New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-01-30
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The business Of the city-Iong delayed by low
water in the riyers, By an unusual epidemic
during the summer and exaggerated reports Of
sickness early in the season---has at length
fairly commenced and made itself felt in every
department The rivers have risen and let ont
much Of the produce which for so long q time
lay embargoed. Trade has started and with
the greater activity on account of its long dull
ness. Boats are continually arriving crowded
with passengers and continually departing load
ed with freight. Money is beginning to get
easier and collections are not SO hard to mako
as they we're three months or even three weeks
ago The hotels and boarding houses are now
full, even to overlooking, and all places of
amusement operas, theatres and balls, are
thronged with those who come TO participate in
the festivities Of the season. Our streets are
full, too, and the cabmen drive, not only good
horses, but very good business.
We feel very sensibly this infusion of new
blood into the arteries of our city existence and
rejoice over it. We only regret that the weather
Tor the past week has not been of d kind to en-
courage much out door existence, and fully de-
monstrate that this is a sunny portion of the
earth. In a few days, however, this cold and
discomfort will have departed and we shall re-
Joice in many friends, much business and pleas
ant weather combined
Ihere have been, ever since the epidemic of
the last summer, a set of eroakers, who refused
to believe that the city would ever recover from
so severe blow as that she then suffered; who
imagined that the absence Of trade was con-
seqnent OF the fears engendered BY the pesti-
fence and could not be overcome Thege indi
Viduals found new cause for their fears and lam
entatlons in the cholera which visited ms at The
commencement of the season, and pronntly n,,t-
Ished the most alarming reports Itis pleasant
to be able to refer them now to the last month.
report Of interments, and the last weeks r.o-
ord of arrivals, There never were fewer aeatha
according to the population, in any city in the
Union; and the terror oecasioned by the last
pestilenee has been fairly done away with
and laid at rest 1t is getting to be understood
that, with the exception of occasional severe Wis.
ltations, New Orleans is as healthy place as
can be selected, and far pleasanter for residence
than any other in the country. This belief is
proved BY the great numbers that flock here
now notwithstanding all the rumors and reports
sii"V nave eheh phpiishea concerning us and the
fears incident to them.
IT is indisputable that trade has been mnc1 |
less here during the present season than during
Its predecessors. But what have been the op-
portunities for trade, with the channel of every
stream from here to the Ohio, fordaBle by a
boy The waters are rising-the produce is
waiting to be sent down-the orders are ready
TO be filed, and, unless We are seriously rnisled
IN our auguries, there will be between this and
the first Of May, as large and as brisk trade
Is was eser known in the same time Pleasant
weather. ne trust, will be its accompaniment,
1or the last weeks cold #as almost unbearable.
or Hon 2 4 Douglas NJ O. has our thanks for galu,
able papers.
As The steamer Eclipse has cur thanks for CINCINNATI
end Louisville papers OF late date