New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-09-11
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Walking UP.

e Ttisa fact, each day becoming more apparent that
the city IS waking up. Itsnap this summer has been
neither long nor deep it having been much disturbed
in III repose BY al unwonted attack Of good health
The Howard Association, however, has had q deep
and dreamless sleep, and even the Charity Hospital,
that is generally SO wide awake in the summerstime
has been yawnng all along as if it wished to go to
sleep, but was afraid to- Health is indeed blessing
and tile citizens Of New Orleans should esteem It
particular pride that for its population, the city has
this summer been the healthiest in the Union. The
ruf1aways-nla of whom, we doubt not, find that
"preserving the health by too strict regime is
wearisome malady ARE daily returning, and seem
GLAD to be back. IT is good month before the usual
season Of the city's waking up but, as We have al
ready intimated, it, has not been able to go entirely
to sleep, and, like individual who has suffered the
same discomfort is preparing to get up and shake
herself earlier thar usual. "
We have had, it is true a great deal OF very hot
weather. and our little cousins the mosquitoes have
been more atfectionate, if possible than in former
years but these minor discomorts we have been able
to stave off by the blessing Of Heaven, which sends
us shade with its sunshine and of the unknown but
never-tob e-suffcienty individual who III
vented bobbinet. Now, the heat is moderating,
and the evenings deliconsly cool and invigolatng
Last evening was so pleasant that we could not re-
frain from idng around and taking general survey
Of things Business seemed on the increase but if it
is not on the increase, then we at loss to know
why the drays aid carts are thckly and indnstri-
ously on the move-why the gaps in the shipping
are 50 steadily filling up-and what is meant by the
reightpiles and peopesteams that eniyen the levee
throughout its length Yes business is rapidly on the
increase that's fixed fact.
The building and repairing operations which have
been going on steadily all summer, as they do every
summer, now appear to be progressing with an extra
rush. We purpose soon to give sketch Of what has
been done in this respect this year, and GER
tain that it will surprise everybody abroad, and a
good many at home-those who pursue beaten tracks,
and never see all the city.
The evening turnout Of yesterday was particularly
large and pleasant to behold. Smoking and rumina
| ting dlers of high and low degree, with chubby
children and applefaced nurses congregated in the
squares s. in Lafayette Square with its sycamore
shades and grassy lawns, and in jackson Square, with
its fantastic shrubbery and flowers and its great
seated circle with the bronze Old Hickory in the mid
| die; the gaety of the promenades and the noisy
gambols Of the children contrasting so oddly with
the silent gravity of the old hero, resting rampant
gaunt and GRIM alike unmindful Of the pleasant
sights around him, and the music of the neghboring
bell made Of cannon that he wrested from the booty
and-beauty- Brtshers. For observation ani
rumination on a pleasant evening, Jackson Square
u.s. we think, the best spot in the whole city; and moi
few portly and philosophical looking old gentlemen
repair thther daily to look at the present and thinl
of the past, whilst cooling their protuberant dinners
The ladies' too, were out in seraphic array--g gliding
along Camp street. where the pretty young stant
in the doorways or along Canal and Charres streets
where already the dry goods Kaleidoscope display
| the gorgeous and pocket-king fabrics of autumn
And along the levee, the scene was pleasant ant
yariegated. Pleasure parties airing themselves on TIN
fery-boats and idlers swarming at the landings
other ders mixing with the busy throng at the whar
Of some departing or newly-anived steamer.watch
ing the repairs going on in the levee, heavy lumbe
and the piledrver being objects Of absorbing inter
est-or crowding wherever anything, no matter hov
| trivial, was to be seen Or heard.
It is so seldom that we stop OF our oars and drift
along with the evening tide of humanity, that whel
we do so, we enjoy it in the extreme, and wonde
that we do not indulge in the luxury oftener. Sucl
was Our feeling last evening, and the result Of GU
round is the opinion already expressed-that thu
Crescent City is waking up. May her nap in sum
mers to come be as short and restless as has beef
this summer. "