Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-05-27
THE MINERS BURIAL,

Last Saturday, Thomas Perry, % years of age
and a native Of Cornwall, England, ws1 killcl
IN the SwantOn tunnel. Monte Cri~tO, uy q fall.
ing stOne The next day, over 5np miners as
sembled and attended the unfortunate fune.
rai. Every circumstance of the o-caSiun was
remarkable; ii was showing, and SNOW si~ feet
IN depth lay upon the ground; the people gath
cred round the cabin of the deal miner; a choir
was formed and funeral anthem sung; The p
all marched toward the buriat place. On reach
ing the town of Monte Cr.st. the Goodyear' :
Brass Band, playing a toad march, stepped in
front of the procession. Al the grave 20 which
thecitizcns Of Monte CEistO mad shOyeled 4 road
another anthem Was sang aud miner read
the Eng.I-h buriai service. Again the choir
raised their voices the band performed q dirsc
and the procession retained to Monte CTis.O.
where the Rev alT Pond, of DOwDieyille " no
did not arrive preyiou. to the burial j delivered
an appropriate discourse
Let us liDger before this impressive scene; let
US remain to look at picture like which there
is not one; let US listen. perhaps tho anthem
echoes Yet upon the .,"ight, ani Oh The 9ind
may have stayed the music's final note Hero
Is solemnity and grandeur, winter and sorrow
grOaning storm and floating melody, life and
death, n"blehess in the living konOrs for The
dead, and a new grave iR-;hc mount tain toward
Heaven. under the fallen ava tho falling snow
This strange association was more imposing
moro within the scope e honest heartodness,
than all the royal pageants ever witnessed in
this dead miner native Land.
HiStuneTal Was Enapp-oachable in mournful-
ness-neveT surpassed in popularity Of attend
ing circumstances Beneath no tenple roof
was seen spectacle =" full IF instruction that
come. inaudibly in y" csnI -nuniOn passed such
eloquent whispers FROM soul {" s'rui in no knesi-
ing congregation was ~ much Of worldly though.
locked .Ur an hour In the closets Of forgetful-
mesa no choir gave irfIicr voice TO the sacred
poetry Of emotion. Down a winding aisle OF
Nature's grand cathedral moved the frsternal
three hundred. and in an echOing nicne Of the
rugged globe was entOnbed the seeker OF gold.
the victim Of GOLD seeking casualty. A CONT
lent snd an ocean lies between his kindred
and hi' grave but he was estima bic man,
aud estiHable men buried HIN and regret mis-
absence. His vas an honorable death-the
labOrer dying with the implements Of industry
n his hands ranks hext TO the patriot who
grasps weapon and expires in hi5 eOantry S
defense
IL is winter now. and The miners grave i,
under the fallen and falling snOw : loud ralk-
iBg-stOrrGs course from dreaTy peak, over scat.
tered pines and along r.JyiDes but the sprir.,
flower will soon awake ard laugh becau . tht
sun has taken of the cOverict of snow ard
washed it in the ieapirg brook The yellow
summer Will come and bald its cheerful fires
the hills, and pour it, mcilvT light on val
icy aHd on summit, and it, softe.t -hadows will
lOiter above the tCinhs IF those who were freed
from the tcspotism Of life and borne through
the dim republic Of dead mortality to iOd's
COnfederacy--,o his Union # glOries.-iSieTr0
CtH-eH.