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bifliiSßl tfliOffF ■ omesav V^__ lo^Passeng|s<DePoT *' AT LA NTA . v_< \J ' .—■ •* x?J£2- —■—-*• , (o^’ALLEY: Vol. !!. How Far the Cars Travel. Probably one of the most practical evidences of the change in the manner of handling busine-s, brought about by the change of gauge on the southern roads, is the difference in the number or cars which the southern roads han dle now, as compared with what they handled before the change occurred. On the Western & Atlantic railroad, for instance, during the month of May, 1886, which was just previous to the change of gauge, there were handled the cars of 64 other roads, while W. & A. cars ran on 30 other roads. During the month of June, which was just after the change of gauge, AV. & A. cars ran on 38 other roads, while the AV. & A. handled the cars of 125 other railroad companies. During the month of October, 1886, which was four months after the change of gauge, the AV. & A. cars ran on 100 other roads, while the AV. & A. handled the cars of 100 other railroad companies. To show the wide spread range over which the cars roam, we may mention the fact that W. & A. ears during October last ran over the following roads: Central Railroad of Vermont; Florida Southern; Grand Trunk, of Canada; Southern Pacific; Burlington & Missouri River; New York Central; New York & New England ; Texas Pacific; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; and others equally as widely scattered. The AVestern & Atlantic handled cars belonging to the Southern Pacific Railroad; Burlington & Missouri River; Grand Trunk, of Canada; Mexican Central; Southern Pacific, of Arizona; Central, of Vermont; Chicago, Bur lington A Quincy; Union Pacilic; New York Central A Hudson River; Houston & Texas Central; Gulf, Col rado A Santa Fe; Pennsylvania Rail road, and others fully as widely scat tered. This is a wonderful change from the old way of handling cars which exist ed before the war, when all freights were transferred by each receiving road into its own cars, and to find a Nash ville A Chattanooga R. R. car down at Atlanta was a sight which the town went out to see. A iTLtim.oro'u.s dare-devil—the very man to su.it my purpose. Bulwer. OTJZFt MID-WINTER KT U JMZ B E It. Looking For Him. Here we have the representation of a skirmisher peering over a head-log, looking for one of the en emy’s skirmishers. From the “cut of his jib” we take it that he is one of Joe Johnston’s men who has a no tion of trying a crack at one of Sherman’s sharpshoote/s. The woodsand hill-sides around Ma rietta and Kennesaw Mountain, and amid the wilderness which surrround ed New Hope Church in 1864, were full of just such scenes as this; and it is the testimony of the commanders on Old “Hell Schmell.” One day during the fighting around Marietta, in June, 1864, the Confed erate batteries on the crest of Kenne saw Mountain began bombarding the camp occupied by the division of Gen eral Osterhaus. Osterhaus was eating his dinner at the time, and concluded he would pay no attention to it until he finished his meal; but noticing that first the team sters, then a number of soldiers, and finally some of his staff began to seek cover with some precipitation, and doubtless feeling that there was no cer tainty but that some flying bombshell might lose its way and come crashing into his tent, sans-cereMonie, he leaped to his feet, shook his fist furiously in the air and sprang out of the tent, ca pering like a Dutch dancing-master, and yelled, “I’ll make’em hell schmell! I’ll make ’em hell schmell!” and at once sent orders over to the batteries in his command to open fire upon the Confederates on Kennesaw. It is not a matter of record that the furious bombardment which he direct ed caused the retreat of the Confeder ates from the mountain ; but we would doubtless be safe in recording it that he felt somewhat like he had gotten ATLANTA, CA., JANUARY 15, 1887. /Av, v.<g, * )/ /i&y' ■ 'zj' region traversed by the AVestern A At lantic Railroad still show a great num ber of rifle pits which were occupied by the* skirmishers of the two ar mies during the eventful summer which the two armies spent in north west Georgia in 1864. even, or as nearly so as possible, after he had sent a few scores of projectiles crashing against the rocky cliffs amid which the Confederates were perched with their infantry lines and batteries of artillery. But the Federal soldiers called Gen. Osterhaus “ Old Hell-schmell,” and this is said to have been one of his fa vorite expressions when he was angry. Wouldn’t “Shpike Dem New Guns.’’ The following story is said to have been one of General Grant’s best: In the battle of Shiloh a Dutch ar tillery commander came running to him, blubbering like a whipped school boy, and evidently in great distress. Grant, who was annoyed at the Con federate advance which had driven back a portion of his line, inquired of him what was the matter, and received from him the information that his bat tery had been captured. The General asked him, “Well, did you spike the guns before you aban doned them?” With a look of utter amazement on his face, the Dutchman bellowed out: “Vat ! shpike dem guns —shpike dem new " guns. No sir, no sir! Vhy, it both sides that the losses sustained by the two armies were about asgreat from the incessant skirmish fi ri n g ; which was main tained between the two, as were their casualties in the greatest bat tles between Dal ton and Atlanta. The forests and hill-sides in the would has pin a shame to do dhat.” Grant used to tell this with great relish, and would then quietly remark, “and within less than fifteen minutes ‘dem new guns’ were playing on our own ranks.” “ Pick out Your Tree.” A good story is told of Colonel Jo seph Grisham, the father of Senator Brown’s wife. He was a man of un usual vigor of intellect, clearness of perception, and withal, of very great decision of character. It is stated that < n one occasion he hired a man to come and split boards for him. The party arrived before breakfast, and was asked by the Col onel to take breakfast with the family, but answered that he had already eat en. In the course of the conversation relative to the work, the Colonel was giving his ideas about what he intend ed to do in the way of constructing the building. The countryman took issue with him and expressed very decided objection to the proposed plan. This was pressed to such an extent that at last Col. Grisham got out of patience with one of his expressions of what ho thought, and remarked : “Well, I didn’t hire you to think, sir, I hired you to work.” This brought an end to the argu ment. Shortly afterwards, they went down into the forest together, and ar rived at a large tree which the Colonel inspected very carefully, walked around once or twice, and then remarked to the countryman: “Well, I think this is a first-rate board tree. AVhat do you think about it?” “You didn’t hire me to think, sir ; you hired me to work —pick out your tree,” answered the man with some de cided emphasis of tone. The Colonel laughed good-humored ly, and told him that there were some points upon which both of them could think with perfect good taste and pro priety, and invited him to take dinner with him that day. Sixty-eight different kinds of miner als and ores found on the line of the Western and Atlantic railroad. MO. 2.