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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.
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