The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-08-01

Ths crssosnss ITS Prospects and plans.
For SIX months, the Crescent has been under the
management Of its present pFoprieiors. We entered
the discharge Of the responsible duties Of editor
ship with much misgiving, with sufficient knowl-
edge to appreciate the difficulties, without sufficient
experience to know how to avoid them. We antici-
palsd sexatons, endorsements, errors-uor have
we been disappointed. But generous public have
kindly overlooked our errors, and more than apprs-
ciated our efforts to amuse and instruct them. The
exciting political topics Of the day we have tried
TO discuss with fairness and independence. The
questions which divide the country into two par
ties, we have avoided. Those subjects we have
left to the regularly retained advocates whose duty
and pleasure ii is, to defend, without regard to
their true merits every measure of their respective
parties; and whose consciences are as pllabie as
those Of advocates in the courts The great
theme Of the Union, its dangers and the mode o.
its preservation, have called forth from us all the
zeal and ability we possess. Some few liberal read
ers have stopped the paper, because of the treason
to the South, which they discovered in Its temper
ate adhesion to the Union
we have given the weight ofour paper TO every
| feasible plan for the improvement Of society. We
have deemed that every reform could best be effect
ed by the use of moderate language, by argument
and Cancellation, not BY invective and denuncia-
ton Ii is much easier to point out and denounce
abuses than to devise the mode of their correction
q Temperance in all things,' has been, and will
continue to be the controlling principle in the con-
duct Of the Crescent. The friends of particular
measures have thought us too lukewarm in the sup
port of their iavorite plans. But review Of our
course, (if worth the troubIe,) will exhibit con-
sistent and continued support of the cause of good
morals. 1t is the gently falling dew, which refresh
es the earth, and calls forth the flowers and the
fruit which minister to the pleasures and wants
ofman.
In period whenso much is preached of the In
dependence Of the South, we have felt it our duty
TO join in the crusade. On us devolves the humble
task of directing the public mind to the elements of
physical wealth which nature has poured forth
around us
With such full and notwithstanding hand. u
We have hailed every new factory established !;
or forge put in blast-or road or canal projected
or new fruit or culture discovered. We have no
iieed the schools, academies and colleges of the
South-all this not from malignant hate of the
North, but from proper regard for the interest and
true honor Of our oton home, under whose insttu.
tions are growing up our children, and on whose
prosperity depend our fortunes
The course hitherto followed bv ns no, univ
meets the appreciation of our own consciences. hi
it has been attended by The most satisfactory ev
| dences Of public appreciation.
The circulation of the Crescent il rapi,llv incress
ing in town and country. Though not sought at
The street corners for its uiouant articles for each
Of which a reputation dies. il Is read in the
family circle; it is supported by the resident popu
lalion Of the city, while every mail brings accession
to our weekly list.
We propose to attempt reform in the adyer-
Using department: Of the Crescent. The exclusion
of medical advertisements unfit for the eve of deli
cacy, oecasioned us at the commencement some
loss but it has been more than made nm since. and
we have found profit, as well as pleasure in the
exclusion of the indecent trash.
The Crescent was commenced on the true de0,o.
cratic prsncfple. II was meant ia furnish ;nfor.
nation to the million its low price has opened for
IT, the door Of many a house which a higher price
would have kept closed. The cash system has
been necessarily adopted. in regard to lis circula
ton. We now intend IN carry ont the nIan IN
regard to the advertising columns.
From and after October 1T. the price If our
SQUARES will be reduced to a cash standard For
each insertion on the second mage the proe will be
fifty cents. instead Of dollar. For each insertion
after the first the price on the third mage will be
twenty-five cents. Standing advertisements and
business cards will be inserted on the outside pages
at half the price charged for the third and for
business cards, squares will be divided to a fourth
BY the classification OF advertisements by the in
sertion of selected articles on these pages and by
occasional editorial references, shall endeavor