Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1872-05-31
D-kCoRArIor KxKnolsEs.

We gavc an account Of the process
sion yesterday at Virginia, but as the
exercises at the cemetery had not been
reached when we went to press, We to-
day extract the following from the En-
terprise Of this morning:
On arriving at the cemetery a hollow
square was formed around the soldiers
graves. aud after the preliminary ex.
erclses Of singing BY the Glee Club and
prayer by the Chaplain, bouquets were
heaped up, until they formed a pyra-
mid, on the graves Of VIM. Smith, Jr.,
Fifteenth New York Cavalry; George
S. Wilcox, Company B, First Michl-
gan Cavalry; John j. Brann, Com
pany c, Second Minnesota Volunteers;
j. A. Cooper, Second California Vol
unteers.
This act, of itself, constituted a most
beautiful and impressive ceremony.
Minute guns were fired by the artil.
lery corps, as one by n ladies and
gentlemen, soldiers and civilians, filed
past the garlanded graves.
Mr.. K. H. Lindsay then read In u
clear and distinct voice the following
PoRN-BY J. T. GOODMAN.
II there be any here to-day
Who ask wherefore We spread the blooms
OF all the rihed fields OF May
Upon these lone and lowly tombs,
Our answer be a simple tale
or how these heroes lived and died
Time cannot render tame or stale
This story OF our love and pride.
Some years AGO, ere yet the Spring
Had garlanded its youthful brow,
These men pursued hfe's wandering,
As carelessly as We do now;
But on tho April winds uptown
There went . wild cry OF distress
The Country calling to her own,
In danger and in helplessness.
You should have seen the goodly sight
That answered to the suppllant tone:
A shock and thrill Of startled fright,
And then the People rose as one,
Tho sun that viewed with morning glance
The nations aides speed swift and far,
Behold her loyal sons advance
Beneath its setting rays to war.
From all the broad Atlantic coast
Poured down the sturdy knights Of toll;
Tho West sent out q countless host
OF warrior tillers OF the soil;-
Who with their country cast their lots
Len ail-and FASTENED to the fray;
And with that band OF patriots
Marched these, whose graves we deck to-day.
The tale 10 | long. how for Ave years.
Through carnage fierce, and storm and sun
Through prison. pens and deadly meres-
They bore their country's banner on;
Enough. that In our need, fato cast
The parts to those heroic men,
By whose brave souls and deeds at last
The Flag waved DER It's OWN again.
Some fell upon the fields OF war,
And sleep with armor on their breast;
Some after battle wandered far,
And sunk mid peaceful scenes to rest;
But honor comes wherever they lie
Aud teaches with impartial pride
Who offers for his land TO die
IL noble as who for 1t died.
Their sometime comrades, we select
This day to decorate their graves,
In honor, love. and In respect
or that remembrance nature Graves.
They would not DO forgotten dust
While friends survive and earth has flowers;
And thus we dress their tonbs-and trust
As tender hands will garland ours.
Hon. james Seely, Orator Of tho Day,
was then introduced to the audience,
| and delivered a very eloquent and ap-
propriate address. The exercises over,
the Grand Army boys marched back
to their hall, where q splendid colla-
ton was awaiting themselves and their
friends. The singing Of the Glee Club
was Of n superior order. Captain Lord
and Major kerns were indefatigable In
| chain affnrfl RI mike the affair n SuC-