The Trinity journal., 1856-11-22
A Sonp that will Live.

A Song that will Live.
Unlike many perhaps tie many-we have not
indulgcd in panegyrics of Bayard Tay 4er's poe
try, because poetry did not seem to us to be his
vocation but he has recently written something
that in many respects is deserving of q place be-
side The Burial OF Sir John Moore We allude
to his Song Of the Camp founded upon an ac-
tual incident in the Crimca.
There was lull in the battle, and the soldiers
cried out for song
Give Us a song the soldiers cried,
The outer trenches guarding,
When the heated guns Of the camp allied,
Grew weary of bombarding
The dark Rcdan in silent scoff,
Lay, grim aud threatening, under
And the twany mound OF the Malakof
No longer held its thunder.
The poet goes on to say who they were and the
song that they sang:
They lay along the battcrys side.
Below the smoking cannon
Brave hearts from Severn and from Clyde,
And from the banks of Shannon.
They sang of love, and not of fame
Forgot was Britain's glory;
Each heart recalled different name,
But all sang ANNA Laurie
If there can be more of touching beauty CON
dcnsed in a ouple of lines than in that
Each heart recalled a different name,
But all sang Annie Laurie
we have not been so fortunate us to encounter it.
The song is described as caught up and borne
along the lines, and then We have
Dear girl, her name he dared not speak,
Yet as the song grew louder.
Something on the soldiers check
Washed of the stains Of powder.
Beyond the dnrkcning ocean burned
The bloody sunsets embers,
While the Crmcan valleys learned
How English love remembers.
Then the scene changed, the little intcrlude OF
love and memory was over, the song was ended,
And once again fire of he'll
Ranod on the Russian quarters,
With scream of shot and burst of SHE'LL
And believing OF mortars.
Then a fur away scene risos dimly through the
rain, and The Irish Nora and English Mary are
mourning for those that shall never return
And Irish Nora's eyes arc dim
For singer dumb and CORY
And English Mary mourns for him
Who sang OF Annie Laurie
All, soldiers to your honored rest
Your truth and valor bearing
The hravcst are the tendercst--
The loving are the daring.
\ CRUEL JOKE was played off on a dairy
man down east recently. Some wags called
him at midnight, in the midst of a thunder
shower, to 90 to the rescue of his most val
liable COW, which was choking. He rushed
to the coW-yard, and found Crummie quietly
chewing her cud, but mangel-wurzcl beet
in the nose Of his pump.
The Goi1tn Era has received the following from
friend at Jackson, Amador Co., who kept file
Of the Out in which il first appeared:
TIE EUEAI OF SANDY DOG.
N0t eroWl was heard. not yrlp nor bark.
As his carcass from Main street we hurried
And ony some Cinnamon followed, to mark
The spot where poor T0wscr we buried.
We dragged him away from the place he died
Where the sausage makers had slain him
With Pepper, and lack and Old Ruf by our side
And We sought for grave te contain him.
No box or barrel enclosed his breast,
Nor mat nor potatoc sack bonnd him,
But he lay like a dog that was taking his rest,
With the flies all buzzing around him
Few and short were the words that we said
But We gazcd with feeling sickenn',
On the form of the son Of a dog who lay dead,
And we bitterly thought Of the strychninc.
We thought as we gazcd on the lfcless form
OF the mcanCst cur in the county,
That the fellow who gave him the pizcn' was one
Who deserved to be paid bounty.
Lightly We spoke of the quodrupcd gone,
And dog-matized over his vices; Tmoan,
.And We scornIUly jccrcd at the sausage-ln -lnan S
And the consequent rise OF prices.
We dragged him TO SHougrrri7es beautiful bay,
When the tide was at cbb ON the ocean,
And found deep holeWhcre the victim might lay
Undislurbcd by the biloW 5 commoton
And then, having covered his body with stones,
We left him alone in his glory
Resolved thathis death should be put in the 'O,rl
Aud that LOGAN should tell the sad story
MAGNlFIcENr TuRN. Our. In no city in
the Union, says the Golden Era, do women
dress more cXtrayag0ntIy than in San Fran
CISCO as general thing, while many Of our
faster danes indulge in the most gorgeous
array possible. A lady acquaintance of
ours appeared on Montgomery street, few
days since, in a rig which, in point of
costliness and splendor we have never seen
cquaIed Our curiosity to know at what an
expenditure OF money she had been pr0cur-
inc all the fnery with which her person was
illustrated on this occasion, induced us to
make the inquiry proprja PerSon@ when the
lady very complacentIy gave as the following
bill of items and costs -
Dress, Che best material, OF coursc,) 1925 90
Cloak, embroidered, l2j 90
Bonnet. c. 90
Veil (ChantillaD 4J 90
Collar brussels lacc,) 50 90
Caters, %
Parasol, 2S 90
Gloves clipped with lacc) Is 90
Belt and buckle, 6j 90
Ear rings. diamond clustcT) $50 90
Breast pin, = COO 90
Watch (sct with damonds) and chain 500 90
diamond finger lings. est'd value 1900 90
'Namelcss' garments, not visible to
the nakCdcyc, IS 90
Total. S3,lG4 90
Reader. this is no fancy picture There