The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-01-01
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NEW ORLEANS.

There is no city in the world which has back
country Of equal extent and fertility TO support IL as
New Orleans. The mighty Mississippi even now
covered with its hundreds Of steamboats,, many Of
them OF the largest class--movjng warehouses and
palasesis the great broad highway which, with It's
various tributary rivers stretches of into the interior
more than twenty thousand miles, wait the products
OF the immense country il drains, TO the wharves OF
The Crescent City" 1t now while probably four
fhs of this immense country is yet covered with pr
meyal forests and while that which has been cleared
10 scarcely made yield one-tenh of what II is capa
hle of producing, under improved state Of eultiva-
ton, the products othe valley OF this great stream give
employ ment many steamboats,, what must be The
amount of merchandise and productions borne upon
its some hundred years hence, when the popu-
ation of "the Great Wesl" shall have more than
quinlupled, and science shall have become the hand
maid of the husbandman, and enabled him TO realise
as much from single acre OF ground as he now does
from five In spite Of the unhealthiness of the sliua
ton and the fatal diseases incident TO The climate, New
Orleans is destined to be Of the largest cities in
the world Were we to make even guess oi The
number of inhabitants it will probably contain one
hundred years hence, might fall far short OF the
truth, and yet appear to to he out OF all reason
IN tie extravaganza Of estimate We shall there
lore leave every one TO speculate and estimate for him.
self
We have been led into this chain of reflection by
looking at several New Oreaus papers, and observ-
ing the great amount Of advertising in them. There
are some six eight believe, of the largest class
published in that city, which are literally hed with
advertisements. One lying before us, which
has in all thrty-two columns, only t,oo of which are
filled with reading matter, the remaining thirty being
closely packed with advertisements. Several other
leading business papers filled in the same man
By ,nerohonts Tho price of advertising in these
papers IS, for transient casual advertisements,
dollar per square en lines only, less constituting
square, for the first, and ffy cents for every sub
sequeh insertion. Yearly advertisers pay forty dol
lars year for English only, ana sixty dollars for
English and French. Banks Insurance Companies,
&C., fifty dollars year in one language, ard eighty
dollars for both languages. The paper is twelve dol
lars year. There some we believe, whose
rates are much less; but the merchants TO pre-
fer business channel for business advertisements,
even at higher rates
Judging from the evidences presented to us through
these papers, we infer that there is considerable
tivty III the commercial and mercantile line in that
city, 1t may be there, however, as it was here dur
ing the autumn season, namely, while the commune
~ as whole, were suffering from the causes which
are better known to exist, than the means OF
ing them are understood, the merchants, at least
portion of them, were doing very fair and safe bu-
siness such, perhaps, they formerly did, before
the whole world started off upon railroad speed in
the race after wealth and splendor
The resumption Of a number of their Banks though
i may create temporary pressure, cannot but have
tendency, on the WHOLE advantageous to the city
and to business.