New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-12-10
NEW ORLEANS.
HER PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Notwithstanding the epidemic has desolated
the fairest portion of our State, and blasted the
hopes of 50 many families, the city has assumed
its former gayety and animation, and the signs
Of prosperity are equally as aattering as at any
former period. All the places of amusement
are now open, and offer to the votaries of wealth
and pleasure fruitful source of enjoyment.
The wharves are crowded with steamboats,
from our own State, and also from the far West,
richly laden with the various products Of those
regions from whence they come; and our city
exhibits everywhere the evidence of increasing
business and prosperity. The past season which
hasbeen 80 fatal to human life has been unusual
y favorable to the planter, and the crops of sugar
and cotton were never more abundant.
This affords an evidence of the energy and
enterprise of our citizens, and shows that al
though they may be depressed by causes which
are temporary, and over which they have no
control, it is impossible to repress entirely the
energies OF free people-those who live under
a government which always secures to labor its
just reward.
1t must be confessed however, that the annual
recurrence Of the epidemic has a tendency to
retard the improvements of the city, and to i'm
pair the excellence of its society Persons are
not willing to make permanent investments
where human life is SO insecure, and when they
are compelled to leave for large portion of the
year in pursuit of health and pleasure
Ever since the year 1s47 the city has been
comparatively healthy, and has enjoyed an ex-
emption from those diseases with which it was
formerly visited. During that time the progress
of improvement has been unexampled. Partic-
ularly in that part of the city usually known
as the Fourth District, splendid private resi-
dences have been erected, decorated with all the
embellishments which art or fancy could create,
and surrounded not only by the comforts, but by
many of the elegancies and luxuries of life.
New Orleans from its position must always be
the great emporium of commerce for the West.
Situated Immediately on the banks of the Mis-
sissippi, it will necessarily attract towards it
the trade of those States situated unpon its
borders; and when the New Orleans and Ope-
ousas and the Jackson Railroads shall have
been completed, will necessarily command the
'rade Of middle Tennessee and Mississippi, and !
! very considerable portion of Eastern Texas.
how long, it will be before the advantages re-
ulting upon these work, will be realized, it is
impossible to foretell. Both works are now pro- |
crossing very rapidly, and no doubt will be
completed in the course of two or three years.
telying too much on her natural advantages
he has neglected to avail herself Of those
means which are necessary for the purpose of
reserving her trade and commerce, and has
Uttered very considerable portion of it to be
iverted from her by the enterprise of other
tates.
The spirit of improvement is now more awake |
, New Orleans, and there seems to be general |
isposition on the part of her citizens to foster
nd encourage those works which have ten
ency to increase her trade and make her the
reat emporium of wealth and commerce