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Psalm CXI.
1 The psalmist by his example exciteth
others to praise God for his glorious, 5
and gracious works. 10 the fear of God
breedeth true wisdom.
PRAISE ye the Lord. I will praise the
Lord with my whole heart.in the assem
bly of the upright, and in the congrega
tion.
2. The works ol the Lord are great,
sought out of all them that have pleasure
therein.
3. His work is honourable and glorious:
and his righteousness endureth for evei.
4. He hath made his wonderful works to
be remembered: the Lord is gracious and
full of compassion.
5. He hath given meat unt> them that
fear him: he will ever be mindful of his
covenant.
6. He hath shewed his people the power
of his works, that he may give them the
heritage of the heathen.
7. The works of his hands are verity and
judgement; all his commandments are
sure.
8. They stand fast for ever and ever, and
are done in truth and uprightness.
9. lie sent redemption unto his people:
he hath commanded his covenant for ever:
holy and reverend is his name.
10. The fear of the Lord isthe beginning
of wisdom: a good understanding have all
they that do his commandments: his praise
endureth for ever.
Friendly Foes.
One of the paradoxes of war was the
friendship which existed, during the
Atlanta Campaign, in 1864, between
Cheatham’s division, afterwards Cheat
ham’s corps of the Confederate army,
and the Fourteenth corps of Sher
man’s army. These two corps, during
the fighting between Dalton and
Atlanta, on several instances, eith
er by chance or otherwise, were
opposite each other, and, trying each
other’s mettle, therefore, day by day,
became very well acquainted, and
formed not only a respect for each
other’s bravery and skill, but there
was, between fires, a sort of knightly
friendship between them.
In the assault upon Cheatham’s
line, south of Kennesaw Mountain, in
what is known as the great battle of
Kennesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864,
the Fourteenth corps made an attempt
to carry the works held by Cheatham.
A prominent Federal officer was re
cently talking to us about this attempt,
and said that it was one of the most
desperate he had ever seen, and that
the number of killed and wounded in
front of the Confederate works was
greater than he had ever looked upon
at any time during the war. He added
that after the battle the scenes were
heart-rending.
During the midst of the combat
that day the woods were set on fire in
front of the Confederate works by the
explosion of shells or the blaze from
gun-wadding, and began burning
fiercely around the Federal wounded
who lay thickly in front of the Con
federate works. Seeing this awful
spectacle, the Confederate troops, by
order of their officers, instantly stopped
firing, and called out to the Federal
line of battle in front of them to come
forward and remove their wounded
who were in danger of being burned
alive, and gave them assurance that
they would not be fired upon while
engaged in this duty to humanity. A
number of the" Confederates leaped
over the entrenchments and helped
the Federal soldiers to bear their
wounded comrades back out of reach
of the flames, and then returned to
within the entrenchments again.
During this interval not a shot was
fired; and a more noble example of
knightly chivalry has never been ex
hibited in the history of the world.
During the fighting around Atlanta,
Cheatham’s corps occupied the en
trenchments which were faced by the
Fourteenth Federal army corps, and
we are informed that there got to be
quite a state of sociability between the
two corps.
In some instances, for a half hour or
more at a time, they would mount
their respective worksand talk to one
another, or trade tobacco for coffee,
swap newspapers, etc. Many pleasant
little episodes between battles thus oc
curred —some of them almost daily.
Whenever orders would come from the
headquarters of either army for offen
sive movements to be made, or for
firing to be opened, if they originated,
for instance, from the Federal side,
there would be the cry of “Get back
into your works, Johnnies, we are go
ing to fire!” or, if the orders were from
Gen. Hood, or any of his commanders,
“there would be a similar warning—
“ Down into your trenches, Yanks,
we’ve got to shoot at you!”
This was considered not only a ne
cessary, but a proper notice which a
right feeling of honor demanded should
be given.
Our informant, who, as we have al
ready stated, was a prominent Federal
officer, says that the feeling between
the two corps became so marked that
it was apparently considered necessary
by the commanders of both the oppos
ing armies that they should be sepa
rated —so one night Cheatham’s corps,
it seems, was moved by Gen. Hood
from the works they had occupied for
two or three weeks or more to an en
tirely different portion of the line —in
fact, sent to a position on the Cen
tral Railroad south of Atlanta.
The next morning they exchanged
some skirmish firing with the Federals
who were facing them, then after a slight
cessation, one of the Confederate
pickets called out: “What command
do you belong to?”
“The Fourteenth corps,” was the re
ply-
“Well, we are Cheatham’s corps,”
answered the Confederate, with a
.laugh —“here we are right together
again. What have you got to trade
to-day.”
By a strange combination of circum
stances it happened, as above indicat
ed, that the Fourteenth corpshad dur
ing the same night moved from its old
position to that which faced the new
position occupied by Cheatham’s corps.
If such a feeling was in existence
during the heat of battle and the time
of passion which the war naturally
brought about, what shall we say
about it in the present day? and if the
men of the two corps were ready to be
jolly and good-humored with each oth
er then, just as far as discipline and
the protection of the honor of the cause
which each was fighting for demand
ed, it needs no astute reasoning to say
the KennesaW gazette.
that the soldiers of the above two com
mands would go a good many lengths
in the present day to oblige each
other.
It is a beautiful sentiment which we
have seen expressed, that the victors
have now become one with the van
quished. This, in a great measure, is
true. They both help by their suf
frages to administer the affairs of the
same government. Federal soldiers
and Confederate soldiers together have
desks in the same rooms in the depart
ments at Washington; and Federal
and Confederate soldiers in many in
stances are in business partnerships.
The old South and the old North
have now happily given place to a new
South and a new North, for it was just
as necessary that there should be a
new North as that there should be a
uew South. We congratulate our
selves that we live at a time when
such things are possible, and that we
are citizens of a countrv where such
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things are being done. The true glory
of the American republic is being
shown in the readiness of the people
of the two sections to unite in up-build
ing the common country, and we be
lieve that we voice a sentiment which
will be echoed in Florida and in Mich
igan, in Texas and in Maine, when we
quote from one of the publications of
the Western & Atlantic Railroad :
“One common glory gilds the fame
Os those who erst contended,
Their heritage is hence the same
Now that the strife is ended.”
Twenty-three Years Ago.
Army Correspondence from Marietta.
Marietta, Tuesday,
June 7,1864.
We have left the sandy flatscf Pauld
ing county and are once more among
the blue hills, and the open meadow
lands.
Marietta is one of the sweetest of
country villages. It has all the varie
ty of mountain and prairie to enliven
the views it obtains over the surround
ing country, and is built in that tropi
cal style which is so attractive to sense
and sight in summer time. Balconies
arched by honeysuckles, gardens fidl
of shrubbery and flowers; orchards
glistening with young fruit. The streets
are wide and regular. There is a park,
a bowling green, and not far off a
grove, and a cemetery. Ido not won
der that Marietta has been a favorite
resort.
The Kennesaw Mountain, which
rises like a camel from the dead level,
is occupied by our signal corps. Our
lines extend along its base. We are
five miles in front of Marietta, just be
hind Big Shanty. There have been
only cavalry skirmishes since the
change of position.
In regard to the change, it can only
be said to have arisen out of the ne
cessity which compels us to move with
the enemy. The long delay about
New Hope was unexpected; we are
doing now what we were about to do
ten days or two weeks ago. Grape.
—Augusta Const if utionalist.
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.
BARTOW’S WON DERE I D
CAVERN.
There are many points of interest
in Bartow county, Ga., but the most
remarkable and interesting one is situ
ated about ten miles from Cartersville.
We refer to our justly celebrated Salt
petre cave. The adjoining country
around it is poor, rocky ami mountain
ous. The descent into it is steep, ab
rupt, and somewhat difficult, tor per
haps one hundred ami fifty feet, where
the bottom becomes perfectly smooth
and even; owing, no doubt, to the
collection of dirt which has been wash
ed down the mouth, and settling there
forages. This smooth and even sur
face extends forty by sixty feet. Here
the Indians are said to have been in
the habit of meeting for the purpose of
dancing, and to indulge in other pas
times and festivities. The air in this
cave is damp, and unpleasantly cold.
From the mouth to the bottom of the
first descent, the aperture Incomes
larger and larger until the bottom is
reached. About midway the rocks
overhead are so far above as to render
the top almost invisible from the light
of torches. Stones thrown up can
barely reach it. At the bottom of the
firstroom, as it is usually called, the
rocks close iu on all sides, except the
entrance, and a few feet through
which the visitor must pass half bent,
it he desires to proceed further. After
going in this way for twenty or thirty
feet, the opening again becomes sud
denly large and extensive on all sides,
and a steep and rugged ascent has to
be encountered for eighty or one hun
dred feet. Here, if it were not that
the cave is in tin* side of a mountain,
it could not be very far to the surface
of the earth above, as it has now ascend
ed a distance nearly equal to that
which was descended in entering, and
it is also some distance to the rock
overhead. But the visitor is now in
the heart or center of the mountain,
where no ray of light ever found its
entrance, except that of the torch or
lantern of exploring man. At the
top of this ascent a road branches off
to the right and left. Both are circui
tous and lead into rooms of different
shapes and sizes. The one to the right
leads by a difficult and sometimes dan
gerous route to the largest room in the
cave. From this there is a small ami
narrow outlet, scarcely of space suffi
cient to proceed erect, of about one
hundred and fifty or two hundred feet
in length, ami leads to another issue,
though small. There are in this cave
some twenty or thirty rooms of differ
ent sizes or forms, and generally con
nected with each other by apertures
sufficiently large to admit of easy ac
cess; but in some places, though rare
ly, the visitor must gain his way on
his hands and •knees. Some visitors
of more enterprise ami perseverance,
have taken in poles, by which to as
cend to the rooms overhead. One room
is accessible by a ladder, and in this
roam it is said then 1 arc thousandsand
thousands of leather-winged bats. On
what these bats subsist, is a question
that may puzzle the curious. The
continual drippings of the lime and
saltpetre have, in many of the rooms,
formed beautiful columns and pillars,
by concretion. Many of these, from
the different shapes they have assumed,
are interesting curiosities. These pil
lars are, in a state of nature, almost as
white as marble; but the frequent visits
to the cave, and from the visitors using
pine for torches, they have become
smoked black. Several years ago
considerable quantities of saltpetre
were manufactured from the dirt dug
out of this cave,-and the signs are
visible, but no work of the kind is
now going on. — Cartersville (Ga.,)
American.
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