Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-03-22

The land OF Heroes, Scholars, Saints,
EntwiRd with ancient glory
Lift up 70 day thy dropping head,
And touch the Harp cXstatic,
To praise thy lustrous patron Saint,
The great Apostle Patrick
For he who blessed the green old Land
The Gross, ctfulgcnt rearing,
Shed DER the gloom of Pagan rites
Religions hight SO cheering
While With Che Shamrock'5 triple leaf,
The Druid was COMPOUNDED,
ATaa Erin hailed the Triunc God.
Ey aisgef hosts surrounded
Thence s-acc the pure and brilliant beam
That pierced the cloud for Ages.
When Erin. from her seats of lore,
Set forth hcr countless Sages;
When Genius; at her shrine, illumcd
The torch'of Faith and Learning,
And Pfies.land Layinan bore the flame,
With hc'y ardor burning!
To-day. mid sparkling Wit and Song,
Recall these siories shining,
While with the Bans~r q The Greew
Our Starry Flag is twining;
For thus, in Battles stormy night,
The colors oft were blended,
When Irish joined to Yankee pluck,
Our noble cause defended,
Recount the deeds of Erin's sons
In eyry age and nation,
Whose genius flashed from humble birth
70 ,ofttr fame and station
Tell of her wondsous Orators
And poets ever glowing
Like stars in highest realms IF thought,
Whence streams of light ssc flowing.
Tell of her ntotttains at.l her plains,
With richest verlure tccming-
Her limpid streams and placid lakes,
With mirror'd glory beaming
Tell of her daughters fats amlIchastc;.
Her pride, her hoasf, her Story.
For Beauty smiles should c'cr ,light'ur
Poor Erin's shatkowd ssory :
Tell of the land OF Washington.
Whose Victories, Respondent.
Proclaim how Irish seddicrs heip'd
TO make us independent
Tell how our crimstn'd battle felds
Their gcn'ious blood was flowing,
And how on noblcst monuments
Their honored names are gtoNsing!
Tell OF Montgom'ry on the an'l,
When Quebec hurrd defiance;
And tell of Barry on the flood,
And the good old ship Alliance"
Tell Of the braves who sign'd and seal'd
Our glorious Declaration,
And tell too, that an lrishman
First read it to the nation *
Washington, ID. c.
*Thcsc remarkable facts are worthy o.
being noted viz: That the Declaration OF
Independence was first copied from the
original draft by all Irishman, Charles
Thompson3 who was secretary to the first
Congress; that it was frat read to the peo
pie from a window in independence Hall
Philadelphia, BY an Irishman, (Col. .lohr
Nixon and that it was first printed by all
Irshman, fJohn nunlapl
Messrs. Montei, of Baltimore, VINO
recently purchased the Spruce Hi
Coal property, through their Attorney
Josiah II, Gordon, ESQ, will institut,
q. suit against the Cumberland ana
Pennsylvania Coal Company, to com
pei the latter to replace the track re.
Gently torn up between Hoffman mines
and rompey Smash, and TIE recovery
of damages caused by the obstruction
of the road.--f7mcs.
Great credit is due Captain JON
Sheridan and Mr.. William Mansfield
of the Cumberland and Pennsylvania
Railroad, for the skillful handllng o
their train of eleven cars, each crowd
ed with persons coming to this city yes
terday to participate in or witness tht
celebration of St. Patrick ) Day. MOI
a single accident occurred, and evert
passengerseemed satisfied. - .Nnrs, lStl
4 fond father recently wrote; at
generally takes twenty years of train
ing to eradicate the word nice from
a woman vocabulary. The falls OF
Niagara, the Psalms Of David and the
progress, Of the human race were all
nice tommy eldest till she got mar
ried:.'