Raftsman's Journal

Napoleon it was, we believe, who said that the indignation of a people was not as fatal to a government as its contempt. This is being illustrated in the contempt and ridicule poured upon the administration for its prowess at Greytown. That splendid achievement is thus poetically celebrated in the N. Y. Evening Post:

'Twas Captain Hollins led the fierce attack:
A man of iron nerve and bendless back;
Long were his ears and proud his martial tread
And calm his eye and very stout his head,
No wonder, when they saw his vengeful frown,
That Greytown's people fled the fated town,
Nor left behind a single soul to dare
The fearful storm that rose upon them there.
But when he saw his dastard foemen run,
Nor wait the thunder of a single gun
Redoubled courage swelled our hero's breast,
And conscious victory perched upon his crest—
"To arms," he cried, "bring all the guns to bear;
Beard the fierce lion in his very lair;
Bombard the town! What coward soul will quake
When foes have run and honor is at stake!'
Loud boomed the guns, and heavy fell the balls
With crushing weight on empty shanty walls;
A hundred thousand feet of lumber good
Was all destroyed, and several cords of wood;
The peaceful pigs that roamed in street and lane
Fell panting, bleeding, 'neath the iron rain;
And twice two score of bravest geese turned tail
And sought on frightened wing the distant vale.