Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1853-09-02
From the Aelr Ori-4as Cyesc-aL
The PestiIenCe at New Orleans.
Boz among the Dead EIen.

Tjvcrify the many horrible reports Of the doiugs
amoig the dead, we the other day visited the Gem
. eteres. In every street were long professions,
tranping to the solemn music Of funeral marches.
In tle eOuutcuances of plodding passengers We're
the lines of anxiety and grief, and many door was
festloned with black and white hangings, the voice
less witnesses Of waIling and of sorrow. On the
one hand slowly swept the long cOrteges Of
the wealthy, noddng with plumes and drawn by
praHcing horses, rejoicing III their funeral vaulJe5
ON another the hedrse of the Citzen-soldier prece-
ded by measured music, envelOped in warlike pan
oply, and followed by the noisy tread of men under
arms while there again the pauper was trunded
to hs long home a ricketty cart, with boy for
a driver, who Whstled as he went and sWore a
cardess oath he urged his mule or spawned
horse to a trot, making haste with another m0rsel
contributed 10 the grand banquet Of death Now
among the steeples was heard the Ginning of the
bells of Ghoules up there, minglug their hoarse
voices in chorus Of graduation over the ranks
of fallen mortality. Anon from some lOwly tenc-
ment tried the low wall of a mother for the child
Of her affections, while from the corner opposite
burst the song of some low bacchaual, minglilg ri
baldry with sentiment, ar swearing prayer or two,
as the humor moved him.
The skies wore delusive aspect. Above was
all cloudless sunshine, but little in keeping with
the black melancholy that ten enysSPsdd ed all all below Glow
tf9 dealt, sim the tramp of funeral crowds
knew no cessasion. Up rolled the volumes Of dust
from the busy roads, and the plumes of the death
carriages nodded in seeming sympathy to the sway
ing Expresses Of the swamp, enyeoped in their dun
apparelling Of weeping moss-ht garniture for such
a scene.
At the gathering points carriages accumulated,
and vulgar teamsters, as they jOstled each other
in the press mingled the coarse jest with the ribald
oath; no sound but OF profane malediction and of
riotous mirth, the clang of whip thongs and the
rattle of wheels. At the gates, the wind brought
intmaton of the corruption working within. Not
a puff but was laden with the rank atmosphere
from rotting corpses. Inside they were piled by
fifJes exposed to the heat of the sun, swollen with
corruption, bursting their coffin lids and sundering
as if by physical effort the hgaments that bound
their hands and feet, and extending their rigid
limbs in every route attitude. What feast of hor-
rors. Inside, corpses piled in pyramids, and with
the gates, old and withered and fat hux-
ter women, fretting in their own grease. dispen-
sing ice creams and confectOns, and brushing
away, with brooms made of bushes the green bot
tle-fies that hovered their merchandise, and
that anon buzzed away to drink dainty Limitations
from the green and fostering corpses. MammOu at
the gates making thrift outside by the hands
of his black and sweating minions that rendered
sweet meats and cooling beverages to the throngs
of mourners or of idle spectators, who inhaling
the fumes of rotting bodies, already s'heayed the
gorge :" while within the g King of Terrors held
his Saturnalia, with crowd of stolid laborers,
ed them q about the mazzard," and swore dread
oaths, interningled with the more dreadful sounds
of demoniac jolity.
Long bitches were dug across the great human
eharnal. Wide enough were they to entomb a le-
in them showed their tops above the surface Of the