The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-03-05
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The Tally Crescent.


To-day we begin the second volume of our pa
per- 1t has passed through the trying time of a
public journal, and is now in the full tide of sue
cessful adventure To the public at large the sue
cess or failure of an enterprise like may be
matter of very little consequence, but to the ourn-
ast himself it is source of intense feeling and all
absorbing anxiety. We will be pardoned, there
fore, for briefly reverting to the past. One year
ago our paper was begun-without previous an
nouncement--without patronage from any source
without an advertisement, and without subscri-
Der. But we had invested in it all our means, our
labor, enterprise, and such little talent God had
blessed us with, determined that it should deserve
success. 1t began at a season of the year most I'M
propitious for the starting of paper; but unex-
pected delays in the making of the press and in the
reception of the materials prevented our begin
ming it sooner dull spring, a long sckly and
dull summer, followed. The business season had
hardly began in the fall, when the cholera broke
out, and for a season Frustrated every thing. Yet
did we not flag in our efforts, nor doubt OF our TIL
umph over all untoward circumstances, and of the
final success of this our fayorite undertaking. The
event has proved that our confidence was not mis-
placed. Our columns show that business men ap-
preciate the paper an advertising sheet, and our
circulation if it be inferior to any, it is only to one
other paper in the city; and we hope soon to equal
and surpass that one, notwithstanding its almost en-
tire monopoly of the business, now conducted,
for many years. We put to press, this morning, an
edition of six thousand and do not expect TO have
dozen copies undisposed of by night.
For this extraordinary and constantly increasing
support we return ouf sincere thanks to friends.
II we have not deserved so full measure of kind
ness it has not been from the want of disposition.
We have endeavored to make our sheet useful,
entertaining, and impartial newspaper-to keep it
clear from the influence of parties and sects--to
make it reliable source of information to people
of all classes and of every shade of opinion. We
certainly have had difficult labor perform, but
we believe that it has been honorably and fairly
performed. Even during the excitement of one of
the most animated polite al contests which have
been carried on in this country; when every one
was eager to complain of a journal which said or
did aught that could be construed into opposition TO
his particular party, our paper gave, day by day,
every important fact bearing upon the canvass,
without giving just cause of offence to any, and
was read, as the means of acquiring correct nfor-
nation, by all.
II we have thus supplied popular want-a good
newspaper-during the year that has passed, land
our business justifes us in believing that we have)
the knowledge of the fact will only have the effect
to stimulate to exertions in the year that is
to come. We do not mean that the CRESCENT
shall ever be stationary, but that it shall day by
day, and week by week, increase in usefulness and
interest. We mean to show that New Orleans can
produce journal equal to those of any other city,
both in the variety and extent of its intelligence, in
the importance of the topics discussed in its col
umns, and in the number of its readers and the
just weight of its influence. But as we began by
making but few promises, we do not intend to pro-
mise much now we would rather be judged by
our deeds than our words, and we willing to
appeal to in the future to justify the sup
port which we have obtained, and expect to obtain
hereafter.