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and artillery, they at last made a grand assault upon the mountain, but were hurled back with terrible slaughter. The mountain during the tight it is said resembled a volcano, so incessant was the explosion of the shells hurled against its crest, and the counter-fire from the batteries and infantry lines which were upon it. Little Boy—Yes, and Uncle Bill said that some of the bomb-shells they shot against the mountain were as big as pumpkins, and made a sound louder than a gong. He knows, for he was there. Teacher —That is well stated, and it is true, too. But has that mountain been famous for anything since the war, and if so, for what ? Best Scholar —Yes, it has been made famous by reason of the fact that one of the competitors of the Sidetrack made an attempt to steal it and take it up into East Tennessee and set it down in the vicinitv of Knoxville. •/ Teacher —Yes, yes ; that’s so. I see you are unusually well posted, and I am proud of your proficiency. But can you tell me the result of this at tempt to steal the mountain ? Best Scholar—Yes, sir; there ■was a general ‘guffaw’ all over Ameri ca at the utter ‘ridiculosity,’ (as Chas. Sumner once said), of this attempt. Even the mountain was immensely amused at it, and laughed heartily and uproariously, so much so, that it got a great big wrinkle in its side. Teacher —Yes, I know that’s so,, because I’ve seen the mountain. Well, what else is the Sidetrack noted for? You say that there was a great battle fought there during the War between the States ; but di I the Sidetrack ever go into a war with any of its neigh bors ? Smart Boy—Yes, it took part in one of the liveliest wars that this coun try or any other has ever seen. The Sidetrack is very peaceable by nature and doesn’t do anything which would justify anybody else in making war up on it; but this disposition on its part was presumed upon too much by the ‘Great System' which runs parallel to it, and which, by the way, was the same one which tried to steal the moun tain, and made so ignominious a fail ure in the attempt. It began to tramp on the Sidetrack’s toes, so to speak, and to do a number of other unjustifi able and illegitimate things, and, ac cordingly, after exhausting all the hon orable expedients which were possible for the purpose of averting open hostil ities, the Sidetrack at length concluded that it would have to teach the ‘Great System’ a lesson. It therefore sailed in, and things became remarkably live ly. It did not stand on the defensive, like the ‘Great System* thought it would ; but with astonishing boldness and wisdom went straight up into the enemy’s territory at the very start. They say that the Sidetrack got the most ‘closely neighborly’ in this war, of anything on record. It went right in to the home of the ‘Great System’ and stayed there until somebody got awful ly sick of the affair, and it was not the SCHEDULES —BETWEEN — Jacksonville and Atlanta, Via LOUISVILLE and NASHVILLE R. R. AND Nashville, Louisville AND ciJsrcTisrjsrjLTi. READ DOWN. READ UP. ~ -Nonh-b0.,...T rROM Jacksonville. Soutll , b(iu , ld . - 9 30 pm 9 30 pm 2 00 pm Lv JACKSONVILLE, S EA W. Ar 12 00 n’n 10 20 pm 10 20 pm 2 45 pm “ Callahan “ Lv 11 27 am 12 45 am 12 45 am 5 00 pm “ Waycross “ Lv 10 00 am 9 45 am 5 40 pm 3 35 am “ Macon “ “ 10 50 pm 12 00 n’n 756 pm 553 am “ Griffin “ “ 829 pm 12 46 pm 842 pm 647 am “ Jonesboro “ “ 739 pm 1 35 pm 9 35 pm 7 32 am Ar ATLANTA “ Lv 6 50 pm 555 pm 11 00 pm 750 am Lv ATLANTA W& A Ar 635 pm 725 am 6 47 pm 11 55 pm 8 42 am “ Marietta “ Lv 5 44 pm 6 32 am 718pm12 14 am 901 am ‘ KENNESAW “ “ 525 pm 613 am 742pm12 40 am 927 am “ Allatoona “ “ 458 pm 544 am 847 pm 149am10 33 am “ Adairsville “ “ 348 pm 437 am 921 pm 225am11 07 am “ Resaca “ “ 313 pm 403 am 10 04 pm 258am11 40 am “ I alton “ “ 240 pm 331 am 10 21 pm 315am11 56 am “ Tunnel Hill “ “ 224 pm 314 am 10 39 pm 332am12 12 pm “ Ringgold “ “ 207 pm 254 am 10 54 pm 345am12 25 pm “ Graysville “ “ 154 pm 241 am 11 08 pm 400am12 38 pm “ Chickamauga “ “ 140 pm 227 am 11 18 pm 4 15 am 12 50 pm “ Boyce “ Lv 1 31 pm 2 13 am 11 35 pm 4 30 ami 1 00 pm Ar CHATTANOOGA “ Lv 1 15 pm 2 00 am 11 55 pm 5 20 am 1 10 pm Lv CHATTANOOGA,N C&St L. Ar 105 pm 1 00 am 3 25 am 8 55 am 4 15 pm “ Tullahoma “ Lv 10 00 am 10 08 pm 5 05 am 10 25 am 5 40 pm “ Murfreesboro “ Lv 8 40 am 9 00 pm 6 20 am 11 45 am 7 00 pm Ar NASHVILLE “ Lv 7 30 am 8 00 pm 725 am 725 am 725 pm Lv NASHVILLE L& N Ar 725 am 800 pm 9 25 am 9 25 am 9 15 pm “ Guthrie “ Lv 5 35 am 6 00 pm 1 15 pm 1 15 pm 12 30 am Ar Henderson “ “ j 2 15 am 2 20 pm 1 50 pm 1 50 pm 1 30 am “ Evansville “ “ 12 55 am 1 10 pm 745 am 745 am 740 pm Lv NASHVILLE LA N Ari 705 am 740 pm 10 25 am 10 25 am 10 15 pm “ Bowling Green “ “ 455 am 5 10 pm 12 30 pm 12 30 pm 12 30 am “ Elizabethtown “ “ j 2 29 am 2 34 pm 2 20 pm 2 20 pm 2 25 am Ar LOUISVILLE “ “ 12 30 am 12 35 pm 6 40 pm 6 40 pm 6 35 am Ar CINCINNATI “ Lv 8 20 pm 8 15 am 8 00 pm 8 00 pm 8 15 am Ar CINCINNATI () & M Lv) 6 30 pm 7 30 am Pullman Palace Sleeping-Cars between Nashville and Cincinnati, without change. Train leaving Nashville at 8.00 p. m. has Pullman Sleeper to Atlanta without change also day coach through, without change and without extra charge. First-Class Eating Houses. Meals at Seasonable Hours. The above line may be justly termed THE HISTORIC BATTLEFIELDS’ ROUTE OF AMERICA, the passenger traveling this route passing through or near the famous battle grounds of Port McAllister, Griswoldville, Jonesboro, Atlanta, KEN NESAW MOUNTAIN, Allatoona, (“ Hold the fort; for I am coming!”) Resaca, Rocky Face, Tunnel Hill, Ringgold, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Tullahoma, Murfrees boro, and many others, nearly as famous. Train leaving St. Louis at 7:20 p. m. daily, has Pullman Palace Sleeping-Car, without change St. Louis to Nashville. Train leaving Nashville at 8.00 p. m. has Pullman Sleeper to Atlanta, without change; also day coach through, without change and without extra charge. Trains leaving Savannah at 8:10 p. in., and Atlanta at 6:50 p. m., have through Sleeping-Cars between those points without change. Train leaving Atlanta at 5:55 p. m. has through Pullman Palace Sleeping-Car, At lanta to Nashville without change, and through coach, Atlanta to Little Rock, Ark., via Nashville and Memphis, without change and without extra charge. SCHEDULES BETWEEN AND AU« ISTA. Al KEV A CHARLESTON. Eastward. I STATIONS. | 800am245pm7 30 pm Lv ATLANTA, GaRR Ar 550 pm 100 pm 640 am 843 am 316 pm 825 pm “ Stone Mountain “ Lv 500pm12 23 pm 547 am 11 40 am 521 pm 12 06 am “ Greensboro “ “ 220pm10 16 am 215 am 530 pmAr Athens “ “ 900 am 745 am 335 pm 8 15 pm 500 am “ Augusta “ " 10 50 am 740 am 940 pm 525pm1155pm 650 am “ Aiken SC Ry “ 605am6 05 am 935 pm 930 pm 625am11 00 am “ Charleston “ “ 10 30 pm 10 30 pm 510 pm H 20 am (> 15pm “ Beaufort PR&A “ ! 7 13 am 10 25 pml 1 32 pm “ Columbia CC&A Lv 6 15 amj 5 25 pm Elegant Sleeping-Cars from Atlanta, via Stone Mountain (train passing in full view of same) Augusta and Aiken to Charleston without change. The above close through schedules are made Exclusively with the U&s/em Atlantic Railroad, all connections being made in Union Passenger Depots, and above named points cannot be reached by any other line from the West without a tiresome delay and a long and tedious Omnibus Transfer in Atlanta. Privilege allowed to holders of all through tickets to stop over at Marietta, the Sanita rium of North Georgia. Sidetrack, either. Teacher —That has been very cor rectly stated. Now, tell me which one of Napoleon’s reputed sayings did the Sidetrack prove to be erroneous. Well-read Scholar —It explod ed Napoleon’s reputed doctrine that ‘Providence is always on the side with THE KENNESAW GAZETTE. the heaviest battalions.’ Teacher —Yes; that’s the answer to the question. Well, now, you got that so correctly, let me see if you can tell me which one of the songs of the old Plymouth Puritans did the Side track show to have reason as well as rhyme and religious fervor in it ? Welt .-read Scholar : “The race is not for to be got By them what fastest run; Nor the battel by them peopel What shoot the biggest gun.” Teacher —Yes, you remember it. Now, finally, somebody tell me what was the opinion of the public on the result of this war? Smartest Boy That it was a triumph of brains over beef. Teacher —That’s exactly so. Now, my scholars, I am proud of your pro ficiency in the studies in which you have been engaged during the past term. And while I intended to have kept school for the rest of this week, yet, you have done so well that I will let vacation begin to-day and last four weeks and a half instead of the four weeks as intended. School is now dismissed. The Western & Atlantic is the Only Railroad in America Whose line is not “geographically straight” —on paper. Whose trains run into the Union Passenger Depots at Atlanta and Chat tanooga, making connection at each place, with no omnibus transfers. Which runs around the base of the majestic and famous Kennesaw Moun tain. Which runs through and within cannon sound of scenes where occurred over fifty battles, or minor conflicts, of the “War between the States.” On which occurred the noted “Cap- . ture of a Locomotive,” the chase, and overhauling of its captors. Which runs through the beautiful and historic Chickamauga Valley its entire length. Which runs through the famous Al latoona Pass. By which you can go from Atlanta or Chattanooga to the great Georgia marble quarries. By which the “great American trav eling public” reach the line penetrat ing the healthiest county in America — Fannin county, Ga. Whose competitors termed it “only a Sidetrack ;” but found it “The Big gest Thing for its Size in Ameriky.” Whose superiority its chief compet itor has acknowledged, after vainly en deavoring to equal its superb advan tages and attractions, by practically giving up the contest in this respect, and endeavoring to cabbage its route title, “The Great Kennesaw Route,” and thus fooling the traveling public into the idea that it was “The Great Kennesaw Route.” (This attempt by its competitor to deceive the public into the belief that it is “The Great Kennesaw Route” is the highest compliment one line ev er paid its rival, as well as a most hu miliating confession of the weakness of the line attempting to practice the de ception. The Western A Atlantic peo ple are so proud of this compliment that the editor is afraid they are going to get spoiled.) Which runs through scenes associat ed with memories of three of the most beautiful as well as stirring lyrics in the English language, viz: “Home, Sweet Home,” “I am dying, Egypt, dying, “Hold the Fort, for I am Coming,” 11