New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-09-19
THE CITY.

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In the annual round Of events in New Orleans,
there is none more cheering our citizens at home
or appetixng to CIR friends abroad, than the advent
Of autumn, with is train Of business gaiety and the
other excitemcnts which make up the grand whirl-
pool Of Southern city life. It is always cheering to
note the inauguration Of the winter season, noat
ter how late in the calendar circumstances may fix
that grateful event. but this year. think, we have
extra cause fol feliciation, in noting the sights and
sounds that surround us.
Here in the midst of September, this year, the In
coming tide of life and activity lashes about our
streets and public places with freshness and yigor
which, in most years heretofore, have not been seen
Till the midst Of November. two months advance
in the approach Of the winter season is something
unusual If not unprecedented, in our local reeords
and we NAV therefore, allude to the event with the
qualification and pride which, as good and home
loving citizens, we are bound to feel. 35, ~ NE
on every street we see the smiling faces and grasp
the hands of returned absentees whilst the strange
faces about the hotels and boarding houses grow more
numerous with each succeeding day. The City Hotel
il already more than halffu thing unparalleled at
this season the other hotels and public houses re-
sound with the hum Of life in proportionate fulness
and to strike beelne,p il our passages through
the business Streets as we have generally been able
to do at this season. has become sheer impossibiity
This influx Of strangers and business has, matter
Of course impaired corresponding degree of activity
to our home population. dii$j t55iatf p
wherever we 60, We are met by the din Of building
and repair, proceeding with every evidence Of aug
mented activity Old stores and public houses are
being repaired middle.aged places being cleaned
br;r acfQ
piled heayenward- with all the briskness Of which
human hands are capable. Within the past few
months commercial houses and residences ofthe cost
lest and most beautiful description have sprung up
in different parts of the cty--many being finished
and others rapidly nearing completion. Whoever
may have been absent last spring, and will take the
trouble to step around and what has been and Is
going On will have to admit that ifin fulflment Of
the old croak, New Orleans is going down., she is
doing it after the fashion Of her own native yebak
rising and spreading six feet for every foot she
sinks. the city is going down, it is that sort Of
descent which roots her the more firmly in the soil,
and assures her growth and prosperity the limit Of
which no mortal vision may see. ...s ,ys
Whilst the wants Of commerce are thus expanding
and Identifying the precincts Of gaety are none the
less destitute Of the noise and activity Of autumnal
preparation. The theates and cofee-houses are,
with few exceptions, to use working mans express
sion, being turned inside out II and in those spots
which have unfortunately been set back by fiery Wis
itatons, the work Of rebuilding is proceeding with
an energy which prophesies that they will get the
benefit Of half the at least Of the theaters,
spalding Rogers is foremost in the race, and, as
we are informed will open to the public, with Matt
Peels Ethiopian troupe, as early as the 9th of next
month. If it, or any other theater, were regularly
open now we feel confident that it would be quite
handsomely patronized as in the midst of the season.
i We must not omit noticing the extraordinary rush
Of preparation which is manifest in the shopkeeping
region Of Canal, Charities and Royal streets. The
dry goods stores are already in full bloom, bewder-
ing their patrons with the multiplicity of their geor-
geous fabrics. Holmes, Giquel q Jamisons, Rely's
Scanlan's, and other leading stores-each seemingly
capable alone Of supplying the wants of the cty-ap
peal TO the fancies of the feminine population whilst
| the different clothing and hat emporiums are as
spendiy prepared to win the favor and the dollars
Of the mascnnes. The variety stores along Chartres
and Royal streets in the full process of opening
the banquettes being bockaded with boxes and bales
and the light Of internal operations streaming through
the doors into the wee small hours of the night
\ The above are but portion of the evidences which
greet us, of the crawling forward Of autumn upor
the knees Of summer and when we consider how
4 great an improvement it is upon the usual condition
of things at this season. and how different the case
in the Northern cities, owing to wild specuations
financial explosions though we do not wish to b
understood facilitating ourselves over the misfor
tunes of those cities-we are bound to congratulate
our city upon its good fortune, and to speak of
with the pride natural and becoming to the occasion
i To those Of our friends who are still abroad W
would therefore hint that it is mere folly to sta
away any longer, if that course should be owing t
the usually entertained supposition that New Orlean
will not be ready for action Or in the full whirl of lit
l and excitement, before November. Great number
of her citizens have returned, and are daily return
ing and the rest had better come home as soon a
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