Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-09-07


Orleans Crescent Of the Ith ult., gives
the following horrible picture of the
cemetaries and their environs in that CT
Ity of the dead. Under these circumstan-
ces, it is by far the best course to burn
the dead:
/ At the gathering points carriages ac-
formulated, and vulgar Transfers as they
Ijostle each other in the press, mingled
the coarse jest with the rabald oath no
|sould but of profane malediction and Of
riotous mlrth, the clang Of whip thongs
and the rattle of wheels. At the gates,
the winds brought intimation Of the cor
Eruption working within. Not puff but
was laden with the rank atmosphere from
rotting corpses. Inside they were piled
by fitties, exposed TO the heat of the sun,
lswollen with corruption, bursting their
coffin lids, and sundering, as if by phys
ical effort, the ligaments that bound their
hands and feet, and extending their ri
gid limbs in every outre attitude. What
feast of horrors Inside corpses piled
in pyramids, and without the gates, old
and withered crones and fat huxter wo-
men, fretting in their own grease, dis
lpenslng ice creams and CONNECTIONS and
bruising away with brooms made of
brushes, the green bottle fly that how
cred on their merchandise, and that anon
buzzed away to drink dainty limitations
from the green and fostering corpses.-
Manmon at the gates was making thrift
outside by the hands of his black and
swelling minions, that rendered sweet
meats and cooling beverages to the throng
of mourners or Of idle spectators, who
inhaling the fumes of rotting bodies, al
ready 'heaved the gorge" while within,
the King Of Terrors' held his Saturna-
LA with a crowd Of stolid laborers, who
as they tumbled the dead into bitches,
knocked them s'about the mazzard," and
swore dread oaths, intermingled with
the more dreadful sounds of demoniac
Ijolity.
Long bitches were dug across the
great human charnal. Wide enough were.
Ithey TO entomb legion but only four
teen inches dep. Collins laid in. them
showed their tops above the surface Of
the earth. On these was pileI dirt 10
the depth Of foot Or more, but so loose
ly, that the myriads OF flies, found entry
between the loose clods down to the
Icracked seams of the collins, and buzzed
and blew their oyaria, creating each
hour the new Matched swarms.
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Economy Of space was the source Of
cunning calculation in slowing away TIE
dead man. Side by side were laid two
of gigantic proportions, bloated by cor
ruption TO The size OF Titans. The CEN
trail projections Of their collins left spa
ces between them at their heads and
heels. This was too much room to be
filled with earth. How should the
space be saved :? Opportunely the ma
terial is at hand, for cart comes lum-
bering in, with corpses Of mother and
her two little children. Chuck the chill
Idren in the spaces at the heads and
heels of the Titans, and lay the mother
by herself, out there alone A com
rade for her will be found anon, and her
'oii @iiNA DdooS " III SlCCp NOT tllc less
soundly from the unwonted contact i
The stoical negroes, too, who are hir-
ed at five dollars per hour to assist in
the work of interment, stagger under
the sitting fumes, and can only be kept
at their work by deep continued pota-
lions Of the 'sfire water" They gulp
deep draughts Of the stimulating fluid !
and Keeling to their tasks, hold their
noses with one hand, while with The
other they grasp the spades, heave on
tie mould, and rush back to the bottle
to gulp again. 1t is jolly time with
these ebon laborers, and with their white
co-wor}ers-as thoughtless and as jolly
and full as much intoxicated as themsel-
yes.
I=Our harvest is at length compile
ted, and we throw down the gauntlet to
any cou MT. y in this State 10 show more
wheat, rye, oats, or barley to the acre,
or Of a better quality, than Sank coun-
ty will shew up this season. Potatoes
will be a fair yield. Our corn will prove