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2 Psalm I. 1. The happiness of the godly. 4. The unhappiness of the ungodly. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2. But his delight is in the law of the Lord ; and in his law doth he med itate day and night. 3. And he shall be like a tree plant ed by the fivers of water, that bring eth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither ; and what soever he doeth shall prosper. 4. The ungodly are not so ; but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 5. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish. About the Battle of Allatoona. AN EXPLANATION ASKED FOR. A gentleman who had been in the Federal army said, in reference to the excursion during last September, of veterans to the battle-fields along the line of the Western & Atlantic Rail road, and to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette's statement that the battle of Allatoona was perhaps the most dra matic incident of the war: “I have never understood the rea sons for the plan of attack which the Confederates had at the battle of Alla toona, and in fact, one or two features connected with the fight and the end of it. For instance, it has always seemed to me that if General French intended to take all the chances for making it a success he would have torn up the railroad north of Allatoona and thus prevented any re-enforcements coming down from above. Os course, the road having been torn up between Big Shan ty and Acworth there could be no trains brought from below. “Then, it has seemed strange to me that they did not destroy the houses filled with army supplies. There were in those houses bread rations for Sherman’s entire army for nearly a month, and if those had been destroy ed it would have been a terrible ca lamity to the Federal army, “Then again, why should General French have assaulted the redoubts if they had been re-enforced to such an extent that the garrison, it seems, was nearly as large as his attacking force. The defiant answer which Corse return ed to the summons to surrender show ed French that he was there, and it ap pears to me should have made him rather cautious about bringing on an attack without investigating a little further. “Finally, when the attack was proven to be a failure, why was it that he con sidered it necessary to retire over the same road he came; in other words, to march back, via Allatoona Creek, al most to Acworth, on his way to New Hope church to join Gen. Hood, when, by taking the Cartersville road which led westward from Allatoona, he could have gone off by the road which fork ed from it and ran south of the river, and have come out byway of Burnt Hickory and joined Gen. Hood. Even though his orders from Gen. Hood were to return via the Acworth road, yet, he would have been justified by sound military principles in taking another route so as to insure the safety of his command; whereas, he was in great danger of meeting the Federal relief column which was coming up from the vicinity of Kennesaw Moun tain and from last advices had passed Big Shanty at 8 a. m. “I have never talked with any of the Confederate commanders who have exactly explained to my satisfaction why such measures were not adopted as it seems to me should have been in these matters. The attack was cer tainly a very plucky one, in fact re markably so; but the defense was equally as game in every respect, and Corse’s dispatch to Sherman, “I am short a cheek bone and an ear; but am able to whip all h—l yet,” was a pretty good specimen of the way his command felt from the beginning of the fight to its end.” We do not know exactly the reasons which governed Gen. French in refer ence to the points raised above; but from the best records we can obtain we observe that Gen. French’s men claim that they did not know the way the wagon roads ran any better than the Federals did; and that their guide led them to believe that it was necessary for them to return half way to Acworth in order to take the road to New Hope church. General French’s command, as we understand it, was composed of troops from distant states, and, therefore, we presume that the Confederate claims in regard to their ignorance of the course of the wagon roads, etc., were correct. We shall be glad, however, if some one would explain to us the reasons for the Confederate movements as indica ted above. What the Kennesaw Ga zette desires is the exact truth of his tory concerning the army operations along the line of the Western & Atlan tic Railroad, equally with its desire to demonstrate to the people of the pres ent day that the country along the line of the Western & Atlantic Rail road is the best in the South for immi grants and capitalists to come to. Speaking of immigration a few days ago, a gentleman said to us: “If the railroads and the state were to join each other in properly directed efforts to induce immigration into the state, they would be astonished at their suc cess. The railroads of the west are the greatest factors in filling up the states through which they run. The rail roads of the south could, to a great ex tent, imitate their example successful ly ; but, excepting the Western & At lantic, none of them seem to be mak ing much endeavor in that direction. The Western & Atlantic is the only road, to my knowledge, whose publi cations seem to have this object in view. The rest all expend their time, their energy and their money in en deavoring to capture the through tour ist travel; whereas, the Western & Atlantic has published the resources of the section through which it runs, and in a general manner is doing more to day to induce immigration into Geor gia than any other organization.” If you want to be sure of having a good and safe ride in luxurious cars on through schedules, the Western & At lantic is the road you are hunting for. It fills all the requirements, and the way its passenger business has increas ed, shows that the public have found this out. THE KENNESAW GAZETTE. THE FOWLER Roll-up Spring Red. 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