New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-01

we copy the following from the Pcayune Of
Sunday, the 29th inst. 1t contains nothing more
than the truth:
Every large commercial city has its leading
business men, who regulate and control its com
merce, trade and business interests of all kinds
These are limited in number, comparatively speak
ing, but their influence in all business matters is
unbounded They lead, and the multitude is con
tent to follow. They completely obscure, by their
oriliancy, the lesser lights which surround them
Such gain their influence and position by CON
summate tact, enterprise and industry. No OBJ
stacles can successfully oppose them, and no re-
verses permanently check their onward career.
New Orleans has for long time ranked as sec
ond to but one city On this continent in CONNER
eial importance, and in many business features she
is and has been for long time-or at least until
the war broke out-ahead of all others. She is to
the South what New York city is to the North, in
business point Of view. Her leading business
men, so far as tact, talent and energy are con
cerned, have no superiors in the commercial
world
Among the leading kinds of business for which
New Orleans has long been noted, if we except
the imports and exports of cotton, sugar and to-
bacco, the drag business has for many years ri
vailed all others in extent, on account Of the i'm
looked to New Orleans for its supply of drugs and
medicines finer field for selling this class of
merchandise was never opened, and no field was
ever before so well improved. Those engaged in
the drug trade of New Orleans have been and still
are among the most energetic and enterprising
men of our day. No class of men are so lavish in
their expenditures when an opportunity presents
itself whereby their business interests can be ad-
nv of
and throughout the entire South can testify to this
fact.
The money expended for advertising by the
druggists of this city, during the past few years,
is in amount so astonishing, writer could not give
it without jeOpardizing his reputation for truth
!, and veracty; yet time and experience have
proven at least to those most interested that this
investment of capital has in nearly every instance
returned to their pockets with an additional re-
ward for their labor and enterprise.
), Prominent for many years, and at the present
time prominent among the druggists of New Or
! leans, stands the name of James CONCEAL who for
a long time was located on the corner of Magazine
and Common streets, previous to his removal a
+ few months since to the stand he now occupies at
No. 20 St. Charles street. Mr. Gonegal's success
and enviable position have been brought about by
a combination of causes it may not be out Of place
to mention
l First-He started in business in this city with
the determination of benefting and of being bene-
flied by the community among whom he had cast
his lot Hence his first move was to import only
such drugs and medicines as he knew to be gen.
uine. To render this matter certain, he ordered
only from houses of known worth and established
reputation. Cheapness never induced him to risk
imposition. Send me the best, regardless of
price, was his motto from the very outset of
business; and this course he has steadily pursued
Second-Haying the utmost confidence in the
articles he imported and offered for sale, he has
spared no palms, no energy, no expense in adYer-
tising what he knew to be genuine, knowing that
in so doing he was acting conscientiously and in
good faith. He never advertised or offered for
sale an impure article, knowing it to be such; but
everything he deals in is the best of its kind Even
in that branch known as patent medicines he
accepts no agency for any article the value of
which has not been established. He never at
tempted to puff into existence and notoriety
remedy until he mad become satisfied, from the ex
perence stimony Of those who had given it
a fair trir., that it possessed medicinal virtues
which entitled it to consideration sufficient to
| justify its use.
Thrd-Hr. Gonegal's relations with manufac.
an hryic in Iorqe 9,,antifias ba tberab,,
cor,,,fSsfar n,a5a ht, tho sa5a5 ,,7,io
Which commission he is enabled to Give fo S,'.' tSa
trade in radnoed nrices far Good, ,, IA T,ro IN,
norts direct from the roonf5ctrrar ,, s,',tno tro
obber,s profits is enabled to sell cbeaner and on
better terms than one who does not, ,rbis mono.
sition is as self evident as auv known in trade
IastIv-No man knows beiter Than Mr. cnnor,,
| inn Of t,a
stand the nature of the business rannires Wbfre
he remained on the corner of Magazine and Com.
mon streets, that stand answered his nnrnoso until
he introduced a new feature into bis business.
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