Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1859-11-05
Special Correspondence of the Democrat.
New ORLEANS, Nov. !, 1859.

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and doines of the corrupt living, to visl
the abodes of the dead. Never betor'
wore onr Cemeteries more beautifully .
tastefully ornamented. There is a some
thing ~touchingly mournful and deeply
solemnly interesting in this religious
custom Of decorating the last earthly
abodcs Of humanity.
The custom was observed in the early
aces of Christianity, and was held sa
cred to the memory Of that host of mar
tyrs who were put to death in various
ways by the prosecutions under Nero
Caligula, Domitian and other R6mar
Emperors. 1t was not established Oh
the 1st Of November until A. D. e35, when
Pope Gregory ". ordered it to be oh
served as a universal feast. All Souls
day was instituted in the llth centu
ry.
Among the green isles in the River
Of Tine" there is none more enclIant.
ingly beautiful than that sacred to the
memory of the loved ones, who have
preceded us to the spirit land-the home
of the blest. The storms Of life sweep
so gently over that sacred spot, that we
seem to see the prints Of their hands,
the impress of their feet, and hearthe
reverberations of their sweet voices yet
lingering among the tombs.
John McDoneugh, in his last will and
testament, made q request that once a
year children might be permitted to
strew flowers over his grave. Flowers
may be seer annually over his grave
but they are those of the wild briar and
bramble-n none strewed by the hand of
affection. Cold, selfish, and isolated in
life-cold and isolated in death. There
is none to mourn for him; no, not one
Of all the slaves he emancipated through
a selfish, more than a mistaken policy,
none will be found to take the trouble
to remove a blade Of rubbish from his
last resting place.
How different the case with Julian
Poydras. Not once a year, but once a
week for a series Of years, have | seen
the faithful old servants strewing bo-
quets of flowers over his tomb, and tell
ing off their rosaries for hours together
with deep and fervent devotion around
it; while, perhaps, hundreds Of those
who have annually been benefited by
his benevolent provisions, have not Ia
ken the trouble to find out the place
where their kind benefactor was buried.
The nations of Asia Minor are said to
have been employed during the space OF
two hundred years in building and
adjoining the temple Of Diana at Ephe-
sus. In fact, the city Of Ephesus owed
its population to the temple, around
which the followers of Diana and those
fleeing from tyranny and persecution
found a safe and sacred refuge. It's ex-
treme sanctity inspired such universal
and reverence, that twas for many
ages a depository of foreign and domes-
tic treasure. There, property, whether
public or private, was secure amid all
revolutions. No King or conqueror
dared modest it; and yet there was one
found base enough to destroy it by the
torch of the incendiary, and for no other
object in view than to obtain notoriety.
Not altogether dissimilar is the case Of
the fanatical incendiary Brown, who
applied the torch of the incendia-
ry to our great Temple Of Liherty, around
which fugitives from all countries have
been gathering for the last century, and
who had deposited their treasures
there.
Instead Of hanging him at once, as
ought to have been done, he IS made q
great hero of, and has obtained a noto
riety for his villainous, fiendish acts,
equal to that of Erostratus, who fred
the Ephesian temple. VIZ have his life
and doings in Kansas, and this week,
no doubt, his portrait will flourish in the
Harper's Weekly and Monthly, and all
the papers, which come to us from the
North, of that genus.
From all parts of the South the infor-
nation with regard to the cotton crop
appears to Indicate a large yield. OF
all our productions none have increased
III d more rapid ratio. 1t was about the
year 1871, that Mr.. Maury, then Consul
at Liverpool, witnessed the first import
alton Of American cotton at that port
The cotton was seized by the British
authorities under the impression that it
had been grown in India, and their laws
did not permit the import OF India arti-
cles, except in British bottoms or
sells.
In 1870, the total value of cotton ex-1
ported from the United States was S42,-