New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-02
L. SAINTS DAY
TIE LIVING REMEMBER THE DEAD
The cemeteries-The Decorations
The Visitors.

New Orleans. careless in many ShlhgS
never fails to keep with becoming tender
ness the anniversary Of Ali Saints-the Gus.
tom handed down by fathers and mothers
of the Latin blood to their children and
their ch!ldrens children. II is day set
apart to the remembrance OF che departed.
Days before Che various cemeteries have
been carefully swept and cleaned Vaults
and tombs have been repaired and painted,
and afectionste hands have brought
wreaths and flowers 70 place above che
resting places Of the dead. There 10 much
that is beautiful in watching tho sisitors
and noting .hs incidents At tho burial
ground. intsrblended with much Of agony
and heart break which 40 pen should probe.
The Basis street Cemetery.
This il one Of tho Oldest in New Orleans.
Az you leave the sight Of the mAsts in the
basin. and cease 20 hear the rumble OF ear
riages on the pavement. you lose yourself
among the wanderers in search Of the for
gotten. The fresh, newly plastered tombs
of those who departed more than . hundred
years since make 5eu forget, when you read
the age Of the occupant. that you have left
a wicked world outside Here lies an old
ancestor OF The creoles who died, 80 the
record says. in 1857. 1t doesn't tell whether
he was good OF bad, aud it is worthy Of note
that spitsphs here in general give no word
OF praise or blaws. Many societies have
their tombs here, and around them cluster
shoss who aftectionately remember tho de-
parted occupants Tae prettiess decora-
tions, if il is not offensive to say SO, were
those on one tomb TO My Son" and ITO
Ny Daughter" The most splendid monu-
ments vero those OF ehe different societies.
which are familiar to all who have visited
the cemetery. That OF the italian Bene-
violent Society has been pronounced by
strangers to be the most magnificent In che
city. Near it is tomb surrou nded by iron
posts cast in imitation Of cannon and con-
nected by chains.
It is that OF tho old New Orleans Battery
OF artillery which is now . benevolent as
sotion. The attentont, who is prouder OF
il than he is of his own existence 10 Mr..
William H. Ladieu. Il you ask him he will
tel: you that he drumned tor them for
nineteen years and has been ia every fight
since thirty-fve. drumming like a man
every time. More flags and decorations,
ameng them q representative bier, are
found hero than in most cemeteries. In
this cemetery are reported buried by our
historians Governor D'Abadie. Of old
French colonial memory. who survived
only few months the throwing away of
Louisiana into the lap OF Spain by the
miserable monarch Louis Nv. of France:
and of Erigadier General Don Gayoso de
Lemos. the genial Spanish Governor, who
forty years later fell g victim to the yellow
fever supsrintuc.d by a drinking bout
with the rugged American General Wilkin-
son. but tie sexton knew not Of them. He
showed the graves. OF relations of Gayarre,
ot Mayor Hotfgnac. Daniel Clark and
where the bricks were crumbling and some
u the old inscriptions washed away By the
beating rain, and said there lay many dis
inguished persons. ''But where i. Judge
Hall, who fined Andrew Jackson $lOOO!'
Under you. feet. cir: ne is buried in the
ground and there - uothin. to mark his
esting place"
"Thea where il .he grave ct Governor
The sexton led toward the two tombs, Ge- |
ween which he passed. Beyond them was
VI inclosu.e run rio: with weeds and decay.
Three OF four diiapidated brick tombs
moved parts Of theig forms in the centre. |
! single squars structure, about six feet |
ligh, with weeds concealiBg its Inscriptions,
ts sur!ace crumb bled. its urns broken and |
:one. alone suggested that i: was holy
round. Broken bottles. unused ladders !
nd staging, :efuse Of all descriptions, met |
he eye all around. Tnmenti0nabie filth |
vas boldly exposed. 1his was the Protest |
mt graveyard. Years since it extended !
ver ten times this area. The other yard |
Vas also several squares larger. Then both |
7ers cu.tailed, and the Protestant authogi- !
les sold part TO one and part 80 another: I
ort!on to the Catholic cemetery and por- I
ion to private p:c3r;e:y in ~aose grounds
a Jesuit tomb
The first sales are used for other pnrpo-
%. The wre:cked place and the two latter
re consecrated to tn. dead. Bu. what
1ntras, between them. IN two, neatness,
rder and reverence in the other, neglect, |
estruction and desecra.lo1. The guide I
cared away the weeds, and the tomb
lowed that i: was that Of the second and !
rotestant wife OF Governor Claiborne.
ointipg over further. into : mass of inter
cling weeds. he said there il whers the
oveynos was buried. Ths grave Of the
an whese actions shook the diplomacy Of
e world. when Louisiana v as = snarling,
,eSish infant. can no; be seen. Passing out
,ain, the sexton showed ; fine. we'll Or
red. appointed and decorated tomb, As
at of the first and Catholic wife OF the |
st American Governor of Louisiana,
St. Loui, Cemetery No. 4.
This cemetery is the nearest TO Canal I
,eet of the three which once were one
lgle graveyard, and was divided by ordi-
uces creating streets which are now the
enues of business. Entering on Custom
use street, the first thing that attracts
2 eye is plain tomb on the left. No in ,
'iption is On it, but many mourners sur T
md it. In it are buried the members OF t
, Society of the Ten Brothers The .ombs /
the Society OF Eternal Love- the Enfants i
st. Joseph and others are monuments to
,taste and fidelity OF the members OF the ,
rious orders. That Of the Spanish Mu- {
Il Benevolent Association, with the motto 1
i emblem of Silence is particularly
g
bout the centre of this yard rest in S