Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-09-30
The Dead in New Orleans.

4 correspondent Of the 1fempAss In.
Quire'' from New Orleans, after desert.
bing the devastations Of the yellow fever.
describes the cemeteries as follows:
There are'in the city and it's enyi-
fons fourteen cemeteries. Seine five al
these are i'll the midst OF the ciry. sur.
roupded by closely built and density pop.
ulated streets. Owing to the pecu]iari.
ty OF our soil, these burielplaces arc pc.
edllar We cannOtydig more than two
or three feet below the surface without
coming to water, $50 that most of the
dead are buried above ground. These
grounds are regularly laid of, In SQUARES
walks raised and covered with shells.
The sqaaPes are built up with vaults
and monuments, many of them very
splendid and expensive, costing thous.
amos OF dollars. There are a great va
rIety Of models and devices, many of
them OF rare and exquisite beauty.
around these tombs are beautiful ever
greens, internixed with fairand fragrant
lowers, which grow with so much luxu-
Rance In our rich sell and sunny CLINE,
The cemeteries below Canal and
ABOVE ESplade street, called the French
ouryIng-grounds, are regarded as the
most interesting as exhibitions of sculp-
lure, where griefreeords its woe or pride
IN liimperishable marble.
Around these cemeteries are walls
ten feet high and eight orten teetthick.
4hese are pierced with three or four
rows OF tofnbs about two-and -a-half feet
square, fiseing in tiers one above the
other and has the appearance ofthsni9.
eon- holes for letters in the post-ofice,
though on q much larger scale. These
are perfectly closed with slabs and air
tight cemnnt, except at one end. This
is open for the insertion OF the coffin.
80 me burial service at the grave is
performed thus: 'stsj bra ssa5s - LIZ
III The procession moves from the hearse
TO the wall, where certain one of Efhe
vaults has been previously celected-say
NO 250 (they areIall numbered THE
CONN IS about two-thirds inserted and
the service whatever be it's character is
then attended to; this over, the coffin
is pushed ln-tllen the mason, with ohis
oflck and mortar, trowels and hammers
begins his work. The family and
friends stand uncovered until the mason.
has done, when the name and date are
written IN the smooth soft plaster spread
over the brick, and the company depart
and leave the sleeper to his last and
lonely bed 3 1aa 5s sE
81 One gets used 10 scenes like this. but
at first It seems so business-hke and me-
chapleal, so like any other labor, any
other piece of Masonry, and contrasts
strongly with the burial on the hillside.
Whefe the turf Is green, and. the old trees
spread their broad green houeas. and ana
the little birds in Summer time sine re.
QUEENS, and the lone winds in Winter
tine TN mqrm sar solemn dirges DER the dead
The city authorities are discouraging in
terments in the cemeteries in the crowd
edportions Of the city. Some three miles
from the city, about midway from the
RIVER to the lake, there is a low RIDGE of
land known as the Metaire Ridge. Here
the city authorities are laying out AMONG
the live oaks a public park, and here
there IS a famous race course, and here
most OF our city's dead are to sleep their
last sleep. What Strange uses pit .