The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-08-21
Business Looking Up.

1t 10 gratifying to have some symptoms
at last Of positive revival in trade. Stag
nation, inactivity and monotony, here in the
city, appear to be gradually giving place to
an activity and animation, foreshadowing,
probably, u much moro extensive fall busi-
ness than most people have yentured to ex-
pect. The commercial energies Of the great
-parallzed by Che memorable
financial crisis of last fall-are beginning
to recover their native vigor, and to free
themselves from the Slough Of Despond,
into which they have been temporarily
thrust. The leading business thoroughfares
down town, though still midsummer, with
scores and scores of our leading merchants
out of town, wear busting air, incident
rather to the latter part of August. than the
end of July-while all along South street
and the North River there are not wanting
additional manifestations of this same
cheerful character. Another sign in the
same direction is the visible increase of our
foreign importations. Within the past for
weight hours n splendid fleet of vessels
have come from British and continental
ports, all heavily freighted, as we see by the
published cargo list. The unloading Of
these vessels imparts to the East River
wharves n business-like aspect that recalls
the "reminiscences of ''hush times" The Gus
tom House officers are kept As hu y as bees
during Office hours, verifying manifests,
while the importers and the importers,
clerks begin to agree that the report that all
kinds of business is insufierably dull, "needs
confirmation" There are many who will
shake. their heads at these increasing import
ations from abroad, however, and, so far
from accepting them as an indication Of Il
revival in trade, will be inclined to place
them to the account of new extravagances,
that must, in due time, lead to new embar-
easements, if not new puncs. These appre-
tensions, in so far us they contemplate re-
curing disasters to our financial and COM
mercial system, as the SURE result of over
trading, in excessive foreign importations
ARE, rs a general principle, undoubtedly
well grounded but the principle and the
lesson it teaches, seems to us, were so po"
erfully enforced by the experiences Of last
year, that we think there is but little danger
of our rushing into the same fnllles, or Of
failing victims to the same lntatuation, this
year, or the next, or the next. The auno-
nit ons of last fall certainly, We're too Sc
we're TO be so easily forgotten. We are still
smar,ing under them, and are likely to
smart, in greater or less degree, for II long
while vet TO come. Hence, then, We may
reasonably conclude that, if we are begin
to buy more literally from Europe than has
lately been the case, it is but to meet the
legitimate wants naturally consequent upon
wholesome recovery throughout the country
from the recent widespread and universal
ly-felt depression.
The crops in all sections of the country
are us promising us could be desired, and
the prospects for an abundant harvest are
correspondingly hopeful. Upon this bass,
the Great West may enter-nay, Is ALREADY
enterng-the principal markets on the
seaboard to supply wants which, but for that
bountiful harvest, could never have been
met. Another favorable feature Of the times
is the fresh impetus given to the Calitor-
MIA and Pacific trades by the gold discoveries
on Frazer River. The tide of emigration is
setting IN thoroughly in that direction, and
wherever that tide flows, commerce must
how and flourish with ii. The shipping
interests, which have suffered SO severely
by the recent rcvulsion, are alreay begin
ming to reap the advantages of this new
movement and should the god hold out,
there is every reason to believe that many
vessels which are now lying at the wharves,
waiting Tor ''trelgpt or quarter, Will NC III
active demand for Bellingham Bay. We
notice in our advertising columns more than
one vessel already on the berth-and if the
next news from California is favorable, we
have no doubt many others Will be placed
forthwith in the same service. Thus, in all
quarters, would seem to be visible the adj
vent of '.bettrr times And, if the tranquil
aspect of our foreign relations, toy Their
with the peaceful position Of domestic af-
fairs at home, are taken into account, we do
not see that our prospects for the future
could well be improved.-N. Y. Express.