True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1838-11-01
TIE TRUE AMERICAN.
EDITED IN JOHN GIBSON.
FAITHFUL AND BOLD.
NM w OR VS.:
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER l, 1888.

| The Dny.-This being the Festival of" All Saints
the interesting ceremonies of decorating honoring the
tombs of the departed will be observed usual in the
Catholic cemeteries Of our city. There scarcely be
imagined more interesting Observance than ts is
almost impossible to conceive scene in which the bet.
ter parts Of our nature wildly displayed than
while paying the tributes Of affection to the memory Of
those who have departed from among us. The Spanish
company Of Casadores will he in attendance n, the bu.
rial grou - to-day to render military honors to the de.
partedbrave and the surviving relatives of those hose
allotted period OF life has been consumnated will dec
with living flowers the graves of the lonely dead VIVA,
feeling an be more beautiful What ceremony more
Interestingly This is the tribute of the heart not of The
judgment. Whatever may have been the estimate OF
| the world at lnrsc. none depart from among IL,
without leaving behind kindred heart thu, beats
with the warm pulse of gratitude or affection.
When Nero persisted by the justest doom,
Which the Destroyer yet destroys,
Some hand unseen strewed flowers upon his tomb;
Perhaps the offering Of some heart not void
OF feeling for some kindness done when power
Had left the wretch one unpoluted hour
The Festival of All Saints instituted in the
4th century, when the prosecutions of the Clri ans
in the Roman Empire ceased. 1t was then appointed
to be held on the Sunday nter Whils untide, ut
the Emperor Phocas having presented the Pantheon
to Boaiface the 4th that Pope made church of it. and
dedicated it to the honor of the Virgin and all the Mar
tvrs, the 4h of March, which day it was annual
y celebrated until the year 835, when Gregory the 4
changed the day the LIST of November and in France
and Germany this alteration was promptly adopted.
In $40 this feast regularly entered i'll the calendar
of the Monk Wnudelert for this day, but it not
until 873 that it WINS introduced into England.
The festival of "All Souls" instituted by Odo
Abbot of Cluguy, A. d. 993, and appointed for the Cd
November. This celc ration intended to com.
all the faithful deceased, and in strictly Cath
Ole countries the churches hung in sable, the tombs
opened, and coffin covered also with black and sur
rounded with apcrs placed in the of the church,
Carved figures representing the pouls of the deceased
are placed in corner, plunged half way into flames.
Some authors date this ceremony lat the eleventh
century.
The festival of" All sants".a observed in our own
day and place, is well worth the observance of all who
delight in seeing the purest feelings of the heart dis
played in their most attractive form.
ITO The Eictors belong the Spoits.'-Who won
der that this wholesome maxim stands high in fave
with the Gube, and its creatures, when they find how
snug thing is to share in these same spoils Though
Crosswell ofAbany has thirty thousand reasons year
Nv for wishing 10 retain things as they are, he is fur be-
hind his file Cealar in Washington. The Argus, no
doubt, may have pretty pickings, but the lobe has
quite feast Read its list of dainty dishes, and then
judge lift have potent cry" Great il BaaI"
In the Blue Book Of 1887 are the following:
blair Rives $3?O 60
Blair Rives, l45 co
Blair 4 Riyes. Advertising, - 25
Blair Rives. Circulars Commissions. Exclua.
tors. sc. 675 25
B'air Rives. II 900 copies of Laws &c. 1922 rs
Blair Rives. For printing the blue book. 1893 20
Blair Rves. .Circul,rs. Advertising and Sub.
scription for the Commissions under the
Convention with Spain, 9s IL
Blair Rives. Treasury Department, a,423 As
Blair & X ives War 1899 60
Blair Il Ryes. Navy 535 rs
blair Il Rives-Post Office. 1858 SIS
Blair Rises 3ee Va
Hair l. Rives " a. 447 90
Blair Il Rivns +" :" 245a GO
Blair Ryes " GOT IL
Blair & Rives :" +" 2,44l rs