Magazine review
The note thanks Mr. B. A. Holmes for a January issue and notes the editor's reputation in literature. Burges and James publish in Charleston, S.C. at 83 per year. The reviewer has not yet examined contents but expects the edition to compare with contemporary monthly publications.
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Simm
Southern and Western Monthly
A. Holmes
Burges & James, Publishers
Charleston
S.C
Phrenological Journal announces new volume issue
The American Phrenological Journal notes receipt of the first number of volume seven, describing it as improved and enlarged and directing readers to the prospectus and its columns.
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American Phrenological Journal
Vices and Temperance Reform Rise in Public Mind
The piece argues drinking links to many social irregularities and that temperance progress is slow but steady. It notes how vice travels in groups, the intoxicating cup fuels crime, passion, and remorse, and cites broad shifts in morals, press tone, and public support toward total abstinence and practical sobriety.
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Prachain
Conyas
No easy stop as t descends toward danger
The text warns that passing from one state to another offers no simple exit, and the sole safety lies in not entering the downward path. The emphasis is on caution and avoidance of a worsening trajectory.
Temperance lectures draw crowds as reformer Mr. Gough speaks
Mr. Gough, a reformed drunkard now lecturing on Temperance in Philadelphia, has drawn crowded audiences with his true pathos and natural eloquence. Supporters hail each recovery as a humanity triumph and a win for benevolence.
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Mr. Gough
Goff
New York
Philadelphia
Temperance Reformers Urged to Aid All Addicted Brethren
The Washingtonian letter deplores indifference to the temperance cause among reformers. It calls for using proven methods to help all who struggle with drink, not just those who have reformed, and urges active sympathy to rescue those still in want and ruin from alcohol’s grasp.
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Friends of Humanity
Arousement for Temperance Reform Across the Land
A call for renewed vigor in the temperance movement urges unwavering devotion to reform. Authors lament lax adherents and pledge failures, praise noble reformers, and urge united action to combat drink, vice, and the consequent disease and death, ending with a motto and call to Veritas.
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Veritas
Augusta Prosperity Through Home Industry urged by Georgia Citizen
A Augusta reader argues that prosperous towns require profitable home industry and capital investment. He cites cash exchanges within local courts to show money circulated locally and urges embracing steam and water power to build factories. He warns against sectional jealousy and calls for immediate work to avoid decline.
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Augusta
Georgia
South
Rome
Senecas View on Wine and Drunkenness From Ancient Times
The piece cites Seneca’s moral stance on wine drinking and drunkenness. It notes how drunkenness inflames mischief and reveals wickedness, dulls shame, and impairs temper while detailing insults, violence, and public harm. It warns against excess and the folly of drinking to outdo others.
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Senaca
N. Y. Organ
Alexander
Clytus
Monstrous Cruelty and the Call for Moral Wakefulness
The writer condemns brutal acts against children and mocks those who trivialize cruelty as “fun.” He contrasts drowning a neighbor’s child with intoxication for amusement, urging society to awaken from lethargy and view such acts as the true horror they are. Crystal Fount.
Useful Maxims for a Good Husband and Wife
Practical guidance from Social Monitor on marriage centered on selfimprovement, fidelity, cheerfulness, and mutual forbearance. It urges wives to be sincere, agreeable, and discreet, to avoid provoking jealousy, to endure hardships, and to subordinate personal will to joint harmony.
The Widows Sorrow Echoes Through a Lonely Home
The piece pities a widow left alone after the deaths of her husband and children. It recalls her past happiness, laments her lonely future, and hopes for sympathy and divine peace as she endures a life of sorrow. The writer pleads for kind friends to aid her now and prays she finds rest in heaven.
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