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00 PEKANMJM TToTs- P R O p h I tt, V ' Covington Georgia. manufacturing «U "of his celebrated Vmitx mmimwm, **** Consisting of his TT rFR MEDICINE, ir lf 0 v yne pain kill it, anti-bilious pills, AGUE PILLS, DYSENTERY CORDIAL, FEMALE TONIC, and PURIFYING PILLS, . «ml will attend to all business in to ri"to his office, his line, , patients when consulted, •rompt attention given to all Orders. _ . tce llent Remedies of DK, PROPHITT, T ? 6 JLmcndation—their well known power iee J no co j ißesßeß peculiar to our South „ reniovi g already established for them rDC Table reputation in Georgia and the ad ’l* states As the majority ot persons hv oinl.ng,i i «mi’th are predisposed to disease of Dg r ft is granted by all intelligent physi heHi, f’Lst of the pains and aches of our '““l ore da® to organic or functional derange- Zof that important organ. I PROPIIITT’S r.tver Modicino rfies directly at the root of the evil. It cures u Liver which in nine cases out of ten is at M I'.tom of the Coughs, Dyspep*m, Colic, tv Headache, Rheumatism, Constipation, Men “ obstructions, etc,, so common among our >eople. My a . Liver Medicine. „ ,T # advantage of almost any other Prepara *n 0 f Medicine that acts upon the Liver. It is i thalorm of a Fluid Extract-ready for use at II times day or night, and can be.carried to li* locality in America, winterer summer, as it ”fl neither sour nor freeze at any temperature t a human being can occupy with safety, if. not too strong for children, or too weak “the most robust. There ,g no trouble about rt i n .it, only to unstop the Bottle and drink it rheneveV you may want it It has gained a ,'rv high reputation in every locality H has had fair and honorable chance to prove itself at ’ n„int in America, and it lias been used in erv State south of Maine, and is alike appli es to disorders of the Liver and Digestive overt «• all places yet tried. TrftTelirtg Parties, north and south, carry it, id find the happy effects of it in all climates. particular ntotice. lersftfter NO MEDICINE WILL BE DELI V RED. or SERVICE RENDERED, except for ts-o j&- © EC a ou need not call unless you are prepared to AY C.tSlI, for I will not Keep Books, me 11, 1860. O. 3. PROPHITT. T. MARKW ALTER, BAUBLE WORKS Broad Street Acoysta, Ga. IARBIjE monuments, Tomb Stones, arble!!!Mantles, and Furniture Marble OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, om (he Phvn ‘.t to the most Elaborate,design and furnished to ovder at sho-t notice. All work for the 30Uu.tr- carefully boxed decl4-3-5-ly. TAN YARD FIXTURES FOR SALE! NOLUDING a Bark Mill, 29 Vats, and all the I” Is, Benches, <tc., belonging to a Tan 411 comparatively now and in good order, 11 be sold at a bargain as the present tars have no use for it. Apply to W. W. CLARK, Covington, Ga , 3E M. WELLBORN, at Dixie" Nursery, N. E. of Covington.—33tf :on County Script Wanted. person having any of the above named ipt to dispose of, will consult their own by calling on BOWKER & HARRIS. Hotels. ANTERS HOTEL, Augusta, Gkohoia. veil known first class Hetel is now re fer the accommodation of the traveling with the assurance that those who may icasion to visit Augusts, will be made able. As this Hotel is now complete in epartment, the Proprietor hopes, that by id personal attention, to merit a share of atronago. , JOHN A. GOLDSTEIN, Pro’p, United States Hotel. A GEORGIA IITAKER & SABSEEN, Proprietors. Inc Hundred Yards of the General Passcn >t, corner Alabama and Prior streets, iERiCAN HOTEL, Alabama street, GEORGIA, rest house to the Passenger Depot. WHITE & WHITLOCK, Pro uetors. ‘»ving re-leased and renovated te above tel, we are prepared to entertaiD nests in a l } satisfactory manner. Charp i fair and »«ratc. Our efforts will be to .ease, fiage carried to and from Depot .rec of charge A CARD. . un dersigned, having purchased the en 'ire interest of S. M. Jonbs in the AUGUS IOiEL, respectfully solicit a share of pat iafe from the traveling public generally.— P'Opoee to keep a First Glass House, and every effort to satisfy and please all that ~”? a call. Both of us have been connected fl' and for thirteen years, i . oms of the Hotel are large and airy urnisheil equal to anv in the city, j.® the particular attention of the old .' ns ul , lue House to the change. We desire ee and welcome them. furuiohed with the best Liquors aud DAN’L «. MURPHY, PATRICK MAY THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE. J. W. MURRELL, D 13 3\T T I S T , OrnCE—Upstairs in Murrell’s Brick Stork, Covington, Georgia, Being prepared with the latest im- in Dental Material, Guarantees Satisfaction in each 'branch of Operative and Mechanical Dentistry. or If desired will visit Patients at their homes in this and adjoining Ceunties, All orders left at the Covington llotki., or at the residence of Mr. G. W, 11. Murrell, Oxford, Ga., will receive immediate attention.—ly37. COVINGTON MALE ACADEMY. MR. J. N. HOOKER would respectfully notify the public, that the Second Term of the above nan ed Academy will open the 2d of August. Those seeking thorough and practical instruction, will find it to their interest to pat ronize this Academy—especially those prepar ing for College,—July 30 4t37 FHOTOOR A P II S ! (HAVE JUST RECEIVED a Fresh Supply of Chemicals, and am now prepared to exe cute work in my line in a supeiior manner. Call soon if you would have a superior Pic ture, at my old stand, rear of Post Office build ing 20tf J. W. CRAWFORD, Artist. I would respectfully iuferm the citizens of Newton, and adjoining XHggMk counties, that I have opened a *6*®^***^SADDLE and HARNESS SHOP On north side public square in COVINGTON where lam prepared to make to order. Harness Saddles, Ac , or Repair the same at short notice, and in the best style. 47 ts JAMES B. BROWN H. T. HENRY, D B KT T I © TANARUS, COVINGTON, GEORGIA. ftr’Trmu has reduced ms prices, so tliatall who have been so unfortu 'GJJ.lxyt nates to lose their natural Teeth can have their places supplied by Art, at very small cost. Teeth Filled at reasonable prices, and work faithfully executed, Office north side of Square.—l 22tf JOHN S. CARROLL, dentist COVINGTON, GEORGIA. ,—i i f-* l. Filled, or New ones Inserted,in the best Style, and on Reasonable Terms Office Rear of R. King’s Store.—l ltf J. c. MORRIS, Attorney at Law, CON VERS, GA. J AMES M . LKV Y, Watchmaker & Jeweler, East side of the Square, COVINGTON, GEORGIA, Where he is prepared to Repair Watches, Clocks and Jewelrv in the best style. Particular atten tion given to repairing Watches injured by in competent workmen. All work warranted. ~To S EPH Y. T INSL EY , Watch m’aker & Jeweler. Is fully prepared to Repair Watches, Clo-k and Jewelry, in the best Style, at short notice All Work Done at Old Prices, and Warranted. 2d door below 1 lie Court House.—6tf PAGE, WOOD & ROGERS, HAVE JUST OPENED A Very Large and Handsome Slock of spbijuj. coons. DESCRIPTION.. We invite ours en s to give us a call, as our Stockevery Department is now complete. TACE, WOOD <fc ROGERS, South side of Square, Covington, Ga. COVINGTON GA., AUGUST 13 1869 ltipe Wheat. We beut to-day on a coffined form, And onr tears fell softly down ; We looked our last at the aged face. With its look of peace, its patient grace, And hair like a silver crown. We touched our own to tho claj'-cold hands, From life's long labors at rest; And among the blossoms, white and swoct, We noted a bunch of golden wheat, Clasped close to tho silent breast. The blossoms whispered of fadeless bloom, Os a land where fall no tears. The ripe wheat told of the sorrow and caro, The patient waiting, the trusting prayer, The garnered good of the yeais. Wekncw net what work her hands had found, What rugged places her feet; What cross was hers, what blackness of night— We saw hut tho peaceful blossom3 of whito, And tho hunch of ripened wheat. As each ono goes from tho field of earth, Bearing the treasures of lifo, God looks for some gathered grain of good From the ripened harvest that shining stood, But waiting tho reaper’s knife. Then labor well, that in death you go Not only with blossoms sweet — Not bent with doubt, and burdened with fears, And dead, dry husks of wasted years— But laden with golden wheat. Affecting Scene in Sing Sing Prison. Among the many who have called at Sing Sing Prison during the past week for the pur. pose of seeing some erring rolativc was a de. cently attired English woman, hearing a letter from the office of the British Consul at New York vouching for her respectability, and com mending her to humane consideration. Hav ing on Monday expressed a desire to see her son, who is confined for burglary, a short con sultation among the officials resulted in her being informed that as the person alluded to had been one of the leaders in the late mutiny and at present undergoing punishment, her request would have to be denied. Bowed down with great grief and disappointment, the wo man left the prison and proceeded to the vil lage, where she engaged temporary board.— The next day saw her again in the visitor's room of the prison, where she remained many hours pleading with the authorities for “ one look" at the object of her maternal solicitude ; hut she was a second time informed that the prison officers were inexorable, and her request could not he granted. Almost heart broken, the sorrow stricken mother ceased her impor tunities, and while sobbing hysterically, sought her lodgings. Yesterday morning, a mother’s love—true as the needle to the pole—impelled tho dis consolate woman to present herself for the third time at the prison, when, with looks and accents bordering on insanity, she begged the attendants for another interview with the agent and warden. The latter party, who possesses feelings of humanity in common with other men, again gave the woman a hearing, when she in a frenzied manner told him that her son was dead, and bitterly upbraided him for de ceiving her in the matter. While apparently demented the unhappy woman ejaculated, with mournful emphasis, that in her dreams the previous night she saw the object of her woe clinging to a precipice and begging her to save him. In confirmation of her frightful vision she further stated that the man who drove her to the prison assured her that he had seen two graves being dug on tho previous day, one of which she wildly declared contained the re mains of her “ poor hoy.” Moved by the poor creature's intense agita tion, the agent told her that in order to con vince her of the continued existence of her son, he would at once have him brought from tho prison. Having heard this, floods of tears came now to the happy woman's relief, and it was difficult to witness her expressions of grat itude unmoved. Ou seeing the cause of her trouble the mother appeared somewhat content, although the convict evinced no feeling of af fection, and while the woman wept profusely during the entire interview, her heartless off spring sat smiling indifferently, as though he were but an unconcerned spectator of a moth er’s anguish. Mad I>og Killed. Yesterday morning considerable excitement was occasioned at the residence of Mr. Davis, on Broad street, near the lower Market, in apprehension of the danger threatened his family from a rabid dog. No one was bitten, however, and Mr. 11. M. Levy quelled the fears of tho family and neighbors by shooting tho rabid animal, when a policeman, with his club, finished the career of the evil disposed poodle, for it was a very small mad dog. Rumors were immediately circulated of the existence of another case of canine hydropho bin on the opposite side of the street, on the premises of Dr. J. Dennis, and that Mrs. Den nis had been bitten on the arm by said dog a> few days ago, and that her arm was badly in flamed. and swollen. A committeo of gen tlemen from the neighborhood, with navy sixes waited on his canincship, but found him an exceedingly amiable puppy, manifesting no indications of hydrophobia, and the dog wa3 permitted to breathe on, subject to the conse quences of future bad behavior.—[Augusta Constitutionalist, 7th inst. A Norfolk cotton dealer makes a summary of tho cost of sending a bale of cotton from that city to Liverpool, and also from New York to Liverpool, by which it appears the cost, less commission, is $6,90 from Norfolk, aud $10,07 from New York A Japanese Execution. While wo had been making our tour of in* spection the doomed oulprit had been unlashed and dismounted from his horse at the gate.— But when set on his feet ho was unable to stand, owing to weakness and tho constrained and painful position in which ho had been kept so long, and his guard was obliged to carry him into tho precincts of the -prison.— Hero an ample broakfAst had been provided, of which he ato heartily, and with evident en joyment. After a full half hour it was inti mated to him that his presence was expected. With tho assistance of an attendant on each side, he walked slowly into tho execution ground, and wns placed, kneeling and sitting on his heels (in the universal Japanese pos ture), belling a small hole dug out for the re ception of his head. Some ten yards in front of him, and separated by a ropo running across the square, sat tho presiding yakonin and the prison authorities, calmly fanning themselves ; and beyond those again were the six or oight foreigners who had been admit ted. Tho prisoner’s aruls were' then pinioned be hind iiis back ; but before the cloth Was tied over his eyes, he requested that a mintfte’s grace might be allowed him. This being granted him, he raised a weak, quavering voice to its highest pitch, and screamed out, “My friends!” Immediately an unearthly chorus of wails answered the poor wretch from his friends outside the walls, none of whom could be seen from the interior. This wns followed by “Syonara” (good-bye), and by a deeper and more prolonged wail from the outside. The prisoner then signaled to his guards that he was ready, and submitted quietly to the operation of blindfolding; the executioner stepped up and carefully adjusting tho victim’s head a little on ono side, so as to hang exactly over the hole prepnred to re ceive it, signified that all was ready; the word was given, when, without raising his weapon more than a foot above the neck of the condemned, the executioner brought down his heavy blade with an audible thud which severed the head instantly from thC body. Immediately the head fell it was seized,care fully washed and cleaned, the procession was reformed as before—except that the horse pre viously ridden by the deceased now carried the executioner in charge of tho lifeless head —and wended its way to a raised mound at the side of the highway a quarter of a mil e distant, llero a kind of gallows had been erected, and on tliis was placed the dead man’s head, supported in its position by clay, there to remain six days in sight of all the passers by. and a warning to all evil-doers. Saving—Economy. A man is very apt to deceive himself into the idea that he cannot save, and it is of no use attempting it. lie convinces himself that his income is little enough for present neces sities, and puts off the hope of accumulating, if he forms it at all, to tho happy period when he shall be in better circumstances. Ilis cir cumstances do, perhaps, improve; but his wants extend as much, and still tho time for saving is far ahead. Thus he goes on and on, resolving and re-resolving, until he is at last surprised by sonic sudden calamity, which deprives him even of his ordinary wa ges, or by death, which cruelly cuts him off in the very midst of the best intentions in tho world. Did any man, we would ask, experi ence a falling off in his regular income, even so much as a dollar in a week? Many will answer they have. Did they continue to live at a reduced rate ? They will reply we did so, we were compelled to do it. A ery well; and pray what is the difference being compell ed to live a dollar a week cheaper, and com pelling yourself to do it ? Or, suppose sta tionary wages and a rising produco market, did you not find that, although bread rose a penny a loaf, and other provisions in propor tion, you still continue to make your income procure something like the usual exhibition ot victuals? You answer yes. And where, I would ask, is tho difference between spending a small extra sum upon certain articles of food, and laying it by for accumulation, suppo sing it not to be so needed? It is clear that if you had the fortitude and strength of char acter to make tho savings as much a matter of compulsion as the other circumstances are, you would save. You have, therefore no excuse to present for not saving it, except that yon are too weak-minded to abstain from using money that is in your power. “I Don’t Care.” Yes you do, and there’s no use trying to de ceive yourself with tho sophistry of these words. The best and noblest, truest and most generous part of your nature does care for the cutting, unkind words you have uttered to ono that you loved, in a moment of pique. You may carry youTsolf ever so proudly and ele gantly; you may never drop a look or word of the sweet dew of healing on the wound you have made, in a nature as proud, as sensitive and exacting as your own but to your honor be it said, you are better than your words, and away down in your heart lurks shame ami repentanco aud sorrow for them. You may carefully hide them both, and in a little while they will be gone; for oh I it is very easy to make one’s self bitter and proud and cold —very hard to keep one’s self sweet and mellow and charitable; but there must be some struggling, before yon can do a mean ungenerous thing to one who loves you, and have your heart endorso your “I don't care.” Every newly married young couple who de* sire peace and happines, and wish to make a good start in lifo must remember that they should keep two bears iu tho house, and feed them well—bear and forbear. A Temperance Lecture, Wo were witness, says tho St. Paul Press, of a sail and shameful sight on Fourth street, near the City Hall Park, a little before 6 o’clock last evening. On a hay wagon, which was driven down tho street by Officer Shaffer, lay a man dead drunk ; at his side sat a'sweet and intelligent looking girl of about fifteen, engaged in the task of holding her drunkon father from rolling from the wagon. Tenderly and carefully, with hfr hands clasping his in animate form, did this pure young girl, with bowed head, loviDgly care for her fallen father. It was a sight to draw tears from the eyes of spectators, and yet there were passers by who saw in it only a subject of heartless laughter. This drunken father is a farmer who lives near Long Lake, about fifteen miles from tho city. lie was found by the policemen in upper town in the condition stated, the poor girl weeping bitterly. Her father was r.ot in a state to drive home, and sho did not know the road ; and all she could do was to get Offi cer Shaffer to take them and the team to a hotel down street, where she hod hopes that they could be cared for till her father got sober. She is naturally in sore trouble ; for they were expected home last night. She camo to the city to keep her father company —and though she did not say so it was oasily guessed—also to try by all the strength of her love to keep him from falling a victim to what his loving wife and family feared—an appetito for strong drink. The sorrow and anxiety of the daughter are bitter enough, but far less than the anxiety of the wife and know not whether their loved ones are safely cared for or whether they have passed the night on the road, the drunken father vainly trying to find the way hifttfo', and the frail daughter exposed to the fury of the elements. Should Drnukards Marry ? Waldcck, a German town, has given public notico that ho marriage license will hereafter be granted to any individual who is addicted to druukenness : or if having been so, he must exhibit full proofs that he is no longer a slave to this vice. The same government has also directed that in every report made by the ec clesiastical, municipal and police authorities upon petition for license to marry, the report shall distinctly state whether either of the parties desirous of entering into matrimonial connection is addicted to intemperance. Market Reports. Honor— Scarce. Old Btock exhausted and the new will be a failure. Virtue—Old growth nearly consumed; young growth, prospect very unpromising. Honesty—None in the market. Patriotism —First quality scarce, and none to be disposed of. Second quality easily bought on speculation, ut one hundred per cent discount. Prudence—All in the hands of old stock holders, and held close. Modesty—Stock badly managed. None for sale to street speculators. Vice—Market overstocked. Pride- Market glutted. Politeness —Cheap. Iloldbrs unwilling to dispose of any at the present rates. Scandal-Noneat wholesale. Dealt in chiefly by peddlers at retail. Religion—Very little of the genuine article on hand. Stock generally adulterated. Love—None offered, except for the green backs. An Arabian Laughing Plant. For the first time, says Palgrave, the trav eler, I met with a narcotic plant, very common further south, and gifted witli curious quali ties. Its seeds, in which tho deleterious prin ciple seems chiefly to reside, when pounded and administered in a small dose, produce effects much like those ascribed to Sir Humphry Davy’s laughing gss ; the patient dances, sings, and performs a thousand extravagances, till, after an hour of great exoitement to himself and amusement to the bystanders, he falls asleep, and on awaking bas lost all memory of what he did or said while under the influence of the drug. To put a pinch of this powder into the coffee of some unsuspecting individual is not an uncommon joke. “TnE Coming Boy.”—There is a boy of fif teen years* of ago in Blackhawk coun ty, lowa, whose father died three years ago, leaving his widow and son an eighty acre farm burdened with a SI,OOO mortgage. He has taken sole charge of the farm, paid off tho mortgage, purchased a harvester, a sulky plough, a wagon and a set of harness, besides an eighty dollar sewing machine for his moth er, and is now out of debt. He is a member of the Cedar Valley Agricultural Society, and attends school three months each winter. To Kill Nut Grass.— Dr. Nelson, of this city, says the Macon Telegraph, says he was successful in killing Nut Grass ou the family homestead in Richmond county, by successive crops of Black Mustard, sown thickly broad cast, and sown twice during the season. The dense shade, or quality in the Mustard is pois onous to the grass, or both, never failing to exterminate it—causing the nuts to rot in the ground, It is worth trying. In England a bill for the abolition of cap ital punishment has failed by a vote of one hundred and eighteen to fifty-oight. A woman in New Orleans was arrested for throwing a pail of boiling water over a man. Her defence was that sho mistook him for her husband. Bad examples do not authorize yon to sin. So long as you kuow what U right, do it, no matter what others do. VOL 4 NO. 39' Scenes of Violence iu the West. A fight occurred in one tho western »üb« urbs on the first instant, between a party and river men, who wore taking a drive, and fioinb rowdies, who seemed disposed to take pot session of their carriage. During the row, Sherman Thurston the pugilist, and some friends, drove up, and Thurston demanded fair play. He was immediately assaulted. H<( knocked throe of his assailants down, when ho was shot, onco behind the ear, tearing a portion of tho ear away, oneein the cheek, the ball passing through tho mouth, and once in the hip, tho bullet reaching the bone. ton was brought to the city, and although he suffers a good deal his wounds are not fatal; ■ The excitement at Pekin, Illinois, in regard to the killing of the Deputy Sheriff of Taxe well County, while attempting to arrest twtf horso thieves, culminated at 2 o’clock day morning, when a crowd of men from the country broke into the jail, took the leader of tho gang out and hung him to a tree. He some way obtained possession of a clasp knife and cut several of the lynching party, one of them so badly that he probably will not recover; It was thought some more of the gang would be lynched. Colonel Bowen, the leader of the police, who, for several weeks, havo been scouring the woods of Washington and St, Franoiffoountiel in search of Sam. Hildebrand, the desperado and murderer, has returned to the city and reports that all efforts to capture Hildebrand have so far proved unsuccessful. Endeavor# are still being made, however, and a large’ number of men are organized and constantly on the alert to capture the dosperado. Meet* ings have been held in nearly all the townships' of St. Francis and Washington counties. The people havo subscribed considerable sums of money as rewards for the arrest of the mur derer, and tho connty courts have awarded money for the support of organized companies to hunt tho villain. At a meeting of the Board of Trade a com mittee of twelve was appointed to raise, by subscription, one hundred and twenty thous and dollars, to build an iron sea going propel ler, to inaugurate a direct trado between St; Louis and foreign and domestic ports. Said vessel to boos one thousand tons, and not to’ draw over six feet of water. The Coolie Question. Tho ‘‘Times” is in favor of repealing or mo difying the act of Congress, prohibiting the Coolie trade, so as to offer no impediment to the importation of Chinese labor. The editor assumes that: “There is no longer any doubt of the great value and economy of Chinese coolies as agri cultural laborers; they have been tested aa common laborers on various public improve ments in the West, and have been found mord economical than the Irish ; but they have not proved to be available as skilled laborers.— There is no doubt that the Pacific coast needs labor, and that Asia will most propably supply that demand for many years to come. The conditions, in an industrial sense, are, there fore somewhat changed from what they were when the law was pafesed, and favor its modi fication. The conditions, politically end social ly, are also materially altered, and these also favor the modification of the law. To prohibit the coolie trade entirely is to prohibit the im migration of the Chinese. The coolies are tob' poor to immigrate without help ; their Gov» eminent will not send them, and hence those in need of their labor will have to supply the’ means of transportation.” A Good Rcasou for Telling the Truth." A lettle girl who was put upon the witness stand in Justice Stephant’s office, in Cleveland 0., a few days ago, gave a very unexpected* and good reason why the truth should be told. After taking the oath, the attorney for the party in whose interest she had been summon ed asked her if siie knew the nature of the obligation she had just taken ; what she wae obliged to do. “Yes, sir," was tho reply, “I must tell the truth.” Tho attorney for the other side immediately asked : “Why must you tell the truth ?” Answer —“Because if I don't this caso won’t be won.” The reply produced a sensation, and tho girl was permit*’ ted to testify without any further questioning.- A Corn Story.—A correspondent of tho Columbus Enquirer, in Muscogee county, says, “ Let mo tell you what I saw on the 27th of this month, (July.) I saw a man six feet two inches high, stand, and with a cane three feet long, touch forty four ears of cornl I also saw the same man, with tho same stick over his head, fail to reach the silk, when standing erect and close by the base of a stalk, on the same plantation.” That is a pretty tolerable tall—cotn, we mean. A worldling was onco visited in his illness by a well moaning but dolorous clergyman, who disfigured his countenance and wore a face of perpetual mourning. As his sad v is ago appeared in the doorway, the sick man started up and exclaimed : “ Why, what’s the matter with you ? You look as though your religion didn't agree With you I” An ingenious man in Illinois has patented a selfacting water elevator. It is about the size of a quart cup, but will raise thirty gal lons of water from a well or cistern in an hour, and by uso of tho necessary piping will lead it all over tho house. In old times water would not run up hill. It is found that tho loss of currency by wear and tear is more than sufficient to pay the ex pense of printing and issuing it. The average life of a bank note is three year;, and that of currency a much shorter time.