New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-02
FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2, 1866.

in our own autumnal season, here or elsewhere I'M
der the influence Of the heavens that overlook the
table lands of the Sierre Madre or the CordilIeras
and favor those lands oftener than we are favored,
with clear skies, genial sun and an eXhieTating
| and inVigorating air.
| So beautiful day invited all abroad, and the
throngs attending the outward cemeteries were
the most numerous ever seen there before. An
extra number of cars placed upon the tracks lead
ing to those homes Of the dead, insufficient to
convey the multitude, who pioGsly or curously
wended thither and the roads were lined with
hicles of every description carrying those able to
afford expensive travelling, and those seeking to
impress others with the stylishness Of extravagant
habits.
Citizens, who have witnessed the mortuary
honors annually paid by the people of New Or
leans to departed kindred and friends, the first
day Of November, must have observed, on this oc-
casion, the entire absence of levity, which, pre-
viously, sometimes ntruded, itself upon those who
had just put aside the vacant chair that had been
often and lovingly drawn to the hearth stone, and
upon others who piously sought to make green
again fading sorrows. The SOLDERING and sadden
ing influences of the last six years have affected
ALL and on 10 dd before this, has there been seen
yards, and so decorons regard for the pious dis
positions Of the afflicted.
1t is a curious fact that, while in the amaIgama-
ton Of European races going on in this city and
State, nearly all the festive customs peculiar to
the Latin peoples are falling into dsnetule, this
practice Of community uniting TO throw flowers
2ll cYergreens on the sod that covers tile dead
has grown with years. and is now universally in
favor with saxon and Gaul, with Protestant ard
Catholic. Celebrations of the carnival have dwin-
aIed into insignfcance, but this beautiful thought
for tile dead las conquered all hearts.
Whoever strOlled yesterday through the Lower
st, Louis Cemetery, saw there all the poetry and
piety Of the idea. Tombs decorated with beauti-
full bouquets and wreaths, singuarly expressive in
combination, were to be seen, ana humbly seated
on tie foundations Of those tombs, descendants OF
men ana women, famous in the history Of French
adventure dnrng the earliest periods Of European
settIemen on this continent, were tenderly show.
; ing their afectonate remembrance of a sire ol
mother, n wife or husband, a brother or sister, OF
dear one called away in its days Of ange
purity.
The Greenwood and the Cypress Grove Cemete
lics, all established by the Frcmeu's Charitable
t. Association had perhaps, the largest number o.
I visitors, for nearly every prominent and public
spirited citizen Of New Orleans, during the las
} thirty or forty years, has been member Of tht
fire department. It would be invidous to speal
of the manner in which any particular grave o
mausoIeum was embeIished, and grief, Or its eX
: preston is too sacred to be paraded before th
q public. The numerous groups who hovered abou
7 the tombs, expatiatng upon the virtues Of thei
. occupants, showed how faithfully the memory 0
+ a good citizen il cherished.
1t was in the Greenwood Cemetery that durn!
the federal occupation of the city, in the time o
/. the war, the Confederate soldiers who died whi
n prisoners, were buried. There are the graves 0
- martyrs who had no relatives here, but nob
= women who did everything to soften their suffer
ings while prisoners, saw that they were decent
e inferred, and have since attended the ground, a
, if it was the depository Of the remains of dea
~ kindred.
~ The grass and weeds have been lately roote
from the graves. No hireling touched them Tll
ie work was done by the gentle hands of beauty an
= worth In all of the hundreds of head d.sones tha
It. there record the death Of true men, not one wa
~ without its garland of flowers or its wreath
u evergreen, and as we passed the spot, ladies {
the highest social position were clustered about
grand cross that has been reared there rearrangin
. and perfectng emblematic testimonials to tn
- g Confederate dead"
= Odd Fellows Rest is one of the most attractiv
- of all these homes of the dead. Its name, as
:. crest" is beautiful and suggestive. Passin
. throughits gates one is impressed, however greo
= = the human throng may be, with anidea that it is
q, place of repose. The spacious avenues leadin
'e through it are lined with monuments to good an
~ charitable men, and the horticultural embellisl
( ments, in some neXplicable way, tend to abstra
nv and solemn contemplation of the eternal. Some
AZ the tombs in this cemetery were decorated vii
10 exquisite taste and no one could leave it witho
" sentiment of profound respect for the benev
Us lent objects of an association which seeks to am
no liorate the condition of the living man, and
slf for his widow and orphan when he leaves tt
81 world.
us The Bishops and St. Patricks Cemeteries a:
'e- the burial grounds, chiefly, of the America
~ Catholic population, in contradistnction to Il
u Creole population and Catholics from the north
no Europe. Here are the tombs of the most prom
W W'le nent Irish families of New Orleans, and partic
ut ut larly in the Bishops Cemetery. The taste wi
ny which many of these tombs were ornaments
obtained general admiration, and the groun
~ were thronged with visitors
'"u We witnessed something however, in the hu
'lo BILE St: Patricks cemetery, which perhaps pr
w. vs. duced a deeper impression upon those arou
i,n t than all they had seen through the day. sm
oS marble slab recorded the death of Confedera
, Wv soldier. In front of that slab, kneeng, and
iay absorbed in prayer that he seemed unconscious
nc the presence of q human being, was freckl
siy boy, in coarse garments, and not over eight
ot, nine years old. The pious prisons of the orph
u performed, he rose and walked through
'ne crowd an object of love to every one who beh
9 the scene.
of a Sudden Death at the City Hotel.
and Some days ago Judge Isaac Lloyd, of Robins
CO., Texas, arrived in this city, and put up at
NIB City Hotel The Judge was about sixty years ofa
was known to be man Of position and family
the community from which he came, and was
posed to have brought with him q large amo
Of money with the inten%ion Of investing it
merchandise. lie did actually make purchases
the extent of more than 100000, and announ
his intention on Tuesday Of making settlem
,ce, that evening. This intention he expressed to
merchants with whom he had been dealing,
requested from them statements Of their bills.
. 4 .pl.rl- Tprsfav evening he took ten at the {