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Vol. IV.
Ijnppi) ffonb of Cannon.
1 sing you a song, and it won’t detain me
long,
All about the times we are gaining:
I sing it in rhymes, and suit it to the times,
And call it the happy land of Canaan.
Chorus. —
Oh !oh!oh ! ah! ah !ah !
Look out, there’s a good time coming ;
Never mind the weather, but get over
double trouble,
I’m bound for the happy land of Canaan.
Old Abe Lincoln was elected President,
And from a rail splitter he is gaining;
The Yankees they may brag but we’ll raise
the flag,
And make the South a happy land of
Canaan.
Chorus. —
Down at Harper’s Ferry section they raised
an insurrection,
Old Brown thought the niggers would
sustain him,
Along come Governor Wise, and took him
by surprise,
And sent him to the happy land of
Canaan.
Chorus. —
Old Brown is dead, and the last word he said
Was,“Don’t keep me here long remaining!”
First we took him up a‘slope, then tied him
to a rope,
And dropped him in the happy land of
Canaan.
Chorus. —
Old Buchanan got his orders, and left the
4th of March,
And says some credit he was gaining ;
Good folks let him rest, the old man done
his best,
He is bound for the happy land of Canaan.
Chorus.—
Now Jeff. Davis shakes his fist at the
Abolitionists,
And says he will give them a training;
He would whip them so freely, both Smith
and Horace Greeley,
If he could catch them in the happy land
of Canaan.
Chorus.—
Our Map.
This is a valuable part of our present
issue. It not only shows correctly the
whole line of the great Western & At
lantic railroad from Atlanta to Chat
tanooga and adjacent territory, but it
is full of historic information. The
location of Marietta, it will be seen,
is in the midst not only of a pictur
esque country but also of ground as his
toric, and linked forever with, as thril
ling interest as any in America. For
this valuable map we are indebted to
the management of the W. & A. Rail
road.—j State, Town and County.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad is
known as the “old
A humorous dare-devil—the very man to suit my purpose. Bvlwbb.
Georgia.
We consider the great state of Geor
gia as the foremost commonwealth of
all the states of the south. Since the
close of the terrible war she has made
gigantic strides in everything tending
to develop her immense resources.
Where at the termination of the war
were devasted and ruined villages,
now may be seen populous cities, teem
ing with manufactures and busy, in
dustrious, go-ahead people; and the
sparsely settled country at the out
break of the war, is now thickly occu
pied by industrious and prosperous
planters and farmers. New life and
new blood seem to have been infused
into the people of that state, and with
her great water-power, mineral de
posits, cotton factories, foundries, ma
chine shops and other manufactures,
at Augusta, Atlanta, Cartersville, and
at numerous other places scattered
over the state, we can see no reason
why Georgia is not bound to become
at no distant day one of the great
manufacturing states of the Union.
But in no part of the state have more
marked changes taken place than
along T the historic route of the Wes
tern & Atlantic Railroad, extending
froip QJjattanooga to Atlanta, All
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OTJR. “MIDWINTER" NUMBER.
ATLANTA, CA., JANUARY 13, 1889.
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ASA L. HARRIS, ATLANTA, GA.
along this line are some of the most
beautiful and thriving towns and vil
lages to be seen on any route. Some
of these villages are delightful re
sorts, blessed as they are with pure
cold water, refreshing shade and beau
tiful scenery. Cartersville, we re
member when we passed through it
during the war, was mere nothing, is
now a very properous manufacturing
town, we are told by those who have
been there; and Marietta, delightful
Marietta, situated almost in the shad
ow of old Kennesaw, from whose
summit a view of unsurpassed beauty
is had, is now one of the most charm
ing pleasure resorts in the south.
We have a strong liking for Geor
gia, and it is our intention to visit the
places along the line of the above
named railroad, and also Augusta, if
possible, next season. — Morris (Mineso
ta) Tribune.
All parties in Indiana, Ohio, Mich
igan, or States east who are going
south ; or who expect to ship freight
south should call on or write to C. E.
Harman, General Western Agent of
the Western & Atlantic and Associated
Roads at 131 Vine street, Cincinnati,
Ohio,
Asa L. Harris.
For its frontispiece for December 8,
the Georgia Cracker, of Atlanta, had a
portrait of Air. A. L. Harris, the man
aging editor of this journal, which
is reproduced on this page, together
with the following brief biography
and kind mention by the Cracker, un
der the head of
CRACKER CRAYONS.
Mr. Asa L. Harris was born in
Middlebury, Vermont, in 1833, and
moved with his parents to Ohio when
two years old. He received a com
mon school education, and at eighteen
years of age engaged in civil engin
eering, locating and building railroads
for several years. At twenty-five, he
engaged in journalism on the Ohio
State Journal, at Columbus. After
wards he published and edited several
weekly papers.
During the war he was Assistant
Provost-Marshal until 1865, when he
was appointed to a prominent position
as Special Agent in the Military Mail
Service. At the close of the war, by
order of the Postmaster-General,he re
organized the mail service in Georgia,
and was in charge of the Savannah
post-office for several years, after which
he engaged in rice planting and other
pursuits.
Mr. Harris was a member of the
State Constitutional Convention from
Chatham county, held in Atlanta in
1867- and Engineer and Supervisor
of the Western & Atlantic Railroad in
1868- and was Master of Transpor
tation during 1870. He afterwards
engaged in contracting, and built a
horse railroad in Chattanooga. He was
in the U. S. Internal Revenue Service
in 1879-’Bo,with headquarters at Phila
delphia, Pa.
In 1881 Mr. Harris again ascended
to journalism, establishing the Rail
road Record at Atlanta, which as
conducted by him is universally popu
lar and successful.
We might go to further length and
attempt to describe the genial and social
qualities of our subject, but that would
be a useless waste of words. Every
body knows him, and everybody loves
him. He is a ray of sunshine, and a
big ray of sunshine at that —even to
meet him a person feels jolly, happier,
and in better humor with the world.
“Are you going?”
“Well, I should smile.”
“By what route ?”
“By the W. & A., of course; if po|
I couldn’t smile,”
NO. 2.