New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-12
THE CRESCENT

to our paper. We have been content to de-
serve and receive the generous fayors Of our
friends, and to make them the best return we
could, not by Wanting our own merits, but
by giving them journal in which, with the
latest news of the day, we have endeavored to
discuss eli questions of public interest with
candor, honesty, impartiality, and dignity.
We are, however, tempted to depart to-day
from our general rule, because to-dayis an an,
niversary in the history Of this paper. 1t is
precisely one year since its establishment.
On the 18th Of October 1865, the paper having
been suspended and confscated in 1862 by
Gen. Butler, without shadow Of authority,
either in law, or under the vague plea OF
military necessity" we resumed the pub
LEGATION of the CRESCENT, with new material
out and out, not doubling that the people Of
4 New Orleans, of Louisiana, and of the adjoin-
ling States, would rally again to the support Of
a journal which had been always honestly de-
voted to what was believed to be their best
interests, and confident that the same degree
of success which had attended our former
labors would again crown our renewed efforts.
4 To say that we have not been disappointed
is to state not only the exact truth, but to dc
d simple act ofjustice to the intelligence, gen
crosby, and steadfastness Of our friends. Our
old friends, almost without exception, en-
couraged us not with good wishes only, but
with that substantial expression Of favor
il which, while it was most agreeable in q per
sonal sense, testified their confidence in ouI
ability to give them a paper worthy Of their
favor, and creditable to the journalism of the
South. From the rstissue Of the new Ores
CENT not q day has passed without adding to
our list Of subscribers, and though we are not in
the habit Of boasting Of our circulation o,
business, we can say that the future Of oul
paper has been secure from the first week O
its establishment, and that since the brit
Of the paper in 1S4S, the CRESCENT has never
been on so solid, substantial, and pernanen
a footing as at present. While we confess
that we have labored hard to accomplish this
end, yet we would be insensible to the ordi
nary impulses of justice and gratitude if We
failed to acknowledge the sympathy, en-
couragement and substantial patronage which
have been extended US BY the hosts of friends,
old and new.
Thus encouraged we have from time to
time during the year added largely to the ma
terial and resources Of the establishment. In
the newspaper department we have an outfit
of new type and other material not surpassed
by that fanny Office in the country, while we
have organized a job oticeat heavy expense,
which is complete in all its appointments, and
gives us the means Of doing any printing as
well and as cheaply as it can be done any
where south of the Potomac.
But We confess that we arenot yet satisfied,
nor shall we be until there shall be left no.
further room for improvement in the CREs-
CENT. We are now having constructed by the
most celebrated manufacturers in the world,
Messrs. R, Hoe & Co., of New York. mann
moth printing press, which we expect to re-
ceive about the first of November, and which
will enable Us to print any edition Of the
paper, no matter how large, in one-half the
time it would take on the press We are now
using. By this means we shall be enabled to
keep the forms open for the latest intelli-
genee, and yet have the paper ready for distri-
button at a very early hour in the morning.
As soon as our new press is received we
shall publish the CRESCENT on Sunday morn
ings as well as other days, and thereafter the
paper will be issued every day in the year,
Sundays and holidays not excepted. A daily
newspaper, by which is meant newspaper
every day in the year, is a necessity of the
times, and we yield to the pressure of that
necessity. Our subscribers will thus receive
365 papers year for their money, instead Of
SoS as at present. The Sunday paper, while
| it will contain all the latest news by telegraph
and mail up to the hour Of going to press,
viii make speciality Of the current literature
of the day, and will contain original and
selected essays, stories poetry, and religious,
agricultural, and miscellaneous intelligence.
AT the same time about the first Of No
vember-we shall begin the publication Of an
ssyenfng edition, designed more especially for
pity circulation, and containing the latest
local and general intelligence, the state Of the
markets, themoyementsin commerce, and tele-
graphic intelligence of all matters of interest
0ur weekly will continue to be issued every
Saturday, to the contents Of which special
attention will be given, SO as to make it not
only vehicle Of the latest News, but vel
come visitor to the planter in its agricultural
literary and miscellaneous intelligence. The
subscription to our weekly is rapidly extend
ing in all the surrounding States Only a