The Shasta courier., 1870-07-09

Declaration Of Independence, in excellent
style.
The reading of the Declaration was fo!-
lowed by the singing of the annexed song,
8 Our Country" oy the Choir:
Our Country tits glorious land
With broad arms stretched from shore to shore,
he proud Pacific chafes her strand,
She hears the dark Atlantic roar;
And nuItured on her ample breast,
How many goodly prospect lies;
In Natures widest grandeur drest,
Enamelled with her loveliest dyes.
Rcn prairies decked with flowers of gold
Like sunlit oceans roll afar;
Broad lakes her azure heavens beholl
Kefecting clear each trembling star,
And mighty rivers muuntaiu born
Go sweeping onward dark and deep
Through forests where the bounding fawn,
Beneath their sheltering branches leap.
And, Graded mid her clustering hills,
Sweet vales in dreamlike beauty hide,
Where love the air with music fills,
And calm content and peace abide
For plenry hese her funess pours
In rich prptusion DER the land,
And sent to seize her generous store
There prowls no fyrahts hireling band
This bounteous birthand. OF the free;
Nhergwanu' rers from afar may come
And breathe the air of Liberty
Still may ipr flowers Uni lfsmpled spring
Her harvests waxe, her cities rise;
And yet, till Time shall fold his wing
-ReInuIn Earth S loveliest paradise.
At the close OF this song, the orator of
the day, John s. Follansbee Esq, was pre-
sented to the audience, and delivered an
interesting, able, and eloquent ora a,ion,
which we regret our inability to publish.
Shortly after the commencement of the
grafton, the cry of fire FIRE y''
ran through the crowd, and portion of
the audience made rush in the direction
of the town, which they supposed to be in
flames, but the alarm proved to be false
one, caused by the inadvertent ringing of
a bell, and the audience soon re-assembled
around the speakers stand, but the effects
of the panic were or some time apparent
in the uneasy and restless manner exhibited
by ma y Of the people.
After the Grafton the choir sang the fol
lowing overland ra lroad song, entitled the
=" Continental Chorus :"
All aboard all aboard,
The Kissing breath of the iron steed
Proclams his wish to be quickly freed;
And as tile stroke of the bell we hear
lie springs at the touch of his engineer
And away we glide DER prairies wide
Through verdant wales, and mountain dales,
Tp the last great chain waich has strivon in vain.
With the Lightning the Lightning the Light
ming Palace Train.
Forgetting tar Atlantic,
Aud midway romantic,
We scale the peaks gigantic
Which guard the Land of Gold
Here liver rills leaping.
Here fovVly lakes sleeping,
And snow clad GRANTEES keeping
Their - watch # years" untold.
CuoRus.
We sing a wondsrous story,
M nation sang before !
A Continental Chorus
That echoes either hare.
We sang it on th summit
We slug it un the plain
We've el NIB d the Grand Sierras
with the Ligh hing Palace Train,
With the Lightning the Lightning the Light
ming Pa ace Train.
All aboard all aboard!
No toll can tire impatient steed
SO once again will test his speed
How quick l. the wish Of our heart obeyed,
| lie st"rts at the turn OF tho downward grade.
And again We glide by torrents side
| Der trsstled deeps, through tunnel'd steeps
While the vic'tries wane which they sought 70
gain. "
With The Lightning the Lightning! the Light.
ming Palac; Train.
Meath timbsre roofs unendinr
Fr'm win er SHOWS defending
Through canons wild desct nding
To the CRY Of the Plain:
We leave the scenes terrific
We pass the fehis prolific,
AMI visw the bro Pacific
TIe Golden gated main.
cHoRus.
We sing Wonderous story, &c.
The audience were so well pleased with
the song that they called for its repetition
and this request was complied with By the
choir.
String music by the band.
"Luneh" was next announced, and the