New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-21
Money Making.

VI all the passions and ambitions that stimulate
men to exerton that of acquiring wealth is the most
absolute and absorbing. 1t is desire universally i'm.
planted in the human soul it is the governing prn-
cple, the controlling force which changes the phys
cal features of the earth, exposes the mental moral
and social condition Of civilized nations and in great
measure changes the destines of mankind
That vital force whose activity results in the grand
est achievements of human enterprise and industry
which levels mountains and fills up valley turns the
courses of rivers builds Cities traverses continents
and oceans and exchanges the products of the most
remote regions derives its power and receives its first
impulse from the desire to accumulate wealth to hold
the taismanic sign before which the nations of the
earth bow down. The child does not value money
until he begins to learn that it procures toys and
luxuries for him, and as he grows older he compre.
hends and appreciates TIE overmastering desire for
gain, and joins the universal scramble after the
worlds idol.
The passion for getting having thus moulded the
social fabric in such manner that money becomes
pressing necessity, prerequisite to comfort and enjoy.
ment men eagerly for the golden
opportunity which may realize their hopes that tide
which, taken at the food leads on to fortune The
present age is proverbally fast one and any enter
prising man may realize the truth Of the proposition
by looking back few years and counting up the op-
portunities for acquiring wealth which have been pre-
scented to him, and which, with little extra intell
gence and foresight be would have embraced readily
and successfully The rocksupon which the hesitating
adventnrer may split are Numerous lack of conf
dencein the progressive spirit of the people, doubt
fear or bad advice, often him to let the rare
moment and opportunity pass, and leave him to plod
on, behind his fellows and behind the age which is
emnently one of progression and enterprise.
| The public journals continually chronicle new and
| important developments of natural resources many
of which destined to prove nexhaustible mines of
wealth, and in this connection we beg leave to re-
mind the reader of an enterprise to which we have
heretofore alluded, and which we have advocated on
account of its general public importance viz the pro-
ducton of oil from rosin. No one can make himself
acquainted with the merits of this new branch of in.
dustry and the necessities which demand it, without
feeling degree of interest not usual to the ordinary
pursuits of the day. The chief element (ros which
enters into the manufacture of oil by this process
article almost worthless of ITSELF the residuum of
another manufacture Spirits of turpentne) yet by
this discovery 1t is transformed in cheap and simple
manner into an article not only useful and valuable,
but altogether indispensabe-an article too, not to
be had much longer in the necessary quantities from
the usual sources and which therefore, would soon be
obtainable only at extravagant and imDractcabe
prices.
Reflection and examination only serve to increase
the interest of this subject and we invite anew the
attention of our readers to it. For the present all we
ask Is an inspection of the works of the Louisiana
hosin Oil Company, now in the full tide of profitable
experiment, on the New Shell Road the toll gate