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8 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.