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ffiatron ©a ill) Enterprise. Stevenson & Smith, Proprietors, Terms of Subscriptions * . $ 8 00 One Year. 4 oO Six Months ._ 2 00 Three Mouths Invariably in advance. To city subscribers by the mouth, Seventy-ilve cents, served bv carriers. Georgia JStaic Mews. Susabt Ebkkhabt. The Aiuericus He publican says that a petition is prepared to Got. Smith to commute the sentence of this unfortunate woman, who, as has been stated, has been condemned to hang on 'the 24th day of May. It has received the signatures of ten of her jurors and many citizens of Webster and adjoining counties. The editor visited her in juil aid she made a confession to him as follows : •• On the night of the murder this girl was called from her couch by Spann, and told to bring a handkerchief. Not know jug what was going on. she obeyed the summons, and found Spann binding a rope across his wife’s throat. He ordered her to bandage his wife’s mouth. Fear jug to disobey the murderer’s command, holding the ends oi the handkerchief in her bands, she laid it across the woman’s mouth; Spann then fore and it into the mouth with bis fingers. The young woman, bewildered and alarmed, obeyed the man, scarcely knowing what she did. Alone with this madman and his helpless victim, beyond the reach of help, she feared bis violence might be vis ited upon her if she disobeyed him. After the foul deed was accomplished, she begged to be allowed to go to her parents, lie told her she must flee with him, that if she remained she would certainly be arrested and bung. Thus menaced, she fled with him; not as a paramour, but from fear of vengeance ; and during their flight she begged to be allowed to return to her parents." Tbe following does credit to the head and heart of the editor : “ We certainly need not fear the censure of the wires and daughters of this judi cial circuit, if this petition is sent up to the Governor, in part, upon the plea of mx. If any person is to suffer the. ex terme penalty of the law without the most pottive evidence of criminal intent, for heaven's sake, let it not be a helpless female—a simple minded, unsophisticated country girl—unskilled in tbe merltri cious arts of the seductive courtesan. Bad enough is it when the safety of society and the sanctity of the law, by tbe stern decree of inflexible justice, presents to the gazing world, the sickening spectacle of woman suspended between the heavens and tbe earth, reviled and spurned by the idle throng, but when the agents of justice, the guardians of her sacred portals sport or experiment with her insigna, and made a pastime or a pageant of her terrible exact ments, and a weak, offendinig, though not criminal woman is the puppet in the piti ful show, well may humanity weep and manly honor blush with shame.” We know Gov. Smith has almost invari ably refused clemoncy, but we join with the petitioners in asking it of him in this iustanca. As we remarked the other day the facts in the case plainly show that she was the victim of a cold-blooded villian. Settling a Great Question.—Says the Griffin News: “Dr. Audrews preached a sermon last night at George’s Hall on the fruitful sub ject of Hell and the Devil. If the Doctor can prove satisfactorily that there is no such country or person as the above,he will make a heap of people feel much better. We believe in every man having his own views about anything, and have no quar rel to make with the Doctor or any one else for their opinions, but satisfied, as we are, if there isn’t a hell there ought to be one for some folks, we are going to believe in the “old bell fire and damnation” doc trine that has been in vogue from the time Satan was pitched over the battlements of Heaven. If a man lives in such a way as to try and keep out of a possible hell, he is on the safe side, and there is na harm done. The Doctor is an able preacher, honest in his views, and very popular with all classes of people.” The General Conference of the Colored Methodist Church of America is in sea son at Augusta. It is presided over by Bishop W. H. Mills, of Kentucky, and is quite well attended. Worth Superior Court —Acquittal ° Branch. —The trial of Wm. Branch, for the killing of Mitchell Cravy, in Sep tember, 1871, which occupied the most of the session, last week, of the adjourned term of Worth Superior Court, resulted in the acquittal of Branch by the Jury, on Friday; after which the Court ad journed.—Albany Central City. Kun Over and Killed. — A white man, name unknown, was run over by a freight train at the foot of Bartow street and the State Road last night about 11 o'clock. He was horribly mangled. It is •opposed that he attempted to pass be jween the cars and lost his foothold. He ** supposed to be a painter. —Atlanta Con dilution. Badlt Hurt bt Futures. —We hear • well authenticated report that the heavy Montgomery, Ala., cotton buyers have hcen severely crippled—some beyand re covery—by dealing in futures. We regret 0 hear that any Southern man has lost rnoney. I n Columbus we are told by note who ought to know that some of our ” a yers have lost on futures, but as a rule one have dabbled in them to a very re markable extent.— Columbut Bun. Says the Fort Valley Mirror : ' J °*; Patterson. —We made mention column, March the 12th of the Mr. Jos. Patterson at the Spinks u **’ The wonnd was not considered a very dangerous one, and he left for his home in Crawford the next day afier being hurt. We learn that he died Sunday from the effects of the wound. This is another example of what whisky will do. Sick. —Just about now we have some of the sickest men in town imaginable. They are not with the horrible chills, fevers, aches and “sich,” but are awful sick of cotton— “futures” is what they call it. Not being a learned we cannot furnish them with a remedy or any consolation whatever. Tbe Bodies of the Second Engi neer and Fireman of the S. C. Har dee Kise to the Surface — Yesterday afternoon the bodies of Mr. Pat Dunn, the second engineer, and of the colored tire man of the ill-fated steamer C. S. Hardee, who were drowned when that vessel not long since grounded on the wrecks and went to the bottom, w ere picked up float ing in the river not far from old Fort Jackson, and towed *0 the wharf there where they await a call from the Coroner to-day. Nearly all hope of recovering other bodies of tbe drowned crew bad been given up, when these unexpectedly left their watery graves and demanded sepul ture on shore. —Savannah liepublioan. Oakes Ames on Colfax. From a Herald Interview.] “ But it seems that General Grant has indorsed Schuyler Colfax.” I suggested. “ No sir,” continued Mr. Ames, “ if you read President Giant’s uote to Colfax you will see that lie congratulates him on tbe fact that the charges imputed were not sus tained, and that bribery and corruption were tbe charges ; and in just as much for me as for him, for if there was no one bribed then there was no briber. If Schuy ler was free from bribery then I wus. But the President don’t commit himself about Schuyler’s lying. He knows he lied. This is plain talk, but every member of the com mittee told me that in their opinion Schnyler had lied. There is not a member of Congress in Washington or a newspa per man but what knows Schuyler lied. Yes, and lied like a dog, sir.” “How did Mr. Colfax appear when you met.” “Appear? Why he always hung his head and looked guilty. lie could not look me in the face; neither could Kelley or Garfield. They would hang their faces and look red, as if my presence troubled them.” - ’TWAS EVER THUS. THE BEAUTIES OF ANTICIPATION AND THE AFTER REALITY. Mrs. Buruam, the frolicsome New York correspondence of the St. Louis Republican, writes : A well educated, well born, well dow ered, well—well, a fine young lady of this city told me in November how she had found the “greatest, truest, most lovable soul that was ever created.” I had heard of nine hundred just like him before, so I knew she was correct. In December I was invited to tbe wedding, and in Janu ary I went to. it; it was nice. More cas tors than you see in a target excursion ; more lemon-squeezers than you see at a picnic. Good clothes and swell style, and a floral marriage bell that cost six hun dred dollars. I was in “tke altitude of receptivity” (and a blue silk,) so tbe bride clung to me between taking off a white satin and putting on a gray silk, and find ing a trunk key, and losing her traveling gloves. She told me words were power less to convey the unalloyed happiness the world now held for her; how melodi ous would —“move their wedded life Through shocks of time and storms of strife, Husband true and perfect wife !” She got back last February, and “ Oh, shame! oh, sorrow! and oh, woman kind ! ” Melcljieedec had been morose the first twenty miles of their joiirrifty, in consequence of some trivial difference. She had caught him pinching the cham bermaid’s cheek at the St. Lawrence Hall in Montreal. But the worst was to come. She herself had been ill, and the doctor, the indescribably fascinating homoeopathic doctor, who had been called in, was so far the superior of Melchisedec, that ag onies, nothing but agonies, would ensue in her future. She was bound to Mel chisedec, and her “soul was with the homoeopathic physician ” —“ one teas poonful each alternate hour.” I should be very sorry for Melchis., but Mel is a lawyer, and a very sweet friend of mine went with another matrimonial victim to bis office, to commence proceedings of a diverse and divorce character. Melchis. fell furiously in love with the friend, and has asked her to go to the opera with him, and said many very licorice things to her. “ ’Tis ever thus,” etc. My friend knowing more than he thought she did, very properly discountenanced him ; but his soul is in arms, and without doubt ere fall the gushing bride, the “ husband true and perfect wife,” will have resolved themselves into a happy couple of four, or else be separated wider than the poles. Oh dear ! It's awful, isn’t it ? Failure of the Cresent City Bank of New Orleans. New York, March 14. — A New Orleans special to the Times says that the Cresent City National Bank, circulation $450,000 closed its doors to day. E. H. Somers, one of the committee of two hundieds which recently visited Washington in the inter est of the McEnery government, was the president, and it is rumored that heavy drafts on the bank to meet the expenses of the committee were the cause of its fail ure. The cabital of the bank is half a million, and its discounts February 1, $059- 785. It is reported to be a bad failure, and Col. Charles Casey has taken charge of the bank as a receiver. MACON, GA., SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1873. Macon and Knoxville Railroad- The people of Lower and Middle Georgia, and especially the business men of Macon,seem thoreughly aroused to the importance of the early construction of this road. The old officers have been re tired, and their places filled with gentle men of integrity, energy and of experience in railroad matters, who will make every effort possible to push this gigantic enter prise through. Colonel George W. Adunts the newly elected president, possesses a thorough education in railways, liaviug been for many years prominently connec ted with the management of the Central Road, where lie discharged the duties of his position with eminent ability, and to the entire satisfaction of the company. The experience of the past winter has clearly demonstrated the fact that the Western and Atlantic Railroad, upon which mainly devolves the carrying of Western freight, is incompetent to do the immense business in the way ol transpor tation which the necessities of the public demand. For two mouths there has been a freight blockade at Chattanooga, aud those well informed slate that it will re quire at least two months to open it up so that there will be nny regularity aud cer tainty in the movement of freights. It wili be seen at a glance that this state of tilings is not only detrimental to the public at Lirge. but ruinous alike to the mercantile interests of the South and West. It is estimated that the business men of Macon alone, have sus tained losses this winter amounting to several hundreds of thousands of dollars, by reason of the inability of the railroads having western connections to do the bus iness of the country in the way of trans portation. For this evil there is but one remedy, and that is the opeuing up of new routes to the West and Northwest. The mercantile interests of the country now feel the urgent necessity of prompt and energetic work to this end, and something wiil be done aud that at once. The most direct and possible route that has yet been projected is that already par tially surveyed between Macon and Kuox ville, and there can now be but little doubt that ground will be broken on this road between this and next fall, and that tbe work of construction will be hurried through with energy and rapidity. In deed, the building of that portion of this line between Macon and Covington is al ready assured. Some of our people are ap prehensive that the road will not cross the Georgia Railroad, aud that the only purpose of those moving ac tively in the matter is to make con nection with that road there so as to give Macon, Savannah and Brunswick, a near outlet to Atlanta. There is no reason for any such fear as this. The freight block ade is not at Atlanta, but at Chattanooga. The Macon and Western Road can bow move freight from that point faster than the State Road can deliver it, aud there is no necessity—that is uo general public necessity —for a line between Macon and Covington. Tbe men of capital who are investing their means in this road are look ing beyond the latter place. There is no doubt of this. We give our readers this week a couple of articles from the Macon Enterprise on this subject, knowing that these will prove more interesting reading to them than anything else we could lay before them.— Gwinnett Herald, The Inauguration Ball a Swindle- It seems that everything the Radical party has anything to do with turns out a swindle in some shape or other. It is now stated by Washington correspondents that “ the great inauguration ball has has proved an immediate loss to the mana gers of about twenty-five thousand dollars. A desperate effort is being made to make up this deficit by having concerts, etc. in the great barn of a building that was erected near the District jail in order that ten thousaed persons might dance in honor of Ulysses second inauguration. Two of these concerts have been held, but the debts increased rather than diminish. The last resort is a grand Union ball, to be given by all the State associations, on the 25th instant. The presidents of the difl'er ent associations have been constituted a committee of arrangements, with Public Printer Clapp as treasurer. This is a nice littlo dodge to make the poor clerks in the departments pay the fiddler that the inauguration sight-seers might dance to the new tune of the “Grants are Com ing.” Every clerk will be expected to pay for a ticket, whether he attends or not, and in this way Shepherd, Cooke and twenty-three more of the Ring, who pledged themselves to make good all de ficiences, will be relieved. If this would save the tax-payers of the District, no one would complain: but everybody knows that they will be made to loot the bill in gome way or other, no matter if the poor clerks are assessed five dollars or ten dol lars for this purpose.’’ AGENTS WANTED.—The most liberal terms ever offered. Explorations in Africa. — The Discoverer DISCOVERED. The adventures of a most adventurous life. A large octavo volume, splendidly illustrated. Contains incidents of the wonderful career of the Great Traveler, the Country, Animals, Na tives, Hunting, etc. The best digested Cyclo pedia of African Knowledge and Livingstone's Explorations ever published. Full account of How Stanley Found Livingstone, The on ly book endorsed by the Press, bend $1 for outfit, or write at once to UNION PUBLISH ING COMPANY, Cincinnati, Ohio, inarß-4w SPIK liL ATTENTION CITY TAX PAYERS. I AM instructed by Council to give notice to all persons subject to tax of any kind, that one-fourth must be paid by April Ist or execu tions for full amount will he issued. No one must ask or expect farther time, my orders be ing positive I must comply. The book for payment of the fourth will he closed at 2 P. M. March 31st. Those failing to comply must blame no one but themselves. Office hours from 9 a. m. to 2 p. u. CUA3. J. WILLIAMSON, mar.l3td Treasurer. (reculatorj ' 1 "'MM For over FORTY YEARS this PURELYVEUETADLK LIVER MEDICINE has proved to be the (■rent Inliiili ■!&> Nperlflc for Livkk Complaint nail the painful offspring, DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jaundice, Billious attacks, SICK HEADACHE, Colic, Depression of Bulrita SOUR STOMACH, Heart Bu'-n, Ac., &e. After years of careful experiments, to meet a great and urgent demand, we now produce from our original GENUINE POWDERS, M'lli: PREPARER, a liquid form af SIMMONS’ LIVER REGU LATOR, containing all its wonderful and val uable properties, und oiler it ill ONK DOLLAR HOTTLEN. The Powders, (prlee as before) SI.OO perp’kge. Sent by mail 1.04 £-ST CAUTION I! Buy no Powders or PREPARED SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOR unless in our engraved wrapper, with Trade mark, Stump and Signa ture unbroken. None other Is genuine. ■ .1. H. /EILIY Jk. CO., MACON, GA., and PHILADELPHIA. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS, jan 31-frit CASES AND CASKETS THE FINEST, THE BEST, THE CHEAPEST METALLIC CASES A N I) CASKETS, WOOD COFFINS, CASES AND CASKETS, A T ARTHUR L. WOOD’S, Next to “Lanier House.” Nigtit anil Sunday calls answered from the “Lanier House.” feblo-3m Life-Size Portraits TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. LESS! OLD PICTURES COPIED TO ANY SIZE, AND COLORED TRUE TO NATURE. w. T. BROWN, Proprietor. NO. 8 COTTON AVE., MACON, GA. P. O. Box, No. 90. feb26-tf REMOVAL. WE have removed our Saddle and Harness Salesroom, Manufactory and Trunk De pot, from No. iW.Third street, to the elegant b tore room next to Seymour, 1 inuley & Cos.. where, with better facilities for display and work, we hope, by strict attention to business and immediate supervision over the workroom, to deserve a share of the public patronage. We keep constantly on hand, Saddles, Bri dles, Harness, Trunks, Whips, Traveling Bugs, Shoe Findings, etc., both imported and of oar our manufacture. Give us a call and we guar antee satisfaction. W. L. HENRY <fc CO. marS-lm JA AES 11. BLOUNT. ISAAC HARDEMAN. IILOKJNT lIABDBMM, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MACON, GEORGIA. OFFICE, at entrance Ralston Hall, Cherry street. 49--M T. M. COX, attorney at law, ICalwton Hall Hulldlngr, CHERRY STREET, MACON. GEORGIA. 123tf DR. L. L. JOHNSTON. OFFERS his professional services to the citizens of Macon and vicinity. Office No. 10 Hollingsworth Block, second story in the rear. Residence, Second street, Troup Hill, feb 7-tf BERLIN BREWERY BEER IMPORTED direct to Macon. The only im portation of its kind ever received here. For sale by MRB. MOLI.IE DENICKE, Sole Agent, 4th si, between Courtnrier’s and J.awrence’B. fe>2l-lm W. & E. P. TAYLOR, Cor. Cotton Avon tie ant! Cliorry Streot, DEALERS IN FURNITURE, CARPETS k RUGS, OIL CLOTHS, WINDOW SHADES, etc. Metalic Burial Cases & Caskets, Fine and Plain M ood Coffins and Caskets. Jjgf Orders by Telegraph promptly attended to. Wtf i _ JU, ■""■ji 'i_"; Min— -i!—L U-MJJ ■ IMPROVED GOT GEAR. SOMETHING NEW. SUPERSEDES ALL OTEER HORSE POWER IT IS NO HUMBUG!! THE settling of the Gin House floor hue no ellect on the Gearing. King Post of Iron and 11 the work bolted to iron. IT IS MADE TO LAST, AND TO RUN TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. LIGHTER TUAN ANY OTHER POWER IN USE. Cali aid see for youaself. I bui.a a Portable Horse Power that challenges all other MAKES, but It will not do the w<trk with the Bume Draft that my PATENT GIN GEAR will. All kinds of Machinery made und repaired at LKOC'HETT'N IRON WORK* 108-18 C Near Brown House, Macon Georgia. RAILROAD TIME SCHEDULE. Change of Schedule. SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE, ) South-Western Rah.hiiad Cos., r Macon, Ga., June 13, 1871. ) ON and after Sunday, 10th Inst., Passenger Trains on this Road, will bu run as fol lows: DAT BUfAULA PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Macon .... 8:00 a. m. Arrive at Eufaula . . . 4:42 p. m. Arrive at Clayton . . . 0:15 P. M. Arrive at Albany . . . 2:40 p. m. Arrive at Fort Gaines . . 4:40 p. m. Connecting with the Albany Brunch Train at Smithville and witli Fort Gaines Branch Train at Cuthbert daily. Leave Clayton . 7:20 A. m. Leave Eufaula . . . 8:50 a. m. Leave Fort Gaines . . 8:35 A. m. Leave Albany .... 10:45 A. m. Arrive at Macon . . . 5:25 P. m. EUFAULA NIGHT FREIGHT ANI) ACCOMMODA TION TRAIN. Leave Macon . . . . 9:10 p. m. Arrive at Eufaula . . 10:20 a. m. Arrive at Albany . . . o:4ft a. m. Arrive at Fort Gaines . . 11:52 a. m. Connect at Smithville with Albany Train on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday nights, and at Cuthbert on Tuesday and Thuasday.— No train leaves on Saturday nights. Leave Eufaula .... 5:15 p. m. Leave Albany .... 8:40 p. m. Leave Fort Gaines . . . 1:10 P. m. Arrive at Macon . . . 5:20 a. m. COLUMBUS DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Macon .... 5:45 a. m. Arrive at Columbus . . . 11:15 a. m. Leave Columbus . . . 4:10 p. m. Arrive at Maeou . . 9:85 r. m. VIRGIL POWERS, 69-ly Engineer and Superintendent. Change of Schedule. SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFCE, j Macon<fe Brunswick Railroad Cos., > Macon, Ga., February 21, 1813. ) ON and after Sunday February 23, 1873, trains on this road will run as follows : DAT PASSENGER TRAIN, DAILT (SUNDAYS EX CEPTED. ) Leave Macon 8:45 a. m. Arrive at Jesup &80 i*. m. Arrive at Savannah 10:00 p. m. Arrive at Brunswick- 10:20 p. m. Leave Brunswick 4:80 a. m. Arrive at Jesup 0:42 a. m. Arrive at Macon 5:25 p. m. NIOUT PASSENGER TRAIN, DAILT. Leave Macon 8.00 r. M Arrive at Jesup 5.20 am Arrive at Savannah ...9.10 a. m Leave Savannah 8.15 P. M Arrive at Jesup 10.00 *” ** Arrive at Macon 7.00 a. m Both day and night teains connects at Jesup with trains to and from Florida. HAWKINSVILI.E TRAIN DAILY, (SUNDATS EX CEPTED.) Leave Macon 3:00 p. u. Arrive at Hawkinsville 8:30 r. M. Leave Hawkinsville 7:05 a. m. Arrive at Macon..... 18:50 a. m. WM. MacRF.A, 27tf General Superintendent. Milliners and Fancy Goods! MRS. A. BULKUEY. MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS. No. Cotton-Avenue, near new Court-house, febao-tf Volume I. —Number 290 Change of [Schedule/ ON MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD. FORTY-ONE MILES SAVED IN DISTANCE Office Macon and Augusta Railroad, 1 Macon, May 18,1873. { ON and after Sunday, May 19,1872, aid un til further notice, th# trains on this Road will run as follows: DAT TRAIN—DAILT (SUNDATS EXCEPTED). l.cavc Macon 8.30 A. M. Arrive at Augusta 1.15 p. m. Leave Augusta 12.15 p, m. Arrive at Macon 7.40 r. u. Passengers leuvltig Macon at 7.80 a. m. make close connection at Camak with day pas senger trains on the Georgia Railroad fur At lanta and all points West; also, for Augusta, with trains going North, and with trains for Charleston ; also, for Athens, Washington, sad all stations on the Georgia Railroaf tif'Tlekcts sold and baggage chu xed to all points North, both by rail and by steamship# from Charleston. 24-1 v 8. K. JOITNSON Suu’t. Change of Schedule. MACON AND WESTERN It. It. CO., { Macon, Ga., November 16, 1872. ) ON and after Sunday November 17, the fol lowing schedule for Passenger Trains, will he observed on this road: DAY PASSENGER. Leave Macon 7:25 a. m. Arrive at Macon 7:48 a. m. Leave Atlanta 1:45 a. m. Arrive at Atlanta 1:26 P. m. NIGHT PASSENGER. Leave Macon 10:00 p. m. Arrive at Macon 8:20 r. if. Leave Atlanta 2:30 p. m. At rive at Atlanta 6:00 a. m. Making close connection* at Macon with Central Railroad for Savannah and Augusta, and with Southwestern Railroad for point* in Southwest Georgia. At Atlanta with Western and Atluutie Railway for points West. A, J. WHITE, nov2tf Superintendent ~ EDWARD SPRINZ. Notary public and ex-officio jus tice OF THE PEACE. I ean be found for the present at all hours of the day at my offi-e adjoining the law office of A. rroudflt, over the store of Jaques & Johnson, Third Bt, Macori, Ga., to atteud to all Magisterial busi ness. 118-330. ~BUY ME, AND TBY ME. AND I WILL DO YOU GOOD! JACKSON’S MAGIC BALSAM—the great master of Pain. Cures Toothache In one minute; Headache in lire minutes ; Neuralgia in ten minutes; Rheumatism (acute) in forty eight hours, and the worst chronic in four days. Sold by all the principal druggists at 25 cts., 50 cts.. 81.00 and $5.00 per bottle. P. VAN ALSTINE, Proprietor, mar3 tf Barnesville, Ga. JNO. B. WI’EHS, ATTORNEY Y T LAW. OFFICE ON 3d STREET OVER L. W. RANDAL’S STORK 39-I 7