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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1845
Page
3
A Newark Temperance piece argues that kindness and benevolence, not denunciation, reform drinkers. It cites Washingtonian reformers and praises tender appeals to virtue, claiming kindness heals hearts, softens tempers, and lifts those fallen to vice from dissipation.
May 29 Texas National Register notes Mexican capital journals freely discuss Shannon cuevas correspondence. Diaro advocates peace while urging warlike steps, Monitor condemns delayed war declaration, Minerva criticizes ministry over Texas, Vaz del Pueblo calls for capable wartime planning. Mazatlan reports Micheltorena’s 200 troops departure. Puebla priest murder detailed. Echeverria resigns as finance minister, La Rosa named successor. Chi huahua residents refuse direct taxes due to Apache devastation. Uruera the criminal escapes Mazatlan prison.
Reports from Galveston and New Orleans detail Texas annexation backing, potential Rio Grande occupation, and a planned coastal naval move. Updates cover stock of Fort Jessup, Com Stockton’s arrival, and Sherman’s possible 3000 man call to Corpus Christi.
The foreign news recalls discoveries by the immense telescope of Lord Rosse. Regulus may be a disc rather than a sphere and the Orion belt nebula could be a universal system with a sun and orbiting planets. Professor Robinson of Armagh shares brief communications from the Earl of Rosse.
A traveller from our sister state, described as a full blooded Sucker, stayed at Planter's House. He woke distressed, missing boots, and ranted through passages seeking a waiter. Amid slammed doors he demanded boots and identified them as pegged soles in size twelve.
A steamer named Hard Times nears Crescent City when engines stop and a man in a skiff appears. The captain warns to pull for safety as the skiff occupant declares himself a son of the Emerald Isle. The boat narrowly passes, eliciting laughter from passengers.
Our cotton market holds firm with no price decline despite Liverpool news. Weekly sales meet former prices as stock shrinks and demand holds. river is unusually low at nine inches above low water. Freight to Savannah remains 50 cents per bale. Bagging and groceries show no changes, markets dull but prices steady.
An Augusta Georgia advertisement touts a restorative cordial prepared by C. C. Sebring of New York and sold by multiple firms in the Southeast. It claims physicians endorse the tonic and urges a fair trial for relief from indigestion and nervous debility. Also noted is an 1841 date and a separate notice for Young Ladies Seminary in Augusta offering European standard instruction.
An undated notice promotes a pleasant safe preparation to expel worms from the system. It is offered for sale in quantities to suit purchasers and signed by WM. HAINES, Jr.
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