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Considering the numbers engaged,
in this battle, it was one of the most
desperate which American history re
cords.
One regiment ofFederals, (the Thir
ty-ninth lowa,) sustained 170 casualties
out of 280 men. Both the assailants
and the defenders lost over thirty
per-cent of their entire numbers.
The Olive Branch.
Bring forth the olive branch to-day
For fair Columbia’s host.
And deck the men who won the fray,
And those whose cause was lost:
At peace’s joyous banquet now
Let victor vanquish’d meet,
And as one sun doth light each brow
Let concord reign complete.
The laurel wreath the Hag which waves
In triumph proud, doth crown,
The willow drapes the hallow’d graves
Os those whose power went down;
Stay’d now the conqueror’s wrath must be,
And hush'd the sound of woe,
The sword chain’d in its sheath we see
And o’er grief’s clouds hope’s bcw.
Ah ! grand the deeds at Ringgold’s height
Where Cleburne held the pass,
And Chickamauga’s awful fight
Echoes to Rocky Face ;
Resaca’s hill the song of fame
With Allatoona sings,
While grand old Kennesaw’s proud name
With hers Atlanta bt ings.
Oh I none of these can South or North
Claim for its selfish glory;
Columbia holds the record forth
Bright pages of her story ;
As acts of heroes, by heroes
Full matched, 1 er tale’s indited ;
The moral, oh ! woe unto those
Who dare strike them united.
Then with clasp’d hands we here renew
The pledge to hold-, like brothers,
One country in allegiance true,
One Hag above all others:
One common glory gilds the fame
Os those who erst contended,
Their heritage is hence the same
Now that the strife is ended.
May.
May, the month of flowers and charm
ing verdure, has for centuries past been
considered typically the beautiful month
of the year.
There is no„scenery which the spring
time shows off to more advantage than
that in a mountainous or undulating
region. Just such a country the Wes
tern and Atlantic Railroad runs through
during almost its entire length.
Whether von view the rolling hills
near Atlanta: the sides of the glorious
Kennesaw Mountain; the fastnesses of
the Allatoona range; the undulating
country between Cartersville and Re
saca; the steep ridges at and near the
latter point; the blue heights of the
Rocky Face Ridge west of Dalton; the
craggy sides of the same range, where
Mill Creek cuts through it at the
gap of the same name, t hrough which
the Western and Atlantic Railroad
runs; the level savannas in the historic
Chickamauga Valley, through which
winds the turbid stream of the same
name, and whose eastern and western
sides are lined with mountain ridges;
or whether you survey the famous
heights of Missionary Ridge and the
towering crest of Lookout Mountain,
you go through an uninterrupted series
of natural panoramic views, such as
are rarely found east of the Rocky
Mountains; and especially is this true
when you take into consideration that
the halo of historic glory clusters
around almost every hill-top or nestles
in every picturesque valley.
THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE GAZETTE.
WESTERN4ATLANTICR.fi.
THE GREAT
KENNESAWJKOUTE.
CONDENSED SCHEDULES BETWEEN
ATLANTA and BOSTON, NEW YORK anil thei EAST.
READ DOWN. Vlft PENN. R. R. READ UP.
North-bound. STATIONS. South-bound.
1.30 pm 11.00 pm Lv ATLANTA Ar. 2.25 pm 5.51 ain
2.41 pm 12.14 am Lv Kennesaw Lv. 1.17 pm 4.47 am
7.00 pm 4.30 am Lv Chattanooga Lv. 8.55 am 1.00 am
6.50 am 6.00 pm Ar CINCINNATI Lv. 8.47 p m 8.05 am
7.25 am 8.00 pm Lv CINCINNATI Ar. 4.45 pm 6.10 am
11.3(1 a m 11.45 pm Lv Columbus Lv. 12.55 p m 2.00 am
7.10 pm 7.00 am Ar Pittsburg Lv. 6.30 am 7.45 pm
2.35 am 1.55 pm Harrisburg “ 11.50 pm 2.00 pm
5.30 am 4.40 pm “ Baltimore “ 8.25 pm 10.55 am
6.30 am 5.50 pm “ Washington “ 7.10 pm 9.50 am
5.35 am 4.45 pm “ Philadelphia “ 8.50 pm 11.20 am
8.00 am 6.55 pm “ NEW YORK “ 6.00 pm 9.00 am
6.00 pm 6.50 am Ar BOSTON Lv. 10.00 am 10.30 pm
Pullman Palace Buffet Sleeping-Cars between Cincinnati and New York, without
change; and Pullman Palace Sleeping-Cars between New York and Boston without
change.
Via BEE LINE and NEW YORK CENTRAL.
1.30 pm 11.00 pm Lv ATLANTA Ar. 2.25 pm 5.51 am
2.41 pm 12.14 am “ Kennesaw Lv 1.17 pm 4.47 am
7.00 pm 4.30 am “ Chattanooga “ 8.55 am 1.00 am
650 am 6.00 pm Ar CINCINNATI Lv. 8.47 pm 805 am
7.15 am 7.02 pm Lv CINCINNATI Ar. 6.35 pm 7.55 am
9.00 am 8.50 pm “ Dayton Lv. 4.40 pm 6.00 am
2.35 pm 2.50 am Ar Cleveland “ 10.45 am 12.25 am
8.00 p m 7.40 am “ Buffalo .. “ 5.20 a m 7.45 p m
11.05 pm 10.30 am “ Rochester “ 4.00 am 6.50 pm
6.10 a m 4.00 pm 11 Albany “ 10.15 pm 1.15 pm
10.30 a m 7.30 pm “ NEW’ YORK “ 6.00 p m 9.50 ain
10.57 am 12.40 am “ Springfield “ 6.05 pm 9.00 am
2.45 pm 6.25 am Ar BOSTON Lv. 3.00 pm 5.00 am
Elegant Wagner Drawing Room Sleeping-Cars between Cincinnati and New York, and
between Cincinnati and Boston without change. All connections made in Union Passen
ger Depots.
Via N. Y., P. & O. and ERIE RAILWAYS.
1.30 p m 11.00 pm Lv ATLANTA Ar. 2.25 p m 5.51 a m
2.41 pm 12.14 am “ Kennesaw Lv. 1.17 pm 4.47 am
7.00 pm 4.30 am “ Chattanooga “ 8.55 am 1.00 am
6.50 am 6.00 p m Ar......... .CINCINNATI '....Lv. 8.47 pm 8.05 am
j, 7.50 a m 10.00 pm Lv CINCINNATI Ar. 6.45 pin 6.45 a m
9.52 am 12.30 am “ Dayton. ... Lv. 4.40 pm 3.25 am
10.43 a m 2.50 am Ar Springfield 11 3.47 p m 2.10 a m
9.45 p m 5.23 pm “ Salamanca “ 4.40 a m 10.25 a m
I 2.47 am 10.25 pm “ Elmira “ 1.44 am 5.48 am
4.26 am 12.07 am “ ..........Binghampton “ 12.15 am 3.53 am
11.25 a m 7.30 am “ NEW Y0RK......... “ 6.00 p m 8.00 p m
■2.15 pmi 6.45 am “ Albany. .. . : “ 10.45 p m
i 3.00 pm Ar ... BOSTON ..'....Lv. 3.00 pm
, - : _
Pullman Palace Sleeping-Cars between Cincinnati and New York without change;
and between Cincinnati and Boston without change. All connections made in Union
i Passenger Depots.
Via B. & O. R. R.
1.30 pm 11.00 pm Lv ATLANTA Ar. 2.25 pm 5.51 am
2.41 “ 12.14 am “ Kennesaw Lv. 1.17 pm 4.47 am
7.00 “ 4.30 am “ Chattanooga “ 8.55 am 1.00 am
6.50 am 6.00, pm Ar CINCINNATI Lv. 8.47 pm 8.05 am
8.25 am 7.20 “ Lv CINCINNATI Ar. 5.15 pm 7.45 am
12.38 pm 10.25 “ “ Chillicothe Lv 1.00 pm 4.40 “
5.10 pm 2.30 am Ar Parkersburg u 9.40 am 1.40 “
1.13 am 9.25 “ “ .Cumberland “ 2.43 am 7.45 pm
3.35 “ 11.24 am “ Martinsburg Lv.il 2.28 am 5.29..“
6.00 “ 1.15 pin “ Washington “ 110.10 pm 3.30
7.10 “ 2.15 “ “ Baltimore “ I 9.00 pml 2.30.
I 10.47 “ 6.11 “ “ .Philadelphia “ ( 4.02 pm; 10.16 a m
1.20 pm 9.20 pm Ar NEW YORK Lv.| LOO pm| 8.00 am
Elegant Palace Sleeping-Cars between Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore, without
change. All connections made in Union Passenger Depots,
Through Palace Bi.llel and Mann Boudoir Sleeping-Cars
between Atlanta and Cincinnati without Change, Connecting
with above Through Sleeping-Car lir.es for New York and Boston.
Only via the Western and Atlantic
railroad can you go to Elizabeth, “the
marble city of Georgia,” where there ;
is the most wonderful marble cutting
machinery in the world. Tourists
will miss it if they do not stop at Ma
rietta and go up to Elizabeth, only
two miles distant, immediately at the
foot of the famous Kennesaw Moun
tain. *
Sam Jones, the evangelist, lives on
the Kennesaw Route.
Sixty-eight different kinds of miner
als and ores found on the line of the
Western and Atlantic railroad.
Only via the Western aud Atlantic
railroad can you get to the healthiest
county in Georgia, ii not in America.
Items of Interest
The explored coal beds of Ireland.’
contain 209,000,000 tons of coal, chiefly
anthracite.
D. H. Moffatt, the president of the
Denver and Rio Grande railroad, began
life in Colorado as a stage driver.
The typewriter dates from 1714, when
one Henry Mill obtained in England a
patent for a device to “write in printed
characters, one at a time and one after
another,” but it was not until 1867 ihat
it was improved so that it would work,
satisfactorily.
Cabins built in the canton of Valois,
Switzerland, in the fourteenth century,
of larch timber, are said to be stilb
sound. The piles of old Loudon bridge,
built in the year 900, are also sound,
the water and blue mud of the Thames
having preserved them.
Webster, New Hampshire, must be
the happiest place in the country. It
lias neither pauper nor criminal, aud
has no resident to whom it gives aid,
and there is no penal reformatory in
stitution anywhere that contains one of
its sons or daughters.
To keep postage stamps in the pocket
or memorandum book without sticking,,
a New Orleans postoffice clerk advises
people to rub the sticky side over the
hair two or three times. The oil of the
hair coats, the mucilage and prevents it
from sticking.
A man in Chapinville, Connecticut,
has an inventive genius. The hind
axle of his wagon rises above the bottom
of the vehicle, from which a crank runs
to a churn in the centre of the wagon.
During his daily drive butter is made
by the revolution of the wheels.
A distinguished physician, in a Ger
man scientific journal, advocates the
general use of sugar as an article of
diet. He affirms that during forty
years be has eaten at least a quarter of
a pound of sugar daily, not counting
sugar-forming substances taken at the
same time, with benefit.
Where a European takes his dog out
for a walk, according to the North China
Mail, a Chinaman carries a cage, impris
oned in which is a bird, and when he
sits down to rest he hangs the cage upon
a tree in order that he may enjoy rhe
Hood of melody which is poured forth
from the bird’s throat.
The Larva, according to the religions
belief of the Roman , was an evil spirit
supposed to be the soul of a departed
being, which in consequence of crimes
committed during iife was deprived of
repose in death, and left to wander
about the earth without any fixed abode,
tormenting, frightening and injuring
mankind. Its influence, however,
only extended to evil-doers.
In the Smithsonian Institute at
Washington is the small nugget of gold,
a little larger than a pea, that first met
the eyes of John Marshall in the saw
mill raceway at Sacramento, and wan
the beginning of those discoveries in
California that have added nearly SL
-500,000.000 in gold to the world’s stuck
of the precious metals.
There is no landed class in France,
properly so called. There are eight
million peasant proprietors. Entail
and Primogeniture are unknown, and a
bit of land can be bought and sold as
easily us a cow or a family Bible. Not
withstanding eight hundred thousand
country folks have within the past five
years quitted the green fields and
homesteads of France in order to seek,
a living in, the great towns.