The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-10-01

The business Of the city oontnUesstO increase
apaoe, and, for the first Of October, the town pre-.
seRls- an unusually stirring appearance. Had we
supposed that The season would commence so soon,
we would have,made earlier preparations for some
changes we intend making in our establishment.
During this month we shsll enlarge our paper, and
appear in "a new dress According TO our CrdeT,
the materials will not arrive for some days, and we
cannot make the'contemplated changes until the
latter part of the month.
The Crescent was established at an uRpropitious
period, and series of unfortunate accidents has
Rept the business Of the city in depressed State
for the last eighteen months Soon after wesiaTted,
the yellow fever made It's appearance in New Or
leans, and we had hardly got through the summer
of ls4s, andweFo just entering the season Of 1872
when the eholee broke cut IN our mldst, inter
feHing with ths bsiess d almost every one IN our
community. TIE last sighsesh months have been
peculiarly unftss,a saF tie success Of = aeT news
paper enterprise. NssNitbssazaling these draw
backs, we have ksPs onward in our course; and,
trusting entirely in the honest good sense and fair
reason of our fellow-citizens, have not aimed al
increasing our circulation and business by foster
ing public passion o. by falling into every current
| Of popular feeling.
! Nor have we any cause to complain of the treat
/ ment we have received from the New Orleans pub
lie. On the contrary, we have met Withan encour
sgement thar win stimulate us to further e1ertions
and prompt us to discharge our duties as indepen
dent journalists. The Crescent is now firmly es
tablished, prosperous and growing, and possesses
circulation, both in the city and country which
offers CREST Inducements to advertisers. 1t issno
our habit, nor TO our TASTE to make large boasts o
success, but we may be permitted to express on
qualification at this favor we have received, and TO
assure our customers that business shall be dill
gently and faithfully attended to- to their satsiac
ton and advantage.
Time, which triesal things, will be the best test
not only Of the general principles we may aim al
propagating, but also of the particular facts anC
events on which we may advance our opinions
To It's decisions, and to the and convictions
Of our ceuntrymen, we are willing TO trust our flu
tre standing and position in the world of journal
ism. If a sincere desire to arrive ct Truth in al
questions, social, moral, political and esthetical-
an ardent aspiration for ths permanent happiness
and advancing glory of the great commonwealth
to which we. belong-an undaunted faith in thu
'omnipotence Of virtue and the necessary triumph
of right over all the baneful influences that nal
\ rise up to oppose its course-if these can availau
aueht, we yet have hope that we shall not live al
together in vain, and that wesnay contribute some
thing, though it be but the. widows mite, toward
the cause Of human progress and the emancipation
of earth from the dominion of those destructive
propeRsites which have 50 long been the curse anC
the so5urge Of the race.