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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1844
Page
5
A fragmentary newspaper advertisement outlines subscription prices for a Washington paper. It mentions one dollar per year and five dollars for club orders, with postpaid mailing and monthly or weekly publication options. Rates for multiple squares and discounts for advertisers are noted, though text is fragmented.
A Madison writer reports successful sweet potato culture using early season slips planted in a flat bed, with thorough ploughing and careful cultivation. He notes yields nearly double on 66-100 acre plots and advises housing harvested spuds to prevent rot. He also shares a drought experiment in corn and a Turnip Fly prevention tip.
In the Peninsular War Morillo orders execution of a wounded prisoner. A ten year old boy offers to die in his father's place, insisting on saving his father. Morillo refuses and decapitates the boy, then executes the father, prompting reflection on war’s brutal logic and humanity.
The author reflects on Alexander the Great Hannibal Caesar and Bonaparte as archetypes of power. Each met a dramatic end: one by debauchery intoxication, one by self-inflicted death, one by assassination, and one in lonely exile.
A passage recalls how chance events sparked major advances from the telescope to gunpowder to lithography. It cites Dutch eyeglass makers inspiring a telescope, seaweed ash forming glass, Newtonian insights from soap bubbles and an apple, and Senefelder’s lithography idea from a simple note.
A London report recounts a seaside sailor’s final Christian confession and death after years of piety. The National Intelligencer details the Princeton gun explosion on the Potomac, killing Upshur Gilmer Kennon and Maxey among others, injuring several, with the scene described in stark, mournful terms.
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