The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-03-31
LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS,
THE CLOSE OF LENT-TIIE WEST VS.. THE
EAsT-FEDERAL PAP, ETC.

THE CLOSE OF LENT-TIIE WEST VS.. TIL
EAsT-FEDERAL PAP, ETC.
NEW ORLEANS, MARCH %, 1869.
FRIEND DEMOCRAT
The solemn season of Lent is nearly
over, with the joyous Easter bells OF
next Sunday, the HASTINGS, vigils and
prayers, commemorating tho trials
fasting. passion and crucifxion of on,
Blessed Lord, will have been compile
ted, and a christian world will rejoice
over risen Savior. This is Holy OF
Passion Week in the Catholic Church,
because it is the week of the crucifix-
ion and is observed with many SER
vices and holy practiccs-bcginning
with Palm Sunday, celebrated in mem
DRY of tho triumphant entry of the Re-
deemer into Jerusalem, when the peo-
pie went out with palms in their hands
singing hosannahs to meet and worship
Him. Spy Wednesday, the day that
the Jews began to watch the Savior
that they might find cause against Him
and betray Him. Holy Thursday, kept
in commemoration of the institution of
the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist by
Jesus Christ at His Last Supper with
His Disciples. Good Friday, the most
solemn day of the Church year, the day
when the great sacrifice was completed
and the Divine Master suffered the ic-
death of the Cross, that q
SINFUL world might be brought to repen-
tence and redemption. No Host is
on this day, the service be-
ing tho Mass of the prc-sanctifed.-
Holy Saturday, the last day of Lent,
when the holy water is blessed, the
new fires lighted and the baptismal
fount is blessed with appropriate cere-
monies. This is n season of the year
that every christian respects and vene-
rates, but especially is this to be seen
in our Catholic Churches, and if we
visit one of them during these days we
will find crowds of people thele en-
gagged in devotions, and in these crowds
We shall see many mon whom we had
Judged rough, careless and worldly
Thus far this year the Lenten season
las been we'll observed in our city, and
las caused greater dullness in trade
his week than would be thought pos
'ible, if we didn't see the result our
selves.
JEALOUSY.
"The grccn-eyed monster" is Selling
he West and their statesmen are lust
to realize that the greed of
he East, with it's manufactures, coal
mines and iron works to be fed and
'ept alive by IN indirect tax on the
eople Of the whole country, by means
f import dues, is ruinous to the inter-
SITS of their section of the country. A
ccent letter writer to a Western paper
ays that if another war comes, it will
G of the Agricultural against the Man
featuring portions of our county,
he ball is in motion, and when it gets
little more velocity, we may expect
ome ''high old" times in the National
ongress. Every movement looking to
le protection and encouragement of
astern manufacturers is watched with
awk-likc interest, grumbled and
rowled at all through the West. Our
lergetic friend, Col. S. N. Moody,
hose shirt and Gentlcmen's Furnish
'g Goods Depot, corner of Canal and
oval streets, has q worldwide repu-
!tion, has just returned from a mete
'ic trip to the North, and reports this :!
alous feeling as Cropping" out on all
ands. Col. Moody is a man of great +
seernment, and although he went on I
make selections for his Spring and p,
lmmer trade, land elegant selections, =
70, the goods are now arriving by ev- t
y steamcr) he saw so much in his few I
eeks absence as many men could
tther in months. He was at the In
'guration Ball, and reports it the
'eatest mash and squeeze over gotten c
in America, but whether he erected c
Pennsylvania Avenue some of those t
yns "Get your shirts at Moody's," 1
} not know. This watchfulness of the t
est is only the beginning, and in it /
ere is much consolation for the South. I
hen these two great agricultural Sec S
ons get settled down to like each 9th Il
as they did before the war, tho Eas- h
IN division which has led the nation {
the nose from its foundation until t
wv, will have to stand out in the cold. I
urry up your cakes, Mr.. Brown eve /
Southern man will say, b
FEDERAL PATRONAGE. il
The anxious ones are still on the h
nee in relation to the appointments T
re, and as Gen. Grant has only one Il
here and he is already Il
divided for as Collector of Customs Il
Q vultures trooly loil and others a
ink there will he q chanco fo,. +l,or, b