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OO ?ER ANNUM
OK- O. 8. PROPHITT,
■ Covington Georgia.
I till manufacturing all of his celebrated
f&wa&T mmmmm,
Consisting of his—
IIVER MEDICINE,
anodyne PAIN KILL IT,
' aN ti-bilious PILLS,
ague PILLS,
dysentery cordial.
FEMALE TONIC, and
PURIFYING PILLS,
heretofore, and will attend to all business in
W, that comes to his office.
Will prescribe for patients when consulted,
, .-mine any that come to his office at ary
excepted.)
Prompt attention given to all Orders.
The excellent Remedies of DR. PROPTIITT,
j no commendation—their well known power
« n removing the diseases peculiar to our South
torn climate having already established for them
„„ enviable reputation in Georgia and the ad
mining States. As the majority of persons liv
ing in the South are predisposed to disease of
the Liver, it is granted by all intelligent physi-
that most of the pains and aches of our
people are due to organio or functional derange
merit of that important organ.
PROP lIITT’S
Livor Modlicino
strikes directly at the root of the evil. It cures
the Liver, which in nine eases out of ten, is at
the bottom of the ttiugh*. Dyspepsia, Colic,
Sick Headache, Rheumatism, Constipation, Men
strual Obstructions, etc,, so common among our
people. My
Liver Medicine.
has the advantage of almost any other Prepara
tion of Medicine that acts upon the I.iver It is
in the form of a Fluid Extract—ready for use at
nil times, day or night, and can be carried to
any locality in America, winter or summer, as it
will neither sour nor freeze at any temperature
that a human being can occupy with safety.
It is not too strong for children, or too weak
for the most robust. There is no trouble about
taking it, only to unstop the Bottle and drink it
whenever you may want it. It has gained a
very high reputation in every locality it has had
n fair aiid honorable chance to prove itself, at
any point in America, and it has been used in
every State south of Maine, and is alike appli
cable (o disorders of the Liver and Digestive
powers at all places yet tried.
Traveling Parties, north and south, carry it,,
and find the happy effects of it in all climates
PARTICULAR NOTICE.
Hereafter hO MEDICINE MILL BE DELIV
ERED. or SERVICE RENDERED, except for
£?TO S H !*9I
You need not call unless you arc prepared to
PAY CaSII, for I will not Keep Books.
June 11, 1W59. O. S. PROPHITT.
O Wo arc Wow Receiving c,
AND OPENING, A LARGE STOCK 01"
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—Consisting of—
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Gentlemen's and Ladies’
DRESS goods
GLOVES & HOSIERY,
Almost every Variety of
IN" o t i o n s
Including BASE BALLS, and other Play Balls
Ready Made Clothing,
■ Gentlemen’s and Ladies'
hats, boots, & shoes,
H a r and. w a r o,
SONS AND PISTOLS,
*H;oe FINDINGS, JEWELRY,
BOLINS, AND VIOLIN STRINGS,
Cutlery, Crockery, &c.
Algo a Fino Assortment of
family groceries.
Bacon, Lard, Flour, Meal, Molasses, •
Finest Syrups, Cove Oysters Sardinos, the
FACTORY AND E. D. CHEESE,
And a great many other articles too tedious
nieution.
Conic and see us. We arc determined
All at short profits, hoping thereby to sell
more.
CARR & CODY.
Covington, Ga., Oct.23d, 1808.—48.tf.
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
NEW S T OCR
-OF
Spring and Summer Goods,
To be found at the Store of
BOWKER, HARRIS AGO.
Covingtow, Gkorgia,
Selected expressly for thla market, and sold
At as Low Pri cos,
aa the line Goods aaa be bought in this section
Our Stoek soneieta of
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Os Every Description.
READY MADE CLOTH INC
And Gents’ Furnishing Goods Generally.
BOOTS & S HOES
Fine Lot HATS Latest Styl
» IV c have on hand a full assortment of
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Embracing everything usually kept in a File
Class Grocery Store.
Give u« a call, and examine our Goods.
BOWKER. HARRIS k CO.
PACE, WOOD & ROGERS,
HAVE JUST OPENED
A Very Large and Handsome Stock of
SPRING €««»S
--OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
We invite our friends to give us a call, as our
Sto ikevery Department is now complete.
PACE, WOOD <fc ROGERS,
South, aid t of, Square, Covington, Ga.
COVINGTON GA, JULY 9, 18G9
Ail Old Poem.
1012.
Shull I, wasting in despair,
Dio, because a woman’s fair?
Or make pale my checks with care,
’Cause another’s rosy are?
Be ouo fairer than the day,
Or the flowery meads of May,
If she ho not so to me,
What care I how lair she be ?
Shall my foolish # heart be pined,
’Cause I soc n woman kind,
Or a well disposed nature,
Joined with a lovely feature?
Be she meeker, kinder, than
Turtle dove or pelican,
If sho be not so tb mo,
What care I how kind she bo ?
Shall a woman’s virtue movo
Me to perish for her love ?
Or her well deserving known,
Make me quit© forget mine own ?
Bo she with that goodness blest,
Which may gain her name of best,
. If sho bo not so to ine,
What care I how good she be ?
’Cause her fortunes seem too high,
Shall I play the fool and dio ?
Those that bear a noble mind,
Where they want of riches find,
Think what with them they would do,
That without them dare to woo ;
And unloss that mind I see,
IVhat care I how great she be?
Great or good, or kind, or fair,
I will no’er the more despair ;
If she love me, this believe,
I will dio ero she shall grieve:
If she slight me when I woo,
I can scorn and let her go ;
For if sho be not so for me,
What care I for whom sho bo?
Sociability.
Hawthorne, in his diary, makes a record of
the day wherein he resolved to speak to no
human soul. lie went to-the village, got his
mail at the post office, returned, and triumph
antly records the fact that he spoke to no man.
Is it any wonder that with all his genius Haw
thorne was a melancholy and an essentially
unhappy man? How much wiser and better
the Opposite course. Think how much happi
ness you convey to others by kindly notice and
a cheerful conversation. Think how much
sunshine such sociability lets back into your
own soul! IVho does not feel more cheerful
and contented for receiving a polite bow. and
a genial “good morning,” a hearty shake of
the hand? Who does not make himself hap
pier by these little expressions of fellow feel
ing nnd good will? Silence, and a stiff
unbending reserve are essentially selfish nnd
vulgar. The generous and polite man lias a
pleasant recognition and cheerful word for all
ho meets. He scatters sunbeams wherever ho
‘goes, lie paves the path of others with smiles,
lie makes society seem genial, and the world
delightful to those who would else find them
cold, selfish nnd forlorn. And what he gives
is but ft tithe of what he receives. Bo socia
ble wherever you go, and wrap your lightest
words in tones that are sweet and a spirit that
is genial.
“Quit That.”— Quit what? Quit telling
your innocent, confiding, trembling children
about ghosts and hobgoblins.
You aro throwing a sorrow upon young
hearts that will cling there through life. How
many mothers there are who quiet their chil
dren by saying “The bug-a-hoos will conic
and take you off!’' “Come, old nigger, come
an d—well, will you hush, then, right this min
ute?”
The poor child believes all its own mother
says, and why shouldn t it? It ought to be
lieve. That is a filial duty. The sobbing,
fluttering heart is quiet, but not composed.
Those tearful eyes close in a sleep of terror ;
a weary, broken rest follows ; the child di earns
—but oh! who can tell the sadness of a child,
while it dreams in a sleep frightened upon it
by alarms of a!! that is terrible and repulsive ?
Parents think of this. See that your chil
dren hear of no ghostly lessons. See that they
are taught to love the ever present Savior,
and to honor his ever blessed name.
now heavenly the teachings of that familiar
hymn, when breathed from a true mother’s
soul over a sleeping child :
“Hush, my babe, lie still and slumber,
Holy angels guard thy bed 1”
A Rotten Spot.—An extraordinary phe
nomenon is reported from Peru. By volcanic
action in the recent earthquakes a fissure has
been opened in the dry bed of a former river,
from which issues foetid water «o pestilential
in its exhaltations that all animals but man
fall dead whon brought in the neighborhood.
Horses have dropped down at a distance of
twelve miles from the fatal spring. The whole
country around is thickly strewn with the car
causes of mules, , and the buzzards might revel
in their unfailing repast if they too did not
expire in the mephitic atmosphere. So writes
a correspondent of a morning paper. Rifle
whisky, that kills at eighty yards,; is nothing
in comparison with this natural poison. Tho
upas tree dwindles in its desolating effects
What the gases are that are destructive to the
inferior animals, yet work no injury to man,
it would be worth tho while of scientific men
to inquire. We are glad to learn that the
Peruvian Government lias ordered a careful
investigation of the phenomenon. [N.Y.
Leisure is sweet to those who have earned
it, but burdensome to those who get it
nothing,
Call a Woman Keep a Secret t
“A woman can’t keep a secret" is a favor
ite saying among thoso who think they know ;
hut as I have opportunities for knowing some
thing about this matter, I mean to do some
thing at least towards setting the world right.
My dear gentlemen friends, the delusion is on
the other side, nnd all comes as the popular
sayings about women always do; from mista
king for revolution what is simply conjesture.
Because a woman buzzes and flutters around
you, and talks on all sorts of subjects, and
takes you ono side, and with an air of most
profound confidence, tells you about somo
matter you would never have thought of men
tioning, you go about supposing she has ‘com
muned with you of all that was in her heart.’
You blind bat, sho has dono all that, depend
upon it, only to make you the blinder. The
most tenacious and utterly secretivo of all
secret keepers is a woman. Give her a secret
worth keeping, or ono she wishes, cither for
your sake or her own, to keep, and all the
powers es earth and air cannot wrest it from
her. Leave it in her own hands entirely, and
the trial will never come—nor no living crea
ture will then suspect she has it.
Os all the men I know, full half go through
the world parading, by face and act, the very
secret they aro fondly supposing is hidden in
the deepest recesses of the heart. When a man
has a secret it looks out of his eyes, it sits
upon his lips, and by strong compression, must
bo held there ; it dances before him when he
sleeps, it breaks from him in unconscious
ejaculations, ne goes so wide of it in his
conversation that ono may constantly cry
“warm, warm,” knowing that the place to
look for it is at the point most distant. Now,
if he has a female friend of ordinary feminine
wit, she knows at first sight that he has such
a secret, and either of set purpose, or in
stinctively and unconsciously, she will set to
work to guess it; and, whether she means it
or not, she trill guess it. She can’t help it.—
lie will be forever holding it up bofore her
eyes, and sternly crying ‘hands off.’ He will
talk round and round it until she knows the
exact size of the circle of which it is in the
centre. Sho cannot help knowing it is hidden
in the very word he trill not speak. After ho
has tantalized her with it until she knows it
as she knows his face, very likely it will
seem to her not worth the trouble of hiding.
It is a mark of her penetration to have dis
covered, and she knows how you will relish
hearing “all about it,” and she will whisper
it in your ear nt the first opportunity.
Swallow the nice bit and wipe your lips,
then shako your head and proponnd that orig-
“A woman cannot keep a secret,”
and half the world will echo it as if it were
both new and wise. Can’t forsooth! Give
her ono worth keeping, and see. Let mo tell
V T’ ’ i la - . < * w *" !n S 'with a woman
whose heart w i,_.i
ful story she would as soon (fie 'SiT’Wt
you guess. (You have done it, no doubt, many
a tirno without knowing it, and, until the day
of your death you never will know it.) She
will meet you with her lightest, merriest laugh;
she will walk straight up to her secret; and
put-her foot upon it under your very nose ;
she will flirt it in your face; she will dance
and flutter around it as a moth around a can
dle; she will chatter away with a thousand
things you are astonished that sho should dare
to mention ; sho will, with the greatest appa
rent diffidence, confide to yon what you suppose
she would only mention to her bosom friend,
and she will swear you to eternal secrecy
about somo matter which, undoubtedly, you
will hear her committing in tho same way to
every friend she meets for a week to come,
and be sure sho is ‘‘laughing in her sleeve at
you” when you sighingly murmur, “Ah, a
woman can never keep a secret 1”
*********
Historical instances aro abundant in which
women have suffered imprisonment, tortures,
death, rather than reveal tho secret which
would involve another in their own disaster-
Remember our war. Did tho Southern and
frontier women prove then that they could or
could not keep a secret ? If you have a wife
and do not confide your secrets to her, be sure
she will find them out. But tell her, fear -
lcssly and confidingly, all your heart, and if,
by word or sign, she betrays you, go at once
to Chicago and get a divorce. You havo a
wife not worth keeping.—Emily L. Bissell, in
Packard’s Monthly, for July.
Song of an escaped convict —the lost link
is broken.
Seasonable rendering of Grant’s motto—let
us have peas.
The first thing Adam planted in the garden
—his foot.
The man who was filled with emotion
hadn’t room for a dinner.
llow to make the hours go fast—use the
spur of the moment.
The reason tho road of the transgressor is
hard is because it is so much traveled.
Many of the richest planters in Jnva live
on coffee grounds.
When a shoemaker is going to make a pair
of boots the first thing ho uses is always tho
last.
A man recently poksd his head out from
‘‘behind the times,” when it was taken off by
a passing event.
When may ladies bo said to bo economical?
When they resort to tight lacing to prevent
waist-fulness
The best place to look for board.—in a lum
ber yard.
Second hand goods—auction furniture and
widows.
If you let trouble »it upon your soul like a
lien upon her nest, you may expect the hatch
ing of a larger brood.
Why Spain is not Republican.
It has been evident for the last ten years,
that tho oppononts of Queen Isabella contem
plated the erection of a republic in Spain,
whenever her reign should be brought to a
close. Prim, tho great leader of tho disaffec
ted is known to have favored freo government,
and has an immense party, comprising per
haps, a largo majority of the nation, nt his
hack. Isabella has been deposed, the repres
entatives of tho people havo been in council,
and what do wo seo?—tho proclamation of a
monarchy for Spain by an immense minority,
nnd no serious disturbances over the result.
IVhy this change of sentiment and of pur
poso on the part of the Spanish people, and nt
a tinTo when everything in Europe has had a
republican tendor.cy for years? The cause, as
shown by tho debates in the Cortes, is evident.
Tho frightful example of American despotism
and anarchy under Republican forms, has
driven the Spanish people from their ideas of
popular liberty. And woll they may. One of
the most ablo and influential of Spanish states
men is reportel to have thus spoken in a re
cent debate:
“He (Senor Rosas) was vfery severo with
the Republic of the United States. Ho said
half of it was outside the law. All tho States
of the South were held under the sword of
military government. Individual rights Woro
all confounded. There was no liborty. It
was dictation—sword dictation. The govern
ment of tho half of the States had characters
of iniquitous tyranny, for the interests of the
conquered countries wore sacrifiocd to the
egotism of the North. They enslaved the
whites to give liberty to the blacks. This
slavery would be prolonged years and years,
for the federal legality and tho authority of
the States woro completely abolished. Was
that the sort of constitution they wished to
give to their country? [No, no, and great
Applause.}”
It is thus apparent that the Radical party of
the United States, by their unjust notions and
wicked tyranny, have not only destroyed tho
liberties of a large portion of their own coun
trymen, but have, in addition, contributed to
rivet the chains of political slavery upon ev
ery nation of the world that was aspiring to
bo free. What a fearful responsibility rests
upon such a party.—[Sav. Rep.
IBillingsgate.
If you analize what most men kail plezzure,
you will find it composed of one part humbug,
and two parts pain.
The art ov becumining ov importance in the
eyes ov others, is not to overrate ourself, hut
to cause them tew do it.
Going tew law, le like skinning anew milk
cow for tho hide, and giving the meat tew the
lawyers.
Phools are quite often liko hornets, very
bizzy, but about what the Lord only knows,
good way tew get pbullj trtie a a
get phatt.
I don’t think a bad man iz as dangerous as
a week one—l don t think a bile that has cum
tew a head, iz as risky .as a hidden one that
may come to a dozen heds.
If the world despises a hypokrit, what must
they think of him in Heaven ?
Flattery is like kalonc water, to be smelt ov,
not swallowed.
After all, tharc don’t scorn tew bo but this
difference between the wizc men and the
phools; the wizo men are nil fuss and sum
feathers, while tho phools are all fuss and no
feathers.
Without friends nnd without enemy’s iz
the last rcliablo aekount that we hav ova
stray dog.
Men generally when they whip a mule,
sware; the mulo remembers the swearing, but
forgits the licking.
Sum folks wonder whare awl the lies cum
from, but I don’t, ono -good liar will pizon a
whole country.
Hunting after' famo iz like hunting aftor
fleas, hard tew ketch, and sure tew mako yn
uneasy if yu dew or don’t ketch them.
Menny people spend tharo time trying tew
find the hole whare sin got into this world—
if two men brake through the ice into ft mill
pond they had bettor hunt for sum good hole
tew git out, rather than get into a long argu
ment about the hole they cum tow fall in.
A Teuton on Liberty. —Said a robust Teu
ton to mo one morning : “ Vats you tinks apout
dis tings you calls liberties?”
*• Liberty, my friend, is a great institution,”
I replied.
“ Veil, dat ish vat I dinks, too. I shust
COOHIB to dis country for de liberties. Aen I
cooms here to dis ceety do peoples say nix no
peer; den I says no liberties. \at you thinks
of dat, hey ?”
I told him that if ho was dissatisfied with
the laws of our country, he could enjoy his
glorious liberty and go'back to where he came
from ; to which he replied :
<? Dat's shust what I do. Ven I nogetsmine
lager peer I leaves de country.’’
Not many evenings since a party of youths
whilo attempting a serenade in a neighboring
city, the effect of which combined quite as
much sound as swootness, were somowhat
startled at seeing a neighboring w indow raised
and hearing a voice remark, “Jim. don’t fire
tho left hand barrel at ’em, it is loaded with
buckshot 1” Jitn didn't fire, but the eerena
ders made some heavy strides from that vicini
ty- _ _
u Won’t you take half of this poor apple ?”
said a pretty damsel.
” No, l thank you; I w ould prefer a better
half,” was the reply.
Eliza blushed, and referred him to her pupa.
VOL 4 NO, 34
A Desperate Fight in the illitiois Peniten
tiary.
The Joliet, Illinois, Signal of a recent date,
says :
Not long since a quarrel took place between
two convicts while on their way to the quarters,
with a gang from tho prison under charge of
guards, which resulted in a desperate fight with
knives. Both tho combatants woro wounded,
and one of them so severely that he died on
the following day.
But the bloodiest affray yet occurred on lasi
Thursday. As the convicts were sitting down
to dinner a quarrel arose between two largo
and poworful men. A few words passed, when
both parties drew forth large, sharp pointed
knives, and a most terrific and deadlv struggle
ensued. They fought the entire length of two
of the long tables, stabbing nnd striking alter-*
nately, and were not separated until they had
begun to fail from the loss of blood. The floor
and tables wore lies pattered with blood, and
the scene was ono long to bo romembored.
They wero both taken to the hospital, and one
of them expired in five minutes. Ilis body
exhibited no less than half a dozen fatal stabs.
The other was dangerously wounded, but sur
vives yet. An inquest was held over tho body
of the dead man, by Coroner Reese, but the
jury coold not agree upon a verdict. This case
will probably come bofore the Grand Jury.
Such is the condition of affairs existing at
present nt the Illinois State Penitentiary.
I here is no sort of discipline. The convicts aTO"
allowed a free license to do as they please.
They knock down the guards at pleasure, and
commit nVurder among themselves. And, what
is unheard of in prison discipline, more than
one half of the convicts are armed with knivei
and murderous weapons. This being the case,
an open revolt and murder of scores of innocent
men is momentarily expected. When wo re*
member that there are nearly twelve hundred
desperate men confined in the penitentiary, for
crimes of various grades, and that more than
one half of them aro armed with deadly weap
ons, we cannot avoid trembling at the conse
quences which may be momentarily expected.
Usury.
Usury 1 as if everything about and around
ns were T¥ot usury 1 When the farmer sow*
his wheat, does he not look that every grain
return him full five hundred fold ?
Does your grocer sell you his coffee at cost
price ?
Does your livery stablo man furnish your
carriage at the current rato of forage, and no
more?
Does tho bookseller givo you your volume at
the price of production, or are you not, for
everything of your daily use, paying for what
of all things is boat worth paying for—tho
promptitude and accommodation with which
you are served ?
The great fact being that, to wish and to
have are combined in the same link ; and when
sourco oi an strung ui, me mouvo power every
where—money—you arc ready to cry out,
Usury I as though you who go in search of his
corruption were the faultless one, end that he
who served you was tho fiend incarnate.
—[Blackwood’s Magazine,
Prophetic.
When Commodore Stephen Decatur heard
oi the purchase of Louisiana by tho United
States, he said that further territorial extension
boded no good to the country, and assigned
the following reasons for that opinion. In
addition to the extension of territory which ho
deprecated, as being calculated to destroy the
individuality of our peoplo, tho Radical party
have since, by the destruction of State Sover
eignty and therr consolidation ideas, thoroughly
demonstrated the truth of Commodore Deca
tur's prophetic langtfage :
“In an evil hour for my country did the
French and Spaniards abandon Louisiana to
the United States. We were not sufficiently a
country before, and should w e ever be mad
enough to drive the English from Canada, and
her other North American provinces, we shall
soon cense to be _a country at all. Without
local attachment, without national honor, we
shall resemble a swarm of insects, that settle
on the fruits of the earth to corrupt and con*
sume them, rather than men who lovo and
cleave to the land of their forefathers. After
a shapeless anarchy and a series of civil .ware,
we shall at last be formed into many countries ;
unless tho vices engendered in the .process
should demand further punishment and we
should previously fall beneath the despotism
of some military adventurer, like a lion con*
suined by some inward disease, prostrate and
helpless, beneath the beak and talons of a vul*
ture, or yet moaner bird of prey.”
“ Who Sows the Wind,” <fcc.
From Virginia to Texas, inclusive, demoral
ization and divisions rule the Republican camp.
The carpet baggers have overdone their work.
The house of their party is divided against
itself, and with anything like judicious treat*
ment of the blacks the white landholders have
the reconstructed and the unreconstructed
Southern States in their hands. The carpet
baggers, from their intestine squabbles over
the spoils, have so far crippled themselves al
ready that it is plain to see that their days are
numbered. In truth, the administration must
do something pretty soon to re-unite the scat
tering forces of tho dominant party, or even
in tho North it will go to the wall iti tho com
ing elections. In the distribution of the spoils
where, for every man appointed to office, ten
men aro disappointed, the administration has
lost ground, the politicians to a great extent
have become disgusted and the rank and file
demoralized, and so the Republican party,
North as well as South, is crumbling to pieces.
—| Herald,