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[Advertisement* of fire line* under Oil* head
will be inserted S time* for tl 00 in advance ]
WANTED— A pttrtliannr for a fine steal
axle 134 lbe. Wagon.
Apply at GOLI.IK* A I.ITTIK’*.
nmr-A Heeotid Uvet.
SAFE WANTED.—Any ane having a wend
hand Safe and wishing to rent the eanie,
would do well to addrean MARCUS,
Box K, Macon, G.
WANTED - A good cook * ilhout exlni in
cumbrancc. To attend to the cooking
and general houaework of u email family. Mart
come well recommended. Apply at
Til Own i
(lAIMTAI. WANTED Inn well ratal*]i-lnd
J liualncae. A capital of 9*ooo required
Addrnaa. with real name,
“ Livinoston*,”
Enterprise Olllce.
NEWSBOYS— Ta tell the Daii.T Enter
PRISE.
SITUATION AS TEACHEK—By a young
lady well qualified to teach the rudiment*
of an English education, a small school of seven
or eight pupil*. The applicant belong* to one
of thj beat mmillc* of Macon, and would have
no objection going to the country uud hiking
charge of a family of children In that capacity.
Addrean Lock Box K, with real mime mid
poet officii.
tmTuIILY EMERPBIUE
rrmuNHKD ktkiit morminw n\
STEVENSON Sc SMITH.
Euitoks an i> Phoprietokh
MACON. MARCH 26 1873
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>ne Vear N (Ml
Six Month* 4
Thrue Month* 2 ( ” 1
lumriiMy in adtmttce.
To city aubaerlbem bylhf numlh , Seventy-!! ve
■ onta, aerred by carrier*.
Tclrgra.ni • to the Enterprlac. *
Oil ft ABItAKORMETM Cl iMI’I.KTKD
We have to day completed our arrange
ments for full ami intelligent telegraphic
news from all parts of the world up to iwo
o’clock, a M., every morning. The knot
of the rude ruaticus, Gordius, has bweu
cut at a single blow, which be in bis
conceit thought not a man in the king
dotu could untie.
Bo far ax possible otir dispatches, whilst
being more complete, will have their own
individuality ; for it is our purpose to pub
lish an original paper throughout.
Our market reports will be posted upon
the Enterprise Bulletin Board every thirty
minutes during the day, and given com
plete every morning. In this particular
the greatest care w ill be observed to have
every fraction absolutely correct.
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'■'be lialcrprlae llullelln Board,
ItIPORTS or TitK MARKKTR KVEKY
TIIIIITT MIMCTM
Ci'iumeueing this morning, March 2611i,
1873. we will post upon the Bulletin Board
on the pavement in front of our office, the
exact state ot the Gold. Stock, Colton and
Produce markets of Liverpool, New York
Cincinnati St. Imuia, Louisville and Chi
cago, every thirty minutes. This will he
couliuued until dark every day.
It is impossible for a paper only issued
euce a day to satisfy the w ants of a com-,
tuercial comiuuuity like llie city of Macon,
and hence we are compelled to resort lo
the Enterprise Bulletin Board. Merchants
and citizens can call every thirty minutes
and And out tlie exact situation of the
leading articles in w hich they deal.
Tke Ulvckude.
We publish this moniing a valuable
piece of information taken from the Nash
ville Banner of the 23d. It will be seen
that the warehouses and freight depots of
that city are filled to overflowing with
goods for the South Atlantic cities, and
that there are “six hundred cars along the
Hue of the Nashville and Chnttnnooga
road, waiting for engine to pull them
South."
Thin is a splendid showing, truly The
merchants of the Northwest have long
since received their pay from us for these
goods. We have not ouly lost the oppor
tunity of selling them to advantage and
good profit, but have lust the interest ami
the use of our money in the meantime. In
consequence of this enormous drain upon
our capital, money is more scarce to-day
with us than it ever is iu mid summer
Our banks have extended all the relief
they can with safety to themselves, aud
our merchants must realise from goods in
trauaiC.
There is hut one way aud one ouly to
get rid of this annual annoyance and
check upon our commerce. And that is
to build the Macon and Kuoxville Kail
road. We will get no permanent relief
short of that. The people from one cud
of the line to the other are a unit in favor
of extending aid in its construction to the
extent of their several abilitlee to do so.
In the main it will traverse counties rich
iu accumulated wealth, and still richer in
the minerals stored within (he bosom of
mother earth.
And the cities of the Northwest, ever
ready to luvest money in railways when
to their advantage, will extend to us a
helping hand if appealed to in the right
way. But they are all waiting for Macon
to start the gigantic enterprise, to place
the battailous into line. And 3!acou is
waiting for its Board of Trade to give the
word to forward. We trust it will not
wait ten days longer j
An Era of Bunging—ileaetlon
In ■•while Sentiment.
We have our New York mail of last
Saturday this morning. The great metro
poliian journal* devote from five to fifteen
columns to tire hanging of Foster and
reminiscences of oilier executions which
have taken plaeo In that city for the last
forty years Including Foster they amount
to just thirty.
But in this time two or three thousand
murders have been committed there, many
more aggravated, and scarcely any less
revolting than that for which Foster has
laid down his life. Many, perhaps teu In
every one hundred, are in complete ob
livion, not an iota of evidence having ever
yet readied the pabllc to even point sus
picion to the pei petrutors.
Among others with the cloud of mys
tery still over them, fading into more
darkness with the lapse of years, is that of
Helen Jewett, who was assassinated in
181 H, filly five years ago. Her murder,
and the subsequent trial of her murderer,
Uobinsou, attracted the attention of the
United States and the world. A woman
of remarkable personal beauty, born in
one of Hie best families in New England,
of superior education, hut whose chastity
was questioned, her death sent a chill of
honor through the laud. But there was
not the slightest evidence produced in
court h> convict Kobinsou. After his ac
quittal lie went to Texas. And after the
elupse of tinny years lie again visited New
York, and calling upon the Judge who
had presided at ids trial he said : “ You
do not recognize me. I am Robinson.
But I did not kill Helen Jewett.” The
Judge told him that he had always
thought him guilty, hut now lie was con
vinced that he was innocent.
Ho many murderers have gone uuwliip
ped of justice that public sentiment,
stronger than any law, lias turned against
them and demands “ whoso sheds man's
blood, liy man sliull his blood be shed.”
There is a firm and settled determination
in the mind of the law abiding public to
arrest the wanton Mini terrible disposition
of (lie present age to take away human
life Our venerable Judge Cole remarked
from his place on the bench at the last
term of our Court that he had come to the
firm conviction that mercy shown to a
criminal iiad a tendency to aggravate
rather than to check crime. And that in
future appeals from Jurors and Attorneys
to him would have no etrect. A jury
should never attempt to thus evade a re
sponsibility. Nor is it right for the Court
below and (lie community to throw that
responsibility upon the Governor of the
Htute.
'■’lie Miiroii Water Work*.
We have beeu intending for a week
past to devote aome space to the matter of
the Macon Cauul and Water Works.
A proposition was made several days
ago to the City Council by the Company
that if the city would subscribe a certain
amount of money uud put the Armory
property Into its hands, the Company
would go forward, building a cauul for
factory purposes, and supply the city with
water from hydrants at u specified annual
rental.
We have the authority of a cotemporary
for stating that "ihe committee of the City
Counsel to whom was referred the propo
sition made by the Macon Water Works
Company, have agreed to report in favor
of the following ; The stock company
put in the t 7 5 acres of laud at #40,000,
and #75 000 in cash, and the city put in
the Armory at #30,000 and a cash sub-,
scriptlon of #70,000. The compauy will
tie required to furuish two huudred
hydrants for #II,OOO per annum; also
complete the armory building at once for
a cotton factory and fit it out with the
necessary machinery. The company is to
put in water works and build the pro
posed canal lo furnish power for the
foctoriea."
The matter was to come up for some
definite and final action before the City
Council at its meeting last night, but what
disposition was made of it woof course
can not tell at the hour this article is
being written.
But our present Mayor an 1 Council
could erect no grander or lasting monu
ment to their memory than tho building
of this proposed Canal aud Water Works
and the Macon and Knoxville Railroad.
It would he an insult to ordinary intelli
gence to argue the propriety of construct
ing a canal liy which the waters of the
Octuulgeo river which have flowed past
the city useless for centuries, may be
turned to the direct advantage of man.
There it is as first created by Providence,
hut as Providence never intended that we
should he rewarded without laber, so we
must do some work la-fore securing that
placed iu the |Hxssibility of our reach.
New England is naturally a very poor
and sterile country. The soil, whilst not
being so rich as that ol Georgia, is gov-
I erned by climatic laws which arbitrarily
refuses to grow cotton. But her people
in order to overcome this disadvantage in
geographical position, have placed ma
chinery on every stream, aud made every
pound of w ater do subservience to their
will. The result has been that they have
millions to day of money where wo have
thousands Nor is this all; they dictate
the laws and shape the government of the
United States. Virginia, that once grand
old free Empress mother of States, them
selves free, that State which only yester
day could command the storms of political
strife as did the Saviour of the world the
troubled waters of Gallilee. is now oDly
despised, mentioned with contempt, but
still has the memory of the dead Chivalier
Bayard.
Slavery dead and gone and with it five
eights of our material wealth, we must
have something else in which to invest
our surplus capital and to stop its unnat
ural flow to New England. In the whole
range of financial problems nothing is so
inviting, so safe or certain as Cotton Fac
tories. In order to successfully compete
with those of other Slates and other coun
tries, they must neccessarily be propelled
by water. The cost of wood and coal is
too great, but even when operated by
steam and where well managed, they are
better than almost any other permanent
investment offered in the South.
The magnet of populations is in some
thing to do. In order to bring people
here, to double and treble the amount now
in the city, we must furnish them labor.
Nor is there anything possible which
would attract more than the realization of
the dream of this company.
THE BLOCKADE AT NASHVILLE.
THE CITY FULL OF FREIGHT.
SIX HUNDRED CABS ALONG THE CHAT
TANOOGA ROAD.
From the Nashville Banner, 23rd.]
Wherever one goes about the city there
is a jam of all kinds of merchandise. The
warehouses are chock full of produce ; the
wharf is covered with it; the Chattanooga
depot, that huge receptacle lor the odds
and ends of commerce, hut an incongru
ous mass of it, and there are still six hun
dred car loads along the Nashville and
Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, wait
ing to be sent south. There is a perfect
rush of freights from all directions, espe
cially from the North and West. Many
wonder, forgetting that we live in an
old age of progress, and that Nashville,
by its peculiar location, is to become the
Chicago of the South how it is that it has
so rapidly grown, within the past two or
three years, to be the great produce cen
ter lroni which commodities are distribu
ted all over tho Southern oountry. The
produce business of Nashville has become
enormous, and still continues to enlarge.
Two years ago it was argued that the
completion of the South and North Road,
and the running of direct trains to Mont
gomery would materially affect the busi
ness of the Nashville and Chattanooga
Road, but there has been a marked iucrease
instead of a diminution of it, and it is be
lieved it will continue to grow from year
to year to collossal proportions. Both of
our direct southern outlets have all they
can do to keep up with the great volume
of freights that flow to the South, with the
difficulty they have to ensounter in the
way of cars south of their terminal points,
where the cars are not unfrequently kept
for a week as store-houses ou wheels.
Our road managers have to employ
active agents in hunting up their
cars that they may he returned, conse
quently there is a continual fluctua
tion in the shipment of freights. The
management of the Nashville and Chatta
nooga and St. Louis Road recently for
warded 284 loaded cars south, within
thirty-Bix hours, but did not receive more
than half that number of cars in exchange
from that point of the compass. These
fluctuations produce blockades, and until
all the roads shall have been furnished
with rolling stock, we will continue to
huve occasional delays in the transporta
tion of freights. We are of opinion that
were tho management of the Nashville
ivud Chattanooga and St. Louis Road to
build six hundred additional cars, they
would have a use for them. An immense
trade has heeu worked up for the Nash
ville and Northwestern Road which con
tinues daily to iucrease. The trade of the
Mississippi and Tennessee rivers flows in
upon it, and connecting roads give it about
all it can well carry
The management have just received the
remaining two of the seven six-wheeled
engines recently purchased by them. These
locomotives are now being made ready for
immediate use. Fifteen thousand dollars
in cash was paid for each of them. Both
are powerful engines, and “ can get away
with " as many cars as the most ardent
railroad man could wish. They now ewu
and have in use about eighty-seven en
gines. There is. therefore, no lack of mo
tive power, and all they require is the ex
peditious return of the cars sent South to
rid themselves of the present blockade.
Much care has been taken to preserve all
freights consigned them in good order,
and to this end the basement of one of the
machine shops has been brought into req
uisition, and 15,000 sacks of corn, which
had been put out on the wharf subject to
damage from the weather, stored away
in it.
Most of the tobacco which has been
awaiting shipment has been transported.
Every effort is being exerted to get the
freight away without uunecessary delay,
and all points along the road are receiving
duo attention. The line is in fine order,
aud everything is working as smoothly as
circumstances will admit. Notwithstand
ing their heavy labors the mangeuient still
make out to “smole a smile,” and “yet
they are not happy.”
Freight business on the Louisville and
Nashville and Great Southern Road is
very heavy, but the road is at present free
from blockades. Freight for Mobile will
be received by it until further notice.
Nashville is fast becoming the Chicago
of the South. Any one who has at all in
vestigated the matter for himself, cannot
help being impressed with its magnitude
as a distributing point. Freight is brought
here from every conceivable direction and
distributed. We have two northern roads,
with the prospect of having two more, a
western road, run in conuectioa with the
Tennessee aud Mississippi rivers and the
Cumberland River, by which millions of
dollars of freights are transported every
season. It is said that the river trade this
season has far exceeded the most sanguine
expectations. Boats have arrived and de
parted from the wharf as in olden times,
when we were dependent alone upon it for
the transportation of our merchandise.
Western aud Northern freights are sent
herein overwhelming abundance for dis
tribution. Nashville is the objective point
to which all freights tend for distribution
south. It is, on this account, establishing
a most extraordinary wholesale trade
which must grow to immense proportions
in the near future.
The pious ladies of Des Moines, la.
visited the abandoned females of that city
last week and urged them to quit their
sinful habits of life. The abandoned
females asked the pious ladies if these lat
ter would find them home and furnish
them with olhoi occupation. The pious
ladies said that tlit was wandering from
the argument and elevated their skirts and
their noses, and in a secoud the aban
doned females were abandoned again.—
Ntu) York World.
That reminds U3 of the old Dutchman
who stood and listened at the regrets of a
crowd of men for sometime over the mis
fortunes of a neighbor. They all agreed
that they were sorry for him. “Well, gen
tlemen, I'se sorry five dollars worth and
here’s the money.”,
*♦
James H. Smith, of Macon makes a
long defense of the Good Templars in the
People’s Friend. Has it come lo that
that men are to be defended for keeping
sober —Atlanta Sun.
“James H. Smith, of Macon,” made no
defense of the Good Templars for keeping
sober—they need none; but it would take
an abler pen than he wields to defend suc
cessfully the above extract, on a trial for
the murder of the King’s English by
this writer in the Atlanta luminary.
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As an evidence of how the money goes
to the West for provisions, Mott’s City
Mills of Columbus alone paid #1,572
freight on carloads of wheat and corn.
There is one satisfaction. The grain will
be transformed into first-class flour and
meal, and thus its value enhanced for the
benefit of Columbus. There are grocery
firms whose daily freight have been much
larger than this.
New Hampshire Election.—The la
test returns from New Hampshire show
the following result in the vote for Gover
nor : Straw, 34,031 ; Weston, 32,032 ; scat
tering, 1,751. Straw’s majority 248.
There is a Republican majority of 50 in
the House.
In the Ist Congressional district Small,
Republican, has about 300 plurality ; in
the 2d Pike, Republican, has 19 plurality;
in the 3d Parker, Democrat, has 400 plu
rality,
Western Produce Marketi
Chicago Provision market.
Chicago, 111., March 25, 1873.
To H. C. Steyenson, Macon, Ga.:
The Green Line is now receiving freight
for all points South. The following are
the quotations for to-day ;
Bacon Shoulders (packed) 6)^
Bacon Clear Ribbed Sides (packed) B,T
Dry Salted Shoulders (packed)
Dry Salted Clear Ribbed Sides (packed)... .7 }£
The demand is active aud the prices
tending upward.
(Sigued) Chas. McMaster.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
nAIjSTOtNr £C2LXiXj.
TWO NIGHTS ONLY !
Wll3ii;Bl>AY ATHUKSDAY,
March 26th and 27th.
CAL WARM MINSTRELS
.1. ■(. IIAYEItLY, manager,
WILL have the honor of re appearing be
fore the citizens of this city in
Entire Change of Programmes,
from our former visits, introducing all the old
favorite Artists and
mK. CHARLES IIEYWOOD,
the wonderful Burlesque Soprano.
PRICES AS USUAL.
Doors open at 7; commencing at 8. Re
served Seats ou sale at BROWN’S BOOK
STORE.
I>. 11. HODGES,
Lien 1 Agt.
11. t’LAPIIAM,
Advertising Agent.
mar33-4t
FOR SALE.
A SUPERIOR lot of well seasoned LUM
BER, mostly 2}£xl2 and 3x12.
mar 26 8t H. J. LAMAR.
MILLINERY
MISS WARD wonld be pleased to have her
friends and customers call and examine her
new SPRING SELECTIONS of Millinery be
fore purchasing elaewhere. She is daily re
ceiving all the novelties in the Millinery line.
You will find her at the well-known stand,
corner of Cherry street, and Cotton Avenue.
mar26-lw
NOTICE.
McGRATH A EVANS are still Contracting
and Building in all its various branches,
Brick laying, Carpenters work, etc., and R.
M. McGrath, ARCHITECT will draw plans
for buildings in every style. Satisfaction guar
anteed, or no pay wanted. Reference, Demp
sey’s stores and other buildings.
Office over Jones A Baxter's store, Cherry
street, mar23-lw
COUNTRY CHICKENS ! !
A FINE lot of COUNTRY CHICKENS,
just received and for sale low bv
J. E. H. COUTURIER,
mar2s-tf Fourth street
ANNEXATION!
WE have added to our large and varied
stock of Choice Family and Fancy Gro
ceries, Wines, Liquors, Fruits, etc., the fol
lowing
LUXURIES!
250 BARRELS FLOUR, all the favorite
brands,
15,000 lbs. SUGAR CURED “GOLDEN” and
“MAGNOLIA” HAMS,
40,000 lbs. BULK SHOULDERS and CLEAR
RIB SIDES,
60,000 lbs. BACON SHOULDERS and CLEAR
RIB SIDES,
75 BARRELS POTATOES, embracing
every variety,
TO CASKS McEWAN’3 ALE and BASS’
PORTER,
DIRECT imPORTATIOX l
Terms cash, unless other arrangements are
made at time of purchase.
CREEP, LAKE & CO.,
va , r ® r - Cherry and Third Sts.
mcuj4-tf
LAWTON & BATES,
WHOLESALE
**BOY*s*®*f
, AND
GRAIN DEALERS,
Fourth Street, (Hfext Door to Lawton & Willingham.)
fißliS A PEAKE GUAM !*
WE are still Agents for above TRIED and RELIABLE IERTILIZER, and after FlVg
YEARS’ experience in selling it, unhesitatingly recommend it to onr planting friends as
equal to any manipulated Fertilizer made.
IT IS NO EXPERIMENT.
In no case lias it failed to give entire satisfaction. Numerous testimonials in onr posse*.
Sion, from some of oua most successful planters, will satisfy any one as to its merit*.
JONES A BATTER, 190 Cherry Street.
Don’t Kg Is!
WE are bow in receipt of a fresh and invi
ting stock of
rwnTPV
Fail Groceries
Consisting in part of the following:
Fresh Fulton market Beef,
Ferris’ N. Y. Hams (unexcelled
Choice Beef Tongues,
Hecker’s Self-raising Flour,
Canned Fruits and Vegetables,
Fresh Crackers,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
PARCHED
Rio and Java
COFFEES,
GROUND FREE OF CHARGE.
Oolong 1 and Im
perial Teas,
AT 70 AND SO CTS. PER LB.
GERMAN
GROCERIES
A SPECIALTY.
Segars! Segars!
“ PUTZEL’S DELIGHT”
AND
“ PIITZEL & JACOBS’ FA
VORITES”
Are the most popular Segars in town.
Try them and jyon’ll smoke no
ethers.
OUR PRICES ARE LOWER THAN EVER.
GIVE US A CALL.
PUTZEL & JACOBS,
Second St.. Damonr’a Block.
marlfi
Mackerel.
500 PACKAGES “ NEW CATCH;”
Just received and for sale low by
marlS GEO. T. ROGERS’ SONS.
Coffee.
200 SACKS COFFEE, (all grades)
Just received by
marlß GEO. T. ROGERS’ 80N3.
Sugar.
30 HHD3. New Orleans, and
100BBLS. Refined.
For sale low by
marlS GEO. T. RO3EBS’ SONS.
Flour.
‘.)A CAR LOADS on hand, comprising all
J\/grades, in
BARRELS,
WHOLE,
HALF
aud QUARTER SACKS.
By GEO. T. ROGERS’ SONS.
marlS
SUGAR GREEK
PAPER MILL!
MANUFACTURE
BOOK AND NEWS
7A7ttl
See the Enterprise for specimen of paptr
Highest cash price paip for OLD NEWS un
sized BOOK PAPER, and pure WHITE PA
PER SHAVINGS.
WM. McNAUGHT A CO.,
margl Atlanta. Ga,
Flour! Flour !!
5 CARS
FAmiLY FLOUR,
in SO and 95 lb. Sack*.
SEYMOUR, TINBLEY A CO.
Potatoes!
50 BARRELS
POTATOES,
WILL BE SOLD LOW TO CLOSE
CONSIGNMENT.
SEYMOUR, TINSLEY & CO.
BROOMS,
BUCKETS
and TUBS,
JUST RECEIVED BY
Seymr, Tiasley & Cos.
mar23-tf.
CHICKERINC PIANOS.
$425, *475, <SOO, *525, Eta
THE only first-class piano in the market—
Sold on reasonable terms. Also,
PIANOS at $265, $290, S3OO, $350, etc.
Largest catalogue of sheet music in the
South.
Bend for price lists, catalogues and specimen
copy of
GEORGIA MUSICAL ECLECTIC, only SI.OO
per annum.
9UILFORD, WOOD & CO.
marl9-eodlm
DR. P. H. WRIGHT
RESPECTFULLY tender hi* professional
aerviccs to the citizen* of Macon and vi
cinity, Office at Drug Store No. 3 Brown
House Block. Residence at Rev. Samuel Boy
kin’s, Georgia avenue. Calls left at either
place will receive prompt attention. #cl6tf
A CroceiT M
MULBERRY STREET,
WITH ELLS A LANEY aa Proprietor*;
Epicures, gentlemen of taste and the
public generally as patrous.
Fish, Game, Oysters a specialty. Fruits, the
finer grades of Groceries, Canned goods below
auirs.
ICE! ICE!! ICE!!!
We have regularly opened the summer cam
paign with Ice, and will now have It in any
quantity desired. Orders in any quantity, fro®
a pound to a carload, filled.
OUR RESTAURANT.
On the second floor, our Bar and Restaurant
Is now, as heretofore, stocked with the finest
liquors and the choicest game and other
which can be bought in the markets of the
United States. , mr
ELLS Sc LANEY,
mar!B
Choice Leaf Lard
A Very Choice Lot,
JUST RECEIVED,
IN PACKAGES TO SUIT THE R®
TAIL TRADE.
For sale by „
B. H. WRIGLEY A CO.,
Commission Kerch**®;
m*rlß Macon. G*.
DENTISTRY.
DR. EMERSON ha* returned to Macon, and
will resume the practice of Dentistry
MONDAY, 17th of March.