is it indebted for its importance, for the country around it is among the poorest sections of Georgia.
And it has recently to consequence of its usual luck, become a military point which, some persons assert, is not second to that of the capital of the Confederate States itself.
There are four railroads terminating in Atlanta — the Georgia Railroad, Western and Atlantic, the Macon and Western, and the Atlantic and West Point.
The first one of these — the Georgia — was completed about 1828, and then terminated at Whitehall, a small country tavern near the centre of Fulton county.
Commencing at Augusta, it ran in a northwest direction to that point.
Then the Macon and Western Railroad was constructed from this city to Whitehall, and soon after the village of Whitehall was named the town of Atlanta.
The West Point road was the next constructed, running to the Chattahoochee river, on the western boundary of the State.
The Western and Atlantic, running northwest to Chattanooga<
ctually — opposed the execution of Marshal Ney that it was proposed to strike his name from the list of Russian generals.
After the peace he accompanied the Emperor to Russia, and was promoted to the rank of general-in-chief — a rank next to that of marshal, which no one can hold who has not gained a battle.
He successively received the grand cross of St. Anna, St. Waldimir and St. Alexander; assisted the Emperor at the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, in 1818, and at the Congress of Verona, in 1828; was made president of a committee for organizing the military academy; and was afterwards charged with preparing plans for fortifying and defending the frontiers of the empire.
On the accession of Nicholas to the throne, he was appointed aide-de-camp general, and charged with directing the military education of the Imperial heir.
General Jomini's first published work is his "Treatise on Grand Military Operations, " which appeared in 1804, and is considered the most important of his
nd who established the first effective system of hot-house culture for pines in England, died in 1819, aged eighty-six; and in the same year, William Marshal, a voluminous agricultural writer and active farmer, died at the age of eighty.
And I must mention one more, Dr. Andrew Duncan, a Scotch physician, who cultivated his garden with his own hands — inscribing over the entrance gate 'Hine salus'--and who was the founder of the Horticultural Society of Edinburg.
This hale old doctor died in 1828, at the extreme age of eighty-four; and to the very last year of his life he never omitted going up to the top of Arthur's Seat every May-day morning to bathe his forehead in the summer's dew. As a country liver, I like to contemplate and to boast of the hoary age of these veterans.
The inscription of good old Dr. Duncan was not exaggerated.
Every man who digs his own garden, and keeps the weeds down thoroughly, may truthfully place the same writing over the gate--'Hine salus,' (wherever he
he did not succeed in shaking them off. She opposed the war of 1812, and extended her opposition to the verge of treason.
Many think some of her sons actually committed treason.
But she could not prevent the war from being declared, nor had she any influence in producing the peace.
She opposed the tariffs of 1816 and 1824, but they passed, in spite of her, and in spite of the gigantic labors of Daniel Webster, the greatest man ever born on her soil.
She succeeded in passing the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 (for her policy had changed); but they were so odious that they nearly produced a separation of the States, and were repealed or compromised away to prevent the actual occurrence of that threatened catastrophe.
She succeeded in electing John Quincy Adams, but all her efforts could not prevent his utter overthrow four years after his election.
Indeed, the Sons of the Pilgrims, so far from succeeding in all they undertake, failed in every undertaking from the adoption of the Constitu
