New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-03-29
'rfan SEASON AND =,rIan pRospECr.

TEaE SEASON AND THE PR0sPECT.
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The business season is now &mating its close
In two or three months at the outside to use com
mercia phrase, it will be over, and summers duness
and pleasures will be upon u.s. say pleasures, for
barring epidemics, consider the summers Of New
Orleans pleasanter than any to be enjoyed in any
other arge city on the continent 1t strue the heat
is frequently intense the Thermometer, however,
rarely risesas high as it does in Boston but the
cool evenings the halmy breezes, and the delightful
moonlight nights, more than compensate for the ar
dent rays Of the solstice. If days are hot, our
evenings are genial, and that lis more than can be
said Of idsumner nights in Northern cities, where
the day scaloric is hardly dispeled before another
sun rises to swe1ter, burn and blister suffering and
remarkably pilanthropc population, sucllas abound
regions where Purtanisln has nstped the place Of
Christianity, and where fanaticsm and bigotr have
risen in arms to expel charity and brotherly love-
In gancng at the business season which is now
progressing towards its close we are constrained to
congratulate our on the suspicious pic
ture it presents There never VAS perhaps, IN the
commercial history Of New Orleans, 50 prosperous
and profitable season, and 50 promising Q future
The amount Of business. transacted has been enor
NOUS and vet ithas been conducted on the princ
|@ples which regulate healthy aud legitimate trade
The freezing of the Ohio and Upper Mississippi OBJ
stlucted# operations for o. while, but such was the
impregnable solyency of Western merchants that
scarcely any Inconvenience was experienced. Our
money market has been easy throughout the entire
fall and winter, and is now; and, despite the inn
mense transactions that have taken place. our banks
the safest and best conducted in The United States
have been amply able all the time to supply the facil
tiles required by an augmenting commerce.
The prosperity has been general--not confined to a
few leading houses to any particular branch Of
traffic. All branches have been favored. The COM
mission houses and small traders !; the wholesale
dealers and retailers the foreign merchants and the
domestic merchants; the receiver and the shipper
and, flowing from these, there has been general DIFF
K fusion of life, animation and Temuneratiye profit
among the followers of the ultifarious occupations,
pursuits and labors, which constitute the making up
of the sum total of grand and growing mercantile
emporium. s
@ The blessings Of this prosperity are seen and felt
on every hand by all save those moral ghouls whose
very hearts and souls seem jaundiced and full of
leprosy and who delight in slandering and Viifying
the community from which they obtain the bread
they put into their foul and lying mouths. 55
Weshali, ere long, give one Of our usual compare
sons regard to the trade Of this season with that
Of previous seasons. The statistics we have already
given, time and again. prove conclusively that the
course OF New Orleans is EDWARDS and upwards-that
the future is replete with respondent promise
the horns Of the Crescent City now full will soon be
overladen with the bounteous gifts of enterprise and
traficand that there is city the Western hem
isphere which has glorious prospect to look for
ward to.
Let the systematic newspaper belers and llalign-
ers of New Orleans go on with their congenally
dirty work. We do not envy the feelings Of creatures
that, yiperke, make it point in season. and out of
season, to stab and wound the bosom that affords
them&Earmtll and sustenance
It is true real estate has been depressed. Three
leading causes have led to this result and those
causes may be enumerated in a very few words
three successive epidemiGs-three unfavorable bust
ness seasons, combined with onerous and increasing
taxation. OF course the epideniies in summer are
but it does not follow that the winter
should be unprosperous. BY no means. We had a |
severe epidemic last summer, yet the succeeding win
proved prosperous beyond precedent. IT is rea-
sonable TO infer the coming summer will be healthy,
as four epidemcs were never known to follow each /
other and if So the business of next fall winter and
spring, will be incidentally vast. Without sickness
and with increased business real estate must advance
in value. Even as matters now stand more people
becoming actual house and lot owners than during
any previous year. There is noise or fuss about
it-no stted parades in the newspapers by inflated
crers of propertyyet the process is going quiet
" and rapidly. This is good, sound and encourag-
ing indication, for it guarantees sovents industri
GUS and permanent population of small property
holders who are in reality the bone, sinew and main
stay Of every commercial mart
Then, again. the taxes on real estate, owing to the
wse prudent and judicious policy of thepresent Re-
form Common Council, have been largely reduced,
with promise of further reduction next year Last
year the real estate owner had to pay dollar on
every one hundred dollars of the assessed valuation
Of his property, for the support of the city govern
7 ment proper. This year he will have to pay but
thirty cents instead of one dollar Here is reduc-
ton of seventy per cent this does not exercise q
favorable influence upon coming sales Of real estate,
the experience Of the past forms no criterion by
which to judge of the future.
From the foregoing facts the conclusion is irressti-
Bile that New Orleans holds out more inducements to
. steady and permanent population, than any other
city on the continent Labor commands a better
price here than elsewhere. Homesteads can be Sc
cured better terms here than in any other place.
There is mighty field for the industrial classes in al
most every pursuit. and complete protection in per-
son and property to every industrious and honest
man. tE& 81 ..===-5
DIX. Dewey's Second Lecture.
Rev. Dr. Dewey delivered his second lecture last
evening, in DR.. Capp's church. subject-s.The Body
and the Soul.' 'i 5@ 1s+sy '@[