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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1845
Page
8
A speaker argues riches cannot extend life or avert death and urges to seek genuine comfort from kin, friends, beauty, and sincere companionship. The verse contemplates mortality and the futility of wealth in the face of the grave.
A temperance advocate urges supporters to back temperance establishments financially and patronize temperance landlords. He argues that many temperance men fail to act, and without practical support many temperance houses will fail amid declining patronage.
The speaker compares temperance advocates to villagers offering merely pity for a lost horse, urging real financial support for temperance houses and papers. He argues that temperance work requires sacrifice beyond sentiment, and condemns delaying payments or fear of not being paid. Justice.
Gen John H Cocke of Virginia writes that the temperance reform is advancing across the West and South. He notes shifting political capital to abstinence as a tool and observes a marked change in drinking habits, especially among upper-class segments of East Tennessee.
The piece laments a grog shop displaying faces of Washington Jefferson and Franklin linking temperance with nationhood. It cites Franklin’s rise through temperance, industry, and economy and condemns the display as shameful, quoting the N O Star of Temperance.
A speculative incendiary liquid resembling alcohol is described, with arsenic replacing oxygen. The piece notes its ignition on contact with air and imagines its use on ships if containers are breached, referencing Professor Brunson of England.
A fragment warns of a new incendiary agent that releases white arsenic fumes upon burning. Heavier than water and insoluble, it lingers, creating deadly atmosphere and a potent weapon feared to rival past horrors in misery and destruction.
A clergyman at a wedding replies he will drink water rather than wine. He cites Paul to Timothy but denies having infirmity, suggesting some use wine is not universally needed. The New Haven Fountain notes the exchange and urges reflection on indulgence.
Prospectus outlines reform through Phrenology and physiology to reveal human nature, improve intellect and morals, and link health to happiness. It promises sections on physiology, diet, sleep, and habits, asserting bodily state shapes mind and character.
A promotional prospectus extols a phrenological journal to expose vanity and vice, promising worldly uplift through human improvement. The editor seeks subscription runs and distribution, asserting the field’s reach from mothers to the poor, with pricing for single and multi-copy orders and details for delivery.
The prospectus outlines a Southern magazine to showcase original American thought, defend literature from trashy foreign and domestic works, and promote North South harmony. It pledges nonsectarian discussion of religion and politics, highlights military and naval topics, and features Georgia Historical Society materials. Published by W Thornton Williams from October, price five dollars annual, with agents urged to solicit subscribers by August 1 1845 in Savannah.
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