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Civile Bellum. Rifleman shoot me a fancy shot Straight at the heart of yon prowling vi dette, Ring me a ball in the glittering spot That shines on his breast like an amulet. Aye, Captain, here goes for a line-drawn bead, There’s music around when my barrel’s in tune. Crack! went the rifle, the messenger sped, And dead from his horse fell the ringing dragoon. Now, rifleman, steal through the bushes and snatch From your victim some trinket to mark the first blood — A button, a loop, or that luminous patch That gleams in the moon like a diamond stud. O, Captain, I staggered and sunk in my track. When 1 gazed on the face of the fallen vi dette ; For he looked so like you, as he lay on his back, That my heart rose upon me and masters me yet. But I snatched ofl'the trinket —this locket of gold An inch fi om the centre my lead broke its way, Scarcely grazing the picture so lair to be hold Os a beautiful lady in bridal array. Ha! rifleman, fling me the locket! ’Tisshe — My brother’s young bride, and the fallen dragoon Was her husband. Hush, soldier, ’Twas Heaven’s decree; We must bury him now by the light of the moon. But hark! the far bugles, their warnings unite, War is a virtue —weakness a sin, There’s lurking and loping around us to night; Load again, rifleman, keep your hand in. (“Civile helium.” In this fearful strug gle beneath the North and South, there are hundreds of cases in which fathers are ar rayed against sons, and brothers against brothers.) — Atlanta Intelligencer, June 7,1864. Isaiah LV. 1 The prophet, with the promises of Christ, calleth to faith, 6 and to repentance. 8 The happy success of them that believe. Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without mon ey and without price. 2. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread ? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat yea that which is good, and let your soul delight itselt in fatness. 3. Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting cove nant with you, even the sure mercies of David. 4. Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and com mander to the people. 5. Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knewest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto these because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. 6. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near. 7. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he vyill have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly par don. 8. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. 9. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than : your thoughts. 10. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and return ed) not thither, but watered) the earth, and raaketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater : 11. So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth : it shall not return unto me void, but it shall ac complish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. 12. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the moun tains and the hills shall break forth be lore you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 13. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut ofl. Trust in the Lord. “Well, whenever we find out that we can’t do anything ourselves, then the Lord comes and helps us out,” said one of the leading Western & At lantic men one day, referring to some good stroke which had been of great benefit pecuniarily to the Western & Atlantic Railroad. “Yes,” said the other, to whom he was addressing himself, “we owe not only our prosperity, but our preserva tion to Him alone.” These words express the key-note of ' the sentiments of the Western & At i lantic Railroad people. They seem to I be firmly convinced that the success ! of their road is one which depends not upon their own exertions, but upon the manifest favor of a higher power. That which the world generally calls good luck, they consider special Prov idence, and it is to their honor that these words can be truthfully writ ten. We do not remember to have ever seen an organization of several hun dred men who seemed in general so well imbued with the idea that their prosperity is the result of the special favor of Providence so much as in the case of the Western & Atlantic Rail road officers and employes. And, by the way, just here we will remark that there is on the rolls of this company a larger portion of consistent and devout church members than is generally the case with commercial as sociations. Os its officers, nearly every one is a member of some church ; of its station agents over two-thirds are church mem hers, and the same may be said of a large proportion of its conductors, train-hands and engineers; likewise in machine shops and car shops one will find a good large number of men who are very prominent in some of the Christian churches of Atlanta. We write these words with great pride, and with the full assurance that they not only speak well for the men themselves; but are one of the best THE KENNESAW GAZETTE. guarantees that passengers and prop erty, whose safety is entrusted to the hands of the Western & Atlantic or ganization, will be taken care of better than generally is the case. Pleasant, sociable, genial, and thor oughly companionable among them selves, the Western & Atlantic Rail road men are also noted for their po liteness in all of their dealings with their patrons. Such an organization deserves suc cess, and we are firmly convinced will continue to enjoy success in the future as they have in the past. Getting the Range at Allatoona. We have shown in previous numbers of the Kennesaw Gazette, that the Confederates, in the battle of Allatoo na, had a battery in position on the hill about half a mile south of the pass and the forts which overlook it. Early in the morning of that event ful day, just before the fighting began, the Confederates fired a bomb from one of the guns in the battery. It fell in the wagon road about fifty yards south of the Western & Atlantic depot, which is only about one hundred yards from the foot of the hill through which is the pass. They fired a second shell, which lodged in a house which is still stand ing, and which is now occupied by the agent at Allatoona. This shell did not explode, and was afterwards taken out by Mr. McDaniel and kept for sev eral years. They then fired again, and this shell, the third one, exploded immediately in the fort on the west side of the pass. Having thus secured the range, they opened fire upon the forts with great energy. Robbing the Marauders. Said one of the Western & Atlantic agents, in talking to the boys about his war experience, “One of the mean est tricks that I ever had a part in play ing was the robbery of some soldiers of a fine hog which they had captured. “We noticed them shoot the hog down and then saw them gather around it to skin it, and we waited patiently until they had gotten it com pletely skinned and cleaned, ready for cooking. We then deputed one of our number to act the part of an offi cer, and be went forward in command of us and arrested the entire party for marauding. “They were dumbfounded at being caught, and we told them that we would have to take them to headquar ers to be court-martialed. They were apparently very much worried at this. “We started through the woods with them under guard, when our offi cer (?) called to a couple of them and said : ‘We hate to be troubled carrying you to headquarters; but it is our duty to do so. Now, let me tell you what is the best thing to do. When we get fairly well into the woods all of you fellows just break and run and I will see to it that none of our men fire at you. You will get off scot free and we will merely report that we arrested some soldiers whom we could not now identify for depredating and that they escaped from us.’ “The rest of the party were glad enough to carry this programme out, and at a given signal every one broke and ran for dear life. “We then took the hog which we ■ had captured from them, carried it to i our camp, cut it up and took about half of it, (the best half, by the way,) and then, after some pangs of consci ence about our action, sent the rest of the meat back to the men from whom we had taken it, inasmuch as we knew very well to what command they be longed.” The W. & A. R. R., of Georgia, runs through the richest field of remi niscence in the South. Over a hun dred fierce and famous battlefields may be seen with eye and glass from the windows of its superbly comfor table coaches as they rush at a wonder ful speed over a faultless road-bed through scenes no less remarkable for beauty and grandeur than for their speaking memories. From Kennesaw Mountain to Lookout it is historic ground. But in these radiant days of com fort-seeking peace, the best and bright est spot on the road is beautiful and bracing Marietta, 1,200 feet above the sea level, garlanded in trees and girt with mountains. The air is pure and full of ozone tonic, the location is unexcelled, the little city of 2,500 in habitants is the most beautiful in Georgia, and the most healthful, and finally the most convenient in acces sibilitv and comfort, being only twenty miles from Atlanta, in hourly access, and equipped with the best boarding houses outside of Jacksonville.—Flor ida Herald. It is a well known fact that the rea son assigned by many for the panic which caused our troops to break at the battle of Missionary Ridge, was that the enemy showed themselves in such overwhelming numbers that the boys thought the whole world was marching to attack them. We, to show the opinion prevailing among our boys, will relate the follow ing anecdote, which we do not remem ber to have seen in print: As line after line and mass after mass of Yankees appeared, crossing the plain and ascending the hillside, marching onward with seemingly re sistless force, our troops began to wa ver, and many of them, to their shame, fled without firing a gun. Some of them, however, staid until the last, and among these was one fellow who, to use his own language, “staid thar till they got so close that he heard one of the Yankee Generals give the com mand : ‘Attention World ! By Na tions right wheel!! By States, Fire !!!’ and then he thought it was time for this darned little Southern Confedera cy to be gittin out o’ the way.” Don’t blame him for it; it was about time to “git onto’ the way.” — Atlanta Intelli gencer, July 2d, 1864. “Isn’t it a beauty?” Such was the remark of a railroad gentleman as he looked at the “John P. King,” one of the magnificent passenger engines of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, and continued, “that’s the prettiest lo comotive that I ever saw; one com bining tremendous power with exqui site symmetry of proportions and grace of movement.” He was about correct in his remarks. We have never seen a locomotive which we think is a more beautiful one than the “John P. King,” and having rid den behind it on one or two occasions, we can bear witness to the fact that we never noticed one of greater ease and regularity of motion. It has the new chime whistle, and is a “daisy” in every respect in which you consider it. 3
