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-— - y. - 1 view of keuhesaw iv2S^ >£ATL A vol. IV. The Vow of Washington BY JOHN G. WHITTIER. The sword was sheathed ; in April’s sun Lay green the fields by freedom won; And severed sections, weary of de bates, Joined hands at last and were United States. 0, City sitting by the Sea ! How proud the day that dawned on thee, When the new era, long desired, be gan, And, in its need, the hour had found the man I One thought the cannon salvos spoke: The resonant bell-tower’s vibrant stroke. The voiceful streets, the plaudit echoing halls, And prayer and hymn borne heaven ward from St. Paul’s! How felt the land in every part The strong throb of a nation’s heart, As the great leader gave, with rever ent awe, His pledge to Union, Liberty and Law ! That pledge the heavens above him heard, That vow the sleep of centuries stirr ed ; In world-wide wonder listening peo ples bent Their gaze on Freedom’s great ex periment. Could it succeed ? Os honor sold And hopes deceived all history told, Above the wrecks that strewed the mourniul past, Was the long dream of ages true at last. Thank God! the people’s choice was just, The one man equal to his trust, Wise beyond lore, and without weakness good, Calm in the strength of flawless rectitude ! His rule of justice, order, peace, Made possible the world’s release ; Taugh prince and serf that power is but a trust. And rule, alone, which serves the ruled, is just; That freedom generous is, but strong In hate of fraud and selfish wrong, Pre'ense that turns her holy truths to lies, And lawless license masking in her guise. Land of his love I with one glad voice Let thy great sisterhood rejoice; A century’s suns o’er thee have risen and set, And, God be praised, we are one nation yet. And still, we trust, the years to be Shall prove his hope was destiny, Leaving our flag with all its added stars Unrent ny faction and unstained by wars I Lo ! where with patient toil he nursed And trained the new-set plant at first, The widening branches of a stately tree Stretch from the sunrise to the sunset sea. And in its broad and sheltering shade, Sitting with none to make afraid, Were we now silent, through each mighty limb, The winds of heaven would sing the praise of him. I >ur firstand best I his ashes lie Beneath his own Virg’nia sky. I’orgive, forget, O, true and just and brave, The storm that swept above thy sacred grave ! For, ever in the awful strife And dark hours of the nation’s life, Through the fierce tumult pierced his warning word, Their father’s voice his erring children heard ! The change for which he prayed and sought hi that sharp agony was wrought; No partial interest draws its alien line ’Twixt North and South, the cypress and the pine! One people now, all doubt beyond, His name shall be our Union bond ; We lift our hands to Heaven, and here and now, Take on our lips the old Centennial vow. For rule and trust must needs be ours ; Chooser and chosen both are powers hqual in service as in rights ; the claim Os Duty rests on each and all the same. -A- liuzxiorous dare-devil—tile very man to suit my purpose. Bvlwbb. B - ; ••' ' :i i’WcW..■■' ’ __JHSW’ W' '.L/ . .. . > ; <Sgi|Nn|Lt, ... ■ • b ;' z *7T~ . ,W'~ ff<ygF & •■ -■ r: : rm ri x ’ '--AEr >a-~ ~ i rUwair»ifcw sJ™ - rw-«iF ..nffwft .-. ck? 1 ,<oL ' I- dlfol Then let the sovereign millions, where Our banner floats in sun and air, From the warm palm lands to Alaska’s cold, Repeat with us the pledge a century old ! May’s Morning* Stars. Jupiter and Venus are morning stars for May. There is a fine opportunity for contrasting the two planets. Venus is the more brilliant, but her luster is dimmed by the radiance of the dawn, while Jupiter seems almost her equal in her brightness as he shines with the the midnight sky for a back-ground. The regal planet is approaching the earth, and will be superb when, on the last week of the month, he looms above the southeastern horizon about 9 o’clock in the evening, and looks down from the meridian at 1 h. 47 m. A. M. Jupiter rises on the 15th, at 10 p. m. On the 31st he rises at 9:9 p. m. He is in the constellation Sagit tarius. Venus is a charming object in the eastern sky before sunrise, as she oscil lates westward from the sun, rising earlier every morning and increasing in brilliancy as a larger portion of her illumined disk is turned toward the earth. Her rapid movement south ward may be observed. She rises on the 15th an hour before the sun, and on the 31st about an hour and three quarters before the sun. She is in the constellation Aries. As you go over the W. & A. ask the conductor to show you the great “horse-shoe bend.” OUR, ;i MAY FLOWERS" NUMBER. ATLANTA, CA., MAY I, 1889. BATTLE OF RINGGOLD GAP, ON TUB: WESTERN A ATLANTIC RAILROAD, NOV. 27, 1863. Muscle Shoals Canal. Gen. Casey, chief of the United States river engineering department, has just returned from a visit of in spection to the Muscle Shoals canal. He stated that the work is in a most satisfactory condition.* He let the water on as far as the seventh lock in the big canal and floated a small steamer through that portion of the passage in the presence of a large number of people. The test was eminently successful. Only three locks remain to be opened, and these are nearing completion, hence Gen. Casey fixes next fall as the time for opening the canal. — Chattanooga Times, April 8. River Improvements. Col. J. H. Barlow was in the city and reports that the Muscle Shoals improvement is progressing rapidly, and will in all probability be comple ted by the latter part of September. He is having a tug boat and barges built here for work at the shoals. He will leave here to-day for a tour of the Upper Tennessee and French Broad rivers, with a view to getting the work to be done on those streams under headway. Rock obstructions will be excavated and rip rap dams will be built on the French Broad river this season. Col. Barlow also has the work on the Cum berland river well under way .-—Chat tanooga Times. A bad, revengeful little boy in an Atlanta grammar school rubbed fine Cayenne pepper all over the back of his jacket and well into the cloth, and then laughed out loud in school, for which the master flogged him severely, but dismissed school soon after to go and see an eye doctor. “William Weesbock, you are charged with having beaten your wife,” said Judge Anderson in the At lanta police conrt. “The charge is correct, your honor.” “What are you smiling about then?” “I have reason to smile. We’ve been married five years, and in all the scrapes we’ve jiad this is the first time I’ve come out first best. Have a cigar, judge?” A Big Land Deal. Reports say that a rich Boston syn dicate has purchased 1,700 acres of valuable mineral lands in Whitefield and Catoosa counties, and propose erecting a steel plant somewhere on the line of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. The price paid for the land was $30,000, which was sold through the efforts of Conductor Charlie Davis, of the Western & Atlantic rad, a wide awake gentleman who is doing a great deal towards developing the mineral interests of this section. — Dal ton (Ga.) Citizen. The era of good feeling is surely re turning. Gen. W. T. Sherman has recently written a letter in favor of making the Northern soldier’s homes general, and admitting Confederates as well as Union soldiers. — Exchange. Cartersville (Ga.) real estate has doubled in value in the past twelve months, and the probability is that it will nearly double again in the next twelve months. — Courant American. Say, you, did you hear anything drop ? Yes, I heard the fellows drop on the floor who were attempting to match the W. & A. Great spikes I what a bump it was. The W. & A. runs sixteen passen ger trains per day, and runs them on time, too. The Kennesaw Route is the quickest. NO. 9.